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    Korean J Community Nutr. 2013 Dec;18(6):611-625. Korean.
    Published online Dec 31, 2013.
    https://doi.org/10.5720/kjcn.2013.18.6.611
    Copyright © 2013 The Korean Society of Community Nutrition
    Original Article

    A Study on Dietary Behaviors, Health-Related Lifestyle of Adult Visitors at Public Health Centers in Gyeonggi Urban Area

    Jong-Sook Kwon, Kyungmin Kim,1 Hyun-Chang Seo, Yoonna Lee, Seunggeon Lim,2 and Young-Sug Choi
      • Department of Food & Nutrition, Shingu College, Seongnam, Korea.
      • 1Department of Food & Nutrition, Baewha Women's University, Seoul, Korea.
      • 2Department of Physical Therapy, Shingu College, Seongnam, Korea.
    • Corresponding author: Jong-Sook Kwon, Department of Food & Nutrition, Shingu College, 377 Gwangmyeong-ro, Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do 462-743, Korea. Tel: (031) 740-1642, Fax: (031) 740-1590, Email: jskwon@shingu.ac.kr
    Received November 25, 2013; Revised December 18, 2013; Accepted December 24, 2013.

    This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

    Abstract

    The purpose of this study was to investigate dietary behaviors and health-related lifestyles of adult visitors at a public health center in Gyeonggi urban area. A survey using questionnaire was conducted with 949 visitors at Seongnam public health centers from June to August, 2012. The data from 905 respondents were analyzed by gender, consisting of 322 males and 583 females, and age group, consisting of 243 low-age group (LA), 312 middle-age group (MA), 350 high-age group (HA), aged 20 to 30 years, 31 to 50 years, and 51 to 69 years, respectively. Average Body Mass Index was 23.0, which increased with age, and education level was high in LA. 59.0 percent of the subjects had various diseases, and the incidence of hypertension was the highest, followed by allergy, hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus, joint rheumatism. Incidence rates of chronic disease increased with age, which were lower than those from 2011 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES). Weekly drinking frequency rate and smoking rate decreased with age, and exercise performing rate was high at male and HA, which showed the same tendency as KNHANES. Female and HA showed more healthy dietary behaviors such as restricting salt, sugar, oily foods, foods containing food additives, calorie, caring for balanced diet, and referring to nutrition label. Subjects chose stress as the first factor, followed by diet, exercise, etc., among 13 suggested factors which strongly influence on human's life-span. In general, public health center visitors, especially female and HA, showed better dietary behaviors and health-related lifestyles compared with KNHANES.

    Keywords
    dietary behaviors; health-related lifestyles; public health center; KNHANES

    Tables

    Table 1
    General characteristics of subjects

    Table 2
    Degree of living status and family compositions

    Table 3
    Presence of disease and health care action

    Table 4
    Degree of health status, drinking, exercise, and smoking

    Table 5
    Dietary care matters for health

    Table 6
    Food consumption frequency

    Table 7
    Degree of life satisfaction and activities related with health and medication

    Table 8
    Factors strongly influence on human's life span (multiple responses)

    Table 9
    Sleeping hours, working hours and television watching hours

    Notes

    This research was supported by a grant from the Saitama Prefectural University Research (SPUR) in Japan.

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    MeSH Terms
    Adult*
    Body Mass Index
    Chronic Disease
    Diabetes Mellitus
    Diet
    Drinking
    Education
    Female
    Food Additives
    Gyeonggi-do*
    Humans
    Hyperlipidemias
    Hypersensitivity
    Hypertension
    Incidence
    Joints
    Korea
    Life Style*
    Male
    Nutrition Surveys
    Public Health*
    Rheumatic Diseases
    Smoke
    Smoking
    Surveys and Questionnaires
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