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Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
Published in: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2/2011

01-03-2011 | Regular Article

A comparative study of health-promoting lifestyles in agricultural and non-agricultural workers in Japan

Authors: Shi-chen Zhang, Chang-nian Wei, Kumiko Fukumoto, Koichi Harada, Kimiyo Ueda, Keiko Minamoto, Atsushi Ueda

Published in: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine | Issue 2/2011

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Abstract

Objectives

To clarify the difference in health-promoting lifestyles between agricultural and non-agricultural workers in Japan, a cross-sectional study was conducted on 627 residents living in a town with a mixed rural–urban population.

Methods

The subjects were divided into 8 groups by job (agricultural and non-agricultural), age (young and old), and gender (male and female). To evaluate the subjects’ lifestyles, the Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP-II) was applied. The Bartlett test and the Kendall rank test were performed for statistical analysis.

Results

There was no significant difference in the overall score of the HPLP-II between the two job groups. However, for the HPLP-II subscales, a significantly higher score for “spiritual growth” and a significantly lower score for “physical activity” were seen in the agricultural group than in the non-agricultural group. In general, the old and female groups showed higher scores than the corresponding groups, regardless of job type.

Conclusions

It was determined that the major countermeasures to maintain a healthy lifestyle in agricultural workers should be associated with how to introduce daily activities that maintain and enhance “spiritual growth” and improve “physical activity”.
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Metadata
Title
A comparative study of health-promoting lifestyles in agricultural and non-agricultural workers in Japan
Authors
Shi-chen Zhang
Chang-nian Wei
Kumiko Fukumoto
Koichi Harada
Kimiyo Ueda
Keiko Minamoto
Atsushi Ueda
Publication date
01-03-2011
Publisher
Springer Japan
Published in
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine / Issue 2/2011
Print ISSN: 1342-078X
Electronic ISSN: 1347-4715
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12199-010-0167-9

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