|
KMID : 1171820090240040027
|
|
Journal of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering
2009 Volume.24 No. 4 p.27 ~ p.38
|
|
|
Factors Influencing the Exercise Performance of Elderly Patients with Diabetes
|
|
Park In-Soon
Kim Chang-Sook
Kim Ran
Kim Young-Jae
Park Myung-Hee
Joung Young-Ju
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
The purpose of this study was to identify the factors influencing the Exercise Performance of elderly patients with diabetes. The subjects were 153 elderly patients with diabetes who were selected from the public health center in Gwang ju. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson"s correlation and stepwise multiple regression. This study found that approximately 52.9% of the subjects were exercising regulary. Exercise performance was significantly different according to education level, family income by month, and level of diabetes education. Significant factors influencing exercise performance were exercise self-efficacy, exercise social support and exercise benefits. The most powerful predictor of exercise performance was exercise self-efficacy(34.2%). This study suggests that nurses should emphasize exercise social support. and exercise benefits as well as reinforce exercise self-efficacy to improve exercise performance of the elderly patients with diabetes.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Exercise performance, Elderly, Diabetes
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|