Research in Community and Public Health Nursing

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[English] Influencing Factors for Work Engagement of COVID-19 Response Workers in Public Health Centers: Based on the Job Demands-Resources Model: Songran Park, Yeongmi Ha; Res Community Public Health Nurs. 2024;35(1):64-75. Published online March 29, 2024; DOI: https://doi.org/10.12799/rcphn.2023.00346

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This study aimed to identify the influencing factors for work engagement of COVID-19 response workers in public health centers based on the JD-R model.
Methods
The participants were 119 civil servants and professionals of 20 public health centers with at least 6 months of work experience and have experience of COVID-19 response tasks in cities, districts and counties. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation coefficient and multiple regression using IBM SPSS 27.0.
Results
The factors influencing work engagement were age, career development opportunity, and person-job fit. The explanatory power of these variables was 61%.
Conclusion
In order to enhance the work engagement of public health center workers in responding to future infectious disease outbreaks, it is necessary to develop various strategies such as assigning job roles that aligned with individual characteristics, providing career growth opportunities even during infectious disease outbreaks, and designing tasks by taking into account age.

[English] A Grounded Theory Approach on Correctional Officers’ Adaptation Process of Job Stress: Hyun Ok Jung, Hee Sook Kim; J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 2021;32(1):73-85. Published online March 31, 2021; DOI: https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2021.32.1.73

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Purpose
The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the adaptation process of correctional officers’ job stress.
Methods
Participants collected were fourteen officers who had experienced the adaptation process of job stress. Data were collected through individual in-depth interviews until the point of theoretical saturation from May to August, 2017. Transcribed interview contents were analyzed using Corbin and Strauss’ grounded theory method.
Results
A total of 98 concepts, 27 subcategories, and 10 categories were identified through the open coding. As a result of axial coding based on the paradigm model, the job stress adaptation process centering phenomenon of correctional officers was revealed as ‘repeat-mark hardening’, and the core category was extracted as ‘endurance in hardening’ consisting of a three-step process: enduring, understanding prisoner management procedures, and rebuilding. The rebuilding was considered as the key phase to escape the repeat-mark hardening and the participants utilized various strategies such as finding fun elsewhere, restoring confidence, accepting values of the prison officer in this phase.
Conclusion
The results of this study suggest that the adaptation process of correctional officers’ job stress can be a process that endurance the hardening. Therefore, it is necessary to develop systematic practical education and vocational motivation programs.

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Sailing the Stormy Tides of Police Stress: Exploring the Effects of Perceived Job Dangerousness and Work–Family Conflict on Occupational Stress among Korea Coast Guard Police Officers
Riccardo Ferraresso, Chang-Bae Lee
Asian Journal of Criminology.2025;[Epub] CrossRef
Factors influencing the happiness of male correctional officers: A cross-sectional study in South Korea
Hyun-Ok Jung, Seung-Woo Han, Anis Eliyana
PLOS ONE.2024; 19(8): e0308171. CrossRef
Psychological Experience of Correctional Officers’ Treatment of Mentally Ill Prisoners: Phenomenological Study
Hyun-Ok Jung
Journal of Korean Academy of psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.2023; 32(4): 450. CrossRef
The Effect of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Korean Correctional Officers about COVID-19 on Job Stress
Hyun-Ok Jung, Seung-Woo Han
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.2021; 18(15): 7779. CrossRef

[English] The Effects of a Stress Management Program on Job Stress in a Hotel Culinary Staff: In Sook Rhie, Soon Lae Kim; J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 2008;19(4):611-621. Published online December 31, 2008

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This study was conducted to investigate the effects of a stress management program on Job Stress in culinary staff at a Hotel.
METHOD
This was a quasi-experimental study using non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The subjects of this study were 52 culinary staff members(head culinary, first culinary) working at a S hotel.(25 in the experimental group, 27 in the control group) The experimental group was provided with an individual counseling program for 12 weeks and 30 min/week. The control group was provided with booklets. Data were analyzed with SAS Program using repeated measures ANOVA.
RESULTS
The stress management program was effective to improve job stressors and especially to relax interpersonal conflict among the sub-factors of job stress based on the results mentioned above.
CONCLUSION
This program was effective in reducing job stress. However, further studies are required to measure persistent and long-term effects through the application of the program, which is specifically designed for reduce to job stress, for over 12 weeks.

[English] Job Stress and Musculoskeletal Symptoms of Care Workers at Medical Welfare Facilities for Elders: Young Mi Lee; J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 2007;18(3):410-419. Published online September 30, 2007

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This study is a descriptive survey to find out musculoskeletal symptoms in care workers working at medical welfare facilities for elders and factors affecting such symptoms.
METHODS
Data were collected from 115 care workers selected through convenient sampling from 6 medical welfare facilities in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do during the period from May 15th to May 19th, 2006. The Korean version of Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) were used.
RESULT
Of the subjects, 81.7% complained of musculoskeletal symptoms in two or more parts of their body. The frequency of body parts with musculoskeletal symptoms was high in order of shoulder, leg/foot, waist, neck/hand/wrist/finger and arm/elbow. The average job insecurity instability in the age group of 50-59 was 9.19, the average degree of regular exercise was 59.68, and the average job demand in those diagnosed with musculoskeletal diseases was 47.06, and the average job demand in those wounded during exercise or by an accident was 47.78, and all these were statistically significant. The heavier physical load in their work was, the higher their complaint of musculoskeletal symptoms was. In the lower social support group, the degree of complaint on musculoskeletal symptoms was remarkably high.
CONCLUSION
The physical load of their duty and social support worked as the factors affecting musculoskeletal symptoms in care workers.

[English] A Study on Job Stress adn Job Satisfaction of 119 Relief Squads: Sung Hee Lee, Yeon Hee Choi; J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 2006;17(4):521-529. Published online December 31, 2006

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[English] The Factors Affecting Job Stress and Job Satisfaction of Nurses at Welfare Centers in Seoul: Hee Ja Lim, Hye Sun Jung, Jung Wan Koo; J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 2005;16(3):341-350. Published online September 30, 2005

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The purpose of this research was to find out factors affecting job stress and job satisfaction of nurses working at the welfare centers.
METHODS
This study was performed with 140 nurses who were working at or had retired within 1 year from general welfare centers in Seoul during the period from March 29 to February 29 2004. We used a questionnaire asking about general characteristics. work characteristics. stress factors and job satisfaction. We analysed 103 subjects who replied to the questionnaires.
RESULTS
The mean job stress level was 2.84 out of 5 and. as for the sub-factors of job stress. income was 4.19, career development 3.69, service environment 3.26 and support system 1.90. The mean job satisfaction level was 3.32 out of 5 and. as for the sub-factors of job satisfaction, job control was 3.58, efficiency of organization 3.27, job burden and responsibility 2.92 and role ambiguity 2.25. When the nurses' job stress was compared according to their general and work characteristics. stress level was significantly high in nurses who had a short experience. were working at the department of senior welfare center. or were the only staff at their workplace (p<0.05). In addition. satisfaction level was significantly high in nurses who were working at the department of senior welfare center and medical welfare team. were the only staff at their workplace or had a heavy work load (p<0.05). According to the results of multiple regression analysis. job stress level was influenced by age (R2=0.212, p<0.01). and job satisfaction level by the number of staffs and work load (R2=0.272, p<0.1).
CONCLUSIONS
The results of the study suggest that good atmosphere should be made up to communicate between the departments at the workplace in order to lessen job stress and enhance job satisfaction of nurses working at welfare centers. In addition. role division and job duties among special staffs should be reviewed in order to achieve high efficiency in performing job duties.

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