Effects of the health risk information strategy on diseases related to physical inactivity

Joint Event on 49^th International Congress on Nursing Care Plan & Health & 50^th World Congress on Men in Nursing

July 16-18, 2018 | Rome, Italy

SooJin Kang

Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nurs Care

Abstract :

The current study identified effects of the health risk information strategy on diseases related to physical inactivity and tested the relationships between changes in risk perception and changes in physical activity. A total of 37 adolescents voluntarily participated in the 12-week health risk information strategy. In the initial stage of this study, adolescents were randomly classified into the experimental group and the control group. The experimental group was instructed the health risk information twice a week, while the control group lived a routine life. Health vulnerability, objective risk factors related to physical activity, and physical activity were measured to the study variables and 2Ã?2 repeated measure analysis of variance and hierarchical regression analysis were conducted. Results indicated that the adolescents at health risks related to physical inactivity showed significant increase in risk perception on waist size and BMI after the health risk information strategy. In addition, changes in risk perception on obesity and diabetes significantly influenced on changes in physical activity. This study implies that it needs to actively promote not only health risks due to physical inactivity, but health benefits of physical activity to reduce diseases associated with physical inactivity in health promotion and preventive medicine.

Biography :

SooJin Kang has her expertise in physical inactivity and its related health risks and diseases in health psychology.

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