Iranian university students lifestyle and health status survey: study profile

Background The physical health assessment of university students in Iran is a national large scale assessment examining health behaviors among tertiary education students. Understanding risky health behaviors which are the major sources of global mortality and morbidity in adulthood is the key objec...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders 2017-12, Vol.16 (1), p.48-48, Article 48
Hauptverfasser: Mansouri, Masoume, Sharifi, Farshad, Varmaghani, Mehdi, Yaghubi, Hamid, Tabrizi, Yousef Moghadas, Raznahan, Maede, Khajavi, Alireza, Ghodsi, Maryam, Roshanfekr, Payam, Shafiee, Gita, Keshtkar, Abasali, Ebrahimi, Mahdi
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Zusammenfassung:Background The physical health assessment of university students in Iran is a national large scale assessment examining health behaviors among tertiary education students. Understanding risky health behaviors which are the major sources of global mortality and morbidity in adulthood is the key objective of this assessment. Methods In academic year of 2012–2013, newly admitted students ( N  = 151,671) at 74 governmental eligible universities that had health center from 28 provinces were invited to participate in the health assessment program. The physical health behaviors of the students were evaluated by using questionnaire. The test-retest reliability method was applied to estimate the reliability of physical health questionnaire. After filling out the questionnaires , students were led to the examination room for the measurement of height, weight and blood pressure. Results From the total study population, 84,298 student’s ages between 18 and 29 years old, were participated in the health assessment. The mean response proportion was 63%. The mean age of students was 21.5 ± 4.01, with 49.20% percent being
ISSN:2251-6581
2251-6581
DOI:10.1186/s40200-017-0329-z