參與社區篩檢婦女骨質疏鬆症威脅認知之探討

Disease Threat Recognition among Women Participating in Community Health Screening

陳淑華(Shu-Hwa Chen) ； 蔡來蔭(Lau-Yin Tsai) ； 黃雅芬(Ya-Fen Huang) ； 蕭世槐(Shih-Huai Hsiao)

《志為護理-慈濟護理雜誌》 7卷4期 (2008/08) Pp. 80-88

https://doi.org/10.6974/TCNJ.200808.0080

摘要

The aims of this study included firstly, an evaluation of the degree of threat recognition among suburban women with respect to osteoporosis and secondly, an analysis of the factors affecting the degree of risk recognition. Four hundred women, who took part in an official health screening program, were enrolled in this study. A self-report questionnaire was designed to collect relevant information, which was made up of the subject's social demographic data, number of children, menstrual cycle, usual body posture, heath status, bone fracture history among family members, and sources of health information. Based on Becker's health belief model, the collected dataset was used to analyze the impact of osteoporosis on the women's health status.
Our results showed that 15.0% of the study subjects did not realize the risk of osteoporosis to their health and 15.5% were ignorant of the severity of osteoporosis. Factors that were significantly associated with a reduced risk recognition with respect to osteoporosis included old age, postmenopausal status, only a single experience of health screening, shortage of health information and the absence of bone fracture history among family members (r^2=.04, p＜.05). Our conclusions are that health education on osteoporosis should focus more on subjects over the age of 61 and the public media are a useful tool to persuade the general population to participate in health screening.

關鍵字

健康信念模式 ； 威脅認知 ； 骨質密度

並列摘要

The aims of this study included firstly, an evaluation of the degree of threat recognition among suburban women with respect to osteoporosis and secondly, an analysis of the factors affecting the degree of risk recognition. Four hundred women, who took part in an official health screening program, were enrolled in this study. A self-report questionnaire was designed to collect relevant information, which was made up of the subject's social demographic data, number of children, menstrual cycle, usual body posture, heath status, bone fracture history among family members, and sources of health information. Based on Becker's health belief model, the collected dataset was used to analyze the impact of osteoporosis on the women's health status.
Our results showed that 15.0% of the study subjects did not realize the risk of osteoporosis to their health and 15.5% were ignorant of the severity of osteoporosis. Factors that were significantly associated with a reduced risk recognition with respect to osteoporosis included old age, postmenopausal status, only a single experience of health screening, shortage of health information and the absence of bone fracture history among family members (r^2=.04, p＜.05). Our conclusions are that health education on osteoporosis should focus more on subjects over the age of 61 and the public media are a useful tool to persuade the general population to participate in health screening.

並列關鍵字

elderly ； pneumonia ； pneumococcal vaccines