A Study on the Health-promoting Lifestyles of the Public Health Staff of District Health Centers in Taipei City

[[abstract]]Using public health staff working in all district health centers in Taipei as the research group, the purpose of this research was: 1) To understand the current health promotion life style, self-perceived health status, and working stress of the research group; 2) To compare the differences among their data of social demography, health promotion life style, self-perceived health status, and working stress; 3) To explore the correlation between health promotion life style and self- perceived health status of target group; 4) To discover the correlation between health promotion life style and working stress of target group; 5) To confirm the predicting factors toward the health promotion life style of the research group. The Cross-sectional study design and a combinational self-report questionnaire were used. The questionnaire was applied for collecting their demographic information and scores of self- perceived health status scale, working stress, and health promotion life style. 241 questionnaires were given and 232 of them were returned. T-test, One-Way ANOVA, Pearson Product- Moment correlation coefficient and Multiple Regression were applied as data analysis strategies. The results reveal: 1) The ranking of current health promoting lifestyles behaviors is from social-supporting, nutrition, self-actualization, stress management, to health accountability, and the exercise behavior was the lowest one; The average score of self- perceived health status located between normal to good; The ranking of working stress is from fatigue, unsatisfaction, to anxiety, lower self-esteem, and the depression is the lowest one; 2) Some demographic factors, such as age, working year, working position, self- perceived health status, have positive impacts on their health promotion life style, however, the working stress has the negative impact on their health promotion life style. That is, the more the age they are, the longer the working year they have, the higher the working position they possess, the better the self- perceived health status they present, the fewer the working stress they experienced, the better the health promotion life style they can practice; 3) number of children, self-perceived health status, and working stress are the effective predictable variables, which totally make 23.5% influences on the health promotion life style among research group.