Assessment of Mental Health Status and Attitude towards Promotive Mental Health Care Practice among Nurses in Ekiti State, Nigeria

Self care practices remain a major concern among nurses. In particular, mental health self care awareness and practice is an uninvestigated area of research in our environment.
Aim: The study aimed to investigate mental health status and attitude towards promotive mental health care practice among nurses in Ekiti State southwest Nigeria.
Materials and Methods: Adopting a descriptive cross-sectional design, a multistage sampling technique was employed involving proportionate sampling with simple random probability sampling method to select 263 Nurses whose Socio-demographic data, mental health status and attitude towards promotive mental health care practice were determined using an adapted standardized questionnaire. Descriptive analyses and Logistic regression was used at 0.05 level of significance through statistical package for the social science software. SPSS version 27
Results: Results indicated that study participants had, predominantly female gender of (81.9%), (74.6%) of the respondents had working experiences of between 1 and 5 years and with the mean age to be 27.6 years. Majority (97.3%) reported good mental health state. The mean value of (2.74) was recorded for attitude towards the practice of promotive mental health care with the expected mean value of (2.0). The model fitting information (MFI) value of (0.001) with Pearson and Deviance good-of- fit value of (0.600 and 0.870) respectively, shown significant relationship between respondents’ attitude and the practice of promotive mental health care. The study concludes that the mental health state among the studied population is good and that attitude towards practice of promotive mental health care is good among nurses.

Mental Health Status, Promotive, Mental Health Care

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