J Korean Gerontol Nurs.  2021 May;23(2):107-116. 10.17079/jkgn.2021.23.2.107.

A Study on the Characteristics of Health Risk Behavior in Older Adults with Chronic Joint Pain Using Association Analysis

• Park S
• Shin J

• KMID: 2540551
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.17079/jkgn.2021.23.2.107

Abstract

Purpose
This study aimed to investigate patterns of health risk behavior in older adults with chronic joint pain.
Methods
This study utilized the 5th and 6th Korea National Health and Nutrition Survey Data (KNHANES V, VI). In total, 6,534 older adults over the age of 64 were surveyed between 2010 and 2013. The secondary analysis included 5,909 respondents who answered yes to knee, hip, and back pain and had chronic joint pain for more than 30 days in the last 3 months.
Results
According to the behavioral analysis of smoking, excessive drinking, physical inactivity, inappropriate weight, inappropriate sleep time, breakfast skipping, and frequent dining out as health risk behaviors, older adults with chronic joint pain were physically inactive and experienced inadequate sleep, with 84.2% of men and 98.6% of women engaging in more than two health risk behaviors. Health risk behaviors occurred together with proven correlations. The association analysis showed that clusters of health risk behaviors were more frequent in men and that inadequate sleep, inadequate weight, and physical inactivity strongly correlated.
Conclusion
The study findings provide information regarding health risk behaviors that interventions should focus on to promote better health for older adults with chronic joint pain. Intervention research is also needed to test health promotion programs that aim to prevent such health risk behaviors in older adults with chronic joint pain.

Keyword

만성 관절통증; 노인; 건강위험행위; 연관성분석; 이차 자료분석; Chronic joint pain; Older adults; Health risk behaviors; Social network analysis; Big data