Healthy Lifestyles and Impact Factors of Students from Medical Colleges in Yunnan

Yang WANG; Jun LI; Jun TONG; Min-li YANG

doi:10.12259/j.issn.2095-610X.S20210103

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Yang WANG, Jun LI, Jun TONG, Min-li YANG. Healthy Lifestyles and Impact Factors of Students from Medical Colleges in Yunnan[J]. Journal of Kunming Medical University, 2021, 42(1): 51-58. doi: 10.12259/j.issn.2095-610X.S20210103

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Yang WANG, Jun LI, Jun TONG, Min-li YANG. Healthy Lifestyles and Impact Factors of Students from Medical Colleges in Yunnan[J]. Journal of Kunming Medical University, 2021, 42(1): 51-58. doi: 10.12259/j.issn.2095-610X.S20210103

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Healthy Lifestyles and Impact Factors of Students from Medical Colleges in Yunnan

doi: 10.12259/j.issn.2095-610X.S20210103

Yang WANG¹,
Jun LI²,
Jun TONG^{2
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Min-li YANG^{2
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1.
School of Rehabilitation
2.
Dept. of Physical Education，Kunming Medical University，Kunming Yunnan 650500，China

Received Date: 2020-10-25
Available Online: 2021-01-26
Publish Date: 2021-01-26

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Objectives To investigate and analyze the health lifestyle of medical students and the impact factors of social and demographic characteristics. Methods A total of 2, 278 medical students were randomly selected and their health lifestyle information was collected and analyzed by using questionnaire scoring scale. Results When controlling other variables, gender, grade, and father's education level predicted total healthy lifestyle score were 0.039, 0.012, 0.032, respectively（P < 0.05）; exercise behaviour was predicted partially by gender, grade, and family monthly income（0.031、0.003、0.0045, P < 0.05）; regular behaviour was modulated by gender, grade, family monthly income, and father's educational level（0.022、0.0015、0.0001, P < 0.05）; nutrition behaviour was affected partially by family monthly income and father's educational level（P < 0.05）; health risk behaviour was modulated by gender, mother's education level, and family monthly income（P < 0.05）; health responsibility was modulated by gender, grade, and father's educational level（P < 0.05）; social support was modulated by gender, grade, and father's educational level（P < 0.05）; stress management was modulated by gender, grade, and mother's education level（P < 0.05）; life appreciation was modulated by grade and mother's educational level（P < 0.05）. Conclusions Medical students' healthy lifestyles are influenced by gender, grade, family monthly income and father's and mother's education level. These influences can be used as a predictor of healthy lifestyle of medical students.
- Healthy lifestyles,
- Medical students,
- Medical college,
- Influential factors,
- Demographic characteristics

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