• Journal of agricultural medicine and community health
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.370-382
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• 2010

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of health promoting behaviors and the significant factors in rural elderly(young-old vs old-old). Methods: The data was collected using structured questionnaires from June 22th to Sep. 18th, 2009. A total of 556 elderly aged 65 years or over were selected from 14 rural districts in C province, South Korea. Age was divided into two groups as below 65-74 and 75 or older. A structured questionnaire was used to obtain information on the demographic characteristics, their perceived health status, the difficulty of activities of daily living, quality of life, self-efficacy and health promoting behaviors. The health promoting behaviors included nutrition, stress management, interpersonal support, exercise, health responsibility and self-actualization. The scores for health promoting behaviors were used mean and standard deviation. The data was analyzed using SPSS Win 12.0. Results: Of the 556 subjects, we found that the young-old(65-74 aged) were 359 and the old-old elderly(over 75 aged) were 197. We found that the level of health promoting behavior was higher for young-old ($2.75{\pm}0.374$) compared to old-old elderly people ($2.67{\pm}0.399$). In multiple linear regression, quality of life, self-efficacy, living with spouse, and number of generation living together for the young-old, and quality of life for old-old elderly were significantly associated with health promoting behaviors. Conclusions: The study findings indicate that there are age differences in associated factor of health promoting behaviors. Therefore our findings may provide useful assistance in developing effective intervention programs to improve health promoting behavior of the elderly in rural areas according to their age differences.

• 한국노년학
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.95-108
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• 2005

This study was done to explore the level of physiologic health status and health promotion lifestyle, and its contributing factors of Korean older adults. A total of 209 older adults participated in this study that ran from July 2 to July 6, 2004 in the waiting area of the subways of Seoul. The average age of the respondents was 67 years old with 39.2% considering themselves as healthy, 71.3% stating they regularly exercised and 71.8% knowing their own blood pressure. Among the participants 44% were classified as having high or low blood pressure and 44.5% showing abnormal blood sugar. The mean score of health promotion lifestyle was 2.75 and the order of its subcategories was interpersonal relationship, nutrition, stress management, spiritual growth, physical activities, and health responsibilities. This score was altered by exercise and knowing personal blood pressure. As a result of this study, it is important for older adults to know their own blood pressure and to exercise regularly to promote good health. In addition, health promotion programs should be developed and implemented based on the influencing factors.

• 한국노년학
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.1129-1143
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• 2010

The purposes of this study were to investigate the major determinants influencing on health promoting behaviors(HPB) of the elderly living in Seoul. The conceptual framework of the study was Pender's health promoting model and the ecological perspectives. The study was conducted with 495 elderly persons whom 60 years old. For the analysis of data, descriptive statistics and hierarchical regression were used for the statistical analysis with SPSS program. The results were as following: 1) The mean score of the HPB was 3.11(SD=0.41). 2) Hierarchical regression analysis found that ModelIV accounted for 55.7% of the variance in HPB. 3) The Major determinants on HPB among the elderly persons were prior related perceived benefits of action, social support, perceived self-efficacy, community environment, perceived health status, education, and age. In conclusions, first, we should develop to various levels of educational and supportive programs for the HPB among the elderly persons. Second, we should examine more with environment, the accessibility to senior welfare agencies. Third, we should be organized the self-help groups for the elderly persons to improve health promoting behaviors. Fourth, the government should established more secure environment for the HPB, and find better solutions that are provided by various social welfare agencies connected with the coordination of the services in the local communities. Finally, we should develop professional education training programs of the HPB for the practitioners in the field of Gerontological Social Work.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.203-214
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• 2012

