Feeling of nursing students for their health state and factors effecting on it

Abstract

　In order to clarify the relationship among feeling of nursing students for their mental and physical health states, life style, and mental/social study factors, an investigation was carried out through a questionnaire.

　The questionnaire was set out 122 students of first-third year class in the Junior College of Nursing.

　The results were summarized as follows:

1. Fairly many students of third year class, the eldest year class, were in unfavorable conditions of mental and physical health states and also in that of burnout state. On the contrary, the second year class students were in good conditions in all of health state.

2. As for life style,students who had undesirable habits in daily life were most in number in the third year class.However,about the mental/physical study factors the numbers of students who negatively replied to the questionnaire were most in the first year class.

3. Mental and physical health states and burnout state were related each other, and with the progress of burnout state the percentage of students who complained about melan cholia, sleep disturbance and uncomfortable feeling for their health state increased. However, any relation was not found between burnout state and appetite which reflect their health state.

4. Number of students who had undesirable habits in daily life was larger in unhealthy feeling group which was consisted from the students who complained about melancholia or bad conditions of health state, or were in burnout stage Ⅲ than that of healthy feeling group. At the same time many students in unhealthy feeling group replied positively to the questions mental/social study factors. Especially, the number of students who had sleeping hours less than 6 hours and no interest in nursing practice was significantly large in this group.