Promoting healthy lifestyles among nurse trainees: Perceptions on enablers and barriers to dietary and physical activity behaviours.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Promoting healthy lifestyles is important to protect against obesity and non-communicable diseases. However, there is a lack of understanding of the enablers and barriers to healthy lifestyles (dietary and physical activity) among pre-service nursing trainees in Ghana. This study therefore aims to examine the perceived practice, enablers and barriers in adopting healthy dietary and physical activity behaviours.

Materials and methods

Cross-sectional qualitative, one-on-one in-depth interviews with a semi-structured guide were conducted with 16 nursing trainees (public health nursing) (aged: 18-25 years) in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Health and Allied Sciences. Participants were selected based on body mass index (underweight, normal, over-w

SUBMITTER: Doegah PT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9231720 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature