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Seong HY, Park EW, Cheong YS, et al. Health-promotion and disease-prevention behaviors of primary-care practitioners. Korean J Fam Med. 2014;35(1):19-27doi: 10.4082/kjfm.2014.35.1.19.
Seong, H. Y., Park, E. W., Cheong, Y. S., Choi, E. Y., Kim, K. S., & Seo, S. W. (2014). Health-promotion and disease-prevention behaviors of primary-care practitioners. Korean journal of family medicine, 35(1), 19-27. https://doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.2014.35.1.19
Seong, Hwa-Yeon, et al. "Health-promotion and disease-prevention behaviors of primary-care practitioners." Korean journal of family medicine vol. 35,1 (2014): 19-27. doi: https://doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.2014.35.1.19
Seong HY, Park EW, Cheong YS, Choi EY, Kim KS, Seo SW. Health-promotion and disease-prevention behaviors of primary-care practitioners. Korean J Fam Med. 2014 Jan;35(1):19-27. doi: 10.4082/kjfm.2014.35.1.19. Epub 2014 Jan 23. PMID: 24501666; PMCID: PMC3912262.
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Korean J Fam Med. 2014 Jan;35(1):19-27. doi: 10.4082/kjfm.2014.35.1.19. Epub 2014 Jan 23.

Health-promotion and disease-prevention behaviors of primary-care practitioners.

Korean journal of family medicine

Hwa-Yeon Seong, Eal-Whan Park, Yoo-Seock Cheong, Eun-Young Choi, Ki-Sung Kim, Sang-Wook Seo

Affiliations

  1. Department of Family Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Korea.
  2. Yonsei Family Clinic, Cheonan, Korea.

PMID: 24501666 PMCID: PMC3912262 DOI: 10.4082/kjfm.2014.35.1.19

Abstract

BACKGROUND: In the 1990s the primary focus of medicine was shifted to disease prevention. Accordingly, it became the responsibility of primary-care physicians to educate and counsel the general population not only on disease prevention specifically but health promotion generally as well. Moreover, it was, and is still today, considered important that physicians provide positive examples of health-promotion behaviors to patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate physicians' health-promotion behaviors and to identify the factors that influence them.

METHODS: We conducted a postal and e-mail survey of the 371 members of the Physician Association of Cheonan City between May 16th and June 25th, 2011. The questionnaire consisted of 18 items, including questions relating to sociodemographic factors, screening tests for adult diseases and cancer, and health habits.

RESULTS: There were 127 respondents. The gender breakdown was 112 men (88.2%) and 15 women (11.8%), and the mean age was 47.8 years. Fifty-nine (46.4%) were family physicians or interns, and 68 (53.6%) were surgeons. Twenty-six percent (26%) were smokers, and 74.8% were drinkers; 53.5% did exercise; 37% had chronic diseases; 44.9% took periodic cancer screening tests, and 72.4% took periodic screening tests for adult diseases.

CONCLUSION: It was found that general characteristics and other health-promotion behaviors of physicians do not affect physicians' practice of undergoing periodic health examination.

Keywords: Health Promotion; Physical Examination; Primary Care Physicians

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