Asian Journal of Research in Medicine and Medical Science

Health promotion empowers people to manage contributing factors to their health and, when appropriate, to change their lifestyle to improve or maintain their health. A Health promotion lifestyle contributes to a positive Quality of life because the individual who engages in a Health promotion lifestyle will remain healthy and functional without the burden of disease and disability. The purpose of the study was to assess the health-promoting lifestyle and quality of life among nursing students in Anambra state college of Nursing sciences, Nkpor. A descriptive cros sectional research design was used. The population used for the study was 350 Nursing students. Stratified random sampling technique (Proportionate) was used to sele@ct 309 student Nurses. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire and its reliability was determined using Cronbach Alpha to be 0.85. Data was analyzed using SPSS 25.0. Findings indicated that about 74.8% of the students are within the age of 18-23. 266(86.1) of the respondents had a poor health promoting lifestyle while 43(13.9) had good health promoting lifestyle. There was no statistically significant association found between age (p=0.066), gender (p=0.617), academic level (p=0.378), marital status (p=0.634), employment (p=0.565), source of income (p=0.094), and health promotion. In conclusion, a health-promoting lifestyle of students in this study was moderate and they did not have an acceptable level of physical activity. The direct effect of well-being, and self-efficacy on lifestyle, revising students’ curriculums to improve their health behaviors, and general health indicators, can all lead to the enhancement of health-promoting lifestyles.