Purpose: This study aimed to describe the health-promoting lifestyle of breast cancer patients and family members in a Chinese genetic counseling clinic, and to explore its various levels with different socio-economic variables.
Method: This was a cross-sectional study. The participants in this study originated from a genetic counseling clinic of a cancer center in Shanghai, China. 259 patients conformed to the inclusion and exclusion criteria were screened and contact from November 2019 to March 2022. Participants agreed to participate were sent a questionnaire web-link to be invited to finish this survey. Two questionnaires were included in the link, one referring to the socio-economic information, the other referring to the health-promoting lifestyle. Chinese Health-promoting lifestyle profile-Ⅱ(HPLP-Ⅱ) was used to evaluate the health-promoting lifestyle.
