A Study on The Health Status of Adult Women in an Island.
- Author:
Kyung Rim SHIN
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH:
Adult*;
Back Pain;
Breast;
Breast Self-Examination;
Diet;
Early Detection of Cancer;
Education;
Exercise;
Female;
Hand Strength;
Health Behavior;
Health Education;
Health Promotion;
Humans;
Knee Joint;
Maternal Health;
Muscle Strength;
Nutritional Status;
Public Health;
Smoke;
Smoking;
Social Change;
Substance-Related Disorders;
Women's Health;
Surveys and Questionnaires
- From:Journal of Korean Academy of Adult Nursing
1997;9(1):124-135
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
During the past 10 years, concern for women's health has increased together with the social changes. Public health policies and studies for women's health, however, have emphasized only child-maternal health to want general covering and studies of health and wellness. Particularly study of women's health in island area is almost rare personal, material benefits in this area lack quantity, amount of women's labor is big, and basic elements of living such as diet and elimination are irregular, due to the range of the tide thus has many potential health problems. In this regard, this study attempted to grasp the health problems of adult women island and to provide bases for developing health promotion and health problems of adult women island and to provide bases for developing health promotion and health education programs. In collecting data for this study, face to face interviews were made through a structured questionnaire from August 1 to November 1 in 1996. And collected data were analyzed with SAS statistics program, descriptive statistics, t-test and ANOVA. Subjects' health status were examined by classifying into such as their health perception, complained health problem, smoking, alcohol intake, substance abuse, health behavior, comprehensive medical testing, nutritional status, muscle strength, and stretching, and the result of examination is as follows ; 1. As for subjects' health perception, 29.8% of the subject answered that 'not sick but not so healthy' 33.11% thought they were healthy, while 36.82% answered they were not healthy. 2. As for the complained health problem, many complained pains in the muscle and skeletal system, especially back pain and knee joint pain. Women's health problems related with the breast and reproductive system included case of 52.26% of receiving the breast self examination while 56.55% of receiving the cerivcal cancer screening test. 3. As for the rate of smoking, 16.77% used to smoke while 12.74% used to intake alcohol. 4. Rate of substance abuse was 48.39% of the subject. 5. Subjects' health behaviors included most of the acupuncture(60.64%) and fomentation therapy(33.36%) in the order. 6. Rate of subjects receiving the comprehensive medical testing was 34.36% while 34.78% did after ward managing behaviors. 7. As for the nutrition status, 57.63% illy balanced to need the intervention of nutritional education. 8. 87.1% of subjects' muscle strength and 55.48% of stretching were not good enough to need the health education on physical exercises. Therefore, based on this result, appropriate health education programs require to be developed to promote the adult women's health in island.
