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전현숙/Jeon, Hyun Sook
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Abstract
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It is accepted without doubt that every humanbeing has a right for health and longs for more healthy and exuberant life.
Our society has been looking for various methods and institutions toward health maintenance, improvement, and disease prevention.
Having this point in mind, this study was conducted to describe health conception, health behavior, health status and relationships between them, and provide basic data for effective health management, nursing planning and interventions.
The subjects of this study were made up of 110 adults resided in Seoul and non-probability convenient sampling technique was employed.
Data was colleted from ,10th and 31th October, 1987 by questionaire method with the aid of students of R Junior college of Nursing.
The research instruments used for this study were as follows.
They were developed after several revision of 4 scales with the aid of 5 professors in Nursing.
First, health conception scale developed by Laffrey(1986). Second and third, health behavior and health status scale developed by Brown and McCreedy (1986), Harris and Guten(1979), Duffy (1986). Fourth, illness-behavior scale developed by the researcher based on Hautman and Harrison research (1982).
The data were analyzed by percentages, means, standard deviations, T-test, F-ratios and Pearson´s correlation coefficient using statistical package for social science program.
Results from this study support the following statements.
1. The subject´s reaction to the health conception
: Role performances scores were rated as the highest and medical conception scores the lowest.
Total scores were recorded medium level.
2. The subject´s practices in health behavior
: The scores of physical hygienes were rated as the highest and the scores of contact with health care system the lowest.
Total scores were rated medium level
3. The subject´s practices in illness behavior
: The less frequent illness related behaviors were to ignore illness, or go to the hospital, or use folk health therapy, diet therapy, activity restriction and rest. The more frequent- illness related behaviors were use of medication at the drug store and consulting a doctor in case of going to the hospital.
4. The subject´s health status were measured by their own estimation, health problem, consulting with health care system, and activity restriction. Subjective estimation of health status were perceived good by 89.1% subjects.
The more frequent experienced health problems were headache, backache, indigestion and fatigue, the less frequent problems were hemorroid, high fever, skin rash and itching sensation, weight loss and dyspnea.
The response against consulting with health care system and activity restriction were good by 71.8%, 70.0% subjects.
5. There were significant "differences in health conception according. to religion, age. (P <.05, P<.05)
6. There was significant difference in health behavior according to socio-economic status. (P<.05)
7. There was no significant difference in health status´ by the general characteristics of the subjects. (P>.05)
8. There was correlation between health conception and health behavior. (r= .3535, P< .001)
9. There were no correlations between health conception and health status, health behavior and health status.
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KeyWords
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원문 및 링크아웃 정보
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등재저널 정보
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