The purpose of this study was to develop the Health Behavior Scale that measure cognitions on health and illness, health promotion and illness treatment behaviors, and coping styles with disease. On the basis of this scale, we made national norm of th...
The purpose of this study was to develop the Health Behavior Scale that measure cognitions on health and illness, health promotion and illness treatment behaviors, and coping styles with disease. On the basis of this scale, we made national norm of these health cognitions and behaviors. The subjects were 730(male 392, female 338) adults sampled in 12 areas from national population. Cronbach's internal consistency coefficents of this scale were .63 ~ .91. Using this norm, we constructed diagnosis graphs of some patients and suggested behavioral prescriptions for each case. We believe this kind of information might be useful. We also discussed the limitations of this study and implications for appling the health behavior scale to health related institutions were discussed.