Evaluation of Lifestyle Health Promotion of Dormitory Medical Students Regarding Comprehensive Aspects

Objective: Lifestyle improvement has a key role in empowering people and facilitating their duties. Most of the students who live in the dormitories, are apparently not locals and their lifestyle improvement is even more essential to increase their efficiency and productivity. The aim of this study...

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Main Authors: Fatemeh Moghaddam, Saiideh Norouzi, Masoud Norouzi, Ali Norouzi, Zahra Neisary
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Aras Part Medical International Press 2017-10-01
Series:Crescent Journal of Medical and Biological Sciences
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author Fatemeh Moghaddam
Saiideh Norouzi
Masoud Norouzi
Ali Norouzi
Zahra Neisary
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Masoud Norouzi
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Zahra Neisary
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description Objective: Lifestyle improvement has a key role in empowering people and facilitating their duties. Most of the students who live in the dormitories, are apparently not locals and their lifestyle improvement is even more essential to increase their efficiency and productivity. The aim of this study is to assess health-promoting lifestyle of medical sciences students who live in dormitory with respect to different aspects such as nutritional status, stress management, physical activity, health responsibility, social support and perception of life. Moreover the results are provided separately for male and female students and compared with each other. Materials and Method: In this paper, an analytical descriptive study was conducted with 220 students who live in dormitory and random stratified sampling was used. Data collection was based on a standard health-promoting lifestyle questionnaire. The minimum lifestyle score was 52 and the maximum score was 208. The validity of the Persian version of health-promoting lifestyle has been done by Mohammadi Zeidi et al. Cronbach alpha of 0.85 were obtained for all of the questionnaires and the data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics®. Results: Average scores of the male and female students" lifestyle were moderate (122.63 ± 25.18). The lowest score was related to the physical activity of female students (16.71 ± 4.47) and the highest score was for the social support between male students (23.71 ± 4.09). Independent t test showed that the difference between the means of nutrition and health responsibility for male and female students were significant (P = 0.05). Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there is a relationship between all aspects of lifestyle (P = 0.01). It is investigated that there is relationship between gender and physical activity by doing a regression. Conclusion: Considering the fact that the students had an average score of health promoting lifestyle, paying attention to the health education and the behaviors related to the health promotion of this population is more essential and cost-effective.
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spelling doaj.art-bc06ec12f2104864937910bd7f228d752022-12-22T03:16:47ZengAras Part Medical International PressCrescent Journal of Medical and Biological Sciences2148-96962148-96962017-10-0144205210Evaluation of Lifestyle Health Promotion of Dormitory Medical Students Regarding Comprehensive AspectsFatemeh Moghaddam0 Saiideh Norouzi1 Masoud Norouzi2Ali Norouzi3Zahra Neisary4Faculty of Abhar Nursing School, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, IranFaculty of Abhar Nursing School, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, IranEmployee at Health Network of Takestan, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, IranEmployee at Health Network of Abhar, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, IranEmployee at Health Network of Abhar, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, IranObjective: Lifestyle improvement has a key role in empowering people and facilitating their duties. Most of the students who live in the dormitories, are apparently not locals and their lifestyle improvement is even more essential to increase their efficiency and productivity. The aim of this study is to assess health-promoting lifestyle of medical sciences students who live in dormitory with respect to different aspects such as nutritional status, stress management, physical activity, health responsibility, social support and perception of life. Moreover the results are provided separately for male and female students and compared with each other. Materials and Method: In this paper, an analytical descriptive study was conducted with 220 students who live in dormitory and random stratified sampling was used. Data collection was based on a standard health-promoting lifestyle questionnaire. The minimum lifestyle score was 52 and the maximum score was 208. The validity of the Persian version of health-promoting lifestyle has been done by Mohammadi Zeidi et al. Cronbach alpha of 0.85 were obtained for all of the questionnaires and the data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics®. Results: Average scores of the male and female students" lifestyle were moderate (122.63 ± 25.18). The lowest score was related to the physical activity of female students (16.71 ± 4.47) and the highest score was for the social support between male students (23.71 ± 4.09). Independent t test showed that the difference between the means of nutrition and health responsibility for male and female students were significant (P = 0.05). Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there is a relationship between all aspects of lifestyle (P = 0.01). It is investigated that there is relationship between gender and physical activity by doing a regression. Conclusion: Considering the fact that the students had an average score of health promoting lifestyle, paying attention to the health education and the behaviors related to the health promotion of this population is more essential and cost-effective.http://cjmb.org/uploads/pdf/pdf_CJMB_60.pdfPromoting healthy lifestyledormitory studentsNutritionStressPhysicalHealthSocial SupportPerception of Life.
spellingShingle Fatemeh Moghaddam
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Ali Norouzi
Zahra Neisary
Evaluation of Lifestyle Health Promotion of Dormitory Medical Students Regarding Comprehensive Aspects
Crescent Journal of Medical and Biological Sciences
Promoting healthy lifestyle
dormitory students
Nutrition
Stress
Physical
Health
Social Support
Perception of Life.
title Evaluation of Lifestyle Health Promotion of Dormitory Medical Students Regarding Comprehensive Aspects
title_full Evaluation of Lifestyle Health Promotion of Dormitory Medical Students Regarding Comprehensive Aspects
title_fullStr Evaluation of Lifestyle Health Promotion of Dormitory Medical Students Regarding Comprehensive Aspects
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of Lifestyle Health Promotion of Dormitory Medical Students Regarding Comprehensive Aspects
title_short Evaluation of Lifestyle Health Promotion of Dormitory Medical Students Regarding Comprehensive Aspects
title_sort evaluation of lifestyle health promotion of dormitory medical students regarding comprehensive aspects
topic Promoting healthy lifestyle
dormitory students
Nutrition
Stress
Physical
Health
Social Support
Perception of Life.
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