Research Center for Health Sciences, Institute of Health, Department of Health Promotion, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz 71557, Iran.
Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Department of Health Promotion, School of Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd 89151, Iran.
Biomed Res Int. 2021 Jul 12;2021:5556759. doi: 10.1155/2021/5556759. eCollection 2021.
Motivation determines the possibility of an individual's intention to accept health-related behaviors. Despite the important role of the motivational system in conducting healthy and safe nutrition behavior, this issue has not been adequately addressed. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explain the healthy and safe nutrition motivation system among Iranian adolescent girls.
In this qualitative study, conventional content analysis was used and participants were selected using the purposive sampling method. Semistructured in-depth interviews were conducted with 42 adolescent girls in Shiraz, Iran. The interviews continued until data saturation was obtained. Qualitative data were analyzed using the Graneheim and Lundman qualitative content analysis by MAX-Q-DA (version 10) software.
The data analysis resulted in three main categories for the participants' motivational factors for healthy and safe nutrition: (1) maintaining health and social functions, (2) maintaining the family's mental and economic health, and (3) achieving goals and success in life. The first category included two subcategories: "desire to have an appropriate look and appearance" and "fear of diseases and their complications." The second category included two subcategories of "maintaining the family's mental health" and "maintaining the family's economic health." The third category consisted of two subcategories: "desire to form a family and be successful in life" and "achieving the future career goals."
The motivation to maintain health and social functions, to maintain the family's mental and economic health, and to achieve goals and be successful in life has a powerful impact on the decisions and behaviors of adolescent girls to have safe and healthy nutrition. Therefore, recognizing the motivational system, as a key and determinative factor in developing the adolescents' intention to adopt health-related behaviors, is an effective step to design and develop successful interventions in promoting nutritional behaviors.
动机决定了个体接受与健康相关行为的意愿的可能性。尽管激励系统在进行健康和安全的营养行为方面起着重要作用，但这个问题尚未得到充分解决。本定性研究的目的是解释伊朗少女健康和安全营养的激励系统。
在这项定性研究中，使用了常规内容分析法，并通过目的抽样法选择了参与者。在伊朗设拉子对 42 名少女进行了半结构式深入访谈。访谈一直持续到达到数据饱和。使用 MAX-Q-DA（版本 10）软件对 Graneheim 和 Lundman 定性内容分析进行了定性数据分析。
数据分析为参与者健康和安全营养的激励因素产生了三个主要类别：（1）维持健康和社会功能，（2）维持家庭的精神和经济健康，（3）实现生活中的目标和成功。第一类包括两个亚类：“拥有适当的外表和形象的愿望”和“对疾病及其并发症的恐惧”。第二类包括两个亚类：“维持家庭精神健康”和“维持家庭经济健康”。第三类包括两个亚类：“组建家庭和在生活中取得成功的愿望”和“实现未来职业目标”。
维持健康和社会功能、维持家庭的精神和经济健康以及实现目标和取得成功的动机对少女进行安全和健康营养的决策和行为有强大的影响。因此，认识到激励系统是制定和发展促进营养行为的成功干预措施的关键和决定性因素，是有效步骤。
