Influencing factors on health promoting behavior among the elderly living in the community
نویسندگان
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2 Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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چکیده
Introduction: Health promotion behavior is one of the main criteria for determining health thatis recognized as the basic factor in catching numerous diseases. Observing such behaviors bythe elderly prevents affliction to various diseases and has potential effect in promoting healthand increasing the elderly quality of life. This research was done for the aim of determiningeffective factors on health promotion behaviors and health status in the elderly of the Denaprovince. Materials and Methods: One hundred twenty elderly of over 65 years of agewere selected randomly to do this descriptive‑analytical study (cross‑sectional type). Thequestionnaire regarding health promoting lifestyle profile 2 (HPLP2) was used for measuringthe rate of health promotion behaviors. The data was collected by personal interviews andface to face method for completing the relevant questionnaire and was analyzed by SPSSsoftware version 20 and also proper tests. Results: The average score of the elderly healthpromotion behaviors in the Dena province (143.8) indicated the acceptable level of performinghealth promoting behaviors in this group, such that 85% of the elderly had intermediatehealth promoting behaviors and 15% had proper behaviors. Also, the results showed that theaverage score of the physical activity and nutrition sub‑measuring conditions was lower thanthe average score of other sub measures of prevention had the highest average. Moreover,comparison of the correlation of health promotion behaviors with the sub‑measures showedthat apart from the healthy nutrition sub‑measure, all the other sub‑measures have significantcorrelation with health promotion behaviors. Conclusion: From the findings of this study,the authors recommend health providers to promote elderly health promotion behaviors inall communities by identifying health promotion behaviors in other parts of the country, andalso designing suitable intervention programs based on effective factors on health promotionbehaviors of the elderly people.
