Walker S N, Volkan K, Sechrist K R, Pender N J
School of Nursing, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.
ANS Adv Nurs Sci. 1988 Oct;11(1):76-90. doi: 10.1097/00012272-198810000-00008.
The purposes of the study presented were to compare the health-promoting behaviors of older adults with those of young and middle-aged adults, to examine the relationship of age and other sociodemographic characteristics to life style throughout adulthood, and to identify differing life-style patterns among older adults. Six dimensions of life style were measured by the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile in 452 adults aged 18 to 88. Older adults had higher scores in overall health-promoting life style and in the dimensions of health responsibility, nutrition, and stress management than both young and middle-aged adults. Sociodemographic variables accounted for only 13.4% of the variance in life style and for 5.2% to 18.6% in its six dimensions. Five major health-promoting life-style patterns were identified among older adults, depicting a heterogeneous group with varying needs for health promotion programming.
本研究的目的是比较老年人与中青年的健康促进行为，研究年龄及其他社会人口学特征与成年期生活方式的关系，并确定老年人中不同的生活方式模式。采用健康促进生活方式量表对452名年龄在18至88岁的成年人的六种生活方式维度进行了测量。老年人在整体健康促进生活方式以及健康责任、营养和压力管理维度上的得分高于中青年。社会人口学变量仅解释了生活方式差异的13.4%，以及其六个维度差异的5.2%至18.6%。在老年人中确定了五种主要的健康促进生活方式模式，表明这是一个对健康促进规划有不同需求的异质性群体。
