Background: The public health nurse should make efforts to keep his/her\nown mental and physical health good, which is the professional responsibility.\nHowever, a variety of challenging issues have been pointed out with regard to\nwell-being of healthcare professionals. Public health nurses are likely to face\nsome difficulties in their habits of leading healthy lifestyles. The purpose of\nthis study was to identify how Japanese public health nurses actually live their\nhealthy lives. Methods: This study covered 1725 public health nurses in the\nChugoku/Shikoku Region. We conducted an anonymous self-completed\nquestionnaire survey. As basic attributes, the following 6 categories were set.\nThe health practice indices used in this research consisted of the 7 practices of\nBreslow�s Health Practice Index (B-HPI), the Morimoto�s 8 practices, and 6\npractices related to lifestyle habits that have been developed independently by\nthe authors of this research (Health Lifestyle Index (HLI)), that is, 16 practices\nin total. The study plan was approved by the Ethics Committee of Okayama\nUniversity. Results: We analyzed the 960 (55.7%) valid responses. This survey\nhas demonstrated that the healthy lifestyle practices of public health nurses\nare generally good. However, there were some practices such as eating between\nmeals, having little physical activity, and not having a good rest/sleep,\nthat need to be improved. None of the assessment tools correlated with the\nlength of experience. Conclusions: This survey has clarified that the healthy\nlifestyle practices of public health nurses did not correlated with their length\nof experience, indicating that the healthy lifestyle practices are not intensified\nby the accumulated career experience as public health nurses.
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