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. 2021 Apr 16;18(8):4221.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph18084221.

Assessment of the Health Behaviours and Value-Based Health Analysis of People Aged 50+ Who Were Hospitalized Due to Cardiovascular Disease

Izabela Gąska  1 , Katarzyna Sygit  2 , Elżbieta Cipora  1 , Marian Sygit  2 , Anna Pacian  3 , Maryna Surmach  4 , Dorota Kaleta  5 , Adam Rzeźnicki  6
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Assessment of the Health Behaviours and Value-Based Health Analysis of People Aged 50+ Who Were Hospitalized Due to Cardiovascular Disease

Izabela Gąska et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

Introduction: The basic determinant of healthy behaviour-among other human behaviours-is the fact that it consistently affects health. Nowadays, health behaviour studies are considered to be an important method of measuring the health of a population.

Objective: To assess the health behaviours and value-based health analysis of people aged 50+ who were hospitalized due to cardiovascular disease, depending on the selected descriptive variables.

Materials and methods: The study was conducted between April 2018 and December 2018 among 411 subjects aged 50+ who were hospitalized due to cardiovascular disease at the Independent Public Health Care Unit in Sanok (Podkarpackie voivodship in Poland). The method used in the study was a diagnostic survey. The study used the authors' survey questionnaire and two standardized tests: Inventory of Health-Related Behaviour (IHB) and List of Health Criteria (LHC). A statistical analysis was carried out in the R program, version 3.5.1. The obtained results were subjected to thorough statistical analysis using the following tests: Student's t, Mann-Whitney U, ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis, Fisher's Least Significant Difference (LSD), Pearson, and Spearman.

Results: The strongest correlation between health status and health behaviours (according to the IHB questionnaire) was in the area of 'health practices', while the lowest correlation was found in the areas of 'correct eating habits' and 'preventive behaviours'. Based on the LHC questionnaire, the most important health criteria according to the subjects were 'not feeling any physical ailments'; 'having all body parts functional'; 'feeling well'; 'eating properly'; and 'infrequent need of going to the doctor'. A positive correlation was found in the group of respondents where the 'preventive health behaviours' were more intense; herein, the more important criterion for the respondents was 'eating properly'.

Conclusions: Respondents aged 50+ and hospitalized for cardiovascular diseases indicated (based on the IHB questionnaire) that health behaviours in the area of 'health practices' had the strongest correlation with their health, while the lowest correlation was found in the areas of 'correct eating habits' and 'preventive behaviours'. According to the respondents, the most important criteria determining health (according to the LHC questionnaire) included 'not feeling any physical ailments'; 'having all body parts functional'; 'feeling well'; 'eating properly'; and 'infrequent need of going to the doctor'. Based on the information collected from the respondents, it was found that the most important criteria determining health depended on selected descriptive variables, such as age, gender, place of residence, education, and marital status.

Keywords: 50+ population; anti-health behaviour; chronic diseases; health; patient; prevention; pro-health behaviours.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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