Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to study the personal factors, organization factors, healthy workplace management and health promotion behavior of professional nurses in community hospitals, ministry of public health and construction of the equation predicting health status of professional nurses in community hospitals, ministry of public health. The subjects consisted of 347 professional nurses in community hospitals, ministry of public health selected by stratified random sampling technique. The research instruments were questionnaires consisted of healthy workplace management and health promotion behavior of professional nurses in community hospitals, ministry of public health. Questionnaires which were tested for content validity were 1 and 0.89 respectively. and the reliability were .93 and .90 respectively. Statistical technique utilized in data analysis were Percentage, Mean, Standard deviation, Pearsons product moment correlation and Stepwise multiple regression analysis.
Major findings were the following:
1. The results revealed that the professional nurses in community hospitals, ministry of public health had medium level of health promoting behavior. When considering each dimension of health promoting was examined, it was found that the aspect health promoting behaviors which were at medium level
2. Professional nurses in community hospitals, ministry of public health perceived healthy workplace management of the all were at a moderate level. When considering each dimension of health promoting was examined, it was found that the aspect of healthy workplace management which were at moderate level
3. Personal factors, Organization factors and Healthy workplace management factors were significantly related to health promotion behavior of professional nurses in community hospitals, ministry of public health at .05 level
4. The variable that could significantly predict the health promotion behavior of professional nurses in community hospitals, ministry of public health were the healthy workplace management project, work experience, small hospital, health promoting planning and management policy, health promoting training, health promoting hospital and age 30-39 year olds predictors account for 22.3 (R2 =.223) of variance at .05 level
The predicted equation in standard score from the analysis at health promotion behaviors of professional nurses in community hospitals, ministry of public health. was as follow
health promotion behavior = 0.366 (healthy workplace management project)+ 0.176 (work experience) + 0.133 (small hospital) + 0.128 (health promoting planning and management policy) + 0.108 (pass health promoting training ) - 0.131 (health promoting hospital) - 0.128 (age 30-39 year olds