| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 健康促進與衛生教育學系 === 106 === The purpose of this research was to investigate the associations of physical activity, healthy body weight with psoriasis area severity index among patients with psoriasis. A total of 129 patients with psoriasis in chang gung memorial hospital of dermatology were recruited.The data was used logistic regression to analysis.
The main findings of this research were as follows：
1.The average of subjects’ psoriasis area severity index were 7.66 ± 7.11. The percentage of mild psoriasis and moderate to severe psoriasis were 74.4％ and 25.6％ respectively.
2.Achieving physical activity guideline was not correlated with psoriasis area severity index. But the subjects had no unhealthy habits were more likely to achieve physical activity guideline.
3.Healthy body weight of the man was correlated with psoriasis area severity index. That showed the men with no healthy body weight were more likely to suffer from mild psoriasis. In addition, the subjects had no chronic disease were more likely to achieve healthy body weight.
4.After adjusting the social and demographic factors, achieving physical activity guideline and healthy body weight were not correlated with psoriasis area severity index.
Future studies are needed to target on a large number of study sample, to select patients who did not use any psoriasis therapy to reduce the interpretation of the results, and to use the longitudinal study and intervention study to realize the cause-effect relation between the variables. For health workers, it is suggested to promote healthy body weight into the patients with psoriasis treatment guideline, to reduce body mass index with psoriasis to improve psoriasis area severity index in man.
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