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Health promotion and public health
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Physical activity as a core component of the nursing curriculum
  1. Trudy Dwyer
  1. Correspondence to : Associate Professor Trudy Dwyer, Central Queensland University, Building 18, CQUniversity, Bruce Highway, Rockhampton, QLD, 4700, Australia; t.dwyer{at}cqu.edu.au

https://doi.org/10.1136/eb-2016-102594

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    Commentary on: Blake H, Stanulewicz N, Mcgill F, et al. Predictors of physical activity and barriers to exercise in nursing and medical students. J Adv Nurs 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jan.13181. [Epub ahead of print]

    Implications for practice and research

    • Nursing students are not meeting the minimum recommended level of physical activity (PA).

    • The PA behaviour of nursing students has the potential to influence their delivery of health promotion education.

    • The development of PA within nursing curricular will potentially facilitate strategies to balance the demands of study and personal commitments and PA.

    • Further research is needed to examine the actual PA content within nursing curricula and understand the prevalence and maintenance of PA behaviour from enrolment to graduation.

    Context

    Physical inactivity on a global scale is one of the greatest public health problems in Western society. A contributing factor may be the lower level of attention received from healthcare professionals (HCP) such as nurses and medical doctors to recommend and provide guidance …

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.