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KMID : 0379319990240020269
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Korean Journal of Rural Medicine
1999 Volume.24 No. 2 p.269 ~ p.289
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Health Concern, Health Practice and ADL of The Elderly Who Stay at Home in a Rural Community
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Eom Young-Hee
Kam Sin
Han Chang-Hyun
Cha Byung-Jun
Kim Sang-Soon
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Abstract
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This study was conducted to examine the relationship among health concern, health practice and ADL of elderly staying at home in a rural community and their affecting factors. Data were collected through direct interviews made with 480 old people aged more than sixty-five from November 15, 1998 to December 20, 1998. Out of 189 male and 291 female, the high-level group that showed high health concern accounted for 44.4%, the medium-level group for 13.1%, and the low-level group for 42.5% in the health practice, the high-level group accounted for 3.8%, the medium-level group for 18.8%, and the low-level group for 77.5%. In the self-rated health status, the high-level group accounted for 29.0%, the medium-level group for 31.0%, and the low-level group for 40.0% and in the ADL, the high ADL group accounted for 91.5%, and the low-level ADL group for 8.5%. The result of the chi-square test showed that for male, there was a significant relation between the health concern and the health practice index score. In the relation between the health practice Index score and the self-rated health status, there was significant positive relationship between health practice index and self-rated health status. and In the relation between the health practice index score and the ADL, old people with higher health practices showed good ADL(but not significant) .016 people with good ADL also showed good self-rated health status. In the multiple regression analysis where the health practice was used as a dependent variable, the health concern was added to the sociodemographic variables as an independent variables, a formula was formed for male old people only and ones with high concern in health showed good health practice. In the multiple logistic regression analysis where the sociodemographic variables to which the health practices was added were used as an independent variable and the ADL as a dependent variable, the ADL appeared to be not good If for male old people the living costs were born by their sons and daughters and as for female old people their ages increased, but it was good if old people had sources of health information such as hospitals or health centers. The self-rated health status was worse, for male old people, if they had short living costs or diseases and for female old people, If they had spouses, living costs born by their sons and daughters or diseases, but it was better, for male old people, if they had periodical gatherings or carried out health practices a lot, and for female old people, if they had sources of health information such as hospitals or health centers or carried out health practices a lot. In view of the results stated above, the higher the old people had health concern, the more they carried out health practices, and the more they carried out health practices the better they had ADL and self-rated health status that served as the level of health. Further, the better ADL, the better self-rated health status.
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KEYWORD
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Health concern, Health practice, Self-rated health status, ADL, Elderly
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