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Health Promotion In 7 Minutes, Cathy Abell, Maria Eve Main, M. Susan Jones

Eve Main

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Promoting Health And Wellness In Australian Church Communities: The Parish Nurses' Lived Experience, Tamera Gosling

Tamera Gosling

Parish nursing, has emerged in Australia over the last decade with an aim to provide holistic health care to people in church community settings through health education, counselling, referral, support and co-ordination of volunteers. Great value has been placed on the health promotional feature of the parish nurses’ role; however, to this time the experience of promoting health for the parish nurse has remained relatively unexplored. This research presents the results of a qualitative study to explore, identify and describe the lived experience of Australian parish nurses promoting health and wellness in Christian church communities. A phenomenological approach was used …

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Further Validation Of The Body-Mind-Spirit Wellness Behavior And Characteristic Inventory For College Students, Nicole Mareno, Kathy James

Nicole Mareno

Health promotion is a vital component of college health programs. College health professionals are challenged to find cost-effective, comprehensive measures to assess wellness and risk behaviors. Hettler’s 1979 Six Dimension of Wellness Model guided this inquiry. Physical, emotional, intellectual, occupational, social, and spiritual wellness dimensions were measured by the Body-Mind-Spirit Wellness Behavior and Characteristic Inventory (BMS-WBCI). This study aimed to further validate the BMS-WBCI by reporting reliability as internal consistency of the scale when used to measure wellness in a sample of college students. A descriptive cross-sectional design was utilized. A convenience sample of 106 college students from a small, …