title: Assessment of health-promoting lifestyle profile in Japanese university students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This descriptive study of 314 students was conducted to determine whether there were any relationships of their demographic variables with a health-promoting lifestyle profile.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Japanese version of the Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP-II) questionnaire was used to investigate students' lifestyles. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multiple comparison procedures using the Scheffe test were conducted to identify significant differences among university year (first, second, etc.) groups. The t-test independent participants was utilized to compare the HPLP-II scores according to gender and living with family (yes/no). Multiple regression analysis was used to analyze the effects of various demographics on the overall HPLP-II score and the six health-promoting lifestyle subscales.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The whole cohort of participants had an overall HPLP-II mean score of 2.50 (SD = 0.29), with the highest mean score being for interpersonal relations (3.05 ± 0.44), and the lowest mean score being for health responsibility (2.01 ± 0.53). The overall HPLP-II score of the students during the first university year was 2.59 (SD = 0.29), and this score progressively declined in their second year (2.49 ± 0.29), third year (2.47 ± 0.28), and fourth year (2.45 ± 0.30). Female students practiced significantly better health responsibility, interpersonal relations, and nutrition than males, and male students practiced significantly better physical activity than females. The students who were living with family had significantly higher nutrition scores than those not living with family.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These significant findings linking the HPLP-II, university year level, and living with family (yes/no) in university students will enable healthcare providers to develop interventions to assist students in improving their health lifestyles in the university environment and will help in devising suitable education programs.
authors: Department of Preventive and Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, 1-1-1, Honjo, Kumamoto, Japan. cnwei@kumamoto-u.ac.jp
authors: Chang-Nian
authors: CN
authors: Wei
authors: Koichi
authors: K
authors: Harada
authors: Kimiyo
authors: K
authors: Ueda
authors: Kumiko
authors: K
authors: Fukumoto
authors: Keiko
authors: K
authors: Minamoto
authors: Atsushi
authors: A
authors: Ueda
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D015992:Body Mass Index; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007564:Japan; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012737:Sex Factors; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult