The results may be acceptable owing to patients feeling more positive and hopeful in dealing with their disease through improvements in nutritional status.
Campbell et al. found quality of life is related to nutritional status in predialysis patients.
Providing individualized nutritional counseling improves many components of quality of life, compared with standard nutrition care.[24]
Score of healthy lifestyle significantly was higher in men than women.
Men in the prevention, exercise and social relations domains were obtained significantly higher scores.
As well as in the nutrition and stress management domains scores were higher in men, but it was not significant.
It may be argued that men are paying more attention to their lifestyle, perhaps it may be result of more social freedom and cultural causes in society, men have more social and physical activities.
These results partly are consistent the results of Babak et al., however, in her study women had earned higher scores than men in the prevention domain.[19]
Södergren et al. reported important gender differences in lifestyle behaviors and their association with health outcomes.[25,26]