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고효정 ( Ko Hyo-Jung ) - 계명대학교 간호대학
김정남 ( Kim Jung-Nam ) - 계명대학교 간호대학
박경민 ( Park Kyung-Min ) - 계명대학교 간호대학
박영숙 ( Park Young-Sook ) - 계명대학교 간호대학
박정숙 ( Park Jeong-Sook ) - 계명대학교 간호대학
곽혜원 ( Kwak Hye-Weon ) - 계명대학교 간호대학
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Abstract
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Purpose: The study was done to identify the levels of middle-aged women’s cancer-related knowledge, attitude and preventive health behavior in Korea.
Methods: Data were collected from questionnaires of 391 middle-aged women in D metropolitan city in Korea. Measures were cancer-related knowledge, attitude, and preventive health behavior. Data were analyzed using frequencies, means and standard deviation, t-test, ANOV A, Tukey test, Pearson correlation coefficients, and Simple regression with SPSS/WIN 14.0 version.
Results: The mean score for cancer-related knowledge of the participants was 3,56, out of a possible 5. There were significant differences in cancer-related knowledge according to average monthly income, education level, occupation, cancer history, family history, and periodic checkup. The mean score for cancer-related attitude of the participants was 4.04, out of a possible 5. The mean score for cancer-related preventive health behavior of the participants was 3.62, out of a possible 5. Cancer-related knowledge correlated positively with attitude, and attitude correlated positively with health preventive behavior.
Conclusion: As the middle-aged women’s cancer-related knowledge becomes high, the attitude toward cancer gets more positive. Also the middle-aged women’s attitude toward cancer becomes positive, the performance of preventive health behavior gets better. The factors influencing the middle-aged women’s preventive health performance were the attitude to cancers, the periodic checkup, the occupation, the average monthly income and the cancer history. As there are wide variations of the middle-aged women’s knowledge about six cancers, the strategy in consideration of individual characters is necessary to improve the middle-aged women’s knowledge of six cancers and to perform the preventive health behavior in the future.
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KeyWords
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여성, 지식, 태도, 건강행위
Women, Health Knowledge, Attitude, Health Behavior
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원문 및 링크아웃 정보
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등재저널 정보
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