1College of Nursing, Chonbuk National University, Korea. 2Health Teacher of Gosan Primary School, Korea. ymdje@hanmail.net
Abstract
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of self-efficacy and health promotion behavior in obese elementary school children.
METHODS: The participants for this study were 280 students from seven elementary schools, located in Chonbuk Province.
For data analysis, descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients and simple linear regression were used with SPSS WIN ver 15.0 Program.
RESULTS: The mean scores for self-efficacy and health promotion behavior were 2.95+/-0.60 and 2.99+/-0.39 respectively. There were significant positive correlations between health promotion behavior and self-efficacy (r= .614, p < .001). The main predictor of health promoting behavior in obese elementary school children was self-efficacy, which explained 37.7%.
CONCLUSION: The findings from this study indicate a need to develop nursing intervention programs to health promotion behavior in obese elementary school children including the promotion of self-efficacy.
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