Korean Circ J.  1988 Mar;18(1):49-56. 10.4070/kcj.1988.18.1.49.

Study on Korean Daily Walking Activity <1>

• Suh SK
• Kim SK
• Lee JS
• Lim TJ

• KMID: 2229591
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4070/kcj.1988.18.1.49

Abstract

Since there is no report of daily walking activity of Korean, authors studied on normal adult daliy walking activity in korean of various kinds of occupation, personal life and patients. Total 134 cases were studied and in which there were 10 patients, 7 retired elderlies, 4 house wives, 48 employees of compaines, 30 nurses, 4 laboratory technicians, 2 pharmacists, 7 house staff doctors, 12 chief doctors, 4 cases of hicking and 6 cases of 18 holes golf players. The daily walking steps were measured with pedometer in 167 times in total and following results were, obtained. 1. Bed rest patients ; less than 1000 steps/day 2. Retired elderly ; 2,724(2,150-3,500) steps/day 3. House wife ; 5,437(3,030-7,920) steps/day 4. High ranking, old clerk and chief doctor ; 5,000-6,000 steps/day 5. Ordinary non-active clerk and non-clerk employee ; 6,000-9,000 steps/day 6. common young active clerk and nurse ; 10,000-15,000 steps/day 7. Very active clerk and non-clerk employee ; 15,000(13,000-20,000) steps/day 8. Heavy worker ; more than 20,000 steps/day

MeSH Terms

Adult
Aged
Bed Rest
Golf
Humans
Internship and Residency
Laboratory Personnel
Occupations
Pharmacists
Spouses
Walking*