期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2019
卷号：26
期号：1
页码：1-9
DOI：10.26444/aaem/102496
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：Introduction. Research on the meaning of health and health behaviors is important for the development of health education
programmes which should be tailored to the needs of patients.
Objective. The aim of the study is to determine whether the place of residence and age have an impact on health behaviours
and the perception of health by women past menopause.
Materials and method. A survey method and three research instruments were employed: authors’ questionnaire, the
Health Behaviour Inventory and the Health Criteria List by Juczyński, and the Kupperman Index. The study was carried out
among a sample of 102 women after menopause hospitalised in a hospital in eastern Poland.
Results. The overall health behaviour indicator (HBI) in the study group was found to reach an average value of 80.1±12.7points.
A higher HBI indicator was found to be characteristic of urban rather than rural residents; however, there was no statistically
significant difference (p>0.05). The age of respondents did not differentiate statistically their health behaviours (p>0.05).
Women who reported their last menstruation before the age of 50 obtained higher results in the dimension of health
practices (HPs) than those whose last menstruation ceased after the age of 50 (p<0.05). The respondents attributed the
highest importance to health, understood as a property, a state and a goal. Statistically significant differences were observed
in the importance of the statement according to which health is a process of “being able to work without tension and stress”,
as the respondents from urban areas assigned to it a higher average weight than those from rural areas (p< 0.05).
Conclusions. A higher overall HBI, as well as indicators for particular categories, were characteristic of women from urban
areas. Age did not significantly differentiate the women’s health behaviours. Rural residents were dominant in the group
of women who rated their health to be very good or good. The respondents attributed the highest importance to health
understood as a property, state and goal.
关键词：health behaviours; perception of health; women pastmenopause; place of residence
