Status and influencing factors of clinical nurses' health education

Objective To clarify the existing problems in nurses' health education and to analyze the influencing factors. Methods 298 nurses from 6 hospitals in Jiangsu Province were investigated by cluster sampling and snowball sampling from November, 2017 to January, 2018. The online Clinical Nursing Staff Health Education Questionnaire was distributed based on the https://www.wjx.cn/. Results The health education time was less than their 15.0% working time in 56.8% nurses. Among them, 61.4% spent 6.0%-15.0% working time on health education. There were 6.9% of nurses spending more than half of their working time on health education. The nurses' awareness of health education was mainly influenced by their professional titles (P<0.05); their attitude toward health education was mainly affected by their highest educational level and working hospital level (P<0.05); their professional title, first education level, highest education level, and the hospital level they worked in affected different aspects of their health education self-efficacy. Conclusions Professional title, educational background, and working hospital grade are the main factors influencing nurses' health education. In order to allow nurses to give full play to the role of health education, it is necessary to constantly improve their education levels and professional titles. Key words: Nurses; Health education; Cognition; Attitude; Self-efficacy