Pro-health behaviours – a sense of coherence as the key to a healthy lifestyle in rural areas?
Journal Title: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine - Year 2016, Vol 23, Issue 2
Abstract
[b][/b][b]Background. [/b]Health-related behaviours and lifestyle are related to the salutogenic concept of health, whereas the major public health problems faced in rural areas include difficulties in encouraging people to a healthy lifestyle. [b]Objective. [/b]The aim of the study is to explore mutual relationships between psychosocial-demographic factors and a sense of coherence. [b]Material and method.[/b] Two-stage sampling was applied. Data were collected with the use of the Juczynski Health Behaviours Inventory and Antonovsky’s SOC-29 (Sense of Coherence Questionnaire). The study was conducted among 668 adults. Data were statistically prepared using one-way ANOVA test, linear correlation analysis, and linear regression model. [b]Results.[/b] A higher level of pro-health behaviours is associated with gender, self-rated health, sense of coherence and age. Almost half of the farmers were characterized by a low level of pro-health attitudes. A higher level of pro-health behaviours was demonstrated by less than one-fifth of the farmers. [b]Conclusions. [/b]There is a strong association between sense of coherence and pro-health behaviours. Farmers have bad habits and pro-health attitudes to health and poorer self-assessment of their health. There is a great need to monitor health-related behaviour, increase the effectiveness of health promotion and health education in shaping a pro-health lifestyle among residents of rural areas, particularly among farmers.
Authors and Affiliations
Monika Binkowska-Bury, Grażyna Iwanowicz-Palus, Wacław Kruk, Lidia Perenc, Artur Mazur, Rafał Filip, Paweł Januszewicz
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