Health-Promoting Lifestyles and related factors in adult health check-up group with different risk factors

• Main Authors: Yen, Ru-Ping, 鄢如平
• Other Authors: Hu Yih-Jin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74441094231711211104

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 健康促進與衛生教育學系在職進修碩士班 === 99 === The objective of this study was to analyze the relationships among the concept of health, perceived health condition and health-promoting lifestyles of an adult population in Taipei, Taiwan. The data were collected through a survey with samples recruited from custurmers who signed up for a health examination at the Health Management Center (HMC) department of a medical center in Taipei. Then the results were analyzed by independent samples t test , one-way ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation and multiple regression. 1. The valid data came from a total of 435(98%) participants, consisted of 265 males(60.9%), and 170 females(39.1%), with an average age at 51.6 years. 2. The participants’ perceived health condition was measured with three questions, with an average score of 9.89. The male participants had higher scores than the females ones, while participants with educational level above graduate school had higher score than those above college. 3. Eighteen questions were used to measure the participants’ health conception. The average score was 73.37. Participants at age group 41-50 had higher score than those above 61, while participants with educational level above graduate school had better health conception than those with high school or below. Among the four factors of health conception, Function/Role Performance Health Conception had the highest score, followed by Adaptive Health Conception, Eudemonistic Health Conception, and Clinic Health Conception respectively. 4. Last, twenty-four questions were used to measure the participants’ health promoting lifestyles. The average score was 63.45. Participants at age group 51-60 and above had higher scores than those below 40. Among the six factors, Self-actualization had the highest score, followed by Nutrition, Interpersonal Support, Stress Management, Exercise, and Health Responsibility. 5. These results showed that there were positive relationships between the participants’ health conception, perceived health condition, and health promoting lifestyles. In other words, the more accurate people’s health conception was, the more positive their perceived health condition would be. 6. The health-promoting lifestyles could be predicted by the variables of sex, age, profession, education, metabolic syndrome, perceived health status and concept of health explained 28.0% of variance of health-promoting lifestyles.