A Study of Health-Promoting Behaviors of Medical Sciences Students of Islamic Azad University of Sari, Iran 2013

Background and purpose: health-promoting activities and a healthy lifestyle are majorstrategies to preserve health. the purpose of this research study, health-promoting behaviors ofmedical sciences student of islamic azad university of sari, iran, was carried out in order todetermine the compliance and to promote the medical community.materials and methods: this was a cross-sectional study conducted on 285 university students,school of medical sciences, sari, iran, who were selected using stratified random sampling.tools for data collection questionnaire were health-promoting lifestyle profile-ii, whichincludes two main categories of health behaviors and psychosocial health of six sub-categories.data were entered into the spss statistical software and for analysis, friedman and one-sampletest was used.results: of the six dimensions of health-promoting behaviors, spiritual growth, averaging25.11 ± 4.57 most, and the area of physical activity with a mean 18.33 ± 4.40 was the lowestscore accounted in this study. the results of freidman test showed that the ranking ofdimensions (aspects) are as following: 1 - personnel inter-relationship; 2 - spiritual growth;3 - nutrition; 4 - management stress; 5 - health responsibility; and 6 - physical activity.conclusion: the finding was shown that doing the facilitator behavior and health promotion inthe students are at the acceptable level. furthermore, the terms of personnel inter-relationship,spiritual growth, nutrition, and stress management are at the important level of health promotionaspects. regarding the above situations of health-promoting behaviors for health educationprograms among medical group students is recommended.