TY - JOUR T1 - Health Promoting Behaviors and its Related Factors in Elderly TT - رفتارهای ارتقاء دهنده سلامت و عوامل مرتبط در سالمندان JF - IJN JO - IJN VL - 19 IS - 47 UR - http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-188-en.html Y1 - 2006 SP - 35 EP - 48 KW - Elderly KW - Health promotion behaviours KW - Related Factors N2 -   Background & Aim: Long life expectancy and living healthy in the stage of elderly is a human right, thus health promoting behaviours for prevention of complications are important. The purpose of this study was to determine health promoting behaviors and its related factors in elderly people.   Material & Method: This was a descriptive and cross-sectional study. Through multi-stage sampling method, 410 participants who were 60 years old and more, selected to contribute in the study . A questionaire was used to collect data by interview.   Resulth: The results showed that 'smoking cessation' behaviour had significant relationships (P M3 ER -