Background
: Pap smear is well known as a useful method for early detection of the cervical cancer and known to be widely performed by women. But the cervical cancer is the most common cancer in Korean women until now. So we surveyed to find out the status of women's practice and the result of Pap smear.

Methods : A questionnaire was filled up by the 270 women who had taken Pap smear from Jun to July in 1994 at the department of family medicine of Kyung Hee Medical Center. The family physician's gynecological findings at Pap smear and the results of Pap smear were obtained. After then we analyzed the data by SAS(Statistical Analysis System). The data which were not answered at each item were excluded in the analysis of each item.

Results : Among the 270 women, thirties were 98 persons(36.3%), forties were 115 persons(42.6%). The women who had never been taken Pap smear before were 34.6%. At the age performed Pap smear first, 30-39 years old was most common as of 39.8%. In the interval of Pap smear among the performed, 2 years interval was 36.8%, The medical facility usually being performed Pap smear was obstetrics and gynecological clinic as of 49.7%. At the opinion of interval which they think they should take Pap smear, the women answered that 1 year interval was appropriate were 50.7% and the opinions of the experienced group were statistically different from those of the non-experienced group(P<0.01). Gynecological findings showed normal in 74.8%, the cytological results of Pap smear showed class I as of 88.9%, class II 6.3%, class III 4.4% and class IV 0.4%.

Conclusion : Almost of them knew correctly the appropriate interval of Pap smear they should take, but the practice rate was very low. They had good results in the final cytological results of Pap smear, but the cervical cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in Korean women until now. So they should continuously get public informations and be educated to take Pap smear at the appropriate interval for the reduction of death due to cervical cancer.

Background
: It is well known fact that health behaviors affect one's health status. The purpose of this study was to know freshmen's health behaviors and the degree of practice, and to investigate the correlations of their health behaviors with their health state, family APGAR scores, family income, salt in foods, and so on.

Methods : A self-recorded questionnaires were administerd to 6150 freshmen who had taken physical checkup for university or college entrance in K Medical Center, from December 1994 to February 1995. We analyzed what they think important and the degree of practice. And we made statkstkca analysis of the family APGAR score, family income, subjective health status, past medical history, BMI, health foods, sex, salt in meals and health practice index by means of correlation and nonparametric statistics. We used the sum of eight items scores for health behaviors as health practice index.

Results : Number of male freshmen was 2982(48.5%), female was 3162(51.5%). Good practicing group in male was 13.9% compared to 16.4% in female. The family APGAR, salt in meals and subjective health state had significant(p<0.05) correlations with health behavior scale in both male and female. And BMI in male, age, family income, self breast examination in female had, correlations too.
Which they thought was important to maintain and promote health were regular exercise(92.1%), maintenance of balanced diet(90.4%), regular lifestyle(872%), proper sleeping and rest(85.9), maintenance of psychological comfort(84.1%), no smoking and no drinking(20.9%), regularly visiting hospital(7.0%) and eating health foods(3.5%). But only 11.5% of them exercised regularly, and 55.6% ate health foods.

Conclusion : In spite of their great concerns for regular exercise, a few of the subjects exercised and they preferred to take health foods for health. The health practice index was high in group of high family APGAR scores, those who regarded their health as goods and those who ate insipidly. Health state had significant correlations with health behvaiors in the freshmen group, so it is helpful to public health promotion to let them know this fact.