Investigating the relationship between health-promoting lifestyle and the quality of life of Tehran University of Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences students in 2013

Master's Thesis in Social Welfare

Abstract

Context: A healthy lifestyle is a valuable resource for reducing the prevalence and impact of health problems and improving health, coping with stressful life factors and improving the quality of life. Lifestyle helps us to understand what people do, the reason they do it, and the meaning of their actions for themselves and others.

Objective: In the present study, the relationship between health promoting lifestyle and quality of life in students were examined.

Methodology: In this study, 140 students were selected by a non-random quota method from the University of Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences and tested with the SF36 questionnaire and the health promotion lifestyle questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS software and one-way analysis of variance, Spearman's correlation test, normal and non-normal t-tests, and regression analysis. Findings: There was a significant relationship between health-enhancing lifestyle and quality of life of students (p=0.00). Among the six dimensions of health-promoting behaviors, "responsibility for one's health" has the highest score with an average of 28.54 and "stress management" with an average of 9.03 has the lowest score. Among the eight dimensions of quality of life, "physical performance" with an average of 26.64 has the highest score and "restriction in playing a role due to the presence of physical problems" has the lowest score with an average of 4.82. Conclusion: The results showed that the lifestyle promoting health has a strong positive relationship with the quality of life of students, and also the lifestyle and quality of life of students have a significant relationship with the educational level, employment and marital status of students, and the regression analysis showed that the lifestyle variable promotes Health provider is a good predictor for quality of life.

Keywords: lifestyle, health promoting lifestyle, quality of life, students. 

Lifestyle represents a person's view of life, the world and his accepted values. In other words, lifestyle is a symbol of guiding the people of a society, which includes all aspects of their lives. A healthy lifestyle is a valuable resource for reducing the prevalence and impact of health problems and improving health, adapting to stressful life factors and improving the quality of life. Lifestyle helps us to understand what people do, the reason they do it, and the meaning of their actions for themselves and others (Dalundi, 1391: 10). "Physical activity", "nutrition", "responsibility for health", "spiritual growth", "interpersonal relationships" and "stress management". In addition to maintaining and strengthening the level of health and well-being, this lifestyle causes a sense of satisfaction and self-fulfillment (Tol et al., 1390:18).

According to the definition of the World Health Organization, the quality of life is: individual ideas about the state of life according to the culture and value system in which he lives and communication These findings are with the desired goals and expectations and standards and priorities (Lal Ahangar, 1390: 7).

Health requires promoting a healthy lifestyle. The importance of lifestyle is more because it affects the quality of life and prevention of diseases. To maintain and improve health, it is necessary to correct and improve the lifestyle. Improving health and ensuring the health of people in the society is one of the important elements of the progress of societies (Sultani, 2009: 6).  In this regard, the present study examines the relationship between the health-promoting lifestyle and the quality of life of students. 1-1 Statement of the problem Health-oriented lifestyle as a multi-causal, multi-dimensional and multi-significant phenomenon is related to the collective patterns of behavior that can prevent health-related problems and ensure health for the individual, and it is related to various dimensions such as exercise, appropriate and inappropriate nutrition, self-control, preventive behaviors. and It is formed in the field of health-oriented lifestyle, coherence in performing a set of behaviors related to health and health is the essence of the definition of health-oriented lifestyle.

The concept of healthy lifestyle has faced important changes in the past years. The initial discussions on healthy lifestyle emphasized on topics such as nutrition, exercise and smoking. With this approach, the belief of health systems was focused on promoting awareness and education to change the lifestyle (Dalondi, 2011: 10).

The quality of life has been brought to the attention of thinkers due to the expansion of industrialization and progress and technology that takes into account the quantitative aspect of human life and also due to the neglect of the qualitative aspects of human life in the past few decades, so that in this way efforts can be made in order to improve the living conditions and improve the qualitative dimension of human life (Lal Ahangar, 1390: 4).

The basic issue of this research is: examining the relationship between lifestyle Promoting health and quality of life among students. In fact, we intend to investigate in this research how effective the health-promoting lifestyle can be on the quality of life of students and how the variables and factors of the health-promoting lifestyle can be related and correlated with various variables and dimensions of the quality of life. And the death of people is related to their lifestyle. Many health problems, such as obesity, cardiovascular diseases, types of cancer and addiction, which are seen today in most countries, especially developing countries, are related to the lifestyle changes of the people of that society (Sultani et al., 1384: 20).

According to the report of the World Health Organization, 5 diseases are known as the most important chronic diseases in the world, which are obesity, heart attack, diabetes, cancer and osteoporosis, all of which are related to lifestyle and nutrition. have a direct relationship (Dalondi, 2011: 31).

Investigating the impact of adopting a healthy lifestyle on the quality of life is important from two perspectives:

The relationship between health indicators and quality of life is very important in clinical decisions and health policies, so that the perspective of quality of life is a strong driver for a person's decisions and preferences. In clinical decision-making and health policies, it may not be in line with the individual's preferences, as a result, it goes wrong and the desired result is not achieved (Sultani et al., 2014: 30). Nowadays, the main concern of researchers and researchers is not just to find ways to increase life expectancy, but by looking at the statistics, you can see that if the main challenge in the 20th century was only "survival", the challenge of the new century is "life with superior quality" (Farhadi, 2010). : 7).

Students make up a large number of the country's young population, and their age and social status serve as a model for others. Therefore, the choice of any type of lifestyle by them has an effect not only on their own lives, but also on the behaviors and lifestyles of other classes.

On the other hand, the quality of life and lifestyle related to health is being increasingly recognized and is considered as an appropriate and valid measure of health (Junkio [1], 2012: 7).

Although in previous researches, a significant correlation between healthy lifestyle and quality of life has been confirmed However, the need to conduct the present research is due to the fact that, firstly, most of the previous researches have been investigated among the elderly and patients, and secondly, the health-promoting behaviors among the students of different universities will certainly be diverse. In this study, the level of quality of life and the level of health-enhancing behaviors among the students of the University of Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, where the category of health and wellness is considered more than other universities in this university, and its importance is doubled. It has been presented and some of them are mentioned:

Quality of life is one of the mental components of well-being. The definition of quality of life can be given as follows: a set of physical, mental and social well-being that is perceived by a person or persons, such as happiness, satisfaction and honor, in a way that is meant in life, such as health, marriage, work, and economic status, educational opportunities, self-management, creativity, sense of ownership and cooperation with others (Lal Ahangar, 2010: 9). The World Health Organization defines quality of life as a person's perception of his life situation according to the culture and value systems in his life context and the relationship of these perceptions with the expectations, standards and priorities of the individual (Hadi et al., 2019: 50).