Correlation Between Healthy Lifestyle With The Academic Performance Of Nursing Students

Abstract

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle pattern is a challenge for health practitioners. As a prospective member of the health profession with the greatest number in Indonesia, nursing students are expected to have knowledge and adequate healthy living behavior in order to become a role model for the community. The pattern of healthy life behavior affects the value of student achievement. This study aims to determine the relationship of healthy behavior patterns with the academic achievement of nursing students. The research design is using quantitative descriptive which is data collection cross sectional. The population is a student of the Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University X. The sample of the study of 179 students is taken based on purposive sampling with inclusion criteria of students of class 2015 active and willing to be a respondent. The instrument in the form of Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP-II) questionnaire that has been adapted in Indonesian consists of 22 items of questions on a Likert scale and a cumulative grade point. The result of the research shows that more than half of the students (59,8%) have unhealthy behavior pattern (M = 2,474, SD = 0,382) and most (87,7%) students have very satisfactory academic achievement. The statistical test showed that there was no correlation between healthy behavior pattern with student achievement (P = 0,944 > 0,05). Further research is expected to examine the factors that influence healthy behavior patterns with the academic achievement of nursing students.