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This study was to figure out the users' attitude and health behavior about bath therapy(full bath, half bath, foot bath) through a questionnaire survey on the public. A questionnaire survey was conducted about 400 adults in C city over the period of May–June, 2006, and 346 questionnaires was evaluated.Based on the results, the general public's preference was shower(52.3%), full bath(52.0%), half bath(31.8%), cold rubdown or cold bath(19.1%), sauna(15.0%), and foot bath(9.0%) in order.The reason about taking a bath was sanitation, recuperation, habit, healthcare, beauty care, stress relief, disease relief, and pain relief in order. And the effect of bath was recuperation, health improvement, stress relief, skin care, and disease and pain relief in order. The best bath for health was full bath(48.3%), half bath(43.9%), and foot bath(7.8%).In effect of bath according to health conditions, static correlation has been observed in stress relief, disease & pain relief, and beauty care(full-body bath), stress relief and health improvement(half bath), and skin care(foot bath).As shown above results, people have preferred full bath, half bath and foot bath in order, and the health improvement effect was same as well.However, the result could turn out differently depending on gender, age, bathing temperature, bathing time, and disease. Therefore, a further study on health improvement effect by bath method depending on disease needs to be conducted. Besides, proper public health education has to be followed.