A Model of Transformational Leadership Competency Development of Student Peer Leader for Enhancing Health Promotion among Nursing Students
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model, student peer leader, transformational leadership competency, health promotion, nursing studentAbstract
This research and development aimed to (1) study attitude and health promotion behavior among nursing students, (2) develop a model of student peer leader development for enhancing health promoting behaviors among nursing students, and (3) evaluate the effectiveness of developed model. Instruments consisted of open-ended questions, attitude of health promotion questionnaire, health promotion behavior questionnaire, and transformative leadership competency questionnaire. Reliability was reported as Cronbach’s alpha 0.86, 0.81, 0.89 consequently. The two-phase study consisted of qualitative and quantitative approaches. In Phase I, in-depth interviews and questionnaire administration were carried out to obtain information. Seventeen lecturers were interviewed. In addition, questionnaires were administered to 308 nursing students. Student peer leader development process for enhancing health promoting behaviors among nursing students consisted of 3 stages as follows: (1) developing transformational Leadership competencies of student leaders, (2) planning for health promotion projects, and (3) implementing and evaluating health promotion projects. Phase II, consisted of administration and evaluation of the developed model, via use of a pre-test /post-test one group design, with 50 student peer leaders and 150 nursing students. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation), paired t-test and content analysis. The developed model was found to enhance the nursing students’ transformational leadership competencies, attitude, health promoting behaviors and decrease body mass index of overweight nursing students with statistically significant differences at .01 level (p <.001).
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