Purpose: This study was aimed to identify the major factors affecting performance in health promoting behaviors in women workers at small-scale industries.
Method: This study was based on the Pender's Health Promotion Model. The subjects for this study were 251 women workers at 23 small-scale industries in Busan city. The data for this study was collected from July 15th to August 15th 2003 by structured questionnaires, and were analyzed with ANOVA, t-test, Pearson' correlation coefficient, and multiple Regression in the SPSS/WIN 10.0.
Result: The mean performance of the health promoting behavior was 2.56. The factors related to the performance of the health promoting behaviors were social support, marital status, status of owning a house, perceived barriers to action, working time, and self-efficacy, and they explained 58.4% of the variance of the health promoting behaviors.
Conclusion: The mean performance of the health promoting behavior seemed to be low, and the most important variable related to health promoting behaviors of women working at a small-scale industry was social support. Therefore, intervention programs to increase the social support for women worker need to be developed.