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Factors Affecting Health Screening Action


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1 Department of Clinical Laboratory Science Daejeon Health Institute of Technology, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
2 Department of Physical Therapy, SunMoon University, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
 

Objectives: This study is conducted to investigate the factors related to the willingness of cancer screening with the ¨National Nutrition Survey Original document, a national representative health related survey data. Methods/Statistical Analysis: 4,817 subjects were finally selected and analyzed among 8,108 participated in national nutrition survey in 2013 who are above 30-year-old, the recommended age of uterine cervical cancer screening program which is the minimum age in several cancer screening recommendation program, after deducted the missing value. Findings: According to the study differentiate factors related to correlation analysis for the checkup were place of residence, subjective state of health, stress recognition level, weight control in 1 year, the number of moderate physical activity date in a week, smoking, alcohol intake amount, and subjective body perception. Improvements/Applications: Therefore, the public relations should be strengthened to encourage people in having checkup, and activate check-up program to improve check-up rate for enhancing the national health.

Keywords

Cancer, Health, National Nutrition Survey, Smoking, Stress.
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Jean Soo Kim
Department of Clinical Laboratory Science Daejeon Health Institute of Technology, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
Dong Yeop Lee
Department of Physical Therapy, SunMoon University, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of

Abstract


Objectives: This study is conducted to investigate the factors related to the willingness of cancer screening with the ¨National Nutrition Survey Original document, a national representative health related survey data. Methods/Statistical Analysis: 4,817 subjects were finally selected and analyzed among 8,108 participated in national nutrition survey in 2013 who are above 30-year-old, the recommended age of uterine cervical cancer screening program which is the minimum age in several cancer screening recommendation program, after deducted the missing value. Findings: According to the study differentiate factors related to correlation analysis for the checkup were place of residence, subjective state of health, stress recognition level, weight control in 1 year, the number of moderate physical activity date in a week, smoking, alcohol intake amount, and subjective body perception. Improvements/Applications: Therefore, the public relations should be strengthened to encourage people in having checkup, and activate check-up program to improve check-up rate for enhancing the national health.

Keywords


Cancer, Health, National Nutrition Survey, Smoking, Stress.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.17485/ijst%2F2016%2Fv9i40%2F126256