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http://dx.doi.org/10.17703/IJACT.2019.7.1.155

Effects of Holistic Healthcare Home Visit Intervention Program for Multi-cultural Couples

Kim, Yeun-Mi (Dept. of Nursing, Suwon Women's University)
Ko, Chang-Bae (Dept. of Business Administration, Kyungdong University)

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International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology / v.7, no.1, 2019 , pp. 155-161 More about this Journal

Abstract

This study was to identify the effects of home visit intervention program for Holistic Healthcare of multi-culture Couples. It used a non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest design quasi-experimental research. The subjects of this study consist of 20 couples for experimental and control groups. Multi-cultural couples comprised of foreign women married to Korean men in farm and fishery areas. The research tools were used stress index by SA-3000P (Medicare co. Ltd. KOREA), Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D), and World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-Bref). The experimental group of the wives had lower stress index than the control group, the experimental group of the husband showed lower stress index than the control group, (t=-3.14, p=.002). The wife (t=-3.75, p=.001) and husband (t=-4.20, p=.001) of the experimental group showed lower depression scores than the control group. Both the wife (t=3.86, p=.001) and husband (t=5.28, p=.001) showed higher scores for quality of life compared to the control group. It was found that this holistic healthcare home visit program is an effective program to make improvements on stress, depression and quality of life for multi-cultural couples. Therefore, as the intervention program developed in this study is home visits for the holistic health of multi-cultural couples, and it is judged that it can be implemented at the local social health centers or healthcare centers.

Keywords

Multi-cultural Couples; Holistic Healthcare; Home Visit Intervention Program; Stress Index; Depression; Quality of Life;

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