Abstract: Objective: To evaluate health-promoting lifestyles status and their influencing factors among the medical nursing assistants. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive design and convenience sampling method study was conducted. Totally 634 nursing assistants form east, central and west of China were investigated using a general demographic questionnaire, the Health-promoting Lifestyles Profile-II, Health Conception Scale and Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire to measure their health-promoting lifestyles status from March 2019 to October 2019. Results: The average score of the Health-Promoting Lifestyles total score was 124.79±35.47. For the six dimensions, the item average scores of health responsibility, physical activity, nutrition, spiritual growth, interpersonal relations, and stress management were 2.30±0.75, 2.13±0.83, 2.50±0.71, 2.53±0.67, 2.65±0.75, and 2.23±0.76, respectively. Multiple regression analysis revealed that the predictor variables, such as working years, health conception, workplace, education, job satisfaction and number of care recipients, explained 85.3% of the variance in health-promoting lifestyles. Conclusion: The level of health-promoting lifestyles is average in medical nursing assistants, with the highest score in interpersonal relations and the lowest score in physical activity. The variables of working years, health conception, workplace, education, job satisfaction and number of care recipients can serve as effective predictors of health-promoting lifestyles.

Key words: health-promoting lifestyles; health behavior; health conception; nursing assistants; satisfaction; cross-sectional study; influencing factors