• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.351-361
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• 2017

In Korea, as the elderly population increases, elderly medical facilities and nursing care workers are increasing in labor force, but nursing care workers are avoiding nursing care workers due to poor working conditions and many physical and mental exhaustion of nursing care workers. Therefore, in this study, 284 nursing care workers were surveyed to search resources and to find alternatives to enhance the quality of life of caregivers. The result of research, The first, effected positively on the quality of life in environmental and social on a married women. The more a religion, effected positively on the quality of life in environmental and social, psychological. The higher the salary, effected positively on the quality of life in environmental and social, physical. The second, the support of a Superior effected positively on the quality of life in environmental and physical and the support of a colleague effected positively on the quality of life in social and physical. The third, the support of a Superior moderated by self-efficacy of the quality of life in the social and psychological. This results suggest that can be influential variables the support of social and the self-efficacy as an alternative to burnout of the care workers.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.835-844
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• 2014

The objectives of this study is to identify the Effects of Sex Education Program on careworkers' Knowledge, Attitudes and Coping toward sexuality of the Elders. The experimental design for this study was nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. Research was done from September 10, 2013 to October 10, 2013. Participants included a total of 37 subjects. 19 in the experimental group and 18 in the control group. The data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, Pearson's correlation coefficients, Shapiro - Wilk test, ${\chi}^2$-test, Independent Samples t-test, Mann-Whitney U test, paired t-test, Wilcox signed rank test using SPSS/PC WIN 18.0 program. The results showed that program was effective in increasing the knowledge of sex, but attitude and positive coping, negative coping did not differ significantly between the groups. In conclusion, this study showed that sex education could be effective higher sex knowledge of careworkers, but could not be effective sex attitudes and coping. Therefore, it is necessary that develop sex education program to be effective sex attitudes and coping of careworkers.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.533-547
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• 2016

The goal of this study is to analyze the effect of the working environment of elderly care facility employees on the care service quality and the mediation effect of social support. The results of the research were as follows: First, it has been confirmed that a high level of average monthly salary and the salary satisfaction theref have a positive correlation with an improvement in care service quality in the working environment variables of elderly care facility employees. Second, it has been confirmed that the average monthly salary and the salary satisfaction level among the working environment variables of elderly care facility employees have a positive correlation on the parameter of social support. Third, a partial mediation effect of social support has been confirmed in the effect that average monthly salary and the salary satisfaction level variables have on the quality of care service in the working environment of elderly care facility employees. Thus, this study actively reflects the social situation of an aged society and uses "Self-checking Management Measures" capable of suggesting the management direction for the elderly care facility to measure its service quality and proposes a method to improve the working environment of the elderly care facility employees.

• Journal of Korean Dental Hygiene Science
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.13-25
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• 2023

Background: This study was conducted to confirm the service quality management of care workers, who are direct service personnel of long-term care insurance for the elderly, using unstructured big data. Methods: Using a textome, this study collected and analyzed unstructured social data related to care workers' service quality. Frequency, TF-IDF, centrality, semantic network, and CONCOR analyses were conducted on the top 50 keywords collected by crawling the data. Results: As a result of frequency analysis, the top-ranked keywords were 'Long-term care services,' 'Care workers,' 'Quality of care services,' 'Long term care,' 'Long term care facilities,' 'Enhancement,' 'Elderly,' 'Treatment,' 'Improvement,' and 'Necessity.' The results of degree centrality and eigenvector centrality were almost the same as those of the frequency analysis. As a result of the CONCOR analysis, it was found that the improvement in the quality of long-term care services, the operation of the long-term care services, the long-term care services system, and the perception of the psychological aspects of the care workers were of high concern. Conclusion: This study contributes to setting various directions for improving the service quality of care workers by presenting perceptions related to the service quality of care workers as a meaningful group.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.613-623
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• 2024

