†These authors contributed equally.
Academic Editors: Andrea Tinelli and Luca Roncati
Background: Risk management strategies play a significant role in
genetic counseling, which involves lifestyle modification with respect to
nutrition and unhealthy living habits, enhanced screening imaging, endocrine
therapy, and following the physician’s advice etc. This study aimed to describe
the health-promoting lifestyle of breast cancer patients and their family members
in a Chinese genetic counseling clinic, and to explore its various levels
encompassing different socio-economic variables. Methods: This was a
cross-sectional study. The participants in this study originated from a genetic
counseling clinic of a cancer center in Shanghai, China. Two hundred and fifty
nine patients conforming to the inclusion and exclusion criteria were screened
from November 2019 to March 2022. Participants agreeing to participate were sent
a questionnaire web-link with an invitation to finish this survey. Two
questionnaires were included in the link, one referring to socio-economic
information and the other referring to the health-promoting lifestyle. Chinese
Health-promoting lifestyle profile-Ⅱ (HPLP-Ⅱ) was used to evaluate the
health-promoting lifestyle. Results: One hundred and forty participants
were finally included in this study. The mean scores for health-promoting
lifestyle was 141.22