This study investigates the effect of health-promoting behaviors of the elderly women on the life satisfaction level. The 375 questionnaires were collected from the elderly women who are over sixty living in Seoul area. The frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, multiple regression analysis, t-test, and ANOVA were carried out for the study using SPSS. 18.0. The results are as follows; First, it has been confirmed that the health-promoting behaviors of the elderly women affect positive life satisfaction level. Second, a comparative analysis between health-promoting behaviors and life satisfaction level in the categories of demographic characteristics showed differences, on health-promoting behaviors educational background, average earnings per month, religion, health status, economic and on life satisfaction level status domains including educational background, average earnings per month, religion, live with children, health status, economic status, spouse.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.460-469
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to examine the predictive factors for health promotion behaviors of older adults in rural areas. A theoretical substruction was constructed to test hypothetical models based on Pender's health promotion model. The data was collected from 199 older adults aged 65 years or older, who resided in G city, by using a structured questionnaire. The questionnaires contained items on individual characteristics, health literacy, self efficacy and health promoting behavior. The data was analyzed with a t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients and hierarchical multiple regression analysis using SPSS 20.0 for Windows. The predictive factors for the health promotion behavior were the number of health information channels (β=.16, p=.031) and self efficacy (β=.53, p<.001). The total explanatory power of these factors was 30.8%. A nursing intervention plan for improving health promoting behaviors of older adults should be developed and applied, with a focus on self-efficacy and health information channels. Further longitudinal studies are needed to help confirm relevant measurement of the level of health promoting behaviors of older adults.

• Proceedings of The Korean Society of Health Promotion Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.172-173
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• 2010

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.12
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• pp.742-751
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between depression, perceived health status, and health promotion behavior of frail elderly. The subjects were 164 frail elders aged over 65 registered with the home visiting services of two welfare centers in D city. Data was collected using structured questionnaires from January 2 to February 21, 2020. Data was analyzed using the t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe test, Pearson's correlation coefficients and stepwise multiple regression with the SPSS/WIN 23.0 program. The mean depression score was 10.67, perceived health status was 6.71, health promotion behavior score was 2.59. Health promotion behavior and depression were negatively correlated and perceived health status was positively correlated. Factors influencing health promotion behavior were age, education level, and depression. These variables accounted for 73.6% of health-promoting behaviors. Based on these results, we conclude that it is important to continue health promotion for the frail elderly through various programs including interventions for depression to prevent the elderly from progressing to disability.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.310-317
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• 2012

The purpose of this study done by group-based application was to clarify the effect of cognitive health promotion program depending on group size. Data of 377 elderly who had a normal cognitive function was obtained through each health centers located in Incheon city. In the result, there was significant effects on cognition and quality of life, but no effect on depression. Also theres was no difference of the program's effect depending the group sizes. The result of this study would support the program of this study could be provided to more elderly by group-based application.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.371-380
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• 2020

This study is a systematic review study to confirm the effectiveness of the health promotion program for the elderly in the community. The research method was to search for published papers using the domestic databases RISS, KISS, DBpia, and KoreaMed, analyze a total of 10 studies, and code them for 2 researchers. As a result, the characteristics of intervention in the health promotion program were often applied to the frequency of intervention more than twice a week, and the intervention time of more than 12 weeks, approximately 60 minutes once. In the composition of intervention, the study that applied exercise and education together and the study that mixed the types of exercise were mainly. The outcome measurement variables were muscle strength, body mass index, depression, self-efficacy, health promotion lifestyle, and quality of life. Through this study, it is necessary to develop a sustainable health promotion program and verify effectiveness in the lives of the elderly in the community.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.411-417
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• 2017

This study investigated the effects of meaning of life and depression on the health-promoting behaviors of community-dwelling elderly people, as well as the effects of community programs on their depression, meaning of life, and health-promoting behaviors. Collected data were analyzed by ANOVA, paired t-test through SPSS/WIN 18.0 program. The demographic characteristics, depression, meaning of life, and health-promoting behaviors of the participants were analyzed using descriptive statistics that calculated real numbers and percentages. The participating in community programs resulted in a decrease in depression(t=2.379, p=.010) and significant increase in meaning of life(t=2.421, p=.009) and health-promoting behaviors(t=2.316, p=.012) and recognized the importance of community role for healthy old age. Based on this, we propose active participation of the community for the health of elderly people and development of programs suitable for the subjects.