J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs JKACHN Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 1225-9594 2288-4203 Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 10.12799/jkachn.2010.21.4.481 Original Article Factors Influencing Elders' Preventive Behavior for Influenza A (H1N1) Yoon Young-Ju 1 Hyun Hye-Jin 2 Nurse, Chuncheon Public Health Center, Korea. Professor, College of Nursing, Kangwon National University, Korea. Address reprint requests to: Hyun, Hye-Jin, Department of Nursing, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 200-701, Korea. Tel: 82-33-250-8884, Fax: 82-33-242-8840, hJhyun@kangwon.ac.kr 12 2010 04 04 2014 21 4 481 488 20 10 2010 15 12 2010 15 12 2010 © 2010 Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 2010 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. Purpose

The purposes of this study were to examine the relations among anxiety, knowledge, health locus of control and preventive behavior, and to find factors related with preventive behavior.

 Methods

The subjects were 269 elderly people of over 65 living in C City. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire and analyzed by SPSS.

 Results

Health promoting behavior was significantly different according to chronic disease, contact with H1N1 patient and perceived health status. The variables that affected the level of preventive behavior were anxiety, knowledge, internal locus of control, external locus of control, chance locus of control and perceived health status.

 Conclusion

According to this study, promoting preventive behavior for H1N1 on the elderly builds up anxiety, knowledge, and health locus of control.

 Elderly Health promotion

This article is based on a part of the first author's master's thesis from the Kangwon National University.

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General Characteristics (N=269)

Anxiety, Knowledge and Preventive Behavior (N=269)

Preventive Behavior by General Characteristics (N=269)

Correlations among Anxiety, Knowledge and Health Locus of Control (N=269)

Multiple Regression for the Preventive Behavior (N=269)