The effect of educational intervention on health-promoting lifestyle: Intervention mapping approach
نویسندگان
1 Department of Public Health, School of Health, Reproductive Health Research Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
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3 Health Promotion Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4 Department of Biostatistics, School of Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
5 Department of Public Health, School of Health, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
6 PhD Candidate of Education and Health Promotion, School of Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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چکیده
BACKGROUND: The health-promoting lifestyle by empowering individuals will increase control overtheir health, improve quality of life, and prevent diseases. The purpose of the present study was todetermine the effect of the educational intervention based on the intervention mapping approach onhealth-promoting lifestyle in Iranian college students.METHODS: This study is a quasi-experimental control study that was conducted in two groups of65 students of Iran University of Medical Sciences in 2018–2019. The data were collected using theHealth-Promoting Lifestyle Standard Profile II questionnaire and a researcher-made questionnairebased on the mapping approach, whose validity and reliability were confirmed. The educationalintervention was designed according to the pretest results, including five training sessions andperformed for the intervention group. The two groups were evaluated with the same questionnaires1 month and 3 months later, and the data were analyzed using independent t-test, Spearman,ANCOVA, ANOVA test, and covariance.Results: Before the intervention, no significant difference was observed between the mean scores ofhealth-promoting behaviors in the two groups, but after the intervention, the mean scores of attitude,subjective norms, enabling factors, and perceived self-efficacy and mean scores of health-promotinglifestyle and its dimensions increased significantly in the intervention group (P < 0.001) comparedto the control group.Conclusion: The educational intervention is effective in improving behaviors related to healthpromoting lifestyle and its dimensions. Therefore, performing educational interventions are suggestedto adopt and adhere to behaviors related to health-promoting lifestyle by utilizing and reinforcingperceived self-efficacy, subjective norms, enabling factors, and attitudinal change.
