Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing (대한간호학회지)

Korean Society of Nursing Science (한국간호과학회)
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The Factors Influencing Korean Health Behavior

한국인의 건강행동에 영향을 미치는 요인

  • Song, Yea-Li-A (Department of Health Administration, Yonsei University) ;
  • Lee, Kyu-Sik (Department of Health Administration, Yonsei University)
  • 송예리아 (연세대학교 의료복지연구소 건강도시연구센터) ;
  • 이규식 (연세대학교 보건행정학과)
  • Published : 2006.04.01
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Abstract

Purpose: This study was performed to investigate the factors influencing health behavior. Method: Data used in this study was drawn from a 2001 National Health survey done by Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs. Number of samples were 5,085 people between age 20 years and 69 years in whole country. In this study, we modified Green and Kreuter's Precede-Proceed model to analyse influence of factors in health behavior, Hierarchical regression were used in the analysis. Result: 1) Factors that had statistically significant positive relation with overall health behavior were age, educational level, income level, disease in the family, medical examination, subjective weight, and concern about health, 2) Factors that had statistically significant negative relation with overall health behavior were sex, subjective health, stress, and degree of physical activity. Conclusion: 1) It would be necessary to set the target group for the health promotion in advance. 2) It was very important to adopt easy and efficient methods to change the health behavior of target group, for example, ability to control stress.

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