%0 Journal Article
%T Health Promotion Behaviors and Its Predictors Among the College Students in Iran
%A Afsaneh Bakhtiari
%A Fatemeh Bakouei
%A Seyed Jalil Seyedi-Andi
%A Soraya Khafri
%J International Quarterly of Community Health Education
%@ 1541-3519
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0272684X18781780
%X The health-promoting behaviors form typically during adolescence and youth. This study was conducted to determine the status of the health-promoting behaviors in the students of Babol University of Medical Sciences and its predictors. This cross-sectional study was done on 350 students from April 2016 to July 2016. The applied questionnaires were health-promoting lifestyle profile II, general self-efficacy scale, and sociodemographic variables. Data were analyzed using the SPSS software by descriptive tests, one-way analysis of variance, and multivariable linear regression. The mean total health-promoting lifestyle profile II score was 126.79£¿¡À£¿19.28. In the subscales, the participants scored the highest in interpersonal relations (24.62£¿¡À£¿4.59) and the lowest in physical activity (16.53£¿¡À£¿4.17). Analyses of the data showed that there was a significant association among some subscales of health-promoting behaviors and gender, family size, living in dormitory and also showed that self-efficacy remained as significant factor in relation to all subscales of health-promoting behaviors
%K health promotion behaviors
%K predictors
%K college students
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0272684X18781780