Exploring the determinants of health‐promoting behaviors among miners: A text mining and meta‐analysis

Abstract

AbstractThe health‐promoting behaviors of miners are of great significance to their physical and mental well‐being. With a focus on enhancing their overall health, this study aimed to explore the determinants and influencing mechanisms of health‐promoting behaviors in miners. Initially, the latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) model was utilized to extract topical keywords from literature over the last 23 years and to categorize the determinants based on integrating the health promotion model and the health belief model. Subsequently, a meta‐analysis was performed based on 51 related empirical research to explore the mechanisms between determinants and health‐promoting behaviors. The results indicated that (1) the factors influencing miners' health‐promoting behaviors can be divided into four dimensions: physical environment, psychosocial environment, individual characteristics, and health beliefs. (2) Noise was negatively related to health‐promoting behaviors, while protective equipment, health culture, interpersonal relationships, health literacy, health attitudes, and income were positively related to health‐promoting behaviors. (3) Protective equipment and health literacy were positively related to perceived threat, whereas interpersonal relationships were positively related to perceived benefits. This study sheds light on the mechanisms influencing miners' health‐promoting behaviors and could inform behavioral interventions in occupational health.