The health-promoting lifestyle and its relationship with the impacts of endometriosis on women’s lives in Iran, 2022: a cross-sectional study

Endometriosis is a chronic gynecological disease that affects various aspects of the women's lives, so considering its impacts and improving health-promoting lifestyle is important. The present study aimed to determine the association between health-promoting lifestyle and endometriosis impacts on women lives.This cross-sectional study was conducted on 200 women with endometriosis in the endometriosis clinic of Imam Reza Hospital in Mashhad-Iran. The data was collected using the HPLP-II (health-promoting lifestyle) and EIQ tools (endometriosis impact questionnaire), as well as socio-demographic and obstetrics characteristics questionnaires. Data was analyzed in SPSS 21 software. Spearman's test was used to investigate the correlation between health-promoting behaviors and the impacts of endometriosis on women's lives.In the total of three recall periods of EIQ, there was a negative significant correlation between the overall lifestyle score of HPLP and the physical impact of endometriosis disease (r=-0.23; P