[Health knowledge, health promoting behavior and factors influencing health promoting behavior of north korean defectors in South Korea].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify health knowledge, health promoting behavior and factors influencing health promoting behavior of North Korean defectors in South Korea.

Methods: Participants in this study were 410 North Korean defectors, over 20 years of age residing in Seoul. They were recruited by snowball sampling.

[A study on exercise behavior, exercise environment and social support of middle-aged women].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify exercise environments and social support associated with exercise behaviors in middle-aged women.

Method: Subjects were 207 women aged between 41 and 59 yr in an urban community. The research instruments utilized in this study were exercise stages, exercise environments, exercise partners and social support scale.