Evaluation of health promoting lifestyles and its related factors among the oil company retires in Mahshahr, the southwestern city of Iran

Introduction: Health promoting lifestyle can involve both spiritual and physical health. It can also improve the quality of life, especially in elderly population. One of the important results of this is to prevent or control chronic diseases in elderly group. Few studies in Iran have assay health promoting lifestyle among elderly population. And until now there is no study on oil industry retired to determine the health promoting behaviors among this society. The aim of this study is to assess health promoting lifestyle and its effective related factors among oil company retired persons in Mahshahr the southwestern city of Iran. Materials and methods: This is a cross-sectional study that was conducted using a sample of retired persons at oil company retirement center in Mahshahr city of Iran. The state of health promoting lifestyle and demographic affecting factors were determined by using Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP-II) questionnaire, the Persian version. Data were analyzed by descriptive and analytical statistics using the t-test, one-way analysis of variance, correlation analysis, and multiple linear regression analysis using spss21. Results: Of the 220 distributed questionnaires; 160 completed and returned. The results showed that the total average score of the HPLP-II of oil company retires in Mahshahr was 146.47 (SD=1.48). The highest score was for nutrition subscale (A=81.1, SD=0.81) and the lowest score was for physical activity (A=59.57, SD=1.27). There was a significant relationship between the health promoting lifestyle and level of education (P=0.001), income (P<0.001) but no statistically significant relationship found between BMI, number of children with health promoting lifestyle. Conclusion: Health promoting lifestyle of samples was in intermediate level. Level of education and income status are the most important factors affecting the health promoting lifestyles in this study. Retires need to improve their skills and health behaviors. Achieving this important goal needs more training even before retirement through good policy making and health care organization.

کلیدواژه ها:

Health-promoting lifestyle ، Oil company ، Retires ، Elderly ، HPLP2