BACKGROUND Co-occurrence of different behaviors was investigated using the theoretical underpinnings of the Transtheoretical Model, the Theory of Triadic Influence and the concept of Transfer. PURPOSE To investigate relationships between different health behaviors' stages of change, how behaviors group, and whether study participants cluster in terms of their behaviors. METHOD Relationships...

Background: Stroke is one of the world’s chief reasons death and infirmity among geriatric. Objective: The research at hand analyzed association rFSRP health promotion lifestyle practice about stroke prevention geriatric patients. Design: A randomized controlled experimental study was used in this study. This included 85 control participants. Methods: Participants were randomly selected provide...

OBJECTIVES To determine work stress, and stress-coping strategies, and to analyze their the relationships in order to improve health-promoting lifestyle of nurses in Taiwan. METHODS Three hundred eighty-five nurses who had work experience for more than 6 mo, were selected from four district hospitals in Kaohsiung and Ping Tung. We used a stratified cluster random sampling method for the selec...

Being healthy is much desired by all people. Disease and ill-health are not only ‘‘harvest by chance’’* many of the determinants of health are well known. We know from research that ill-health as well as the majority of chronic or longstanding diseases are related to unhealthy lifestyles, for example, smoking, wrong diet, physical inactivity, and exaggerated alcohol consumption. Today, we refer...

BACKGROUND Many criteria of successful aging are directly connected with Health-Promoting Behaviors. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to evaluate the effect of an educational program based on the successful aging approach on health promoting behaviors in the elderly. PATIENTS AND METHODS This clinical trial study was conducted on 464 Iranian elderly people over 60 years who were admitted ...

PURPOSE This study was performed to measure expectations regarding aging among community-residing older adults, identify sociodemographic characteristics associated with the level of expectations regarding aging, and examine whether expectations regarding aging were associated with health-promoting behaviors. METHODS Data was collected by using questionnaires of a short version of the Expecta...

OBJECTIVE Living a healthy lifestyle in order to manage stress encountered in the health care system is important for health care professionals. The purpose of this study was to increase healthy behaviors of undergraduate students in professional health care majors by introducing a health promotion intervention in a required course. PARTICIPANTS The sample consisted of 201 undergraduate healt...