청년기 여성근로자의 건강지각 및 건강행위와 건강상태와의 상관관계 연구 : 1 개 산업장을 중심으로 = A Correlational Study on the Relationships among Health Perception, Health Behavior and Health Status of the Adolescent Female Workers-Centering on an Industrial Company

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Today, its adolescent workers especially, the young female workers are to be seen as a cultural phenomenon of the modern industrial society.
To help them to implement of good health behavior for their health maintenance, the researcher tried to examine and analize the level on the perception of the health through surveying their health behavior and the health status to provide some baseline data for an effective industrial health education and further research on adolescent female workers.
The subjects of this study were 300 female workers of an electrionic companyt located in Chonnam province. The data was gathered from July 29th. to August 6th, 1987. using a questionnaire.
Three instruments are used for this : the Health Perception Questionnaire(32 items) developed by Ware and translated by Kim, Health Behavior Scale(27 items) developed by the researcher, the modified Cornell Medical Index (57 items) by Nam.
The data were analyzed by t-test, ANOVA, and Pcarson's Correlaton Coeffieient using S.P.S.S. program.
The reliability of each instrument was rested by Cronbach's Alpha. (each 0.49, 0.73,0.88)
The results of this study summarized as follows.
1) H₁ : "The hypothesis that the higher the level on the health perception of adolescent female workers, the higher the implementation level for health behavior" was supported. (r=0.2259, P＜0.05)
2) H₂ : "The hypothesis that the higher the implementation level for health behavior of adolescent female workers, the better the health status" was supported. (r=:0.1007, P＜0.05)
3) H₃ : "The hypothesis that the higher the level on the health perception of adolescent, female workers, the better the health status" was supported. (r=0.2945, P＜0.05)
4) The research found out that affecting on the level of the health perception and the implementation level of health behavior of the subjects was the living status, the factor affecting health status of subjects was that age.
From above results, this study affirmed that the higher the level of the health perception of the subjects, the higher the implementaion level of the health behavior and the better the health status.
Conclusively, focusing health maintenance and improvement, Professional industrial nursing should be prepared achieve through nursing assessment analyzing the health perception level of the clients, and the nursing intervention that promoting health perception level.