Abstract
Background: Health promoting behaviours, including self-initiated actions, behaviours, and health perceptions may have an impact on individual happiness and well-being. Objectives: To study health promoting life style among the first year under graduate students of Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences University and compare the health promoting life style profiles between the first year under graduate students of different courses of the University. Methods: A Self-administered Questionnaire containing Health Promoting Life Style Profile - II questionnaire developed by Walker etal. was distributed to the students and were asked to answer all the questions and return the same. Results: A total of 354 students participated in the study. Of these students 42%, 28%, 16% and 14% were pursuing MBBS, Bachelor of Physiotherapy, BSc Nursing and BSc Paramedical courses respectively. Students had highest score in Interpersonal relations (2.98 ± 0.45), Spiritual growth (2.91 ± 0.45) and Stress management (2.63 ± 0.43). Lowest scores in Physical activity (2.08 ± 0.6), Health Responsibility (2.18 ± 0.5) and Nutrition (2.4 ± 0.44). Conclusion: There was no significant difference between specialities in terms of HPLP scale scores and all subscale scores.
Highlights
Lifestyle is the way of living of individuals, families, and societies which can be healthy or unhealthy in terms of personal behaviours such as nutrition, physical activity, and stress management
There are no males in MBBS course as it is women’s medical college. Of these students 42%, 28%, 16% and 14% were pursuing MBBS, Bachelor of Physiotherapy (BPT), BSc Nursing and BSc Paramedical courses respectively. 92% of the students belonged to Hindu religion. 80% of the children were from nuclear families and living away from their families (Hostel)
Mean scores for Health Promoting Life Style Profile (HPLP) II, spiritual Growth, Interpersonal relations and Stress Management were in the average range while mean scores for Health responsibility, Physical activity and Nutrition were in the poor status
Summary
Lifestyle is the way of living of individuals, families, and societies which can be healthy or unhealthy in terms of personal behaviours such as nutrition, physical activity, and stress management. Pender et al indicated that health promoting behaviours (HPBs), including self-initiated actions, behaviours, and health perceptions may have an impact on individual happiness and well-being [2]. Health promoting behaviours, including self-initiated actions, behaviours, and health perceptions may have an impact on individual happiness and well-being. Objectives: To study health promoting life style among the first year under graduate students of Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences University and compare the health promoting life style profiles between the first year under graduate students of different courses of the University. Conclusion: There was no significant difference between specialities in terms of HPLP scale scores and all subscale scores
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