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  • Self-perception of quality of life and its association with lifestyle behaviours of young Iranian women

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    Author(s)
    Salehi, Asiyeh
    Harris, Neil
    Sebar, Bernadette
    Coyne, Elisabeth
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Sebar, Bernadette M.
    Harris, Neil D.
    Coyne, Elisabeth
    Salehi, Nasim
    Year published
    2015
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    Limited studies have examined the relationship between quality of life and lifestyle behaviors. The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of quality of life among young Iranian women and its association with lifestyle behaviors.This cross-sectional study was conducted among 391 young women selected through a cluster convenience sampling strategy in Shiraz, Iran. WHOQoL-BREF and satisfaction with life scales were used to measure subjective well-being. The International Health and Behavior survey was used for measuring lifestyle behaviors.Young Iranian women were averagely dissatisfied with their life circumstances. ...
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    Limited studies have examined the relationship between quality of life and lifestyle behaviors. The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of quality of life among young Iranian women and its association with lifestyle behaviors.This cross-sectional study was conducted among 391 young women selected through a cluster convenience sampling strategy in Shiraz, Iran. WHOQoL-BREF and satisfaction with life scales were used to measure subjective well-being. The International Health and Behavior survey was used for measuring lifestyle behaviors.Young Iranian women were averagely dissatisfied with their life circumstances. The score of psychological quality of life, and social quality of life were below average. According to the findings, higher quality of life is positively related to healthier lifestyle behaviors. Multiple regression analysis showed that smoking and physical activity are the main predictors of quality of life. Findings also demonstrate that diminished quality of life was significantly associated with older age, low income, being single, low level of religiosity, smoking and low levels of physical activity.In order to improve the situation of young Iranian women, the findings that should be sources of concern to policy makers include the average dissatisfaction with circumstances of life particularly in terms of psychological, social and environmental quality of life. While the health system focus is often upon addressing unhealthy lifestyle behaviors, policy initiatives aimed at improving these circumstances of life for young Iranian women would be of substantial medium to long-term benefit to their wellbeing.
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    Journal Title
    Iranian Journal of Public Health
    Volume
    44
    Issue
    3
    Publisher URI
    http://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/3649
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2015. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
    Subject
    Health and Community Services
    Public Health and Health Services
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/132740
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