Lifestyle Behaviors among Nursing Students in Hawler Medical University
Original Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15218/ejnm.2018.02Keywords:
Lifestyle behaviors; Activity domain; HabitAbstract
Background and objective: The importance of proper nutrition and physical activity in reducing rates of disease and death from chronic diseases has been well established. Poor diet and physical inactivity cause deaths and are major contributors to disabilities that result from diabetes, obesity, and stroke. Drug abuse is a more intense and misuse of drugs can result in addiction. The objectives of this study were to identify lifestyle behaviours among students and to find out association between their lifestyles and some variables (sex, stage, and body mass index) in the College of Nursing in Erbil City.
Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted on 100 students from four stages in the College of Nursing (25 students from each stage) during the period December 2016 to April 2017. A questionnaire was composed of two parts, socio-demographic characteristics and questions related to lifestyle behaviors (three domains) among students in the college. Frequency, percentage and chi-square test was used for interpretation of data.
Results: Most of the study sample was aged between 18 and 24 years old from urban areas. Near half of them was female and the highest percentage had normal weight based on body mass index assessment tool. There is a non-significant association between lifestyle behaviors and sex among the study sample (p-value 0.312, 0.346 and 0.385 respectively) and with body mass index inactivity and nutrition (p-value 0.885 and 0.060 respectively).
Conclusion: Most of the students sometimes practicing the different types of physical activities and exercises
Metrics
References
[2] Steptoe A, Wardle J, Cui W, Bellisle F, Zotti AM, Baranyai R et al. Trends in smoking, diet, physical exercise, and attitudes toward health in European university students from 13 countries. 2010; 35 (2): 97–104.
[3] The European health report 2010. Copenhagen, WHO regional office for Europe, 2010 (European Series, No. 97).
[4] Paredes-López O, Cervantes-Ceja ML, Vigna-Pérez M, Hernández-Pérez T. Berries: improving human health and healthy aging, and promoting quality life—a review. Plant foods for human nutrition. 2010 Sep 1;65(3):299-308.
[5] Buranatrevedh S, Sweatsriskul P. Model development for health promotion and control of agricultural occupational health hazards and accidents in Pathumthani, Thailand. Industrial health. 2005;43(4):669-76.
[6]Fish C. Health promotion needs of students in a college environment. Public Health Nursing. 1996 Apr 1;13(2):104-11.
[7] Spear HJ, Kulbok PA. Adolescent health behaviors and related factors: a review. Public health nursing. 2001 Jan 1;18(2):82-93.
[8] Sauter SL. Integrative approaches to safeguarding the health and safety of workers. Industrial health. 2013;51(6):559-61.
[9] WHO. Regional Office for Europe Fact shit report. Alcohol: why .pay attention to this issue during adolescence 2012. Available from http//www.euro.who.int/en/home.
[10] Bryan S, Parasher R, Cahil T, Zipp PG. Yoga, mindful eating, and weight management. Journal of Nutritional Therapeutics. 2013 Dec 30;2(4):173-81.
[11] Li S, Huang H, Cai Y, Xu G, Huang F, Shen X. Characteristics and determinants of sexual behavior among adolescents of migrant workers in Shangai (China). BMC Public Health. 2009 Jun 19;9(1):195.
[12] Barry D, Petry NM. Associations between body mass index and substance use disorders differ by gender: results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. Addictive behaviors. 2009 Jan 31;34(1):51-60.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2018 Kareem Fattah Azeez, PhD (Author)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
