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A Comparison of Self Care Practices Between Vegans, Vegetarians, and Omnivores.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A Comparison of Self Care Practices Between Vegans, Vegetarians, and Omnivores./
Author:	Behr, Heather A.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	79 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-01, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-01B.
Subject:	Behavioral sciences. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27838240
ISBN:	9798607336707

A Comparison of Self Care Practices Between Vegans, Vegetarians, and Omnivores.
Behr, Heather A.

A Comparison of Self Care Practices Between Vegans, Vegetarians, and Omnivores. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 79 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-01, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Saybrook University, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

According to the World Health Organization, noncommunicable diseases (obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease), also called lifestyle diseases, account for 71% of all deaths globally, killing over 41 million people each year. Each of these diseases is caused or intensified by modifiable lifestyle factors, including poor diet, physical inactivity, high emotional stress, smoking, and excessive alcohol consumption. An apparent consensus exists that vegan and vegetarian diets are associated with self-care behaviors such as not smoking, less consumption of alcohol and maintaining a healthy weight. However, little is known of other health promoting self-care behaviors. Individual components of self-care have likewise been associated with long term health, including reductions in mortality from lifestyle diseases. Components such as social connectedness, spiritual growth, and stress management may, in part, contribute to the improved health and longevity associated with vegan and vegetarian diets. This raises the question whether the health benefits often seen with vegan and vegetarian diets are strictly due to nutritional intake difference resulting from less animal products consumption or are a result of a more self-care encompassing lifestyle. The purpose of this study was to compare an overall health promoting lifestyle score and six subscale scores (health responsibility, physical activity, nutrition, spiritual growth, interpersonal relations, and stress management) among vegans, vegetarians, and omnivores. This cross-sectional observational study compared whether those who consume vegan and vegetarian diets practice other health-promoting self-care practices more regularly than non-vegetarians. The study employed an electronic questionnaire hosted through SurveyMonkey® Audience as a convenience sample which categorized participants as vegans, vegetarians, and omnivores based on self-report. The questionnaire included a summated rating scale to measure the overall health-promoting self-care score as well as the frequency of the six health-promoting subscales of self-care (health responsibility, physical activity, nutrition, spiritual growth, interpersonal relations and stress management). The questionnaire was based on self-report and was used to determine how total self-care, and the subscale health-promoting behaviors of self-care compared across vegan, vegetarian, and omnivore dietary groups using ANOVA and MANOVA. The results found that vegans scored significantly (p < 0.007) higher than omnivores and vegetarians on health-promoting lifestyle scores, with no significant differences found between vegetarians and omnivores. These results of this preliminary study suggest that future research is needed to better understand the lifestyle behaviors of those who follow a vegan diet, how these behaviors differ from non-vegan populations and to what extent self-care practices, beyond diet, contribute to the health benefits often observed in this population.

ISBN: 9798607336707Subjects--Topical Terms:

529833
Behavioral sciences.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Behavior

A Comparison of Self Care Practices Between Vegans, Vegetarians, and Omnivores.
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