2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Health checkup participants needs and the effectiveness of health checkup and guidance, based on theory of behavioral change.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21792335
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Community health/Gerontological nurisng
Research Institution	Health Sciences University of Hokkaido
Principal Investigator	KUWABARA Yumi 北海道医療大学, 看護福祉学部, 准教授 (80295914)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2012
Keywords	看護学 / 特定健康診査 / 特定保健指導 / 行動変容 / 評価研究
Research Abstract	Questionnaires- knowledge, self-efficacy , behaviors toward national health checkup- were sent to participants ranging in age from 40 to 64 who participated more than once from 2008 to 2012. The newly participants had less knowledge, low self-efficacy, and made less effort to maintain healthy lifestyle behaviors. The annually participants were better results than ones who did not participate annually . The results find that the newly participants have high needs to prevent lifestyle-disease. And the results suggest that participate in health checkup annually and maintain healthy lifestyle could prevent lifestyle-disease.