건강관리 프로그램이 노인의 건강관리에 미치는 영향

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to understand the realities of healthmanagement and to analyze the subjective, functional, psychological, and social healtheffects of the application of an exercise and education program to manage health onan elderly population residing in an agricultural community. The specific purposes ofthis research were: 1. to determine the subjective, functional, psychological healthconditions, and performance level of instrumental activities of daily living of both theexperimental and control groups before introducing a health management program,and then 2. to compare these with both the experimental and control groups'subjective, functional, psychological health condition and performance level ofinstrumental activities of daily living after applying the health management program. The health management program was introduced to the experimental group (50people) but not to the control group (50 people). The health management programwas composed of a health exercise program and a health education program. Acomparative study of subjective health conditions was done to examine the effect ofthe health management program and the characteristics of health related variablesbefore and after the program application. The results were as follows: 1. When the experimental group, which had received the 8-week health management exercise andeducation program, was compared with the control group, which had not, theexperimental group’s subjective health condition scored higher than that of thecontrol group (p<o.on More of the experimental group replied ’Yes’ to the followingstatements: ’My body feels lighter' , ’My walking has improved' , '1 am getting bettersleep’, and ’My whole body strength improved' , in the functional health conditionsection than did the control group (p<0.05). Also, the experimental group’spsychological health condition improved more than that of the control group (p<0.05). The health management program used in this research demonstrated how animprovement of subjective health condition in the elderly can be achieved, and how itwas a help in improving their functional or activities of daily living performance. Continuous future research on the management and improvement of the healthcondition of elderly populations is important.