MULTIPLE ROLES AND HEALTH PROMOTION LIFESTYLES OF WOMEN NURSE EDUCATORS.
Contributors: University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Published: 1992
Number of pages: 125
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Education.
Description: The purpose of this study was to ascertain if there is a relationship between multiple roles and health promotion lifestyles of women nurse educators. Pender's (1987) Health Promotion Model and Goode's Theory of Role Strain served as the conceptual framework.

This descriptive correlational study was implemented by mailing a questionnaire consisting of demographic data, an investigator-constructed multiple role profile, and Pender's Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile (HPLP) to 400 women nurse educators. The sample was representative of associate, diploma, baccalaureate, and graduate nursing programs defined by the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB). Of the 342 women nurse educators who responded (85.5%), 337 of the responses were useable (84.25%).

The majority of the sample was white, married, middle-aged, a parent, and employed full-time at either an associate or baccalaureate nursing program. Role strain was experienced by 316 subjects (93.8%) who identified the roles of housekeeper and manager of household as roles desired to be relinquished. Most of the sample occupied 10 to 16 roles, with 14 roles as the mode.

The hypothesis that a relationship existed between multiple roles and health promotion lifestyles of women nurse educators was not supported. There were no statistically significant relationships between multiple roles and self-actualization, health responsibility, nutrition, exercise, interpersonal support, stress management, or overall health promotion lifestyle according to the Pearson r correlation.

The data suggested that as multiple roles increase, an individual's health promotion lifestyle improves. They also indicated that women nurse educators need to strive for even higher levels of health promotion, particularly in the area of exercise.

Recommendations for further research included a focus on the relationship between role satisfaction and health promotion lifestyles and a study of the differences in health promotion lifestyles of women nurse educators occupying different roles. Other recommendations include research on the identification of sources of role strain within roles occupied, strategies to resolve or decrease role strain, and identification of actual or potential barriers to a health-promoting lifestyle.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-11, Section: B, page: 5638.

Thesis (D.S.N.)--UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM, 1992.

School code: 0005.