A SEM-PLS Model Analysis: The Relationship of Health Promotion Model Components and Self Efficacy to Prevent Obesity among Nursing Students.

Abstract

Obesity is on the rise worldwide and become a global issue. Healthy lifestyle practice is proven to prevent from obese. Nurses are responsible for promoting a healthy lifestyle. As future nurses, nursing students must be prepared to become good role models for practicing healthy lifestyles by having ideal body weight and good body image. In order to maintain their health condition, it is necessary to take preventive measures, one of which is the application of Healthy lifestyle behaviour. In improving the compliance of nursing students as future nurses in improving their health status, it is vital to perform health promotion to the patients and public to improve nation’s quality of life. The study aimed to identify and determine the relationship between components in preventing obese among nursing students. The study utilized a cross-sectional design. The study samples were all nursing students from selected Private Healthcare University in Malaysia amounting to 360 respondents, and data were collected by random sampling technique. Data analysis in this study used the SEM-PLS technique, with three stages of analysis: 1.) outer model test, in the form of reflective and formative models, to determine the relationship between indicators and latent variables; 2.) inner model test, consisting of R-squared test (R2), effect size (f2), predictive prevalence (Q2), and Goodness of Fit test. The inner model test aims to determine the relationship between latent variables; and 3.) Hypothesis testing to observe the significance value of the effect of exogenous variables on endogenous variables through the T statistical value (> 1.96) and p-value (<0.05). Finally a total of 348 respondents met the criteria for conducting data analysis.