The critical thinking and its role in modifying the health - related lifestyle : A review study
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 9, Issue 2
Abstract
Health has been known as the human`s fundamental right, but it is an individual responsibility. The persons should be trained in order to take part actively in their health care. But, despite the trainings conducted, narcotics, tobacco products, obesity and disease caused by them are among the main problems of health in the world. Even the health personnel don`t have favorable living conditions in this regard, despite having sufficient knowledge in the field of many types of the diseases. Apparently, the awareness is not the only factor affecting the behavior and the other factor or factors should be sought. Also, the human will never have enough opportunity to learn all sciences and knowledge and achieved knowledge can be a means for thinking. So, an efficient method should be sought for screening the information and critical thinking makes it possible for person to seek the fact among the information clutter and achieve her/his goal which is to attain the most complete possible understanding, because the critical thinking is a kind of thinking process that is the base of problem solving and decision-making. Considering that, the aim of community health nursing is to help community in achieving optimal level of health, this question arises that, can it be possible to benefit from critical thinking in health promotion, too? The articles were collected using the keywords of critical thinking, high-risk behaviors, lifestyle and health in the related and accessible sites (WHO, electronic resources of Tabriz university of medical sciences, SID, Iranduc, scholar, Google and…).The relationship between critical thinking and the factors such as mother tongue, anxiety, self-confidence, university education, self-directed learning, professional independence and…, has been indicated in carried out researches.Considering that the nurse`s role as a therapist is not to make direct change in the others, but his/her role is to create the processes or situations for making the change and on the other hand the critical thinking teaches us how to apply our knowledge and intelligence for achieving objective and rational views, it seems that, it could be possible to benefit from critical thinking by planning and appropriate health policy-making in all areas related to education in order to promote community health.
Authors and Affiliations
Shirin Barzanje Atri| Academic staff, Tabriz university of medical sciences, faculty of nursing and midwifery., Farshid Asadi| MSc student of community health nursing, Tabriz university of medical sciences, faculty of nursing and midwifery. email: www.fasadi53@yahoo.com, Mozhgan Behshid| Academic staff, Tabriz university of medical sciences, faculty of nursing and midwifery., Mohammad Asgari| Academic staff, Tabriz university of medical sciences, faculty of health and nutrition.
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