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KMID : 0384320070280110845
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Korean Journal of Family Medicine
2007 Volume.28 No. 11 p.845 ~ p.852
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Relationship between the Awareness and Health Behavior in Middle-aged Koreans
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Chung So-Yeon
Kim Kyung-Woo
Chang Yun-Ryong
Kwon Hyuk-Tae
Kim Yu-Il
Huh Bong-Ryul
Cho Be-long
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Abstract
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Background: Despite growing awareness of health behavior, making actual behavioral change seems to be more
complex. This study assessed factors influencing discrepancy between the awareness and health behavior in Korean middle-aged people.
Methods: A random-digit-dial telephone survey of 1,047 middle-aged Koreans was carried out in 2004. Through
the survey, the agreement between the level of awareness and health behavior was analyzed. And factors related to
health-risk behaviors in the group of appropriate awareness were analyzed.
Results: In the group of appropriate awareness, males tended to be smokers, problem-drinkers and were not
maintaining normal weight. In men, younger age, longer work-hours and more frequent stress were significantly
related to both smoking and problem-drinking despite appropriate awareness. Higher income and blue-color working class were also predictors for the problemdrinking. In women, older age, lower education, lower income and comorbid disease were significantly related to abnormal weight. Physical inactivity was significantly related to lower education, longer working hours and lower income.
Conclusion: This study showed that sociodemographic factors and stress were related with health-risk behavior
with appropriate awareness in middle-aged people. These findings are expected to have implications for development
of health promotion program focusing on stress management, improvement of sociocultural perception
and simultaneous intervention for both smoking and alcohol. For middle-aged Korean women, more efforts
must be made to remove economical and sociocultural barriers.
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KEYWORD
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awareness, health behavior, middle age, smoking, problem drinking
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