| Learning Objective #1: The purpose of the study was to identify factors influencing school children's health promotion behaviors. | |||
| Learning Objective #2: Pender's health promotion model was applied to build a hypothetical model for this study. |
The data had been collected for about one week, from September 22 through 30, 2006. The subjects for this study, as a convenience sample, included 423 school children in the 5th and 6th grades at elementary schools located in Seoul and Kyunggi Province.
The data were analyzed by SAS and Lisrel 8.13 programs.
Among 27 hypothetical pathways, 20 pathways appeared to be statistically significant for the modified model for health promotion.
The results of the study on the effect of the finally modified health promotion model for school children were as follows:
The factors influencing self-efficacy included previous health-related behaviors, academic stress, health status, and social support. Factors influencing self-esteem were school stress, and social support, whereas previous health-related behaviors was found to have an indirect impact on self-esteem. Factors influencing perceived benefit included previous health-related behaviors, self-efficacy, and self-esteem. Factors influencing social support included previous health-related behaviors, and health status. Factors influencing perceived barriers positively included previous health-related behaviors, and self-efficacy, whereas academic stress, appeared to have an impact on perceived barriers indirectly. Factors influencing health promotion behaviors included academic stress, health status, self-esteem, perceived benefit, social support, perceived barriers, and self-efficacy, while previous health-related behaviors had an indirect influence on health promotion behaviors.
The factors influencing on children's health promotion behaviors most frequently included self-efficacy, health status, and self-esteem, in order, with the explanation power of 86 percent.