Examining the Health-Promoting Lifestyle and its Related Factors among the Nursing Students of Jiroft University of Medical Sciences

Health-promoting behavior is one of the main indicators of human health, and is also a way to have better quality of life. This study aimed to examine the health-promoting behaviors and its related factors among nursing students of Jiroft University of Medical Sciences.

This study was a descriptive-analytical study conducted on all nursing students of Jiroft University of Medical Sciences (n =151). To collect the data, two questionnaires; demographic characteristics, and a standard questionnaire consisted of 52 questions (health promoting lifestyle 2) were used to measure health-promoting behaviors among the students. After the data collection, descriptive statistics (frequency distribution and percentage table) and t-test in the SPSS statistical software version 21 were used. The level of P≤0.05 was considered significant.

The mean age of the students was 23.49±4.3, and 13.9% of them were married. Also, 55.63% of them were female and 44.37% were male. The results showed that, the total mean score of HPLP2 was 162.1±18.42, and the highest score was related to the sub-group of spiritual growth (31.91±4.7), and the lowest score belong to the sub-group of physical activity (20.39±5.6). In this study, no relationship was found between health-promoting behaviors and age, sex, marital status and place of residence. The t-test showed a significant relationships between marital status and spiritual growth (p = 0.02), and between total quality of life and spiritual growth (p = 0.01) and stress management (p = 0.044).

According to the results, improving the life style of students, particularly in terms of physical activity needs further attention. Special facilities must be provided for the students to help them choose health-promoting behaviors.