The vocational education setting for health promotion: a survey of students’ health risk behaviours and preferences for help

Bonevski, Billie; Guillaumier, Ashleigh; Paul, Christine; Walsh, Raoul A.

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“…These results emerged at this period during the university stage of students as risky health and nutrition activities such as unhealthy diet practices [41, 47]. More often, this health risk is primarily the result of transitioning from, and secondary to tertiary education secondary to increase poor dietary choices [48, 49].…”

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Health promoting lifestyle of university students in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional assessment

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BackgroundCollege is a critical time where students are more prone to engage in risky health behaviors known to negatively affect well-being, such as physical inactivity, stress, and poor dietary habits. A health promoting lifestyle is an important determinant of health status and is recognized as a major factor for the maintenance and improvement of health. This study was designed to assess the health-promoting lifestyle of students in health colleges and non-health colleges in Saudi Arabia.MethodsA total of 1656 students participated in this descriptive cross-sectional study. Data gathering was conducted from November 2016 to February 2017 at King Saud University. Participating students completed a self-reported questionnaire that included questions regarding their demographic characteristics and their health-promoting behaviors.ResultsThe majority of participants were females (70.4%), 20% of the participants were overweight and 11.3%, were obese. The analysis showed that there was a significant difference between health colleges and non-health colleges with regards to the factor of health responsibility. Students at both schools were found to have an inadequate level of adherence to recommendations regarding physical activity and healthy eating habits. The analysis also found that majority of the students in both colleges do not attend educational programs on health care. The model shows that gender, type of college, year in school, and family structure were significant predictors of the health lifestyle of students in Saudi Arabia.ConclusionThe results of the current study indicate that university students are leading unhealthy lives, where the majority of them have unhealthy eating habits and poor physical activity level. Universities are ideal settings for implementing health promotion programs. Therefore, planning and implementing programs to motivate students to be more responsible for their own health, to engage more in physical activity, and to practice healthy eating habits and other forms of wellness are of paramount importance.

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Health promoting lifestyle of university students in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional assessment

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“…Some of the risky health behaviors including lack of exercise, involvement in unhealthy diet practice and excessive consumption of caffeinated beverages, especially coffee, may emerge during this period (Bonevski et al, 2013;Von Ah, Ebert, Ngamvitroj, Park, & Kang, 2004). Such practice of unhealthy behaviors during college may lead into a settlement of those behaviors as lifestyle habits and may induce health sensitive illnesses such as obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, or osteoporosis in later life (H. K. Kim, Kim, & Jung, 2012).…”

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“…College is a critical time of independent health behavior initiation and experimentation for the young adults (Bonevski, Guillaumier, Paul, & Walsh, 2013). Some of the risky health behaviors including lack of exercise, involvement in unhealthy diet practice and excessive consumption of caffeinated beverages, especially coffee, may emerge during this period (Bonevski et al, 2013;Von Ah, Ebert, Ngamvitroj, Park, & Kang, 2004).…”

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Health behaviors of Korean female nursing students in relation to obesity and osteoporosis

2015

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“…One of the unhealthy behaviors of university students is physical activity, one of the approaches to prevent chronic diseases (Dunstan et al, 2012;Bonevski et al, 2014). In general, the rate of physical activity and its sustainability is limited in students (Bonevski et al, 2014;Yahia et al, 2016). It was observed that male students were more likely to increase their food selectivity, to pay more attention to the consumption time, and to have more physical activity after the nutrition education.…”

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“…Adequate and balanced nutrition and physical activity in project groups are necessary formation and maintenance of healthy life. One of the unhealthy behaviors of university students is physical activity, one of the approaches to prevent chronic diseases (Dunstan et al, 2012;Bonevski et al, 2014). In general, the rate of physical activity and its sustainability is limited in students (Bonevski et al, 2014;Yahia et al, 2016).…”

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The evaluation of short-term nutrition education on the nutrition habits of university students

Sabbağ

2017

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Nutrition education provision during adolescence and its continuation in university have high impact for sustaining physically, mentally and socially healthy societies. Moreover, when a positive manner in nutrition habits is achieved following this activity, it is considered as a successful prosperity that continues lifelong. Because each age groups nutrition differs than other. The study was undertaken with the participation 395 students out of which 250 were female and 145 were. Questionnaires were undertaken for assessing any change in students' nutritional habits following 20 hours of nutrition education. Results revealed 83.3% change in students' nutrition habits following education program. Female students had internalized healthy food choice than male students by consuming more fruit and decreasing fast food preferences along with taking more care on controlling food label and expire dates of foods. These behaviors found statistically important with p<0.05 and effect of even a short period education was manifested. The next step would be to provide information that will increase the continuity and traceability of the nutrition training to course content planners in educational institutions. Because permanent habit development should be the main target for achieving successful results following nutritional education.

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The vocational education setting for health promotion: a survey of students’ health risk behaviours and preferences for help

Cited by 47 publications

References 22 publications

Health promoting lifestyle of university students in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional assessment

Health promoting lifestyle of university students in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional assessment

Health behaviors of Korean female nursing students in relation to obesity and osteoporosis

The evaluation of short-term nutrition education on the nutrition habits of university students

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