Health Promotion Behavior in Pregnant Women Referred to Prenatal Care Unite Imam Khomeini Hospital Saqqez

The health promoting behaviors is an important aspect of health promo-tion for the health of pregnant women and their children. The study aimed to assess the health promot-ing behaviors of pregnant women referred to Imam Khomeini Hospital in in Saqqez. This was a descriptive study using convenience sampling. Altogether, 181 pregnant women were recruited from an in pregnant women’s center. The data collection tools used in the study was (i) a questionnaire that was used to collect sociodemographic data from the participants and (ii) the Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP II). The results obtained from the study showed Health promotion behavior in pregnant women highest scores were obtained on the spiritual growth dimension and the lowest scores on the physical activity dimension. Health promotion behavior total score was moderate. Thus on the basis of t test there was meaningful relationship between job demographic variable (P<0.032). The results indicate that the optimal level of health promoting behaviors in this group of women is ethnicity. It is recommended that in areas such as subscale physical activity, stress manage-ment and health responsibility and other studies in other ethnicity to be done with the more sample size.