The Association between Seven Health Practices and Self Rated Health by Sasang Constitution

Abstract

The Association between Seven Health Practices and Self Rated Health by Sasang Constitution Eun-Su Jang.Yun-Young Kim.Young-Hwa Baek.Si-Woo Lee Diagnosis, Department of, Daejeon University, Daejeon, Korea, Professor, Department of Nursing, Andong University, Andong, Division of Future Medical Research, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine. The purpose of this study aimed to know the association between seven health practices and self rated health by Sasang constitution. We recruited 367 subjects aged from 30 to 59. KS 15 questionnaire was used to classify Sasang constitution and visual analogue scale was used to estimate self rated health. Chi-square test was used to know the difference of occupation distribution by Sasang constitution. Anova test, T-test and Chi-square test also used to analyze the difference of self rated health between the health practice group and nonhealth group in individual Sasang constitution. SPSS 21.0K was used and significant p was <.05. Regular morning meal, non-snaking, good sleeping and sufficient exercise had higher self rated health score (p<.05). Regular morning meal, good sleeping and sufficient exercise had higher score in Tae-eumin (p<.05). Good sleeping had higher self rated health score in Soeumin and Soyangin (p<.05). These results suggest there is possibility that health practices for health promotion could be different according to Sasang constitution.