The Impact of Health Promotion Program on Elementary Third-grade Female Students on Their Lifestyle

The rising trend of consumerism, urbanization, and change health habits in recent years has led to a change in people’s lifestyles. Since lifestyle and health habits develop during childhood and continue into adulthood, special attention should be paid to the changing lifestyle of childhood. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of students’ health promotion programs on their lifestyles.

The present research is a semi-experimental study carried out in the 1397-1398 years in which sixty elementary school girls were selected from Shohadaye Gomnam and Moslem Aghil school in Tehran by the non-randomized method and examined in two groups of test and control. Data were collected using a demographic questionnaire and Miller Smith Lifestyle. In the experimental group of the student health promotion program, the test consisted of three phases, assessment, supporting, and evaluation was run for three months.

Before the intervention, the experimental and control group were matched for demographic variables and average lifestyle scores. However, after the intervention, the independent t-test showed that there was a significant difference between the average scores of lifestyle in the two groups.

Student health improvement program improves the lifestyle of girls aged between 9 to 10 in elementary schools. Therefore, it is recommended that this program be implemented as a community plan in all schools in the country.