The Investigation Analysis And Countermeasures Of The Current Status On The Health Promoting Lifestyle Of The Aged In Communities In Changchun City

Objective:1. To have a knowledge of the current situation of the health promoting life style of the elderly through the investigation and analysis of their health promoting life style in the communities in Changchun City,to appraise the scores of six domains of socio-demographic,stress management,interpersonal relationships,spiritual growth,nutrition,physical activity,health responsibility.2. To analyze the influence factors of health promoting life style of the elderly of sex,age,marriage states,culture levels and so on ,put forward some suggestions for improving their health promoting life style.Methods:1. Sampling: Choose in non-probability sampling, to distribute 500 questionnaires. Totally 500 elderly were visited and 476 valid pieces of questionnaires was obtained, 95% validly.2. Design and election of questionnaires: The questionnaire of common material was self-designed and HPLP-II was chosen as the questionnaire of Health Promoting of the elderly in communities. It includes six subscales of Spiritual growth, Health responsibility, Physical activity, Nutrition, Interpersonal relationships, Stress management. Therefore, each of the six subscales score could range from 1 to 4, The higher the scores, the better the Health Promoting.3. Training personnel and pre-investigation :All people who took part in the investigation were trained and pre-investigation was carried out. Once the questions were discovered and at once the questionnaire self-designed was adjusted and perfected to ensure the results were complete, authentic and reliant.4. Statistical methods:x±s was used to describe all data statistically, x2-test was used to do the analysis, and SPSS13.0 for windows software was applied for data processing.α=0.05.Results:The proportion equal to all and higher than medium level of self-evaluation on Health Promoting. The research results showed that the HPLP-II with the mean of total score at 128.66, standard deviation 16.66; the mean score of Spiritual growth at 21.88, standard deviation 7.24; the mean score of Health responsibility at 21.12, standard deviation 7.82; the mean score of Physical activity at 19.26, standard deviation 7.02; the mean score of Interpersonal relationships at 21.83, standard deviation 6.84; the mean score of stress management at 19.52, standard deviation 6.41;the mean score of Nutrition at 24.82,standard deviation 7.19. The elderly performed best in Nutrition. There were significant differences in health promoting lifestyles among the elderly who were different in the educational levels, sex , marriage conditions.Conclusions:The Health Promoting of the elderly in communities in Changchun City is in the medium level or above, and need improving further. We need carefully examine the causes for the low rate of exercise. the local government should offer help from the social polices and social support. There are many factors influencing Health Promoting of the elderly, and in the paper the influence factors of Health Promoting of the elderly is only initiatively studied and there are many other factors which need further discussing.