Health-Promoting Lifestyles and the Related Factors among Metabolic Syndrome Patient in OPD
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Lin, Pin-Chen
Abstract
The purposes of this study was to understand the metabolic syndrome patient’s health-promotion lifestyles, and to explore the relationships among the demographic characteristics, perceived health status, perceived self-efficacy, and health-promoting lifestyles, and the predictive factors of the health-promoting lifestyles. A cross-sectional design was adopted and the subjects were metabolic syndrome patients from the outpatient department (OPD) of Metabolism and Endocrinology in a medical center hospital in Taipei city. The research instruments included demographic characteristics, perceived health status, health self-efficacy scale, and health-promoting lifestyle profile. The data were collected via face-to-face interviews or self-reported by structured questionnaires, and the effective questionnaires were 100. The data were analyzed by SPSS 18.0, the method of analyzed included descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation or Spearman’s correlation, Scheffe’s posterior comparison or Tamhane’s posterior comparison, and stepwise multiple regression.
The major results of this study were as follows:
1. The mean score of overall health-promoting lifestyles was 55.09. The highest score was on the aspect of the nutrition, followed by stress management, interpersonal support, self-actualization, exercise, and the lowest score was the health responsibility. In the self-efficacy of health behavior, the highest score was the health responsibility, followed by exercise, nutrition and the lowest was psychological wellness. As to the perceived health status, most subjects considered their health status being bad or normal.
2. In the demographic characters, the factors influencing the health-promoting lifestyles of the metabolic syndrome patients were education, marital status and socioeconomic status. The self-efficacy of health behavior was significantly positive correlated with the health-promoting lifestyles, and perceived health status also presented significantly positive relation with the aspect of the self-actualization in the health-promoting lifestyle.
3. The education, marital status and self-efficacy of health behavior were the significant predictors, and explained 62.7% of the variance of health-promoting lifestyles. The self-efficacy of health behavior was the strongest predictor, and the aspect of health responsibility has the highest predictive power than other aspect in the self-efficacy of health behavior.
Medical professionals should provide metabolic syndrome patient with multiple and comprehensive activities of health promoting, especially in the aspect of health responsibility. The results of this study could provide guidelines for medical professionals about the development of health promotion program for the metabolic syndrome patients.
Subjects
metabolic syndrome
health-promoting lifestyle
self-efficacy of health behavior
perceived health status
Type
thesis
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