Health status and health promoting behavior among staff in One of Nursing colleges in the northeastern of Thailand

Abstract

Good health status and health behavior are factors affecting the effectiveness of organizational work. The purposes of this descriptive study were to explore health status and health behavior of staffs at a nursing college in northeastern region of Thailand. Samples were 98 staff who were working at the nursing college in 2014. Health Record and Health Promoting Behavior Questionnaire were used for data collection. Descriptive statistics was used for data analysis. The results showed that most of staff had no diseases (76.6%), had normal blood pressure (83.0%), had normal blood sugar (79.5%), and had normal triglyceride (67.5%). More than half of them had abnormal body mass index (55.1%), and had abnormal cholesterol (40.2%). Approximately, half of them rated their overall health behaviors as at a medium level (55.8%). Regarding dimensions of health behaviors, they rated their interpersonal relations as a good level while they rated their spiritual growth and health responsibility as moderate levels. Moreover, they rated their nutrition, physical activity and stress management as poor levels. This study provides information for health care providers or related organizations to promote good health status, especially, nutrition, physical activity and stress management among working staff of this nursing college.