The relationship between spiritual health and health-promoting lifestyle among students

Rafat, Fatemeh; Rezaie-Chamani, Sedighe; Rahnavardi, Mona; Khalesi, Zahra Bostani

doi:10.1515/ijamh-2018-0158

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“…Social support had a direct significant correlation with the HPB; in addition, social support, age, educational attainment, marital status, job, and income sufficiency were the predictors of the HPB. The mean total score of HPB was 2.72, which was consistent with a study on women at reproductive age [19], lower than a study on university students in Gilan, Iran [31], and higher than a similar study in Indonesia [32]. These results may be affected by Iranian culture, social environment, and participants' characteristics.…”

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A population-based study of health-promoting behaviors and their predictors in Iranian males, 2019

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Background Health-promoting lifestyle (HPL) is any measure taken to maintain a person’s health. The most important and influential factor in maintaining and enhancing health are health-promoting behaviors (HPB). This study aimed to determine HPB and their predictors among Iranian men. Methods In this cross-sectional study, 783 Iranian men, living in Tehran, were selected, using multistage cluster sampling. The employed questionnaires, namely the sociodemographic questionnaire, Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP-II), and the second part of the Personal Resource Questionnaire (PRQ 85-Part 2), were completed through interviews. The relationship between the dependent variables (HPLP-II and its subdomains) and independent variables (sociodemographic characteristics and social support) was investigated using the adjusted General Linear Model (GLM). Results The mean ± standard deviation of the total HPLP-II score was 2.72 ± 0.44 in the range of 1–4. Among the six dimensions of the HPB, the participants achieved the highest score (3.00 ± 0.52) and lowest score (1.96 ± 0.56) in spiritual growth and physical activity, respectively. The Pearson test showed that the perceived social support was significantly correlated with HPLP-II (r = 0.23; p < 0.001) and all of its subdomains (r = 0.09–0.24; p < 0.001). Based on the adjusted general linear model, social support, age, job, and income adequacy were the predictors of HPL in men and could explain 30.9% of the variance of the HPL score. Conclusions The research findings confirmed the importance of social support and modifying variables (social and personal) in the incidence of HPB in men.

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“…One component of a healthy life is attending to spiritual needs, which might reduce harmful behaviors. A recent study in Iran demonstrated that spiritual health had a positive relationship with the adoption of health-promoting behaviors ( Rafat et al ., 2021 ).…”

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Psychological distress, health-promoting lifestyle and sociodemographic factors in Honduran university students: a structural equation model

Castillo-Díaz,

Martínez,

Periañez

et al. 2024

Health Promotion International

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This study sought to analyze an explanatory model on the relationship among sociodemographic factors, health-promoting lifestyle behaviors and psychological distress (depression, anxiety and stress) in college students. This is an observational, analytical and cross-sectional study conducted on a national sample of 4203 students who entered a macro university in Honduras in 2021, 2022 and 2023. We used a sociodemographic survey, the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile (HPLP-II) and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS-21). Univariate analysis and a multivariate structural equation model were conducted. The average HPLP-II score was 117.45 (± 23.41), and the average DASS-21 score was 20.06 (± 14.16). The multivariate model showed a good data fit (comparative fit index = 0.951; Tucker–Lewis index = 0.957; root mean square error of approximation = 0.067 [90% CI = 0.067–0.068]). Results indicate that being a woman (β = 0.11; p < 0.001) and being enrolled in biological and health sciences (β = 0.09; p < 0.001) significantly predict HPLP-II scores. Furthermore, being a woman (β = 0.17; p < 0.001), age (β = 0.10; p < 0.001) and having pre-existing medical conditions (β = 0.16; p < 0.001) significantly explain part of the variance of DASS-21. A significant reverse relationship between health-promoting behavior and psychological distress was shown (r = −0.36; p < 0.001). This study identifies protective and risky sociodemographic factors linked to health-promoting lifestyle behaviors and psychological distress. Our findings have implications for developing comprehensive intervention policies and strategies to promote health in higher education settings.

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“…In the discussion of health, especially mental health, the type of thinking and beliefs of the individual have always been discussed. Because of the better and more intellectual the level of thinking, the healthier the person’s lifestyle and the greater the person’s mental health ( 7 ).…”

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“…One of the components of a healthy life is attending to mental health and healthy thinking, which can reduce harmful behaviors ( 7 , 8 ), thus the connection between thinking and mental health is very important ( 9 ). As part of a project titled Positive Thinking and Healthy Living, academics were requested to examine the issue of “thinking” and focus the themes of their papers on thinking and its relationship to health in 2019 ( 10 ).…”

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Indicators of Intellectual Thinking as Healthy Thinking and Its Relation with Health-Promoting Lifestyle: A New Perspective in Clinical Psychology and Public Health

Javidi¹,

Ghanei²,

Ahmadi³

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Background: Quality of life is determined by the lifestyle of individuals. If people have a healthy lifestyle, then they have a higher quality of life. What makes a person's lifestyle is the way he thinks. Therefore, if the thinking is healthy, the person's lifestyle will be healthy, and if the thinking is unhealthy, the person's lifestyle will also be damaged, which will reduce the quality of life. Methods: The research method was mixed method in two quantitative and qualitative phases. The research method in the qualitative phase was customary qualitative content analysis, in which the data analysis process was based on the approach of Granheim and Ladman. In the quantitative phase, the psychometric properties of the research scale were measured. This research was conducted from 2016 to 2021 in Iran. The statistical population in the qualitative section was all scientific texts in the form of articles, books and dissertations that were extracted from scientific databases such as ScienceDirect, PubMed, Elsevier, Ebsco, Sid, Magiran. Results: Indicators of intellectual thinking have been mentioned as research results, which are the main components of the new model of thinking. Moreover, the level of thinking was mentioned and Cognitive distortions, cognitive bias, and perceptual errors were mentioned as sources of harm and error. Conclusion: Intellectual thinking has been mentioned as healthy thinking, which is the main factor of a health promotion lifestyle because healthy lifestyle improves the quality of life of people, which is one of the indicators of public health. Therefore, a higher quality of life can be achieved from the model of healthy thinking, which is a new perspective on promoting public health.

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The relationship between spiritual health and health-promoting lifestyle among students

Cited by 6 publications

References 19 publications

A population-based study of health-promoting behaviors and their predictors in Iranian males, 2019

A population-based study of health-promoting behaviors and their predictors in Iranian males, 2019

Psychological distress, health-promoting lifestyle and sociodemographic factors in Honduran university students: a structural equation model

Indicators of Intellectual Thinking as Healthy Thinking and Its Relation with Health-Promoting Lifestyle: A New Perspective in Clinical Psychology and Public Health

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