• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.463-471
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• 2022

Purposes of this study were to identify the factors associated with behavioral Intention to social distancing (BItSD) in a loss versus gain advertising context. This study is a secondary analysis of data surveyed after randomly allocating one of the loss and gain message framing advertisements for the prevention of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) infection to 379 adults aged 19 and over living in Korea in early March 2021. Attitude toward advertisement (𝛽=.03, p<.001), involvement in COVID-19 (𝛽=.14, p=.006) and emotional stigma (𝛽=-0.17, p<.001) were associated with BItSD, and the explanatory power of these variables was 19% (Adjusted R²=.19). Therefore, when health care professionals communicate with the public, they should develop the strategies to increase public people's involvement in the information and to induce positive advertising attitudes, and provide the effective messages to prevent stigma by accurate information.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.833-846
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• 2022

This study was conducted to identify nutrition knowledge, eating behaviors, and the need for an integrated program to improve eating behaviors according to residential type of female college students. Data were collected from March 16 to April 16, 2021, using online self-report questionnaires and the final 217 data were used. To analyze data, frequencies and percentages, means and standard deviations, independent sample t-test, and ANOVA were conducted using SPSS WIN 26.0. The results showed that home residents had better eating behaviors than those living in rented rooms. Moreover, the demand for an integrated eating behavior improvement program for disease and health information topic was higher among home residents and participants in rented rooms than among those living in dormitories. When developing an integrated program for improving eating behaviors among female college students, it is essential to apply a differentiated intervention program that considers residential type.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.847-855
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is descriptive research to understand the effects of somatic symptoms, aging anxiety, and social support of middle-aged women on depression. Data collection was conducted from March 2020 to May 2020 using a structured questionnaire from a sample of 110 middle-aged women. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis test, Pearson's correlation coefficients and multiple linear regression analysis using SPSS Window 25.0 program. As a result of the study, the influence factors on the depression were confirmed by the somatic symptoms(β=0.42, p<.001), aging anxiety(β=0.35, p<.001) and total explanatory power of the variables was found to be 48.0%. Therefore, based on the result of this study, it suggests that more research is needed a program that considers somatic symptoms and aging anxiety when developing interventions to reduce depression and to verify the effectiveness.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.489-498
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• 2022

This study was conducted to identify factors that affect the job satisfaction of nurses at local hub hospital in the COVID-19 situation. Data were collected from 230 nurses working at 4 local hub hospital in C-do through a questionnaire. Using SPSS/WIN statistics 25.0, the data was analyzed by t-test, ANOVA, Pearson Correlation, and Multiple Linear Regression. Factors that were significant to the job satisfaction of nurses at local hub hospital were self-efficacy(t=3.003, p=.003), G local hub hospital(t=2.739, p=.007), and job burden(t=-4.291, p<.001) which showed 44.1% of the explanation. In conclusion, in order to increase job satisfaction of nurses at local hub hospitals in the COVID-19 situation, it is necessary to develop a convergence program that improves self-efficacy, and policy support is needed to lower the job burden.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.777-788
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• 2022

This study was attempted to investigate relationship between spousal bereavement and frailty in the Korean older adults using data from the 7th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey(KNHANES VII-3, 2018). The subjects were 1,609, complex sample frequency, descriptive statistics, cross and logistic regression analysis were performed using SPSS program. As a main result, frailty simultaneously adjusted for general, health behavior and disease characteristics did not show significant relationship between spousal bereavement, but frailty is significantly decreased 65~69, 70~74 years old, better of subjective health perception, no arthritis, significantly increased lower level of income. Finally personal, familiar and social efforts are required to manage the elderly who have lost their spouse.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.885-890
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• 2022

This research is to consider the training effect of effective paralytic transfer method and reduce the risk of paralytic transfer. It was questioned and interviewed the guardians of 50 patients agreed this research among the guardians of patient who hospitalized in rehabilitation ward. The contents of questions was safety grade with 1~10 point which the guardians of paralytic was feeling in case transfer the patient of paralytic. The sense of safety before and after the traning of transfer method was improved about 25% more from 5.81 point to 7.26 point on the safety. The 98% of subjector supported the needs of training for transfer method of paralytic. And also 74% of subjector replied that the safety was improved after taking the training. On the base of this research, it is needed to review this kind of traning to get reliability and propriety throuth repeatitive research.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.891-895
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• 2022

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of a mother-child shared room on self-confidence in infant care and the practice of breastfeeding by delivering individual education to the mother-child in the shared room. The participants were 50 mothers in the mother-child shared room group and 50 mothers in the mother-child in separate rooms group, all of whom delivered children. The self-confidence in infant care was found to be higher in the mother-child shared room group than the mother-child in separate rooms group. It is necessary to conduct multilateral research into the influential factors on the practice of breastfeeding apart from a variable, namely, the mother-child shared room.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.67-75
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• 2023

The purpose of this study was to investigate difference between walking practice and happiness of one-person households according to the life cycles. This is a secondary analysis study using data from the 2021 Community Health Survey. The data were analyzed using SPSS 25 program for composite sample statistical analysis. As a result, in old age, there were many women, low education, and non-economic activities, and there were many basic living and less than 7 hours of sleep. The walking practice of one-person households was low in youth, middle age, and old age of one-person households. The level of happiness by life cycles of one-person households was 6.69 points in youth, 6.43 points in old age, and 6.19 points in middle age, and the happiness of middle age was the lowest. In youth, middle age, and old age of one-person households, there was a significant differences in happiness depending on walking practice. Therefore, social, welfare, and policy strategies should be developed to encourage walking to improve happiness of one-person households.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.119-127
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• 2024

The purpose of this study is a descriptive research study to identify the factors affecting the performance of infection control by general hospital nurses' empowerment and job burnout. The subjects collected data from September 15 to October 31, 2023 from a total of 210 nurses at a general hospital located in D city. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Sheffe, Pearson's correlation, and multiple regression using the SPSS/WIN 25.0 program. As a result of the study, empowerment and infection control performance showed a positive correlation, and empowerment was analyzed as the most influential factor in infection control performance with 14.8% of explanatory power. Therefore, it is necessary to reflect programs and policies to efficiently perform infection control that can improve the empowerment of nurses.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.633-640
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• 2024

The purpose of this study is to analyse the structural relationships, direct and indirect effects between children's academic stress, peer attachment, parental achievement pressure and career maturity. This study uses panel data from a total of 1,357 elementary school students who participated in the 13th Child Panel Study of the Korea Child Care Policy Institute. The data were analysed using SPSS 24 and AMOS 24.0 programs. The results showed that children's academic stress was negatively related to peer attachment, positively related to parental achievement pressure, and negatively related to career maturity. Each variable was found to have a direct effect, and academic stress had an indirect effect on career maturity through the mediation of peer attachment and parental achievement pressure. In conclusion, it is recommended that school social work support that considers the causal relationship of all variables is necessary to improve children's career maturity.