Kanokporn Oungwattanaphaisan. Factors affecting health promoting behavior among officers in the Bureau of the Royal household . Master's Degree(Family Health). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2006.
Factors affecting health promoting behavior among officers in the Bureau of the Royal household
Abstract:
This cross-sectional survey research aimed to determine the health promoting
behaviors of government officials working at the Bureau of the Royal Household in
six aspects: health responsibility, exercise, nutrition, interpersonal relationship,
self-actualization, and stress management respectively by applying the Health
Promoting Behavior Model proposed by Pender (1996). Two hundred forty one male
and female government officials working at the Bureau of the Royal Household were
recruited by means of multi-stage random sampling. Questionnaires were a tool for
data collection. Descriptive statistics of frequency, percentage, mean, and standard
deviation were employed in data analysis, as well as Pearson’s Product Moment
Correlation Coefficient and Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis.
The findings indicated two-thirds of the subjects, had scores of overall health
promoting behaviors at a moderate level. Regarding each aspect of health promoting
behaviors, exercise behavior needed to be improved most (49.0%). The perceived
health status, perceived benefits of action, perceived self-efficacy, interpersonal
influence, and environmental influence to practice health promoting behaviors were
positively related to health promoting behaviors, while perceived barriers of action to
perform health promoting behaviors were negatively associated with health promoting
behaviors with statistical significance at the 0.05 level (p-value = 0.01). The variable
that could best predict health promoting behaviors of government officials was
perceived self-efficacy to practice health promoting behaviors, followed by perceived
health status, interpersonal influence, gender, and age, respectively and could explain
the variance of health promoting behaviors by 44.9% (R2 = 0.449).
Based on these findings, it was recommended that proactive measures should be
devised to encourage government officials to develop their perceived self-efficacy to
practice health promoting behaviors as well as to promote correct perceived health
status. Various activities should be planned and continuously organized to enable
government officials working at the Bureau of the Royal Household to practice health
promoting behaviors to maintain good health