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A Study on Influencing Factors in Health Promoting Behaviors of Women Workers at Small-scale Industries  

Bae Soo Min (부산대학교 간호대학원)
Jeong Ihnsook (부산대학교 간호대학 간호학)
Kim Jeongsoon (부산대학교 간호대학 간호학)
Jeon Seong-Sook (부산대학교 간호대학 간호학)
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Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing / v.34, no.6, 2004 , pp. 964-973 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: This study was aimed to identify the major factors affecting performance in health promoting behaviors in women workers at small-scale industries. Method: This study was based on the Pender's Health Promotion Model. The subjects for this study were 251 women workers at 23 small-scale industries in Busan city. The data for this study was collected from July 15th to August 15th 2003 by structured questionaries, and were analyzed with ANOVA, t-test, Pearson' correlation coefficient, and multiple Regression in the SPSS/WIN 10.0. Result: The mean performance of the health promoting behavior was 2.56. The factors related to the performance of the health promoting behaviors were social support, marital status, status of owning a house, perceived barriers to action, working time, and self-efficacy, and they explained 58.4% of the variance of the health promoting behaviors. Conclusion: The mean performance of the health promoting behavior seemed to be low, and the most important variable related to health promoting behaviorsof women working at a small-scale industry was social support. Therefore, intervention programs to increase the social support for women worker need to be developed.
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Health Promotion; Worker; Women; Industry;
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