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Sara Alenius1,2,3, Marie Rask1,2,3, Albert Westergren1,2,3
1Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing and Integrated Health Sciences, Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden.
Nursing students
Area of Science:
- Health Sciences
- Nursing Education
- Behavioral Science
Background:
- Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are linked to lifestyle factors, necessitating preventive strategies.
- Lifestyle counselling is effective for NCD prevention and management but often underutilized.
- Low nurse self-efficacy in lifestyle counselling is a barrier to patient care.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore nursing students' self-efficacy in lifestyle counselling.
- To examine the association between self-efficacy and self-assessed learning methods.
Main Methods:
- Cross-sectional study with 310 nursing students in southern Sweden.
- Utilized the Self-Efficacy in Lifestyle Counselling scale (SELC20+20).
- Employed multiple linear regression to analyze relationships between self-efficacy and learning methods (Bandura's sources).
Main Results:
- Learning methods like own knowledge seeking, theoretical education, feedback, personal, and observed experiences significantly predicted self-efficacy in lifestyle counselling knowledge (R2=0.30).
- Own knowledge seeking, personal experiences, theoretical education, and feedback significantly predicted self-efficacy in lifestyle counselling ability (R2=0.33).
- Mastery, vicarious, and social persuasion experiences were linked to knowledge; mastery and social persuasion to ability.
Conclusions:
- Mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, and social persuasion are key factors influencing nursing students' self-efficacy in lifestyle counselling knowledge.
- Mastery experiences and social persuasion significantly impact self-efficacy in lifestyle counselling ability.
- Further research is needed to understand the development of self-efficacy in lifestyle counselling among nursing students.
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