Abstract
This study was conducted to examine obese children´s self-efficiency feeling and health promotion behavior in order to provide basic information on prevention of children obesity. Data were collected in June, 2001 from 349 normal weight children and 351 obese children, who were fifth or sixth graders at 14 primary schools located in Seoul, Busan, Daegu, Gwangju, Ansan, chungju, and Gumi. The data were analyzed through using Chronbach´s a, frequency analysis, X2-test, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation_ The results of this study can be summarized as follow.
I The factor of children obesity was significantly different in the variables of sex, parents obesity, brother or sister obesity, father´ s occupation, level of living, health condition, and satisfaction level with their bodies. On the other hand, it was not significantly different in the variables of father´s education level, mother´ s education level, mother s occupation, level of father´ s concern about health, and level of the children´ s concern about health.
2. In the case of normal weight children, dietary efficiency feeling was significantly different in the variables of level of father´ s concern about health. and level of children´ s concern about health. In th case of obese children, the dietary efficiency feeling was significantly different in the variables of mother obesity, parents´ education level, father s occupation, and the children´ s satisfaction level with their bodies.
In the case of normal weight children, exercise efficiency feeling was significantly different in the variables of sex, level of parents´ s concern about health, and level of the children´ s concern about health. In the case of obese children, the exercise efficiency feeling was significantly different in the variables of grade, brother and sister obesity, parents´ education level, father` s occupation; and the children´ s satisfaction level with their bodies. In the case of normal weight children, social children´s concern about health. In the case of efficiency feeling was significantly different in the obese children, the prevention of´ infectious variables of brother and sister obesity, parents´ diseases was significantly different in the variables education level, level of parents´ concern about of mother´ s education level and father´ s health. and level of the children´s concern about occupation.
health. In the case of obese children, the social In the case of normal weight children, prevention efficiency feeling was significantly different in the of accident was significantly different in the variables of parents´ education level, father´ s variables of mother´ s education level, level of occupation, level of living, the children´ s health parents´ concern about health, and level of´ the condition, and the children´ s satisfaction level with children´s concern about health. In the case of their bodies. obese children, the prevention of accident was
3. In the case of normal weight children, personal significantly different in the variables of brother
hygiene was significantly different in the variables and sister obesity and mother s occupation.
of sex, level of parents´ s concern about health, and In the case of normal weight children, mental
level of the children´ s concern about health. In the health was significantly different in the variables
case of obese children, the personal hygiene was of father obesity, brother and sister obesity,
significantly different in the variables of parents´ parents´ education level, and level of the
education level, father´ s occupation, mother´ s children´s concern about health. In the case of
occupation, level of living, and level of parents´ obese children, the mental health was
concern about health. significantly different in the variables of parents´
In the case of normal weight children, dietary educational level, father´ s occupation, mother´ s habit was significantly different in the variables of´ occupation, level of living, and the children´ s sex, level of parents´ s concern about health, and health condition.
level of the children´ s concern about health. In the 4. According to the correlation between self case of obese children, the dietary habit was efficiency feeling and health promotion behavior, significantly different in the variables of father s the higher the self-efficiency feeling was, the education level, mother´s education level, level of higher the level of health promotion behavior was. living, and the children´s satisfaction level with 5. The children obesity was influenced by the their bodies. factor´s of level of living, level of parents´ concern
In the case of normal weight children, exercise about health, the children´ s health condition, level habit was significantly different in the variables of of´ the children´ s concern about health, the grade, sex, father´s education level, mother´ s children´ s satisfaction level with their bodies, education level, and level of children´s concern dietary efficiency feeling, exercise efficiency about health. In the case of obese children, the feeling, social efficiency feeling, personal hygiene, exercise habit was significantly different´ in the dietary habit, exercise habit, prevention of variables of grade, mother obesity, parents´ infectious diseases, prevention of accident, and education level, father´s occupation, level of´ mental health.
parent´ concern about health, the children´ s health From the results of this study, it is clear that condition, and the children´ s satisfaction level with obese children´s self efficiency feeling is closely their bodies. related with health promotion behavior. Therefore,
In the case of normal weight children, prevention it is necessary to strengthen children´s self
of infectious diseases was significantly different in efficiency feeling in order to make children control
the variables of sex, father´ s occupation, level of efficiently obesity for themselves.
parents´ concern about health, and level of the
|