Health Promoting Lifestyle and its Associated Factors among Private University Students in Shah Alam, Selangor Nazri Wan Nurul Fatini Syazwanie Wan Mohd1, Ghazi Hasanain Faisal2,*, Elnajeh Maged2 1Bachelor of Medical Sciences Student, International Medical School, Management and science University, University Drive, Section 13, 40100, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia 2Senior Lecturer, Community Medicine Unit, International Medical School, Management and Science University, University Drive, Section 13, 40100, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia *Corresponding Author: Dr. Hasanain Faisal Ghazi, Community Medicine Unit, International Medical School, Management and Science University, Selangor, Malaysia, Email: hasanain@msu.edu.my
Online published on 8 March, 2019. Abstract Healthy lifestyle is a major strategy to promote current and subsequent health status. Lifestyle is the way of living of individuals, families, and societies which can be healthy or unhealthy. The objective of the present study was to find out healthy promoting lifestyle level and its associated factors among the private university students in Shah Alam, Malaysia. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 500 students using convenience sampling. Self-administrated questionnaires with 52 items of health promoting lifestyle habits with 6 subscales was used. The results showed that mean score of health promoting lifestyle scale was 136.18 ± 22.48. Half of the respondents found to have normal weight (50.2%) followed by (28.4%) overweight and (12.4%) obese. The association between gender and health promoting lifestyle was significant (P<0.001). While, Body Mass Index was not significantly associated with health promoting lifestyle (P=0.837). As a conclusion, the mean score of healthy lifestyle practice was 136, prevalence of overweight and obese was (40.8%) among university students. More promotion is needed in promoting healthy lifestyle. Top Keywords Healthy promoting lifestyle, obesity, university students. Top |