Health behaviors of nurses in the prevention of hypertension

Abstract

Background. Results of the arterial hypertension are causing premature deaths, the increased incidence of other illnesses and the disability. The economic and social enormous problem constitutes it in populations developed in terms of civilization, where people are leading a lifestyle which is characterized by a big power consumption, of sodium, fats, alcohol, small eating potassium, the sedentary lifestyle what in consequence is leading to the positive energy balance with all his results. In the prevention of falling ill with the arterial hypertension health behaviours are outweighing, of which employees of the health care should be an authority. Objectives. To asses health behaviours in the prevention or the development of the arterial hypertension in professionally active nurses. Material and methods. We provided a group of 100 professionally active nurses with using a questionnaire of the own authorship of the part of socialdemographics data and questionnaire of the Inwentarz Zachwań Zdrowotnych (IZZ). A statistical analysis of achieved results was conducted with the help of the STATISTICA v. 9.0 program and the spreadsheet EXCEL. Results. We didn’t get satistyficated results in health behaviours concerning eating habits, addictions and the physical activity of examinated group. Conclusions. From conducted examinations it results, that especially young nurses, fully aren’t prepared for propagating the healthier lifestyle and behaviours having material meaning in the prevention of the arterial hypertension of blood.