Identifying the Factors of Practicing Exercise Habit among Overweight and Obesity in Taiwan

• Main Authors: wang chüan fu, 王俊富
• Other Authors: chang ming chêng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05518466881240929657

碩士 === 亞洲大學 === 健康管理研究所 === 95 === This study used the dataset of the Panel Study of Family Dynamic (PSFD) which is from the programs for the study of Chinese Families on the Research Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences of Academia Sinica. The cases of Body Mass Index (BMI) over 24 were chosen to explore the factors of practicing exercise habit among overweight and obesity in Taiwan. There were 1,063 adults whose BMI are over 24 BMI from the data of the year of 2000, 2003, 2004 and 2005. Among these 1,063 people, there were 605 adults who do exercise regularly. After controlling individual characters, socio-economical family life and practicing exercise, the logistic regression was conducted to explore the factors of practicing exercise and effective way of regular exercising to reduce weight. Among people whose BMI are over 24, certain characteristics are more likely to be associated with practicing exercise, groups of the elder, male,highly-educated, non-smoker, with chronic disease, without anxiety, with wealthy life style, within two weeks with no disease, working without physical strain, income over NT$60,000 per month and under NT$19,999 per month. Among people who do exercise regularly, those--elder, non-smoker, perceiving unhealthy, no income or low level of income and practicing exercise often with partner—were more likely to carry on the effective fat-reducing exercise. This study identified the groups of overweight and obesity and their association with practicing exercise habit and health fitness. The findings may help policy makers to design better policy for the overweight and obesity, to facilitate overweight and obesity to do more healthy fat-reducing exercise, and to apply the results to health promotion.