The purpose of this study was to test the revised Health Promotion Model of Pender and to determine the factors to promote health behavior for adolescents´ smoking behavior.
The subjects of the study was 783 boys of 4 highschool students, among 39 schools locating in Daejeon metropolitan city.
The data was collected from July 1st to 15th, 1997 by school health nurse
The research tool were HPLP of Walker, Pender, General self-efficacy scale of Sherer, control scale was measured by subconcept of hardiness scale of Pollock, and perceived barrier, perceived benefit, activity-related-affect tool were made by researcher via literature review
The data were analyzed by SAS program using frequency, t-test, ANOVA, Schefee test, regression.
The results were as follows
1. The mean of total health promoting behavior was 2.27±.35. Among subdomain of health promoting behavior, the highest score was interpersonal support(2.72±.60), and the lowest was health responsibility(1.58±.44).
2. There were statistically significant difference in total health promoting behavior according to religion, parenting style, school performance, girl friend, father´s smoking of individual characteristics.
3. The socioeconomic status, smoking, parent pattern, family structure of individual characteristics and experience domain associated with perceived benefit, perceived barrier, activity-related affect, interpersonal influence of behavior-specific cognition and affect domain. The perceived barrier, self-efficacy, girl friend and father´s smoking of interpersonal influence, and control explained 25.8% of variance of health promoting behavior.
From above results school health nurse has to emphasize on health responsibility for health promotion of adolescent. But they couldn´t intervene for parent pattern, socioeconomic status, family structure of individual characteristics and experience domain, it could be possible for school health nurse to promote health of adolescents through improving perceived barrier, also develop program to increase self-efficacy and through parent health class for fathers. Above results point to the importance of including parents in smoking prevention effort targeting adolescents.
Because increasing control also promotes health of adolescents, it should be studied further about the specific measure. To verify the variables for increasing the fitness of health promoting model, it needs further replication of the research.
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