The Health Promotion Model by Pender(1987) was used as the conceptual framework for analyzing the health promotion behaviors.
The purposes of this study were to describe health promoting life style behaviors in 245 women between the ages of 35 and 59 living in Seoul and other cities and to find their predictive factors. Data were collected from 1st to 23th, June, 1998. The tool used for this study was structured questionnaire with consisted of 8 items on general characteristics, 5 items on health related characteristics, 43 items on health promoting life style, 28 items on menopausal symptoms, 5 items on family support, and 28 items on self-efficacy.
The collected data were analyzed using the SAS, yielding descriptive statistics, ANOVA, Pearson´s Correlation, stepwise multiple regression.
The findings of this study are as follows,
1) The mean score of health promotion behavior(3.25) is not high. The mean scores of this self actualization(3.73), interpersonal support(3.68), and nutrition(3.57), regulation of stress (3.22) in domains are higher than health responsibility(2.90), exercise(2.63).
2) The results of the comparison between the health promotion behaviors and general variables showed a statistically significant difference in education(P=.0061), domestic economy status(P=.0001), perception of health status(P=.0001) but, age, state of menstruation, perception of weight is not significant difference.
3) The correlation between health promoting life style and self-efficacy(P=.0001), family support(P=.0001) is significant. But, there is no correlation between health promoting life style and age, number of family, perception of weight.
4) In the cognitive-perceptual factors, self-efficacy(P=.0001) is very significant predictor (accounted for 39.7%) and in the modifying factors, family support(P=.0001) is very significant(accounted for 9.0%). It is same to other research results.
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