| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺北巿立體育學院 === 休閒運動管理學系碩士班 === 101 === Purpose: At the back of gloriously won the championship, strict training and sports injuries may make these athletes hidden health crisis after they retired, The study purpose aims to understand the health behavior and health status of retired athletes and to analyze the relationship between personal background variables and health status of retired athletes. Methods: The study applies a self-prepared “Telephone Questionnaire Survey on the Health Status of Retired Athletes” to conduct survey on 349 alumni graduated from Taipei Physical Education College (average age is 51.8±10.28 years old), yielding 117 valid questionnaires. The data acquired were analyzed through descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test and Single ANOVA, Chi-Sqaure. Outcome: There are more than 82.1% of retired athletes maintain exercises at least 3 times a week, and they have the habit of weight control, however, 41.8% of the retired athletes have the habit of drink. The chronic diseases happened, gender and education are related to the health behavior. About 64.5% have chronic diseases at least one , the ratio of the blood fat is the highest (32.7%), the high blood pressure (27.3%) is less than the blood fat, the chronic diseases happened in woman is lower, and over 54.5% present the health symptom related to sport specialty. Whereas the athletes with graduated from training school and sport injury tend to have worse health. Conclusion: The retired athletes are more positive than adults for exercises, only 13.6% of them have no exercise habit, less than adult in Taiwan never take exercise proportion (50.3%) In National Health Interview Survey before 2001. However, the factors of sport injury and health behavior have affected the health status, therefore, we proposed improving the life quality after retirement: A. In order to reduce the occurrence of sport injury, we should enhance related the education of sport injury and preventive health concept for different expertise; B. In order to concern and teach health behavior correctly, this study found that the person of drinking, smoking and betel chewing, among them 85% have the behavior as above . We suggest to instill for refusing smoking into the athletes, guiding their health behavior, and reducing to form a bad behavior.
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