BACKGROUND Many of the problems pertaining to old age originate from unhealthy lifestyle and low social support. Overcoming these problems requires precise and proper policy-making and planning. OBJECTIVES The aim of the current research is to investigate the effect of health promoting interventions on healthy lifestyle and social support in elders. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study was condu...

Increasing awareness of healthy lifestyle is important during the period of adolescence because habits are difficult to modify in adulthood. The aim of the study was to examine gender differences in health-promoting lifestyle among medical students and to analyze changes between the first and second year of the study. This cross sectional study was conducted on a sample of 1186 students (36% ma...

background and purpose: health related quality of life (hqol) has different dimensions and many factors affect it. the aim of this study was to investigate the association between lifestyle satisfaction and health- related quality of life in the population aged 40 year old and over. the question is, if there is not lifestyle satisfaction, how should be the pattern of tendency to behavioral chan...

introduction: this study aims to explain the depression level based on life style through the mediation of social health and quality of life. statistical population was all persons over 18 years of ahwaz random sampling stage sample size were selected 383 people. method: research data in this study were collected by using a health promoting lifestyle questionnaire walker and plyrky, keynesian p...

BACKGROUND Family-centered empowerment of drug and stimulant users is an effective program for a better response to treatment, prevention of treatment adverse effects, and promotion quality of life (QoL) and lifestyle in the process of discontinuing drug abuse. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the effects of educational intervention, based on family-centered empowerment and Pender's h...

This study was conducted with 62 Mexican-American migrant farm workers at four different sites in northern Illinois. An established English and a newly developed pilot Spanish version of the health-promoting lifestyle profile was used. The concept of health-promoting lifestyle appeared to be culturally relevant to study participants. English-speaking migrant workers scored significantly lower t...

conclusions female and older students are at higher risk of developing unhealthy lifestyle. consequently, healthcare providers, health instructors, schoolteachers, and families must pay more attention to these students. moreover, as most of lifelong healthy and unhealthy lifestyle habits are established during adolescence, developing effective health promotion and disease prevention strategies ...

Introduction: Universally, the number of students attendingthe university education is high and increasing. The future ofacademic graduates is affected by their academic achievement.The purpose of the research was to assess the correlationamong academic achievement and healthy lifestyle behaviors inuniversity students.Methods: This cross-sectional research wa...