健康意識、健康生活型態與保健食品使用行為之認知與影響因素之研究－以台中市某地區民眾為例

目的：健康的維持一直為現代人所重視，飲食對健康的影響也是顯而易見，衛生主管機關也常常為人們健康的維持做出許多警示與建議。現代人雖然重視健康的維持與健康飲食，但並不容易在日常生活中落實適當的健康飲食行為；使用保健食品的情況愈來愈常見。本研究目的為了解影響台中市某地區民眾的健康意識、健康生活型態與營養保健食品使用行為的相關因素以及之間的可能關係。方法：本研究以活動於中部某地區民眾為對象，採問卷調查法及便利取樣抽樣方式進行資料蒐集，共發放1,000份問卷，有效問卷回收率為93%。蒐集完成之資料利用SPSS統計套裝軟體，進行描述性統計、推論性統計、直線複迴歸等統計分析，以了解研究對象的認知情形。結果：受訪民眾對於「健康意識」、「健康生活型態」與「保健食品使用行為」的認知，均會因為「年齡」、「職業」與「教育程度」等個人特質的不同而有顯著差異；但「家庭結構」的差異則完全不會影響受訪者各構面的認知。結論：受訪者「健康意識」的最高平均得分在4分以上，但在「健康生活型態」與「保健食品使用行為」的平均得分均不及4分，顯示受訪民眾雖然有較高的健康意識，但對保健食品使用行為的認知也較為保留。65歲以上受訪者在「健康意識」與「健康生活型態」的平均得分皆為最高，但在「保健食品使用行為」的平均得分為各年齡層最低。是否可能因為不能感受保健食品的明顯功效或是個人經濟考量的影響，值得後續相關研究進一步了解。

關鍵字

健康意識；健康生活型態；保健食品使用行為

並列摘要

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors affecting people's health awareness, healthy lifestyle, and use of nutraceutical products in an area in Taichung City and possible relationships between them. Methods: This study collected data with structural questionnaire by convenience sampling method. There were 1,000 subjects (valid returned rate was 93.0%) invited in this study. This study performed descriptive statics, variance analysis and linear regression analysis to examine the related factors influencing the respondents' perceptions. Results: The subjects' perceptions in health awareness, healthy lifestyle and behavior of using nutraceutical products vary significantly due to age, occupation and education. However, the difference in family structure did not at all affect the subjects' cognitions in all categories. Conclusions: The highest average score of health awareness of respondents was more than 4 points, but healthy lifestyle and nutraceutical product using behavior was less than 4 points, showing that the respondents had higher health awareness, but the cognition of health food use behavior is also more reserved. Respondents over the age of 65 had the highest average scores for health awareness and healthy lifestyle, but the average score for nutraceutical product using behavior was the lowest for all age groups.