The relationship between individual empowerment and health-promoting lifestyle among women NGOs in northern Iran
Introduction: According to the health-promoting approach, people should be empowered such that they take responsibility for their health and follow a healthy lifestyle. Empowerment is a process in which people confront problems and tasks in their lives in order to better control them. This study w...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Electronic Physician
2017-02-01
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| Series: | Electronic Physician |
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5410893/ |
| Summary: | Introduction: According to the health-promoting approach, people should be empowered such that they take
responsibility for their health and follow a healthy lifestyle. Empowerment is a process in which people confront
problems and tasks in their lives in order to better control them. This study was conducted to specify the
relationship between individual empowerment and health-promoting lifestyle among women NGOs of northern
Iran.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 290 women NGOs of Guilan Province were selected randomly using
multistage cluster sampling, and were examined using the questionnaire of health-promoting lifestyle profile II
and individual empowerment inventory scale. Data were analyzed using STATA 11 software via one-way
ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate linear regression.
Results: Both variables of individual empowerment and health-promoting lifestyle were of favorable status
among the population under study. The highest score in individual empowerment belonged to the domain of
social support and the highest score in lifestyle belonged to spiritual growth. A significant relationship was found
between individual empowerment and health-promoting lifestyle (p<0.001). The highest correlation between
individual empowerment and dimensions of health-promoting lifestyle was related to interpersonal relationships.
In addition, it was specified that 21% of lifestyle variance could be explained by individual empowerment.
Conclusion: There is a relation between individual empowerment and health-promoting lifestyle. Individual
empowerment is a predictive variable to have a health-promoting lifestyle. Therefore, by increasing individuals'
empowerment, their healthy lifestyle can be promoted. |
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| ISSN: | 2008-5842 2008-5842 |