Korean J Occup Health Nurs.  2015 Nov;24(4):270-280. 10.5807/kjohn.2015.24.4.270.

Influence on Health Promotion Behavior among Government-funded Research Institute's Employee according to Perceptive Health Status and Social Support

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Nursing, Cheju Halla University, Jeju, Korea.
  • 2Department of Nursing, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea. yoursky@wku.ac.kr

Abstract

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among perceived health status and social support to identify the influencing factors of health promotion behavior in government-funded research institute's employee.
METHODS
The participants were 222 employees in three government-funded research institute. Questionnaires were used to measure the levels of the perceived health status, social support and health promotion behavior. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation, multiple regression, and the IBM SPSS/WIN 19.0 program.
RESULTS
The predicting factors for health promotion behavior were age, smoking, perceived health status and social support. The variables explained the health promotion behavior by 34.3%.
CONCLUSION
A survey of the various influencing factors of health promotion behavior will be required and social support system for government-funded research institute's employee is needed.

Keyword

Health promotion behavior; Perceived health status; Social support

MeSH Terms

Academies and Institutes
Health Promotion*
Smoke
Smoking
Smoke
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