An Effect of Health Promotion Program in Mid-life Women

중년여성의 건강증진 프로그램 효과검증 연구

The purpose of this study was to test the effect of the health promotion program in mid-life women. The research design was a quasi experimental, nonequivalent control-group pretest-posttest design. The data were collected from February 24 to April 14, 1998. The subjects were midlife women, ages 40 to 50 years who reside in Chonju city. The experimental group consisted of 41 subjects and the control group 40 subjects. The instruments used for the study were the Self Efficacy Scale and the Health Promotion Behavior Scale developed by Park(1995). The data was analyzed by SPSS/PC. The study results were as follows : Through the 7 week education program for health promotion, self efficacy and health behavior were effectively changed in middle-aged.