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Original Article
Factors Affecting Highly Educated Elders' Diabetic Health Leader Attitude
Kiwol Sung, Jiran Nam, Mijin Yu
Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 2014;25(2):119-127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2014.25.2.119
Published online: June 30, 2014

1College of Nursing, Catholic University of Daegu, Daegu, Korea.

2Department of Nursing, Young-Nam Foreign Language College, Gyeongsan, Korea.

• Received: January 16, 2014   • Revised: June 1, 2014   • Accepted: June 17, 2014

© 2014 Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  • Purpose
    This study was done to identify the relationships among diabetic health leader attitude, diabetic knowledge, and health conservation in highly educated elders.
  • Methods
    The participants were 119 elders aged 65 or more who were attending the senior welfare centers in D and K City and had at least a high school degree. Data were collected from June 10 to July 7 in 2013. Data analysis included one-way ANOVA, independent t-test, Pearson's correlation, and stepwise multiple regression, done with the SPSS/WIN 19.0 program.
  • Results
    A positive correlation was found among diabetic health leader attitude, diabetic knowledge, and health conservation. Health conservation explained 26% (β=.31) and diabetic knowledge explained 2% (β=.18) of the variance in diabetic health leader attitude.
  • Conclusion
    The results indicate that to increase diabetic health leader attitude among highly educated elders, health leader programs are needed for increasing their diabetic knowledge and health conservation.
Table 1
The Differences of the Attitude on Leaders according to General Characteristics of Subjects (N=119)
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Table 2
The Degrees of Research Variables in Subjects (N=119)
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Table 3
Correlations between Attitude on Leaders and Other Variables in Subjects (N=119)
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Table 4
The Influencing Factors on the Attitude on Leaders (N=119)
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Dummy variables (With family=0, Alone=d1, A couple=d2); Dummy variables (Very regular=0, Regular=d1, irregular=d2).

This work was supported by research grants from the Korean Health Prmotion Foundation in 2013.

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