Journal article
The state of mental health and healthy lifestyle behaviors in nursing, medicine and health sciences faculty and students at Big 10 Universities with implications for action
Journal of professional nursing, Vol.37(6), pp.1167-1174
11/2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2021.10.007
PMID: 34887036
Abstract
High rates of mental health conditions and poor healthy lifestyle behaviors are reported in nurses, other clinicians, and health science students but have not been compared across different professions.
The purpose of this study was threefold: (1) describe rates of mental health problems and healthy lifestyle behaviors across the Big 10 health professional faculty and students, (2) compare the health and healthy lifestyle behaviors of the Big 10 health sciences faculty and students across health sciences' professions, and (3) identify factors predictive of depression, stress, and anxiety.
Faculty and students from eight health science colleges at the Big 10 Universities responded to the study survey, which included: demographics, healthy lifestyle behavior questions, and three valid/reliable mental health scales. Descriptive statistics described the findings and multiple linear regression identified factors associated with mental health conditions.
Eight-hundred and sixty-nine faculty and 1087 students responded. Approximately 50% of faculty and students reported 7 h of sleep/night, a third achieved 150 min of physical activity/week; 5.5%–9.9% screened positive for depression; and 11.5%–25.5% had anxiety. Age, sleep, and physical activity were associated with lower depression and anxiety.
University leadership must build wellness cultures that make healthy lifestyle behaviors easy to engage in and enhance mental well-being.
•Students had more depression (9.9%) and anxiety (25.5%) than faculty (5.5% and 11.5%).•Age, sleep, and physical activity were associated with depression and anxiety.•University's must provide preventative programs and build wellness cultures to enhave student and faculty well-being.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The state of mental health and healthy lifestyle behaviors in nursing, medicine and health sciences faculty and students at Big 10 Universities with implications for action
- Creators
- Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk - The Ohio State UniversityAndreanna Pavan Hsieh - The Ohio State UniversityAlai Tan - The Ohio State UniversityKate Sustersic Gawlik - The Ohio State UniversityEileen Danaher Hacker - Indiana University – Purdue University IndianapolisDenise Ferrell - Michigan State UniversityVicki Simpson - Purdue University West LafayetteCharon Burda - University of Maryland, BaltimoreBonnie Hagerty - University of MichiganLinda D. Scott - University of Wisconsin–MadisonJeana M. Holt - University of Wisconsin–MilwaukeePamela Gampetro - University of Illinois ChicagoAmany Farag - University of IowaSteven Glogocheski - Rutgers University–NewarkLaurie Badzek - Pennsylvania State University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of professional nursing, Vol.37(6), pp.1167-1174
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.profnurs.2021.10.007
- PMID
- 34887036
- NLM abbreviation
- J Prof Nurs
- ISSN
- 8755-7223
- eISSN
- 1532-8481
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/2021
- Academic Unit
- Nursing; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984370745302771
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