Determining health risks related to lifestyles in young people

Abstract

Introduction: Various factors that create differences in access to health care and utilization, resulting in inequalities in both health promotion and less chance the recovery an illness.

Objective:Determine the risks associated with lifestyles and health and demographics variables.

Methodology: It is a descriptive and correlational study, quantitative orientation. The study population consisted of 132 adolescents and young adults, both sexes, between 17 and 33 years old, university freshmen. The sample was for convenience. Instruments: Scale Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II. General Health. SF-36. The information processing was performed using SPSS V-19. Results: significant association between satisfaction lifestyle, nutrition, relationships, physical activity and stress-negative was found.

Conclusions: The results allow us to reaffirm the importance of considering the healthy lifestyles as an assessment tool of physical and mental health to detect possible risks to the health of freshmen in the look and health intervention to boost life styles health promoters. Lifestyles are strongly associated with risks that may be avoidable using health promotion.