title: Nurses' health-related behaviours: protocol for a quantitative systematic review of prevalence of tobacco smoking, physical activity, alcohol consumption and dietary habits.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To enumerate nurses' health-related behaviour by critically appraising studies on tobacco smoking, physical activity, alcohol consumption and dietary habits.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Nurses represent the largest occupational group in healthcare systems internationally and have an established and expanding public health role. Nurses own health-related behaviour is known to impact nurses' ability and confidence to engage in health promotion, and how patients receive and respond to advice and guidance nurses' give. However, there has been no comprehensive and comparable assessment of evidence on nurses' health-related behaviours.
  
  
  METHODS
  Quantitative systematic review of prevalence of tobacco smoking, physical activity, alcohol consumption and dietary habits.
  
  
  METHODS
  Systematic searches for literature published between January 2000 and February 2015 and indexed in Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature and Psychological Information. Eligibility criteria will be applied to titles and abstracts by two reviewers independently. Full text will be reviewed and the same criteria and process applied. Two reviewers will independently assess study quality guided by the Joanna Briggs Institute handbook for the systematic review of prevalence and incidence data. Discrepancies in eligibility or quality assessment will be resolved through discussion and, where required, a third reviewer. Data synthesis will be conducted and findings reported according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses checklist.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Enumerating prevalence of nurses' health-related behaviours is crucial to direct future research, inform public health policy, particularly around health promotion and to better support the nursing workforce through the development of behaviour change interventions. PROSPERO registration: CRD42015016751.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Care, Edinburgh Napier University, UK.
authors.forename: Rosie A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Neall
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Care, Edinburgh Napier University, UK.
authors.forename: Iain M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Atherton
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Care, Edinburgh Napier University, UK.
authors.forename: Richard G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Kyle
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009043:Motor Activity; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D000078202:Systematic Reviews as Topic
keywords: alcohol consumption; dietary habits; health-related behaviour; nursing; physical activity; smoking; systematic review