[Development of a Dan Jeon Breathing Model for health promotion in middle-aged women].
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to develop a Dan Jeon Breathing Model and to identify effects of the developed Dan Jeon Breathing Model for maintenance and promotion of health and improvement of health problems in middle-aged women.


METHODS
This study was constructed with two procedures. The first procedure was to develop appropriate movements for middle-aged women, performing a focus group discussion and developing a Dan Jeon Breathing Model in qualitative research. The collected data from focus group discussions was categorized for fitting movements. The second procedure was to verify and conclude a Hypothetic Dan Jeon Breathing Model through a quasi-experimental nonequivalent control group pre-post test design.


RESULTS
The developed Dan Jeon Breathing Model was composed of 28 preparation movements to accept Ki comfortably, 10 breathing movements to accumulate Ki for activation of metabolic function in organs and 14 finishing movements to transmit activated Ki to organs. It took 40 minutes to do them. In the Second procedure, the score of physical health (t=4.205, p=.000), psycho-social health (t=3.292, p=.002) and physical strength of the experimental group (t=5.905, p=.000) was higher than that of the control group.


CONCLUSIONS
The Dan Jeon Breathing Model developed in this study is the correct health promotion model for middle-aged women, their demand, developmental traits and health problems.
Kim
Kyung-Won
KW
Department of Nursing, Shin Heung College, Gyeonggi-do, Korea. laotao2@hanmail.net
D001945:Breathing Exercises; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged