J Korean Community Nurs.  2002 Dec;13(4):699-709.

Perceived Benefits and Barriers of Exercise in Community-Dwelling Adults at a Local City in Korea

• Hyoung HK

Abstract

PURPOSE
This descriptive study was aimed to assess the perceived benefits/barriers of exercise in community-dwelling adults in K city in Korea and to provide a basic data for developing an exercise program for them as a nursing intervention. METHOD: The study subjects were 520 adults who lived in th K city. The data were collected from February 2 to March 5 2002 The perceived benefits/barriers of exercise were measured by the Exercise Benefits/Barriers Scale (EBBS). The EBBS was developed by Sechrist Walker & Pender (1987) and revised by Jamg & Shin(1999).
RESULTS
The adults reported that the exercise benefits were moderately high and the exercise barriers were moderately low. A significant relationship was found between the reported level of exercise and the perceived benefits/barriers of exercise Age gender, marital status, education, residence type were significantly correlated with perceived exercise benefits/barriers (p<.05).
CONCLUSION
Community health nurses should plan exercise programs that minimize the perceived benefits of exercise. In addition those exercise program should be implemented in the consideration of several demographic characteristics of the clinents.

MeSH Terms

Adult*
Education
Humans
Korea
Marital Status
Nurses, Community Health
Nursing