2005 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 77-85
The purpose of this study was to examine the interest of health behavior and cognition of health problem for community in different physical activity level using exercise behavioral stage (EBS)
The subjects in this study were recruited with questionnaire from a districted area, in which 1076 adults dwelled. Out of total 1076, 706 (65.5%) responded the questionnaire, which consisted of the level of interest for health behavior (IHB), the cognition of health problems (CHP), and EBS. In addition to general interest, the specific strategies were investigated. The CHP consisted of 16 items classified into four categories using factor analysis; i.e. cognitive symptom, physical symptom, medical symptom and clinical symptom. The subjects divided into three groups based on EBS (PC, C+P and A+M)
Population of PC was lower interest in general health than higher stage of EBS. They did not have much specific strategies for health, either. However, they recognized health problems, similar to higher stage of TTM. So, characteristics of PC was that cognition of health problem was same level as higher stage of TTM, but lower interested in general health nor could not translate into action toward health.
Incidentally, high ratio of PC population was interested in nutrition and rest instead of exercise. Therefore if we made an intervention program which consists of not exercise but nutrition, rest, and other health related information for raising consciousness toward improving population's health, population who was not interested in exercise participated in the program.
