Exploration of mental health problems in association with health-promoting lifestyle profile in Iranian medical students: A cross-sectional study.

Healthy lifestyle medical mental health students

Journal

Journal of education and health promotion
ISSN: 2277-9531
Titre abrégé: J Educ Health Promot
Pays: India
ID NLM: 101593794

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2020
Historique:
received: 09 10 2019
accepted: 19 12 2019
entrez: 9 6 2020
pubmed: 9 6 2020
medline: 9 6 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The aim was to explore the relationship between mental health problems (MHPs) and health-promoting lifestyle (HPL) in the medical students. This cross-sectional study was carried out on medical students in 2017 at Semnan University of Medical Sciences applying a stratified random sampling. The Symptom Checklist-25 and the HPL profile scales were used. Logistic regression models were used to analysis. Of the participants, 84 were male and 148 were female. The mean age was 22.69 years (±2.42). Most students (95.3%) were single and 40.1% were in the preclinical stage. The mean MHP score was 44.14 (±13.99), and 3% were in the severe category. The mean HPL score was 104.88 (±16.84); 95.7% and 4.3% of them had average and satisfactory lifestyles, respectively. The MHP score of the female ( The mental health of medical students was shown to be in association with lifestyle independent of other important determinants, including gender and academic level. It seems that modifying the lifestyle to a healthier way can improve students' mental health.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32509892
doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_582_19
pii: JEHP-9-84
pmc: PMC7271919
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

84

Informations de copyright

Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Education and Health Promotion.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

There are no conflicts of interest.

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Auteurs

Nilufar Safaie (N)

Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.
Department of Internal Medicine, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.

Sara Ketabi (S)

Department of Internal Medicine, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.

Naimossadat Kia (N)

Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.
Department of Community Medicine, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.

Majid Mirmohammadkhani (M)

Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.

Mohammad Reza Moonesan (MR)

Department of Emergency Medicine, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.

Fatemeh Paknazar (F)

Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.

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