TY - JOUR ID - 28205 TI - Differences in Health Promoting Lifestyle Behavior of Health Management Students Based Upon Early Diagnosis Coverage in a Cancer Course JO - Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention JA - APJCP LA - en SN - 1513-7368 Y1 - 2013 PY - 2013 VL - 14 IS - 10 SP - 5769 EP - 5773 KW - Health promoting lifestyle behaviors KW - early diagnosis of cancer KW - University Students DO - N2 - Background: This is a descriptive study to determine whether coursework that is focused on early diagnosisin cancer makes a difference in self-reported health promoting lifestyle behavior of students who study healthmanagement. Materials and Methods: The population of the study consisted of a sample of 104 students enrolledin the Department of Health Management at the Faculty of Health in Kirikkale University in Turkey. Fortyeightstudents enrolled in a course called “Early Diagnosis of Cancer” and fifty-six did not take this course.Demographic information was collected and the “Health Promotion Life-Style Profile (HPLP)” was used tocollect health promotion data. Frequency and descriptive statistics including one-way ANOVA, Mann-WhitneyU test, Kruskal Wallis tests were used to evaluate data. Results: The HPLP mean score of the students was foundto be 127.5±17.45. The highest mean score was observed for self-fulfillment and health responsibility, while thelowest was for diet and exercise sub-scales. It was found that certain variables were effective in developing healthpromoting lifestyle behaviors such as choosing this job voluntarily, working status of father and participationin social activity (p<0.05). In conclusion, it was found that the students had moderate levels of health promotinglifestyle behavior and they should be supported in terms of diet and exercise. UR - https://journal.waocp.org/article_28205.html L1 - https://journal.waocp.org/article_28205_ca61bbf558f2f81e59289c63e2128fb3.pdf ER -