Health Promotion Behavior and Quality of Life Among overseas Chinese University Students of Preparatory Program in National Taiwan Normal University
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Liao, Meei-Lian
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to understand the health promotion behaviors and quality of life of overseas Chinese university students and to investigate the relationship between demographic data, health concept, health promotion behaviors and quality of life, and to explore the predictors of health promotion behaviors and quality of life. cross-sectional, descriptive and correlation design was used and 447 students of National Taiwan Normal University were selected by cluster sampling methods, and 428 valid questionnaires were received with a response rate of 95.7%. There were four sections in the questionnaire such as demographic data, general health concept, overseas Chinese university student’s health promotion behaviors, and WHOQOL-BREF. All data collected were analyzed by methods such as descriptive statistics, Independent-samples t- test, One-way ANOVA, Scheff’s method, Pearson''s Correlation and Stepwise multiple regression with SPSS 12.0 Software. The results are summarized as follows:. Safety was ranked the most important health promotion behavior followed by life appreciation, interpersonal support, nutrition, stress management, health responsibility and exercise. (1) The score of interpersonal support, health responsibility and safety subscale of female overseas students were significantly higher than that of male but were lower in the exercise behavior than male students. (2) Age was positively related to health promotion behavior. (3) Students who have religious belief score significantly higher in overall health promotion behavior, the nutrition behavior, the interpersonal support behavior, the healthy responsibility behavior, the exercise behavior than those who do not have religious beliefs. (4) There are significant differences between nationality and overall health promotion behavior. Those who perform better in overall health promotion behaviors by the nationality are ranked as follow, overseas Chinese students from Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam perform the best, followed by students from Indonesia, Philippine, Singapore, Malaysian, Hong Kong and Macao’s performance were ranked last. (5) Students whose father education level is at high school have higher score in exercise behavior than those whose the father education level is at middle school; those whose father education level belong to college have higher score in safety behavior than those whose father education level is at high school. (6) Perceived health status was positively related to health promotion behavior.. In the four domains of quality of life, overseas Chinese university students scored highest in physical health domain, followed by social relationship domain, physiological domain and environmental health domain. (1) The score of general health, physiological health domain, environmental domain and total score of quality of life of female overseas students were significantly lower than that of male students. (2) Students who have the religious belief have significant higher score in overall quality of life, general health and environmental domain than those who do not have religious beliefs. (3) There are significant differences between nationality and overall quality of life, general health, physiological domain and environmental domain. Overseas Chinese students from Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam have higher score in general health and environmental domain than Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore and Malaysian; overseas Chinese students from Singapore and Malaysian have higher score in physiological domain than Indonesia and Philippine. (4) Those whose father education is at college level have higher score in total score of quality of life than those whose father education is at middle school level; those students whose father education is at college level have higher score in physiological domain than those father whose education level is high school. (5) Perceived health status was positively related to total score of quality of life.. Health concept, health promotion behavior were positively related to quality of life.. Health concept, Perceived health status, religious belief and nationality were the significant predictors of health promotion behavior among overseas Chinese students which explained 22.1% of variance. Health promotion behavior, health concept, perceived health status and sex (male student) were the significant predictors of overseas Chinese students’ quality of life which explained 34.7% of variance. esults from this study could help to understand health promotion behavior and quality of life of overseas Chinese students, and to provide overseas Chinese students and the school health promotional staff as a reference when planning for health promotion activities for overseas Chinese students.
Subjects
overseas Chinese university student
health concept
health promotion behavior
quality of life
SDGs
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