A Conceptual Analysis of Korean Elders’ Yangsaeng in Nursing

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Res Community Public Health Nurs. 2019;30(1):1-10

Publication date (electronic) : 2019 March 12

doi : https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2019.30.1.1

Doctoral Student, Department of Nursing, Graduate School and College of Nursing Science, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea

Corresponding author: Gu, Min Kyung College of Nursing Science, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 02447, Korea. Tel: +82-31 539 1870, E-mail: g-minkyung@hanmail.net

Received 2018 May 30; Revised 2018 August 17; Accepted 2018 August 22.

Abstract

Purpose

This study tries to analyze the concept of Yangsaeng in the Korean aged, with focus on nursing.

Methods

Rodgers' evolutionary approach was used to identify the common definitions, attributes, antecedents, and consequences of the Yangsaeng concept for the aged. Literature search was conducted at the NAL, NDSL, RISS, ProQuest, PubMed, AMED, and MEDLINE databases from 2004 to 2016, using the keywords “Yangsaeng,” “health promotion,” “health management,” “traditional oriental methods,” and “traditional oriental nursing.”Finally, 20 relevant articles were selected and thoroughly reviewed.

Results

The analysis shows that the model of Yangsaeng for the Korean aged is that of personal adaptive-capacity, totality, challenging, and coping resource and includes physical, social and psychological health and wellness.

Conclusion

This work provides some implications on the development of nursing intervention related with Yangsaeng for the Korean aged, and suggests the implementation of such intervention in the practice of Yangsaeng for the Korean aged. Therefore, a better understanding of the Korean aged and Yangsaeng within the context of nursing can be achieved.

Keywords: Aged; Health behavior; Biological evolution

Figure 1.

Literature search flow and algorithm.

Table 1.

Rodgers' Evolutionary Approach to Concept Analysis

Table 2.

Conceptual Diagram of Yangsaeng for the Aged

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