Impact of Stress Lightening Dietary Education on Knowledge and Stress Eating Attitude among Night Shift Working Nurses

Abstract

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of stress lightening dietary education on knowledge and stress eating attitude among night shift working nurses at selected Hospitals in Thiruvarur district. Methodology: Quantitative approach. A quasi-experimental design was adopted to assess the effectiveness of stress lightening dietary education on knowledge and stress eating attitude among night shift working nurses (120 samples) at Thiruvarur Government Medical College, Kamakshi Hospital in Thiruvarur district. Purposive sampling technique was utilized to choose the samples. StressLightening Dietary Education was administered, and the level of knowledge and stress eating attitude was assessed by using a self-structured knowledge questionnaire and a modified Salzburg stress eating attitude scale and contrasted with the pre-test and post-test levels of knowledge and stress eating attitude among night shift working nurses. Results: The research findings revealed that the post-test mean knowledge score of night shift nurses was 8.54 with an SD of 0.78, and their post-test mean stress eating attitude score was 32.12 with an SD of 3.67. The calculated paired “t” value (56.358 and 23.819) for knowledge and stress eating attitude shows that there was a high statistical difference at p<0.001. Conclusion: The results revealed that stress-lightening dietary education was an effective intervention tool in enhancing the knowledge and stress-eating attitude regarding stress-lightening dietary practices among night shift nurses.