Background: Healthy lifestyle is the mainstay of improving people's health. Also, self-care helps increase the quality of life and maintaining independence. This study aimed to determine the relationship between health-promoting lifestyle and self-care behaviors in patients with heart failure. Methods: In this predictive correlational study, a total of 200 patients with heart failure were selected by stratified proportionate to size sampling method from the patients referred to cardiac clinics of hospitals affiliated to Iran University of Medical Sciences. The study data were collected by the Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLPII) and the European Heart Failure Self-care Behavior (EHFScB) scale. Then, the obtained data were analyzed by ANOVA, the Independent t-test, the Pearson correlation coefficient, and linear regression in SPSS V. 16. Results: The Mean±SD score of health-promoting lifestyle was 120.83±23.13; which is lower than the median tool score of 130. more than half of the subjects (58.5%) had an average level of self-care behavior, and their Mean±SD score was 34.8±9.03. There was a positive and significant correlation between lifestyle and its dimensions with self-care behaviors (P<0.001). Health responsibility, physical activity, and nutrition were significant in the regression model (P<0.05) and health responsibility was the most effective one in predicting self-care behavior in patients with heart failure. Conclusion: According to the findings, health-promoting lifestyle and its dimensions have a positive and significant relationship with self-care behaviors of patients with heart failure. It is recommended that health care providers, planners, and nurses, especially those involved in community health nursing, make every effort to empower patients in assuming responsibility for their care.
Background: Lifestyle modification is recognized as the first step of fatty liver treatment. This study was done to determine the relationship between the awareness of the Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and adolescents’ health-promoting lifestyle in senior high school students in the west of Tehran, Iran. Methods: This descriptive-correlational study was performed on 338 high school students in 2020. The students were recruited by cluster sampling method. The data were collected by demographic information form, awareness of non-alcoholic fatty liver questionnaire, and Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLPII) and were expressed using frequency, mean, standard deviation, and analyzed by inferential statistical tests of ANOVA, Chi-square, independent t-test, and Pearson correlation coefficient using SPSS v. 20. Results: The results showed that the highest Mean±SD of health-promoting lifestyle was related to spiritual growth and self-actualization dimension (27.41±5.53) and the lowest Mean±SD was related to the dimension of physical activity (19.71±6.63). There was a significant relationship between awareness of NAFLD and the health responsibility subscale of HPLP (P=0.004). Awareness of NAFLD had a direct relationship with the father’s education (P=0.004). The health-promoting lifestyle was positively related to students’ grade (P<0.001), birth order (P=0.019), economic status (P<0.001), number of children (P=0.037), and living with parents (P=0.031), and negatively associated with the students’ age (P=0.014). Conclusion: The significant relationship between knowledge about fatty liver and health responsibility indicates the need to increase students’ awareness of this disease to improve a health-promoting lifestyle. Therefore, it is suggested that educational interventions be provided at different levels of prevention to empower students.
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