Publication: Positive correlation betwen self efficacy and health promoting lifestyle behavior of students of nursing department of jenderal soedirman university
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2019
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17556783
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Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. Vol 22, No.11 (2019)
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Rahayu E., Setiyani R., Sumarwati M., Kusumawardani L.H. Positive correlation betwen self efficacy and health promoting lifestyle behavior of students of nursing department of jenderal soedirman university. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. Vol 22, No.11 (2019). doi:10.36295/ASRO.2019.221132 Retrieved from: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14740/5057
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Background: Nursing students are prospective professional nurses. They shall be able to implement health promoting lifestyle behavior to achieve welfare and be a role mode in health promotion to the community. Self-efficacy is a factor affecting hygiene and health promoting lifestyle behavior. Purpose: This study aimed to identify the relationship between self-efficacy and health promoting liifestyle behavior of students of Nursing Department, Jenderal Soedirman University. Method: The research method was cross sectional study. A total of 267 Nursing students of Jenderal Soedirman University were involved in this study. Data analysis used the Mann Whitney test and the Kruskal Wallis test. Result: The results indicated that the median score of HPLP II in all domains was 2.58. Significant positive correlation was found between self-efficacy variable and total score of HPLP II and all its sub-domains. There was a significant difference in the domains of physical activity and interpersonal relationship between male and female students. 46.7% of variations in health promoting lifestyle behavior can be explained by self-efficacy. The highest β coefficient was achieved by self-efficacy (0.642). Conclusion: Intervention is needed to improve students' health promoting lifestyle behavior by emphasizing on the increasing self-efficacy. © 2019 Annals of Tropical Medicine & Public Health.