TY - JOUR AU - Khungtumneam, Kamontip AU - Bunthan, Winthanyou AU - Aumaor, Thamakorn AU - Akaratanapol, Prisana AU - Buala, Onanong PY - 2022/12/29 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Health Status and Health Promoting Behaviors among Nursing Students in Huachiew Chalermprakiet University JF - Journal of Phrapokklao Nursing College, Chanthaburi JA - JPNC VL - 33 IS - 2 SE - Research Report (รายงานการวิจัย) DO - UR - https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/pnc/article/view/252355 SP - 29–39 AB - <p>This descriptive correlational research aimed to determine health status, health promoting behaviors, and the relationship between selected factors and health promoting behaviors among nursing students. The samples were 128 first-year nursing students in Huachiew Chalermprakiet University in an academic year of 2020. The research instruments included the health status assessment form, the factors related to health promoting behaviors questionnaire with reliabilities in the range of .70–.90, and the health promoting behaviors questionnaire with reliability of .70. Data were collected from October to November, 2020. Statistics used for data analysis included frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Spearman rank correlation.</p><p>The research results revealed that nursing students had physical health and mental health at a moderate level (82.81% and 62.50%, respectively) and had total mean score of health promoting behaviors at a moderate level (<em>M</em> = 1.77, <em>SD</em> = .23). Perceived benefits of action, perceived self-efficacy, and interpersonal influences were positively statistically significantly related to health promoting behaviors among nursing students (r<sub>s</sub> = .239, <em>p</em> &lt; .01; r<sub>s</sub> = .550, <em>p</em> &lt; .001; and r<sub>s</sub> = .541, <em>p</em> &lt; .001, respectively).</p><p>This research suggests that nursing instructors and administrators should use the factors regarding perceived benefits of action, perceived self-efficacy, and interpersonal influences to design health promotion for nursing students.</p> ER -