Open AccessThe effectiveness of a health promotion intervention on the meaning of life, positive beliefs, and well-being among undergraduate nursing students
Author(s) -
Fu Ju Tsai,
Yih Jin Hu,
Gwo Liang Yeh,
Cheng-Yu Chen,
Chie Chien Tseng,
Si Chi Chen
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.59
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1536-5964
pISSN - 0025-7974
DOI - 10.1097/md.0000000000019470
Subject(s) - health promotion , medicine , meaning (existential) , curriculum , nursing , promotion (chess) , cronbach's alpha , intervention (counseling) , nurse education , medical education , psychology , clinical psychology , public health , pedagogy , psychometrics , psychotherapist , politics , political science , law
Nursing educators have a responsibility to value undergraduate nursing students’ physical, psychological, spiritual, and social health promotion. The purpose of the study was to examine the effectiveness of a health promotion intervention concerning meaning of life, positive beliefs, and well-being among undergraduate nursing students in a health promotion curriculum. The study was adopted a pretest, posttest, and post post-test design in 1-group experimental study with a purposive sample of 112 undergraduate nursing students who attended in a health promotion curriculum and voluntarily completed a reliable 3-part questionnaire (content validity index = 0.95; Cronbach's αs = meaning of life, 0.97; positive beliefs, 0.94; and well-being 0.96). Undergraduate nursing students showed significant (all P < .001) improvements on the meaning of life, positive beliefs, and well-being immediately after the intervention, which were sustained over time. Nursing educators should incorporate these variables into the health promotion curriculum to enhance undergraduate nursing students’ physical, psychological, spiritual, and social health promotion.