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Assessment of Healthy Lifestyle among secondary school Adolescent girls in Iraq

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Community health nursing

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

DOI

10.21608/jnsbu.2021.159641

Keywords

Health, Lifestyle, Adolescent, Girls

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

Gasem

Affiliation

College of Health and Medical Technology, Baghdad, Iraq

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First Name

Howyida

Last Name

Abd-El Hameed

MiddleName

Sadek

Affiliation

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

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First Name

Ebtisam

Last Name

Abd Elaal

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

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

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First Name

Hoda

Last Name

Morsy

MiddleName

Abd-Allah

Affiliation

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

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2

Article Issue

1

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23415

Issue Date

2021-01-01

Receive Date

2020-12-01

Publish Date

2021-01-01

Page Start

49

Page End

58

Print ISSN

2682-3934

Online ISSN

2735-5802

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JNSBU_Volume 2_Issue 1_Pages 49-58.pdf

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https://jnsbu.journals.ekb.eg/article_159641.html

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Scientific peer reviewed journal

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Publication Title

Journal of Nursing Science Benha University

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https://jnsbu.journals.ekb.eg/

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Assessment of Healthy Lifestyle among secondary school Adolescent girls in Iraq

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Created At

23 Jan 2023