title: [The awareness of patients about the risk factors].
abstract: The medical sociological study of the municipal polyclinics of the City of Toliatti included the specification of the health self-assessment, the personal medical activity, the presence of adverse habits, the awareness of the principles of healthy life-style. One's own health was considered as good by 21.7% of respondents; about 46% assumed it as satisfactory and 5.5% determined it as bad. The males considered one's own health as good more frequently than women. Among the causes of bad health state the respondents pointed at adverse ecology, improper diet, hereditary factors, stressing conditions, alcohol consumption, tobacco smoking. The distribution of the priority causes according gender and age is presented. Mainly, only females and males older than 50 years visit the physician regularly. Among the causes of disregarding by the respondents the principles of healthy life-style are the insufficient volition, the lack of spare time, the work overload, the non-availability of needed material resources for health-improving activities. The respondents enumerated among the causes stimulating to lead healthy life-style the alcohol abuse refusal, active physical training, the healthy diet, the tobacco smoking refusal. The females give more attention to their health, actively search for the sources of medical information, more frequently consult the medical specialists. The males more often give preference to the advices of relatives and friends. The need in additional information related to one's own health and the health-improving activities experience 83.4% of females and 71.6% of males. The established gender characteristics of this need is to be considered by the physicians providing the consultation services on the issues of health promotion and disease prevention.
authors.forename: O N
authors.initials: ON
authors.lastname: Vishniakova
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001364:Awareness; D005260:Female; D006184:Habits; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011584:Psychology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors