志工工作與常規性運動對老人健康促進之比較

The Comparison of Volunteer Work and Regular Exercise for the Promotion of Health among the Aged

張文明(Wen-Ming Chang) ； 周適偉(Shih-Wei Chou) ； 洪維憲(Wei-Hsien Hong) ； 蔡文鐘(Wen-Chung Tsai) ； 柯智裕(Jyh-Yuh Ke) ； 黃美涓(M. K. Wong)

《台灣復健醫學雜誌》 36卷1期 (2008/03) Pp. 39-45

https://doi.org/10.6315/2008.36(1)05

摘要

The aging of Taiwan's population is creating a heavy burden on the government's public finances allocated for elderly health care. The purpose of this research is to compare health promotion behavior among the aged; these included hospital volunteers, those undertaking Tai Ji, those who swam or those who took no specific exercise.
This study recruited a total of 136 subjects who lived in the community and the total included 59 males and 77 females. They could be divided into four groups: (1) the hospital volunteer group; (2) the Tai Ji group; (3) the swimming group and (4) the general elderly control group. A health-promotion lifestyle scale was utilized to evaluate their health promotional behavior, including self-satisfaction, medical knowledge, social activities, exercise habits, emotional intelligence and health promoting activities. The results of our present study revealed significant differences in terms of self- satisfaction and social activities between the volunteer group and the other three groups (p＜0.01). The health promoting activities of the volunteer group was significantly better than among the Tai Ji group (p＜0.01) and the general elderly control group (p＜0.001). In addition, the exercise habits of the volunteer group were significantly better than among the general elderly control group (p=0.001), while the exercise habits of the Tai Ji group were significantly better than among the volunteer group (p=0.001) and the general elderly control group (p＜0.001). Moreover, the Tai Ji group was significantly better than the general elderly control group in terms of health promoting activities (p＜0.01). Other results showed that the swimming group was significantly better than the general elderly control group (p＜0.001) for exercise habits and that the swimming group was significantly better than the Tai Ji group (p＜0.01) and the general elderly control group (p＜0.001) for health promoting activities. Statistical analysis of the correlation coefficients showed health promoting activities were positively related with a high professional specialization and less perspiration during activity. In addition, the result also showed that health promoting activities were negatively related to age.

關鍵字

健康促進 ； 老人 ； 志工 ； 太極拳 ； 游泳

並列摘要

The aging of Taiwan's population is creating a heavy burden on the government's public finances allocated for elderly health care. The purpose of this research is to compare health promotion behavior among the aged; these included hospital volunteers, those undertaking Tai Ji, those who swam or those who took no specific exercise.
This study recruited a total of 136 subjects who lived in the community and the total included 59 males and 77 females. They could be divided into four groups: (1) the hospital volunteer group; (2) the Tai Ji group; (3) the swimming group and (4) the general elderly control group. A health-promotion lifestyle scale was utilized to evaluate their health promotional behavior, including self-satisfaction, medical knowledge, social activities, exercise habits, emotional intelligence and health promoting activities. The results of our present study revealed significant differences in terms of self- satisfaction and social activities between the volunteer group and the other three groups (p＜0.01). The health promoting activities of the volunteer group was significantly better than among the Tai Ji group (p＜0.01) and the general elderly control group (p＜0.001). In addition, the exercise habits of the volunteer group were significantly better than among the general elderly control group (p=0.001), while the exercise habits of the Tai Ji group were significantly better than among the volunteer group (p=0.001) and the general elderly control group (p＜0.001). Moreover, the Tai Ji group was significantly better than the general elderly control group in terms of health promoting activities (p＜0.01). Other results showed that the swimming group was significantly better than the general elderly control group (p＜0.001) for exercise habits and that the swimming group was significantly better than the Tai Ji group (p＜0.01) and the general elderly control group (p＜0.001) for health promoting activities. Statistical analysis of the correlation coefficients showed health promoting activities were positively related with a high professional specialization and less perspiration during activity. In addition, the result also showed that health promoting activities were negatively related to age.

並列關鍵字

health promotion ； aged ； volunteer ； Tai Ji ； swimming