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Hacia la Promoción de la Salud
Print version ISSN 0121-7577
Abstract
GALDAMES-CRUZ, Susan et al. BELIEFS ON HEALTH AND SELF-CARE PRACTICES IN YOUNG ADULTS: BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF LIFESTYLES. Hacia promoc. Salud [online]. 2019, vol.24, n.1, pp.28-43. ISSN 0121-7577. https://doi.org/10.17151/hpsal.2019.24.1.4.
The abundant access to information and recommendations for self-care for health through the media and public health programs have not managed to increase the adherence of the population to healthy lifestyles. Despite advances in this area, the non-communicable diseases associated with unhealthy lifestyles continue to be an epidemic worldwide.
Objective:
the beliefs of Chilean young professionals about health and self-care were studied in depth to understand one of the relevant psychosocial factors that affect health self-care.
Materials and methods:
through a qualitative study based on the phenomenological paradigm and the biographical method, the life stories of 14 Chilean young professional adults working in different work areas were analyzed.
Results:
based on a content analysis, young people show favorable beliefs towards a healthy lifestyle but, at the level of self-care practices, they maintain some unhealthy behaviors. This is how, reagardless of the scientific knowledge they handle about health, young people generate a personal argumentative structure that allows them to selfjustify the inconsistence between their beliefs and their self-care practices.
Conclusions:
These findings raise the need to redirect the focus of interventions promoting healthy lifestyles.
Keywords : Lifestyle; self-care; health behavior; thought; psychology.
