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Title: Lifestyle and depression among Hong Kong nurses
Authors: Cheung, T 
Yip, PSF
Issue Date: 2016
Source: International journal of environmental research and public health, Jan. 2016, v. 13, no. 1
Abstract: Recent longitudinal data suggest a close association between depression and lifestyle. Little work to date has estimated the prevalence of depression in the nursing workforce in China, nor considered what lifestyle factors might be correlated with it—a gap filled by the present study. The study’s web-based cross-sectional survey solicited data from qualified nurses aged between 21 and 65 registered with the Hong Kong Nursing Council. The Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale 21 was used to measure 850 nurses for depression, anxiety and symptoms of stress; a generalized linear regression model examined associations between lifestyle factors and depression. Mean depression symptom scores show a downward linear trend for male and female participants. Gender and age, however, did not emerge as significant predictors of depression. Three lifestyles factors (sleep, entertainment and hobbies) showed a significant association with depression. Nurses should make therapeutic lifestyle changes to improve their work-life balance and safeguard their functioning at work and personal well-being.
Keywords: DASS-21
Depression
Epidemiology
Nurses
Therapeutic lifestyle changes
Publisher: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
Journal: International journal of environmental research and public health 
ISSN: 1661-7827
EISSN: 1660-4601
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph13010135
Rights: © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
The following publication Cheung, T.; Yip, P.S. Lifestyle and Depression among Hong Kong Nurses. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2016, 13, 135, 1-12 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13010135
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