Background: Menopause is one of the most drastic experiences in a woman's life because spectrum vasomotor symptoms which affect quality and lifestyle. Although many treatments for these are available, they can be used only short duration. The nonpharmacologic therapies associated with healthy lifestyle behaviors increasing. Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile- II (HPLP-II), self-report questionn...

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...

The purpose of this pilot study in Turkey was to determine the effects of a health promotion course on enhancement of self-care agency and health-promoting behaviours of University of Kocaeli students. A group of 41 civil engineering students attended a 15-week course developed by the investigator, which included 30 hours of classroom lectures. The success of the education was measured by pre- ...

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...

Emerging evidence suggests young people at ultra-high risk for psychosis (UHR) are also at-risk for poor physical health, and display high rates of modifiable cardiometabolic risk factors. However, before we can develop effective interventions there is a need to understand factors affecting lifestyle choices in the UHR group. We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with 20 UHR indiv...

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...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Nursing students provide health services and their behavior may affect the clinical services that they provide to clients. In addition, Health-promoting behaviors among nursing students may affect the quality of patient education. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between health-promoting behaviors and certain demographic characteristics ...

Background: Many people spend more than a third of their post-maturation on work. Thus, workplace environment and climate have great impact individuals' lifestyles, work brings health perspective that provides healthier lifestyle for employees. Objectives: The present study aimed to assess the staff's lifestyles behaviors as well relationship with organizational climate. Methods: This cross-sec...

BACKGROUND There are good opportunities in Sweden for health promotion targeting expectant parents and parents of young children, as almost all are reached by antenatal and child health care. In 2005, a multisectoral child health promotion programme (the Salut Programme) was launched to further strengthen such efforts. METHODS Between June and December 2010 twenty-four in-depth interviews wer...