BACKGROUND Healthcare workers including physicians, nurses, medical technicians and administrative staff experience high levels of occupational stress as a result of heavy workloads, extended working hours and time-related pressure. The aims of this study were to investigate factors associated with work stress among hospital staff members and to evaluate their health-promoting lifestyle behavio...

Introduction: Today, hemodialysis is the most common treatment method for patients with chronic kidney diseases. Patients under hemodialysis, because of their complex treatment regimen, experience fundamental changes in their lifestyle and sleep quality. Objective: This study aimed to investigate lifestyle, sleep quality, and related factors in hemodialysis patients. Materials and Methods: Th...

today, health-related quality of life (hrqol) is an important indicator of development; however, due to the greater vulnerability, hrqol level of women is lower than men, especially in rural regions. this problem has doubled the necessity to investigate and identify the factors affecting hrqol. given the importance of the issue, the purpose of this descriptive- correlative research was to study...

background and objective: a healthy lifestyle is one of the basic health promotion strategies. several factors are involved in shaping health promotion behaviors. the internal barriers are the opinion and feelings that surround the individual and are the reasons that complicate the change of behavior. the aim of this study was to identify internal motivations and barriers effective on the healt...

BACKGROUND This is a descriptive study to determine whether coursework that is focused on early diagnosis in cancer makes a difference in self-reported health promoting lifestyle behavior of students who study health management. MATERIALS AND METHODS The population of the study consisted of a sample of 104 students enrolled in the Department of Health Management at the Faculty of Health in Ki...

BACKGROUND Health-promoting lifestyle is receiving increasing attention concerning its prominent role in healthcare. This study examined to adapt the health-promoting lifestyle profile II culturally and to assess its psychometric properties. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, content validity was established using translation and back-translation procedures, pilot testing of the instrumen...