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. 2024 Apr 2;36(2):177-186.
doi: 10.1515/ijamh-2024-0026. eCollection 2024 Apr 1.

Do health-promoting lifestyle approaches manage mental health among adolescent/young college students?

Shabnam Omidvar  1 , Nazanin Khajavi  2 , Hajar Pasha  1   3 , Farideh Mohsenzadeh Ledari  1 , Mahdi Sepidarkish  3   4 , Hajar Adib-Rad  1   5 , Khadijeh Ezoji  1
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Do health-promoting lifestyle approaches manage mental health among adolescent/young college students?

Shabnam Omidvar et al. Int J Adolesc Med Health. .

Abstract

Objectives: College students are often still relatively young, making their mental health more likely to be overlooked. A healthy lifestyle is considered the key to preventing and controlling mental health problems nowadays. This study aimed to investigate whether health-promoting lifestyle approaches manage mental health among adolescent/young college students.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 187 adolescent/young college students at Babol Medical Science University, Babol, Iran. Characteristic demographics, health-promoting lifestyle profile (HPLP), and general health questionnaire-28(GHQ-28) were filled out by students. The data were analyzed using correlation coefficient and simple and multiple linear regressions.

Results: The majority of participants were adolescents (66.8%), single (97.9%), and bachelor's students (70.1%). The mean of the HPLP and GHQ scores was 125.09±18.12, and 33.58±10.50, respectively. HPLP was a negative significant predictor of mental health (β = -.261, P= .0001). There was a negative significant association between HPLP dimensions (except physical activity) and mental health. After adjusting for other variables, there was a significant relationship between HPLP with mother occupation (β =.186, P=.038), and mother education (β = -.219, P= .034). Furthermore, gender (β = .175, P= .031), and occupation (β =-.157, P= .040) were predictors of GHQ in adolescent/young college students.

Conclusions: Regarding the health-promoting lifestyle situation among students and its relation with the better mental health, the design and implementation of HPLP education programs is recommended.

Keywords: adolescence; college student; health-promoting behaviors; mental health; university.

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