Physical activity and health promoting lifestyle among diploma nursing students in Malaysia

[...]health responsibility was reported to be the lowest score for both institutions. Since unhealthy behaviors are associated positively with the nurses' health promotion roles in the future, so encouraging them to live healthily starting when they were pursuing their diploma was necessary in order to achieve this noble mission. According to Al-Kandari and Vidal (2007), the nursing students are potential key players in the global quest for health promotion. [...]this study was carried out to determine the levels of physical activity and health-promoting lifestyle profile among the diploma nursing students, and to investigate whether there was a difference between urban nursing students physical activity levels and health promoting lifestyle profile as compared to the rural nursing students. [...]nursing students working in a crowded hospital (more patients) will tend to have higher mean step counts as the results of the more demanding job requirement.