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KMID : 0379220100300010021
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Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2010 Volume.30 No. 1 p.21 ~ p.30
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The Effect of Qigong Exercise on SF-36 and Psychological Factors of Middle-aged Obese
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So Wi-Young
Seo Han-Kyo
Choi Dai-Hyuk
Shin Hyun-Jung
Cho Eun-Hyo
Yoo Byoung-Wook
Jun Tae-Won
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Abstract
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Obese people experience dissatisfaction of body, depression, anxiety, and emotional disturbance by social prejudice and discrimination, further they represent decline of health-related quality of life. Exercise therapy is recommended as one of the positive treatments to improve the emotional pain of obese people. This study is to provide guideline of exercise prescription for obese people by investigating the effects of qigong exercise on psychological factors such as health-related quality of life (SF-36), self-efficiency, depression, anxiety, and fatigue in obese people. The subjects of this study
were 50~60s adults participated in Golden-Wellbeing program at S university in G gu of S city and were devided into exercise (N=17) and control (N=16) group. Qigong exercise was performed twice per week for 12 weeks and SF-36, self-efficiency, depression, anxiety, and fatigue were measured before and after 12 weeks of exercise. In the 8 items of SF-36 before and after 12 weeks of qi-gong exercise, there was no significance in role limitation-emotional (F=0.187, p=0.668), mental health (F=2.043, p=0.163) between groups, but there was significance in physical functioning (F=15.151, p<0.001), role limitation-physical (F=18.278, p<0.001), social functioning (F=4.957, p=0.033), vitality (F=11.485, p=0.002), bodily pain (F=6.623, p=0.015), and general health (F=4.498, p=0.042) between groups. Also, anxiety (F=0.631, p=0.433) was not significant, whereas self-efficiency (F=6.124, p=0.019), depression (F=5.109, p=0.031), fatigue (F=7.998, p=0.008) was significant between groups.
Even though qigong is slow motion and low intensity of exercise, it was found that qi-gong has
exercise effect which induces mental and psychological improvement through this study.
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KEYWORD
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anxiety, depression, fatigue, health-related quality of Life (SF-36), qi-gong exercise, self-efficiency
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