Table 3.
Association between health promoting lifestyle and sociodemographic factors.
| Predictors | Overall HPLP II | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| p | ANOVA | Regression Analysis | |||||
| Sociodemographic | HPLP II | F | F Critical | OR | 95% CI | ||
| Factors | Mean ± SD | Lower Bound | Upper Bound | ||||
| Age (years) | |||||||
| Until 50 | 59.3 ± 15.7 | 0.016 | 3.544 | 0.167 | 2.276 | 0.418 | 12.378 |
| 51–60 | 60.3 ± 11.8 | 4.400 | 1.466 | 13.205 | |||
| 61–70 | 53.6 ± 11.4 | 1.517 | 0.695 | 3.314 | |||
| >70 | 51.5 ± 14.9 | Reference | |||||
| Gender | |||||||
| Female | 53.6 ± 13.8 | 0.020 | 0.493 | 0.478 | 0.909 | 0.446 | 1.852 |
| Male | 55.3 ± 13.1 | Reference | |||||
| Education | |||||||
| Bachelor | 76.5 ± 0.71 | 0.098 | 2.137 | 2.300 | |||
| High school | 54.8 ± 12.3 | ||||||
| Professional degree | 49.5 ± 9.4 | ||||||
| Less than high school | 54.5 ± 13.7 | ||||||
| Living | |||||||
| With someone | 55 ± 13.1 | 0.298 | 1.099 | 2.110 | |||
| Alone | 50 ± 13.3 | ||||||
| Economic status | |||||||
| Moderate and high | 77 ± 0.01 | 0.221 | 1.525 | 1.670 | |||
| Low | 53.9 ± 14.1 | ||||||
HPLP II: Health Promotion Profile II, SD: Standard deviation, OR: odds ratio, CI: confidence interval, ANOVA: analysis of variance. The bold number are to emphasize the p value as significant.