Background: Adopting healthy lifestyle behaviors is an important step in preventing diseases.Objective: This study aims to determine behaviors, fasting blood glucose (FBG) levels, and waist circumference of employees a public university Turkiye.Methods: descriptive was conducted. A total 191 academic administrative staff were recruited for this study.We used sociodemographic data form the Healt...

the aim of present study was to investigate the relation between the perception of population on healthy diet and lifestyle related behaviors.as part of national study on iranian health perception, a cross-sectional study was carried out in iran, 2010. a multistage sampling approach was applied to include a representative sample of population aged between 18 and 65 in the study. to collect data...

BACKGROUND Few studies examine psychosocial factors influencing the adoption of healthy behaviors among hypertensive patients. The effect of discrimination on health behaviors remains untested. PURPOSE To examine the influence of discrimination on adoption of healthy behaviors among low-income Black hypertensive patients. METHODS Black patients (N = 930) in community-based primary care prac...

BACKGROUND A number of lifestyle factors, including smoking and drinking, are known to be independently associated with all-cause mortality. However, it might be more effective in motivating the public to adopt a healthier lifestyle if the combined effect of several lifestyle factors on all-cause mortality could be demonstrated in a straightforward manner. METHODS We examined the combined eff...

Although links between body image and dieting behaviors have been established among women, little research is available to elucidate relations between these constructs among men. In the present study, we examined relations between men’s and women’s body image and healthy and unhealthy dieting behaviors. Two hundred and eight participants’ (104 men, mean age = 25.88 years; 104 women, mean age = ...

background: young people engage in risky behaviors unintentionally and these behaviors might be reduced or inhibited by preventative behaviors. although adolescents' risky behaviors are known as unplanned or unintentional, preventative behaviors are intentional. the aim of the present study was to assess students’ behavior intentions to avoid drug abuse. methods: this study was a cross sectio...

INTRODUCTION The study aimed to explore the gap of prevalence of healthy lifestyle behaviors including smoking cessation, quitting drinking, physical activity and healthy eating between Chinese adults with and without cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). METHODS This study is a cross-sectional component of Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE)-China study, which recruited ~46,000 participant...