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Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Translated Title

志工工作與常規性運動對老人健康促進之比較

Abstract

The aging of Taiwan's population is creating a heavy burden on the government's public finances allocated for elderly health care. The purpose of this research is to compare health promotion behavior among the aged; these included hospital volunteers, those undertaking Tai Ji, those who swam or those who took no specific exercise.This study recruited a total of 136 subjects who lived in the community and the total included 59 males and 77 females. They could be divided into four groups: (1) the hospital volunteer group; (2) the Tai Ji group; (3) the swimming group and (4) the general elderly control group. A health-promotion lifestyle scale was utilized to evaluate their health promotional behavior, including self-satisfaction, medical knowledge, social activities, exercise habits, emotional intelligence and health promoting activities. The results of our present study revealed significant differences in terms of self- satisfaction and social activities between the volunteer group and the other three groups (p＜0.01). The health promoting activities of the volunteer group was significantly better than among the Tai Ji group (p＜0.01) and the general elderly control group (p＜0.001). In addition, the exercise habits of the volunteer group were significantly better than among the general elderly control group (p=0.001), while the exercise habits of the Tai Ji group were significantly better than among the volunteer group (p=0.001) and the general elderly control group (p＜0.001). Moreover, the Tai Ji group was significantly better than the general elderly control group in terms of health promoting activities (p＜0.01). Other results showed that the swimming group was significantly better than the general elderly control group (p＜0.001) for exercise habits and that the swimming group was significantly better than the Tai Ji group (p＜0.01) and the general elderly control group (p＜0.001) for health promoting activities. Statistical analysis of the correlation coefficients showed health promoting activities were positively related with a high professional specialization and less perspiration during activity. In addition, the result also showed that health promoting activities were negatively related to age.

Language

Traditional Chinese

First Page

39

Last Page

45

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