Health perception and healthy lifestyle behaviors of female factory workers

Küçük, Emine

doi:10.1080/19338244.2015.1058237

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“…In the current study, the workers had the highest score for spiritual development followed by interpersonal relationships, health responsibility, nutrition, stress management and physical activity, which is consistent with the findings reported by Küçük 16. In other words, spiritual development is the healthy lifestyle behavior most contributing to health promotion among the workers 16,18.…”

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“…In other words, spiritual development is the healthy lifestyle behavior most contributing to health promotion among the workers 16,18. The finding of high scores for spiritual development can be attributed to culture and place of living.…”

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“…The finding of high scores for spiritual development can be attributed to culture and place of living. Küçük suggests that spirituality is experiences unlikely to be acquired through five senses but transcendence by means of inner peace, harmony or connectedness to others 16,18. The workers had high scores for interpersonal relationships.…”

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Healthy lifestyle behavior of employees in small and medium-sized enterprises in Aydin, Turkey

Özvurmaz¹,

Mandıracıoğlu²

2017

Pak J Med Sci

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Objective:To determine healthy lifestyle behavior and affecting risk factors in workers at small and medium-sized enterprises from four different sectors in Aydin, Turkey.Methods:This cross-sectional study was conducted at four different small and medium-sized enterprises in Aydin, Turkey and 264 employees participated in the study. A questionnaire was used for data collection. It consisted of questions about socio-demographic features (age, gender, marital status, education, perceived income, occupation and having children), health status, and medical history, medication use, having occupational accidents and occupational health and safety. Healthy Lifestyle Behavior Scale, which was developed by Walker et al. in 1996, was used to evaluate healthy lifestyle behaviors of the workers.Results:The mean score for Healthy Lifestyle Behavior Scale was 135.46±22.49. Gender, marital status, perceived income, sector of workplace, title, presence of a chronic disease, finding oneself healthy in the previous year and having an occupational accident in the previous year did not significantly affect any subscales of Healthy Lifestyle Behavior Scale. The workers aged over 50 years had significantly higher scores for health responsibility than those aged 20-29 years (p<0.05). The workers living in a village got significantly higher scores for Healthy Lifestyle Behavior Scale and its subscales health responsibility, physical activity, nutrition and spiritual development than those living in a city (p<0.05).Conclusion:Although workers have good spiritual development, they may not adopt physical activity as a healthy lifestyle and that workers benefiting from occupational health and safety services can display healthy lifestyle behavior.

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Healthy lifestyle behavior of employees in small and medium-sized enterprises in Aydin, Turkey

Özvurmaz¹,

Mandıracıoğlu²

2017

Pak J Med Sci

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“…A study initiated by the World Bank also concludes that for China, more than 50% of the disease burden increase due to chronic diseases can be controlled by adjusting health‐risk behaviors . At present, many studies on health behaviors conducted in academia, involving women, adolescents, college students, elderly people, and corresponding factors, have further confirmed the importance of health behaviors to individual health and laid the foundation for the development of this study.…”

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Differences in the health behaviors of elderly individuals and influencing factors: Evidence from the ChineseLongitudinalHealthyLongevitySurvey

Liu

Yan

Yue

et al. 2019

Health Planning & Management

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Summary Introduction Health behaviors play an important role in determining individual health status; thus, understanding differences in the health behaviors of elderly individuals and their influencing factors is a prerequisite for the formulation and implementation of health behavior promotion policies for elderly individuals. The objectives of this study were to explore differences in health behaviors among Chinese elderly people and their influencing factors. Methods Based on data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) in 2014, this paper applied latent class analysis (LCA) to explore differences in the health behaviors of elderly individuals in China and employed a multinomial logit model to identify the influencing factors that cause these differences. Results Results showed that there are five classes of health behaviors among elderly individuals in China: passive, relatively passive, general, relatively positive, and positive, the proportions of which were 31.07%, 15.86%, 24.06%, 17.24%, and 11.76%, respectively. Community medical and health services, pension, living arrangements, and family income were the primary factors explaining differences in the health behaviors of elderly individuals. In addition, there were significant demographic differences in the health behaviors of elderly individuals in China, including gender, age, education, marital status, census register, region, and others. Conclusion There are significant differences in the behaviors of elderly individuals in China, and the behaviors of the majority of elderly people are not healthy. China is expected to invest more medical and health resources to tackle health prevention and management and to provide targeted education, guidance, and intervention in elderly health behaviors, urging them to control and correct risky health behaviors with a focus on elderly individuals that are the oldest, are females, have low education levels, and live in the countryside and in towns.

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“…In the Europe region of World Health Organization (WHO), more than 50% of men and women are overweight, and 23% of the women and 20% of the men are obese [4]. In a study conducted on female factory workers, it is found that 35.6% of the workers are overweight or obese [5]. The increase in the risk factors increases the prevalence of the chronic diseases and makes it difficult to control these diseases.…”

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Medication adherence of patients with chronic diseases: a study in the Black Sea region of Turkey

Yapar¹

2017

Med-Science

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Chronic diseases are among the most common causes of morbidity and mortality in the world. Chronic diseases can be controlled and their frequencies can be reduced through fight against risk factors such as obesity, smoking, and insufficient physical exercise; early diagnosis, and appropriate treatment. In this study, we aim to assess the medication adherence of individuals with chronic diseases. In this descriptive study, the sample includes individuals who have been diagnosed with chronic diseases and who have applied to a public hospital. The data collection is performed with a questionnaire form with questions on socio-demographic features and on the chronic illness, and with the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale-8. 68% of the patients who participated in the study were female and 32% of them were male. It has been found that 51.4% of the patients (5.35±2.5) had low medication adherence. For those patients who have stated that they got information regarding the treatment and who had high levels of belief that the treatment could help them control the disease, the medication adherence score was significantly higher (p<0.05). Informing the patients about the characteristics of the treatment, the medications, and the effects of the treatment on the disease increases the medication adherence of the individuals with chronic diseases.

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Health perception and healthy lifestyle behaviors of female factory workers

Cited by 11 publications

References 13 publications

Healthy lifestyle behavior of employees in small and medium-sized enterprises in Aydin, Turkey

Healthy lifestyle behavior of employees in small and medium-sized enterprises in Aydin, Turkey

Differences in the health behaviors of elderly individuals and influencing factors: Evidence from the ChineseLongitudinalHealthyLongevitySurvey

Medication adherence of patients with chronic diseases: a study in the Black Sea region of Turkey

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