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Kim, Saerom; Kim, Jin-Hwan; Park, Yukyung; Kim, Sun; Kim, Chang-yup – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
This study aims to analyze South Korea's experience during the COVID-19 outbreak through a gendered lens. We briefly introduce the COVID-19 outbreak in Korea, scrutinize gendered vulnerability in contracting the virus, and then analyze the gendered aspects of the pandemic response in two phases: quarantine policy and mitigation policy. The authors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Public Health, Health Behavior
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Cho, Jeong Hyung; Kim, Young Jae – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2019
In this study, the 2016 Korea National Health and Nutrition Survey was used to determine if there was a difference in mental health according to the group's (Korea's Economic Vulnerability Group and Normal Groups) health behaviors. The subjects of the study were 367 economic vulnerability group and 708 normal groups, and data analysis was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Informed Consent, Health Behavior, Mental Health
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Kim, Sung Reul; Kim, Hyun Kyung; Kim, Ji Young; Kim, Hye Young; Ko, Sung Hee; Park, Minyoung – Journal of School Nursing, 2016
The aim of this study was to identify smoking cessation failure subgroups among Korean adolescents. Participants were 379 smoking adolescents who joined a smoking cessation program. A questionnaire and a cotinine urine test were administered before the program began. Three months after the program ended, the cotinine urine test was repeated. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Smoking, Health Behavior, Failure
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Ha, Yeongmi; Choi, Eunsook; Seo, Yeongmi; Kim, Tae-gu – Journal of School Health, 2013
Background: This study identified relationships among subjective social status (SSS), weight perception, weight control behaviors, and weight status in Korean adolescents using nationally representative data collected from the 2009 Korea Youth Risk Behaviors Web-Based Survey. Methods: Data from 67,185 students aged 12-18 years were analyzed.…
Descriptors: Social Status, Body Weight, Self Concept, Health Behavior
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Chung, Sung Suk; Joung, Kyoung Hwa – Journal of School Nursing, 2014
Many students in Korea begin to use tobacco and develop a regular smoking habit before they reach adulthood. Yet, little is known about various signs contributing to the transition of the student smoking behaviors. This study used a national sample to explore and compare risk factors for smoking behaviors. Three types of smoking behaviors were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Smoking, At Risk Persons, Health Behavior
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Khang, Young-Ho; Kim, Hye-Ryun; Cho, Seong-Jin – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2010
Using 7-year mortality follow-up data (n = 341) from the 1998 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys of South Korean individuals (N = 5,414), the authors found that survey participants with suicide ideation were at increased risk of suicide mortality during the follow-up period compared with those without suicide ideation. The…
Descriptors: Health Conditions, Health Behavior, Suicide, Longitudinal Studies