| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺北醫學大學 === 護理學系 === 92 === There are over 25﹪adults are overweight in Taiwan. In recent years, the Government and the folk take much effort on weight controlling. However, the populations of overweight and obese adults are still increasing. The purposes of this study were, therefore, to explore the behaviors of overweight and obese adults weight-control and associated factors. A cross-sectional study was conducted using convenience sampling with a structured questionnaire. Two hundred subjects were participated in the Wenshan district and Hsinyi district, Taipei city. The results were summarized as followed:
1. The results indicated that 56 percent of subjects never conduced a weight control behavior. In the recent year, 40.5 percent conducted healthy methods, 27 percent conducted alternative methods. They use a mean number of 2~3 healthy methods and 0~1 alternative methods. Twenty four percent of subjects used both healthy and alternative methods.
2. The ratio of female conducting alternative and both method were higher than male. The propobility of using healthy method is 0.775 times less with BMI score increasing 1 point. Age, marriage and educations were no statistically significant associated with weight reduce behaviors.
3. The perceived of subjects toward the affect of over weight to health, benefits of weight reduce and barriers of weight were between agreement and disagreement.
4. The self-efficacy of subjects was 50 percent on themselves, and 60 percent on dietary and 30 percent on exercise behavior.
5. Social supports were between rare to occasional from subjects’ family members, friends and were between never and rare from health professionals.
6. Healthy weight reduce behaviors were associated with the effects of over weight to physical health, benefits of weight reduce, and barriers of weight reduce. Alternation and conducting both health and alternative behaviors were associated with the effects of over weight to psychological and social health, and benefits of weight reduce.
7. Self-efficacy on dietary and on exercise are positively associated with alternative weight reduced behaviors and were not associated with healthy reduce behaviors. Self-efficacy on dietary was negatively associated with conducting both healthy and alternative weight control behaviors.
8. Social supports from family members, friends and health professionals were positively associated with health weight reduce behaviors. Social supports from friends and health professionals were negatively associated with alternative weight reduced behaviors and conducting both weight reduce behaviors.
The results were shown that those who were (i) more effects of over weight to psychological health, (ii) worth Self-efficacy on dietary, (iii) more social support from friends and (iv) females had more chance to conduct alternative methods. In the future, it is better to take note to those who have these characteristics when propagating or carrying out weight control programs in the communities, and to encourage them to use healthy weight control methods.
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