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Health Locus of Control and Health Promoting Behaviors among Nursing and Non-Nursing Students in Zagazig University , Egypt

@inproceedings{Ahmed2016HealthLO,
  title={Health Locus of Control and Health Promoting Behaviors among Nursing and Non-Nursing Students in Zagazig University , Egypt},
  author={Fatma Mohammed Ahmed and Reda El-Sayed El Badawy},
  year={2016}
}
A solid society arises with healthy youth. University students speak to the future of nations. University is a time of expanded responsibility for choices and healthy practices. Such behaviors could continue into middle and old age to perpetrate health hazards later in life. The existing study aimed to investigate the relation between health promoting behaviors and health locus of control among Zagazig University nursing and non-nursing students, hence, a comparative cross sectional study… 
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