Health-Promoting Lifestyle Behaviors and Their Correlates Among Nursing Students in Saudi Arabia
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Title
Health-Promoting Lifestyle Behaviors and Their Correlates Among Nursing Students in Saudi Arabia
Subject
Health-promoting lifestyle behaviors; nursing students; physical activity
Description
Background: A health-promoting lifestyle serves as the foundation for healthy
living and is highly relevant to nursing students, who are expected to model such
behaviors as future healthcare providers. However, few studies have examined these
patterns among nursing students in regions such as Hail, Saudi Arabia.
Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the health-promoting lifestyle behaviors of
nursing students and their correlations with demographic factors.
Methods: A cross-sectional correlational design was employed. A total of 263 male
and female participants provided demographic information and completed the
Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP II) questionnaire through convenience
sampling. Independent-samples t-tests were used to compare HPLP scores by
gender, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to compare scores across
year levels, and Pearson’s correlation was applied to examine associations between
HPLP scores and selected demographic variables, including year level, GPA, family
income, and BMI.
Results: The overall health-promoting lifestyle behavior was classified as good
(M=142.88, SD=28.77). No significant differences were observed across gender or
year level for any HPLP subdomains. GPA was positively correlated with health-
promoting behaviors (r=0.34, p<0.001), whereas family monthly income was
negatively correlated (r=–0.15, p=0.01). BMI and year level were not significantly
associated with HPLP scores.
Conclusion: Nursing students demonstrated generally good health-promoting
behaviors. Higher academic performance was linked to more frequent engagement
in such behaviors, whereas students from higher-income families displayed slightly
lower engagement. These findings highlight the importance of culturally and
contextually tailored interventions to support nursing students in adopting and
maintaining healthy lifestyles.
living and is highly relevant to nursing students, who are expected to model such
behaviors as future healthcare providers. However, few studies have examined these
patterns among nursing students in regions such as Hail, Saudi Arabia.
Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the health-promoting lifestyle behaviors of
nursing students and their correlations with demographic factors.
Methods: A cross-sectional correlational design was employed. A total of 263 male
and female participants provided demographic information and completed the
Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP II) questionnaire through convenience
sampling. Independent-samples t-tests were used to compare HPLP scores by
gender, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to compare scores across
year levels, and Pearson’s correlation was applied to examine associations between
HPLP scores and selected demographic variables, including year level, GPA, family
income, and BMI.
Results: The overall health-promoting lifestyle behavior was classified as good
(M=142.88, SD=28.77). No significant differences were observed across gender or
year level for any HPLP subdomains. GPA was positively correlated with health-
promoting behaviors (r=0.34, p<0.001), whereas family monthly income was
negatively correlated (r=–0.15, p=0.01). BMI and year level were not significantly
associated with HPLP scores.
Conclusion: Nursing students demonstrated generally good health-promoting
behaviors. Higher academic performance was linked to more frequent engagement
in such behaviors, whereas students from higher-income families displayed slightly
lower engagement. These findings highlight the importance of culturally and
contextually tailored interventions to support nursing students in adopting and
maintaining healthy lifestyles.
Creator
Haidee Tablada Pacheco1
, Salwa Abd El Gawad Sallam1,3 Richard Dennis Juinio Dayrit2,
Dominga Narag Villano1
, Marifa Libang Briones1
, Heba Kayied Deab Al Morjan1
, Salwa Abd El Gawad Sallam1,3 Richard Dennis Juinio Dayrit2,
Dominga Narag Villano1
, Marifa Libang Briones1
, Heba Kayied Deab Al Morjan1
Source
https://doi.org/10.14710/nmjn.v15i2.60623
Date
30 August 2025
Contributor
peri irawan
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Language
english
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Haidee Tablada Pacheco1
, Salwa Abd El Gawad Sallam1,3 Richard Dennis Juinio Dayrit2,
Dominga Narag Villano1
, Marifa Libang Briones1
, Heba Kayied Deab Al Morjan1, “Health-Promoting Lifestyle Behaviors and Their Correlates Among Nursing Students in Saudi Arabia,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed February 21, 2026, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/11329.