. Azar Tol; . Elaheh Tavassoli; . Gholam Reza Shariferad; . Davoud Shojaeezadeh
Volume 3, Issue 2 , February 2013, , Pages 1-4
Abstract
Background: Health promoting lifestyle (HPL) focuses on life promotion through lifestylewhich consists of six aspects of “physical activity”, “nutrition”, “health ...
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Background: Health promoting lifestyle (HPL) focuses on life promotion through lifestylewhich consists of six aspects of “physical activity”, “nutrition”, “health responsibility”, “spiritualgrowth”, “interpersonal relations” and “stress management”. This lifestyle promotes healthand welfare and induces satisfaction, self-persuasion and self-improvement. Consideringthe importance of the way a new behavior affects “life quality” as a motivational factor forstarting and continuing that behavior, this study aimed to determine the relationship betweenhealth-promoting lifestyle and its aspects. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectionalstudy was performed on undergraduate students at School of Health, Isfahan University ofMedical Sciences, using a census method. Health promoting lifestyle was measured by HealthPromotion Lifestyle Profile two and life quality was assessed by the Persian version of QLQ-C30questionnaire. Data analysis was conducted using descriptive and inferential statistical testsin SPSS. Results: Mean age of the participants was 21.12 years old. From among six aspectsof health promoting behaviors, spiritual growth and responsibility with the means of 22.01 ±2.224 and 20 ± 2.31 had the highest and physical activity with the mean of 17.58 ± 2.9 had thelowest scores, respectively. General life quality of 40.7% students was good and only 19.8% ofthem had an average global life quality. The highest and lowest frequencies of health-related lifequality belonged to very good (58.6%) and excellent (9%) health, respectively. Except for stressmanagement (P = 0.05) and gender of the students, there were no significant relationshipsbetween other HPL aspects and gender. There was no statistically significant relationshipbetween global life quality of students and nutrition, physical activity, self-health responsibilityand stress management while there was a significant relationship between global life qualityand spiritual growth of the students. Health-related life quality and stress management weresignificantly related to each other; however, no statistically significant relationship was observedbetween health-related life quality and nutrition, physical activity, interpersonal relations andspiritual growth. Conclusion: There is a significant relationship between adopting healthpromoting lifestyle and aspects of spiritual growth and stress management on the one handand general quality of life on the other, at least among students.
