Mediating effect of health consciousness in the relationship of lifestyle and suboptimal health status: a cross-sectional study involving Chinese urban residents.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Suboptimal health status (SHS), a third state between good health and disease, can easily develop into chronic diseases, and can be influenced by lifestyle and health consciousness. No study has surveyed the intermediation of health consciousness on the relationship between lifestyle and SHS. This study aimed to analyse the association of lifestyle and SHS, and intermediation of health consciousness in Chinese urban residents.

Design

A cross-sectional face-to-face survey using a four-stage stratified sampling method.

Participants

We investigated 5803 Chinese urban residents aged 18 years and over. We measured SHS using the Sub-Health Measurement Scale V1.0. We adopted a structural equation model to analyse relationships among lifestyle, health consciousness

SUBMITTER: Xue Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7592276 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature