Effect of Islamic-based Spiritual-religious Psychotherapy on Components of Health-oriented Lifestyle in Female University Students

ealth is like a precious jewel known as an invaluable source for effective life (1). Health improvement is the center of health care due to its important role. Regarding the high costs of health care, the necessity for changing the therapeutic approach into the preventive approach is getting more highlighted. In addition, the World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that people should try to prevent the diseases through adopting a health-oriented lifestyle (2). Healthy lifestyle is a voluntary action and as a valuable resource decreases the prevalence and effects of hygienic problems, improves coping with stressful factors of life, and as a result enhances the quality of life (3). The concept of lifestyle was first proposed in 1920 and entered scientific studies since 1970. Lifestyle is creating approaches for life and achieving the targets considering the facilities, socioeconomic status, as well as the personal and social limitations that an individual might have (4). It should be noted that the health-oriented lifestyle includes various aspects, namely exercise, proper and improper nutrition, selfcontrol, spiritual health, social environment, and preventive measures (5). Nowadays, most health problems, different diseases, and the related mortality are associated with changes in lifestyle (6). Amini et al. concluded in their study that health-oriented lifestyle can improve patients’ health (7). With this background in H Abstract