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Measuring Occupational Health Nurses' Counseling on Health Promotion
Author(s) -
JordanMarsh Maryalice
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1446.1988.tb00721.x
Subject(s) - medicine , normative , health promotion , occupational safety and health , family medicine , occupational health nursing , public health , nursing , philosophy , epistemology , pathology
The purpose of the study was to validate an instrument that measures health counseling practices of occupational health nurses. The measure, the health habits counseling questionnaire (HHCQ), was derived from a model of physician counseling practices. The health habits included smoking, alcohol, weight management, and exercise. Safety at work was added for this random sample of California occupational health nurses. Reliability was comparable to original findings for a random sample of physicians drawn from the roster of a western medical society. The validity of the hypothesized global constructs of aggressiveness and indications was not supported. Physicians in the normative sample were more likely to use primary prevention as an indication for counseling. Overall, occupational health nurses and medical society physician members were similar on many aspects of their counseling, although some significant differences did exist.