Journal of agricultural medicine and community health (농촌의학ㆍ지역보건)

Korean Society for Rural Medicine and Community Health (한국농촌의학지역보건학회)
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Health Behaviors among Adolescents in the Rural Area in Korea

농촌지역 청소년의 건강행태

  • Park, Soon-Woo (Department of Preventive Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine)
  • 박순우 (대구가톨릭대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실)
  • Published : 2009.09.30
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Abstract

Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare health related behaviors among adolescents in the rural area with those in the urban area in Korea. Methods: The data source was the Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey in 2005. With two stage cluster sampling, a total of 58,224 sample was selected from 799 middle and high schools nationwide. The area was classified into county area, small to medium city, and large city, and then the county area was considered as a rural area. Data was analyzed with STATA 9.0 using the method of complex survey data analysis considering sampling weight, strata, and primary sampling unit. Results: The prevalence of health related behaviors among adolescents in the rural area was higher than the city area as following health behaviors: smoking behaviors of smoking experience, smoking experience before entrance to middle school; drinking behaviors of frequent drinking, high risk behaviors with drinking; dietary behaviors of omitting of lunch or dinner, less intake of fruits or milk, more intake of cooky; oral hygiene of less tooth brushing, less preventive oral care, more oral symptoms and less dentist visit; safety behaviors of less wearing of safety belt or protective device; general hygiene of less hand washing before meal or after visiting rest room. Conclusions: The health behaviors among adolescents in the rural area were generally poorer than the city area. The results showed national health program for adolescents should be conducted primarily for those in rural areas. Further study is needed to explore the factors related with the discrepancy of health behaviors between the rural and urban area.

본 연구는 농촌지역 청소년들의 건강행태를 도시지역 청소년들과 비교하기 위해 2005년에 실시한 전국청소년건강행태 온라인 조사 자료를 이용하여 분석하였다. 그 결과 흡연경험률, 중학교 입학전 흡연경험률, 음주빈도, 음주후 위험행동 경험률, 점심 및 저녁 결식, 과일 및 우유 섭취, 칫솔질 횟수, 구강질환 증상 경험, 구강 진료 경험, 구강 에방진료. 안전 및 위생의식 등의 행태에서 도시지역 청소년에 비해 바람직하지 못 한 결과를 보였다. 이러한 결과가 지역규모에 따른 차이인지 혹은 도농간의 사회경제적 수준의 격차와 관련이 있는지에 대하여 향후 추가적인 연구가 필요하다. 본 조사 결과를 통해 청소년 건강행태 개선을 위한 건강증진사업은 농촌 청소년을 대상으로 우선적으로 수행하여야 할 당위성을 확인하였다고 할 수 있다.

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