In order to plan out the family-unit health care program, this study was carried out to investigate the status received periodic health examination in families and the necessity perceptions of housewives about periodic health examination for family members. Study population included 1,511 family members of 316 households in the area of Sungsu Dong, Sungdong Gu of Seoul city. Well-trained nursing school students interviewed with house wives according to the pre-tested questionnaire from Sept. 17 to Oct. 8, 1988.
The major results were as follows:
The ratio of household of which member had received periodic health examination (the percentage of household of which member, even one, had received periodic health exam. once or more) varies among family members. For the child-off spring it was 63.5%-84.1% depend on the items of exam and for the husband 42.2%-72.8%, for the housewife 19.7% -53.2%, and for the old parents 12.5%-40.7%. The more commonly received items of exam of the child-off spring were visual acuity test, 84.1% and Manteaux test, 81.6%: of the old parents, urinalysis and chest x-ray, each 40.7%: of the house-wife, pap-smear, 53. 2%, urinalysis, 51.2%; have the husband, liver function test including lipid test, 72.8%, urinal ysis, 72.3% and chest x-ray, 71.7%.
The degree of the necessity perception for the periodic health exam (Full score as 3 point, average as 1.5-2 point) was equally high to the child-off spring and the old parents, 2.6 -2.7 point depend on the items of exam. In the case of the husband the majority of the items scored 2.4-2.5 point and for the housewife those scored 2.1-2.3 point. Generally speaking those scores could be regarded as a high one.
Among the items of exam., the degrees of the necessity perception were about the same: except pap-smear, 2.7 point and breast exam for tumor, 2.6 point were higher than other items for the housewife and the test for anemia, 2.1 point was lower than other items for the husband.
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