Evaluation of health promotion activities in community nursing practice

Sourtzi, P; Nolan, P; Andrews, R

dc.contributor.author	Sourtzi, P	en
dc.contributor.author	Nolan, P	en
dc.contributor.author	Andrews, R	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T01:44:43Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T01:44:43Z
dc.date.issued	1996	en
dc.identifier.issn	03092402	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/24460
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dc.subject.other	adult	en
dc.subject.other	analysis of variance	en
dc.subject.other	article	en
dc.subject.other	chi square distribution	en
dc.subject.other	community health nursing	en
dc.subject.other	cross-sectional study	en
dc.subject.other	female	en
dc.subject.other	health care quality	en
dc.subject.other	health promotion	en
dc.subject.other	human	en
dc.subject.other	methodology	en
dc.subject.other	middle aged	en
dc.subject.other	nonparametric test	en
dc.subject.other	questionnaire	en
dc.subject.other	randomization	en
dc.subject.other	reproducibility	en
dc.subject.other	statistics	en
dc.subject.other	United Kingdom	en
dc.subject.other	Adult	en
dc.subject.other	Analysis of Variance	en
dc.subject.other	Chi-Square Distribution	en
dc.subject.other	Community Health Nursing	en
dc.subject.other	Cross-Sectional Studies	en
dc.subject.other	England	en
dc.subject.other	Female	en
dc.subject.other	Health Promotion	en
dc.subject.other	Humans	en
dc.subject.other	Middle Aged	en
dc.subject.other	Program Evaluation	en
dc.subject.other	Questionnaires	en
dc.subject.other	Random Allocation	en
dc.subject.other	Reproducibility of Results	en
dc.subject.other	Statistics, Nonparametric	en
dc.title	Evaluation of health promotion activities in community nursing practice	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.publicationDate	1996	en
heal.abstract	The purpose of this research was to study the extent to which community nurses (CNs) were involved in health promotion activities and to investigate whether these activities were meeting the needs of their clients. A cross-sectional survey by multiple methods was designed and carried out in four district health authorities (DHAs) in one regional health authority in England. Two hundred and fifty-one (83.67%) completed questionnaires were returned by CNs working in primary health care (PHC). Sixty sessions with CNs were observed and 249 interviews were conducted with clients. Additionally, as part of the observation 155 clinical records were examined. CNs reported involvement in a wide range of opportunistic and organized health promotion activities. Lifestyle advice and ill-health prevention were most frequently used by all groups. Health visitors (HVs) were involved significantly more in group and community wide activities. District nurses (DNs) were mainly involved in opportunistic health promotion. Practice nurses (PNs) were found to be involved significantly more in health promotion activities organized on an individual basis. Observation revealed that opportunistic health promotion was carried out in almost half of the consultations observed, of which lifestyle advice was the most frequent. Records however showed that this information was rarely recorded. The clients of PNs were mostly aware of other health promotion activities available within the general practice, while almost half of the HVs' clients knew what other health promotion activities were available to them and few DNs' clients were aware of any.	en
heal.journalName	Journal of Advanced Nursing	en
dc.identifier.volume	24	en
dc.identifier.issue	6	en
dc.identifier.spage	1214	en
dc.identifier.epage	1223	en