Factors Influencing Stroke Prevention Behaviour in Middle-aged Adults

ABSTRACT

Purpose@#The purpose of this research was to identify the relationships between stroke knowledge, health perception, exercise selfefficacy and stroke prevention behaviour and the factors influencing stroke prevention behaviour in middle-aged adults. @*Methods@#A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2 cities of Korea from May to July 2020, using structured questionnaire. The participants were 168 middle-aged adults without a history of stroke. Collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent ttest, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients, and multiple regression with SPSS/WIN 25.0. @*Results@#There was significant correlations among degree of stroke prevention behaviour, stroke knowledge about warning sign (r= .20, p= .010), health perception (r= .35, p< .001) and exercise self-efficacy (r= .43, p< .001). The most important factor influencing stroke prevention behaviour was exercise self-efficacy (β= 0.38, p< .001), followed by health perception (β= 0.18, p= .008), body mass index (β= -0.17,p= .011), stroke knowledge about warning sign (β= 0.13, p= .045) in that order. These factors explained 37.7% of total variance in stroke prevention behaviour (F= 11.09, p< .001). @*Conclusion@#The results of this study suggest that the development of nursing intervention for stroke prevention behaviour improvement is needed considering exercise self-efficacy and stroke knowledge.