Introduction: Lifestyle
refers to peoples’ behavior and pattern that has affected their health. This aim of this study was to determine
the association
between lifestyle and hypertension in rural population in Gorgan.
Material
and methods: In this case-control study, 200 hypertensive
subjects and 200 controls in Gorgan rural population were selected via two
stage sampling method. Data was collected using a questionnaire consists of
demographic questions (20 questions) and health promotion lifestyle profile
questions (52 questions). Lifestyle profile questions, contains total life
style score and six dimensional physical activities of stress management,
interpersonal communication skill, health responsibility, nutrition and
spiritual growth. The content validity and reliability (Cronbach’s alpha: 87%)
of questionnaire was approved. Data
were analyzed using Chi Square, T tests and Logistic regression in SPSS version
16. A P-value less than 0.05 were considered as statistically significant.
Findings: The
mean onset of hypertension was 53.2. Twelve percent of cases and 20.5% of
controls were smokers. Also, 57% of cases and 51% of controls had family
history of hypertension, 63% of cases and 61.1% controls had BMI of 25 that is
higher than normal. In addition, Logistic regression test showed that the
association between hypertension and total lifestyle score, physical activity,
spiritual growth, interpersonal communication skill, stressmanagement wasstatistically significant (P-value <0.05).
The results of T-Test showed that the association between health
responsibility, physical activity, nutrition, spiritual growth, interpersonal
communication skill, stress management in case and control group was
statistically significant (P-value <0.05).
Conclusion:
The
results showed that unhealthy behaviors particularly in nutrition, stress and
physical activity has a relationship with hypertension therefore it is
necessary to implement educational programs for people in order to have a
healthy life style and healthy behaviors.
Mansoorian M, Qorbani M, Shafieyan N, Asayesh H, Rahimzadeh Barzaki H, Shafieyan Z, et al . Association between life style and hypertension in rural population of Gorgan. JHPM 2012; 1 (2) :23-28 URL: http://jhpm.ir/article-1-60-en.html