부산지역 여성들의 스트레스 실태조사

A study on stress and skin care of middle-aged women

&nbsp;&nbsp;Objectives : To estimate the meanings of skin care on stress management for middle-aged women.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Methods : The subjects were 389 middle-aged women; 116 who visited the professional skin care shop periodically(cases) and 273 with rare experience of skin care(controls). Questionnaire survey for general characteristics, degree of skin care and stress level was done from February 14 to March 13, 2000. Stress level measured with psychosocial well-being index(PWI), and data were analyzed using PC SAS(ver. 6.12).<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Results : The major type of self skin care were use of matched cosmetics to her own skin(62.3%), use of sun blocks(55.6%), pack/massage(48.1%), and cases did more actively these healthy behavior(p＜0.05). On the basis of self perceived skin status, stress group was lower in the healthy skin group(p＝0.081), and income(γ＝-0.137, p＝0.011) and the degree of self skin caret (γ＝-0.124, p＝0.014) had negative correlation with the stress level.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Conclusions : Though this study has limitations of cross-sectional study, the results shows that there was significant negative correlation between stress and self skin-care. It means that skin-care could be concerned to stress care. We suggest that the efforts of specialist for spreading the proper methods of skin-care to improve the effect of skin-care on stress care and the more valid study to evaluate the effects of skin-care on stress control among middle-aged women would be needed.