The purpose of this study is to understand the correlation factors between exercise and self-perceived health status of the middle-aged people, to explore the relationship between different Demographic characteristics, self-perceived health status and the exercises, and further analyze the relevance of exercise and self-perceived health status of the middle-aged people.
The study used the data of ?The National Health Individual Questionnaire Survey?
which originated from the project of National Health Research Institutes in 2005.
The 12 to 64 year-old individuals and self-perceived health status SF-36 were used to analysis and evaluation. Besides the variable of the study to be verified, we hoped the study finding will provide a health promotion references to the government. There were 7575 cases of 40 to 64 year-old individuals were included in the study. All statistical analyses and frequency distribution, Chi- square test and logistic regression were performed with the SPSS 12.0 soft ware.
The results indicate that there were 4072 people (53.8%) had regular exercise behavior, and 3501 people (46.2%) did not have regular exercise behavior. ? Demographic variables? indicated that the most people focus on the group of 40 to 49 year-old and 50 to 59 year-old. People whose education level below the primary school, junior high school and high school participated exercise less than that of college or university; and the personal income around 20,000 to 40,000 had less exercise also. In the item of ?self-perceived health status?, there was low proportion of people to participate exercise if they know or unknown their health status will worse than worse are correct and vice versa. The people who felt their health status better than one year ago and there was higher proportion of people practicing exercise and vice versa. The above-mentioned variables about the middle-aged people had a significant statistical correlation.
The exercise participation is advantageous to aware the health. Prevention is more important than treatment. ?Hope builds from health?, ?be live must be exercise?, the middle-aged people aware more knowledge of physical activity, more able to enhance its implementation of the body activities. It will be more motivated to implement the body activities if they feel that physical activity is benefit to health.
