Objectives. we examined the health characteristics and diseases of scalp hair worries among female college students to identify the relationship between these 2 variables and effective health management, and to provide basic data for health promotion program.
Methods. Data from questionnaire survey were analyzed for 800 female college students of 17 universities in Seoul, 4 big cities and 3 small cities. Logistic regression was used to estimate the effect of human hair trouble on the odds of the students with and without the disease. Logistic regression is a mathematical modeling approach that can be used to describe the relationship of several independent variables to a dichotomous dependent variable.
Results. Ⅰ. Eleven point four percent of the respondents perceived themselves as not healthy. The rate of illness during last year was 71.5 % but it dropped to 18.3 % when the irregular menstrual discharge, anemia and acne were excluded.
Ⅱ. They have mostly obtained the hair health related information from beauty artists(51.4%), following friends or family (20.2%).
Ⅲ. Most of the respondents worried about their scalp hair (92.9%): coarsed and fractured hair(31%), non-shiny or brittle hair(17%), loss hair(25%), curled hair(13%), dandruff(4%), premature grey hair or partially decolored hair(5%), and female pattern alopecia or alopecia areata(2%).
Ⅳ. The disease which affected hair trouble depended on the hair trouble: In grey hair, for example, diabetes(adjusted odds ratio [OR] = 5.97) and anemia([OR] = 1.94) had great significant effect on grey hair. Irregular menstrual discharge([OR] = 2.24), thyroism([OR] = 6.73]), anemia, tuberculosis([OR] = 7.81), skin disease([OR] = 4.00), surplus or lack of vitamin([OR] = 4.25) were influences on loss of hair.
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