Khajavi Nazanin, Mohsenzadeh-Ledari Farideh, Sepidarkish Mahdi, Pasha Hajar, Adib-Rad Hajar, Ezoji Khadijeh, Omidvar Shabnam
Student Research Committee, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran.
Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran.
J Educ Health Promot. 2024 Jul 11;13:217. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_569_23. eCollection 2024.
Students, as a representative of young adults, are at risk for engagement in unhealthy lifestyle behaviors such as unhealthy eating, unhealthy relationships, and drug abuse. Health-promoting lifestyle (HPL) largely depends on adequate knowledge of healthy behaviors and hence, education is a strategy with potential positive effects on lifestyle. This study aimed at evaluating the effects of web-based education (WBE) on HPL among first-year medical sciences students.
This quasi-experimental study was conducted in 2020 with a single-group pretest-posttest design. Participants were 185 first-year bachelor's and doctoral medical sciences students selected from Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran, through multistage sampling. Study intervention was a three-week web-based educational program on HPL. Educational videos about the different components of HPL were sent to participants through WhatsApp. Data were collected before, one month after, and three months after the study intervention through the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile (HPLP2) and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). The STATA software (v. 16.0) was used for data analysis.
Among 185 participants, 154 (83.69%) participants completed the study. The mean scores of HPL and its health responsibility and stress management subscales significantly increased by 4.58 (95% CI: 0.12, 9.04), 1.77 (95% CI: 0.39, 3.15), and 0.71 (95% CI: 0.13, 1.26), respectively. However, the mean scores of the nutrition, interpersonal relations, physical activity, and self-actualization subscales of HPL and the mean score of general health did not significantly change ( > 0.05).
WBE has significant positive effects on HPL and its health responsibility and stress management subscales. Therefore, WBE through social media can be used to improve HPL among young adults, particularly students.
学生作为年轻人的代表，面临着参与不健康生活方式行为的风险，如不健康饮食、不良人际关系和药物滥用。促进健康的生活方式（HPL）很大程度上取决于对健康行为的充分了解，因此，教育是一种对生活方式具有潜在积极影响的策略。本研究旨在评估基于网络的教育（WBE）对一年级医学专业学生HPL的影响。
本准实验研究于2020年进行，采用单组前测-后测设计。参与者是通过多阶段抽样从伊朗巴博尔医科大学选拔出的185名一年级本科和博士医学专业学生。研究干预是一个为期三周的关于HPL的基于网络的教育项目。关于HPL不同组成部分的教育视频通过WhatsApp发送给参与者。通过健康促进生活方式量表（HPLP2）和一般健康问卷（GHQ）在研究干预前、干预后一个月和三个月收集数据。使用STATA软件（v. 16.0）进行数据分析。
在185名参与者中，154名（83.69%）参与者完成了研究。HPL及其健康责任和压力管理子量表的平均得分分别显著提高了4.58（95%置信区间：0.12，9.04）、1.77（95%置信区间：0.39，3.15）和0.71（95%置信区间：0.13，1.26）。然而，HPL的营养、人际关系、身体活动和自我实现子量表的平均得分以及总体健康平均得分没有显著变化（>0.05）。
WBE对HPL及其健康责任和压力管理子量表有显著的积极影响。因此，通过社交媒体的WBE可用于改善年轻人尤其是学生的HPL。
