Purpose of the Study. The purpose of this study was to determine if nurse educators in Alabama are exemplars of the health behaviors they teach concerning prevention of cardiovascular disease. The instrument to determine cardiac risk behaviors was used by permission of the Michigan Heart Association. The risks surveyed included the modifiable factors: smoking, exercise, serum cholesterol or saturated fat intake, weight, and blood pressure. Unmodifiable factors were age, sex, and heredity. Additional demographic data were obtained to make possible the preparation of profiles of the educators according to type and level of education; employment in diploma, associate degree or baccalaureate programs; years of experience; presence of unmodifiable risk factors; and presence of some cardiovascular problem. / Findings. Analysis of the data revealed that nurse educators were exemplars in moderate or low risk cardiac risk behaviors of smoking, blood pressure, and ingestion of cholesterol or animal fat. Their scores were higher than some sample populations in the categories of weight and exercise, although their total mean scores were in the average risk range. / There was no indication that higher degrees in nursing or non-nursing resulted in a significant difference in risk behaviors. There was a rise in mean risk scores with increasing years of experience which may have been attributable to age. Neither the groups with a cardiovascular problem nor those with a high risk unmodifiable factor reported lower modifiable cardiac risk behaviors scores. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-12, Section: A, page: 3827. / Thesis (Educat.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74994 |
| Contributors | WARD, ALICE STOKES., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 152 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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