Healthy Diets and Regular Exercises to Achieve a Health-Related Quality of Life: A Quasi-experimental Study

Abstract

This study developed an online health education module on diet and exercise in achieving a health-related quality of life. A quantitative quasi-experimental study design was used. A-301 respondents were enrolled for the self-administered questionnaire using the RAND SF-36 of the health-related quality of life as pre- and post-test for both experimental and control group. An online module on diet and exercise was developed as an intervention to achieve a health-related quality of life. The online module on diet and exercise was effective in achieving a significant health-related quality of life (p≤0.05). Specifically, the domains of the health-related quality of life achieved after 12 months of healthy diets and regular exercises were general health (72.700±41.1, p0.00915), physical functioning (82.3200±51.8, p0.0015), role physical (92.02±41.06, p0.001), role emotional (72.706±21.12, p0.00), social functioning (96.09±48.727, p0.0012), bodily pain (99.3±69.128, p0.015), vitality (62.7±31.08, p0.0104), and mental health (72.35±41.18, p0.00455).

Keywords

• diet
• exercise
• health education
• health-related quality of life