Assessment of Healthy Lifestyle among secondary school Adolescent girls in Iraq

Document Type : Scientific peer reviewed journal

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1 College of Health and Medical Technology, Baghdad, Iraq

2 Community health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing-Benha University, Egypt

Abstract

Background: Healthy lifestyle is essential for adolescent girls to promote their health.
The study aimed to assess healthy lifestyle among secondary school adolescent girls in Iraq.
Design: A descriptive correlational research design was utilized to conduct this study. Setting:
the study was conducted at 25% of total secondary schools in Iraq it included 6 schools which
namely; Masra El-Rasol school, Khadija school, Belquis school, Adhamiya school, Hariri
school, Al-Entsar school at Russafa in Baghdad. Subjects: included 200 adolescent student girls
from previous mentioned school. Tools: Two tools were used for data collection; first tool: An
interviewing questionnaire to assess knowledge regarding healthy lifestyle. Tool two: Fantastic
Lifestyle questionnaire which included 15 closed questionnaires. Results: 68.0% of the
studied students had average total knowledge about healthy life style, while, 29.5% of them had
good total knowledge about healthy life style. In addition to, 2.5% of them had poor total
knowledge about healthy life style. Also, 69.5% of the studied students had total psychological
healthy lifestyle. While, 62.5% of them had unhealthy social lifestyle and 66.5% of them had
total unhealthy lifestyle. Conclusion: There was highly statistically significant correlation
between total knowledge about healthy life style of the studied students and total practices
about healthy life style. Recommendations: Health educational programs about healthy life
style to enhance health promotion

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Journal of Nursing Science Benha University
Volume 2, Issue 1
January 2021
Pages 49-58

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