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01.03.2011 | Regular Article
A comparative study of health-promoting lifestyles in agricultural and non-agricultural workers in Japan
Erschienen in: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine | Ausgabe 2/2011
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Objectives
To clarify the difference in health-promoting lifestyles between agricultural and non-agricultural workers in Japan, a cross-sectional study was conducted on 627 residents living in a town with a mixed rural–urban population.
Methods
The subjects were divided into 8 groups by job (agricultural and non-agricultural), age (young and old), and gender (male and female). To evaluate the subjects’ lifestyles, the Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP-II) was applied. The Bartlett test and the Kendall rank test were performed for statistical analysis.
Results
There was no significant difference in the overall score of the HPLP-II between the two job groups. However, for the HPLP-II subscales, a significantly higher score for “spiritual growth” and a significantly lower score for “physical activity” were seen in the agricultural group than in the non-agricultural group. In general, the old and female groups showed higher scores than the corresponding groups, regardless of job type.
Conclusions
It was determined that the major countermeasures to maintain a healthy lifestyle in agricultural workers should be associated with how to introduce daily activities that maintain and enhance “spiritual growth” and improve “physical activity”.