<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><bold>Introduction/Aim:</bold> The aim of the present study was to evaluate ideas and motivational attitudes of medical school students towards a healthy lifestyle and its components.<bold>Methods:</bold> The study was conducted from March until August 2017, at the Department of Medical Sociology, Healthcare Economics and Health Insurance and at N.A. Semashko Public Health and Healthcare Department, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. We ran a medical and sociological survey in 984 randomly selected students from eight Russian medical universities.<bold>Results:</bold> The article presents the results of the medical and sociological study aimed at assessing the ideas and motivational attitudes of medical students towards healthy lifestyle and its elements. Our research showed that students of medical schools, while recognizing the importance of preserving their own health, are still largely committed to an unhealthy lifestyle, secondly, they refuse sports activities even more often, and, thirdly, they prove not to be active enough when it comes to disease prevention and health preservation.<bold>Conclusion:</bold> Taking into consideration the obtained results, healthy lifestyle among students of medical schools is an exception rather than common practice.</abstract>

Introduction/Aim: The aim of the present study was to evaluate ideas and motivational attitudes of medical school students towards a healthy lifestyle and its components.Methods: The study was conducted from March until August 2017, at the Department of Medical Sociology, Healthcare Economics and Health Insurance and at N.A. Semashko Public Health and Healthcare Department, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. We ran a medical and sociological survey in 984 randomly selected students from eight Russian medical universities.Results: The article presents the results of the medical and sociological study aimed at assessing the ideas and motivational attitudes of medical students towards healthy lifestyle and its elements. Our research showed that students of medical schools, while recognizing the importance of preserving their own health, are still largely committed to an unhealthy lifestyle, secondly, they refuse sports activities even more often, and, thirdly, they prove not to be active enough when it comes to disease prevention and health preservation.Conclusion: Taking into consideration the obtained results, healthy lifestyle among students of medical schools is an exception rather than common practice.

Perception of Healthy Lifestyle Among Students of Medical Schools

First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University)

N.A. Semashko Public Health and Healthcare Department

Experimental and Applied Biomedical Research (EABR)

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Introduction/Aim: The aim of the present study was to evaluate ideas and motivational attitudes of medical school students towards a healthy lifestyle and its...

Perception of Healthy Lifestyle Among Students of Medical Schools

Publicado en línea: 05 jun 2020

Páginas: 67 - 74

Recibido: 25 feb 2020

Aceptado: 27 feb 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjecr-2020-0016

Palabras clave
health, healthy lifestyle, medical students, motivation

© 2020 Andrey V.Reshetnikov et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Perception of Healthy Lifestyle Among Students of Medical Schools

Publicado en línea: 05 jun 2020

Páginas: 67 - 74

Recibido: 25 feb 2020

Aceptado: 27 feb 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjecr-2020-0016

Palabras clavehealth, healthy lifestyle, medical students, motivation

© 2020 Andrey V.Reshetnikov et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
health, healthy lifestyle, medical students, motivation