This study was conducted to explore the direction of elderly care worker education by analyzing the dual mediating effects of professionalism and positive psychological capital on the impact of elderly care worker education on service quality. As a result of this analysis, elderly care worker education was found to have a significant impact on service quality, professionalism and positive psychological capital and it's confirmed that the more positive the perception of elderly care worker education, the more positive the perception of service quality, professionalism and positive psychological capital. In addition, professionalism and positive psychological capital show that each two mediates the impact of the elderly care worker education on service quality so elderly care worker education can improve service quality by enhancing professionalism, and we can see that the elderly care worker education can be a factor that improves service quality by enhancing positive psychological capital. It's found that professionalism and positive psychological capital is by dual mediating the impact of elderly care worker education on service quality so professionalism had a significant effect on positive psychological capital. Accordingly, it's confirmed that elderly care worker education improves professionalism, and that improved professionalism promotes positive psychological capital, thereby improving service quality. According to the results of this study, it's empirically confirmed that develop professionalism is important in the elderly care worker education, and that enhancing positive psychological capital through the develop professionalism can ultimately improve service quality. Therefore, there is a significance to that it's able to predict elderly care worker education in the future should include education related to the improvement of professionalism and positive psychological capital.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.4908-4918
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• 2014

This study analyzed the characteristics and meaning of care labor by examining the experience of semi-aged caregivers. To that end, in-depth interviews were conducted for a qualitative study of 15 semi-aged caregivers working at elderly care facilities located in the Kyunggi-do region. The interview was conducted with a major focus on three categories: perception of care labor by semi-aged caregivers; stress experienced in the course of care labor; and insights earned through care labor. The analysis showed that semi-aged caregivers have a positive experience through care labor. This finding will contribute to understanding the characteristics and meaning of semi-aged care labor from a different perspective.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.17-26
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• 2006

The demand for long-term care is continuously on the rise as number of elders among the population increases. Due to the rapid growing demand for long-term care in Korea, there have been discussions for the introduction of new long-term care system into Korean society. The purpose of this study in to analyze changes of elderly care facilities in Japan after the beginning of long-term care system in 2000. The functional and architectural changes of Japanese facilities were researched to be used as references for predicting changes in Korean facilities. In Japan, after the execution of long term care system, the alterative aspect of facilities is divided into some categories; in sum, the change of environment for long term care, the effort to spread specialized facilities in a whole community, and the tendency to complex a variety of function of facilities such as an facility for home care service, and the like.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.282-291
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• 2012

This study investigated the job satisfaction of care worker affect on service quality. It was intended to provide the basic information for enhancing the Job satisfaction and making better quality of service. In order to meet the above purpose, the questionnaire method was applied for the care workers who worked at the 16 home care facilities located in Busan metropolitan city. 250 sheets of questionnaire were distributed and the total of 216 sheets were sampled among the collected questionnaire and analyzed. For data analysis, the statistics package of SPSS/WIN 12.0 was employed to perform reliability test, descriptive statistics analysis, correlation analysis, regression analysis. And the obtained results are as follows: As the result of the regression analysis to find out how care worker's job satisfaction will affect towards the quality of the service, service quality increased as the care worker's job satisfaction rate was higher. For the job satisfaction's sub-variables, it showed high service quality as the satisfaction was increased in the order of task satisfaction level and job safety level.

• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.83-93
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• 2021

This work aims to use the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) tool to develop the model of industrial competitiveness in the nursing homes of eleven provinces in east China. The original data is from China Civil Affairs Statistical Yearbook 2020. The results show that Jiangsu province has the highest competitiveness in the elderly care industry among the eleven provinces in east China, and Hainan province has the lowest competitiveness. The competitiveness of the elderly care industry varies among the eleven provinces in east China. The ratios of beds to medical staff, the ratio of nursing homes, per capital fixed assets in nursing homes, and the number of unable self-care elderly are the four main influential factors across the competitiveness of the elderly care industry and indicates that the nursing homes competitiveness is affected by multiple factors from multiple levels. A differentiated strategy should be taken according to the circumstances in different provinces to rationally develop the elderly care industry, improving efficiency, the level, and quality of services in the nursing homes.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.525-537
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• 2021

Since the late 1990s, public nursing hospitals have been established, and as of 2018, 79 hospitals account for 5.1% of all nursing hospitals. Announcing the public Moon Jae-in dementia in the state government responsibility for the convalescent hospital with dementia to patients for specified to the hospital with severe dementia specialist care institution. A different policy options and development. In this regard, the Dementia Management Act was revised in 2018 to provide a legal basis for the operation evaluation of public nursing hospitals, and this evaluation will begin in 2020. As part of the study to conduct the operation evaluation of public nursing hospitals to be implemented from 2020, the research established a function to foster public nursing hospitals as specialized institutions for dementia patients and competent institutions for treating rehabilitation patients during the period of recovery, and developed an evaluation system to evaluate their behavior as medical services, public nature and public institutions.