• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.321-332
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to identify relationships among level of e-Health literacy, subjective health status and health-seeking behaviors. Subjects were 102 senior citizens who used the internet at least once in the last month and visited elderly community centers and welfare centers. Collected data were analyzed descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's Correlation Coefficient, and Multiple Regression using SPSS version 25.0. Fifty five percent of subjects responded the average weekly internet usage hours was 'less than 3 hours', The e-health literacy (r=.349, p<.001) and subjective health status (r=.466, p<.001) were positively correlated with health seeking behavior. Subjects' gender (β=.22, p=.012), type of disease (β=.23, p=.013) and subjective health status (β=.38, p<.001) had significant effects on health-seeking behaviors. The results suggest that the development of intervention programs to increase the level of e-Health literacy and subjective health status to improve of their health-seeking behaviors.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.565-575
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to investigate the mediated effect of family support and gender differences in the effects of the health status of the elderly on the satisfaction of life The research method is to analyze the data of 4,698 the elderly through SPSS V22.0 in the 12th edition of the Korea Welfare Panel(2017). First, First, subjective health status in health status has a positive effect on life satisfaction, and chronic disease has a negative effect. Second, in the health status and life satisfaction relationship of the elderly, the family support was found to have a positive mediating effect, and in the chronic disease and life satisfaction relationship, the family support had a negative mediating effect. Third, the effect of health status on life satisfaction has been shown to have a more positive effect on men than women, more negative effects on men than women in the effect of chronic diseases on life satisfaction, and more positive effects on men than women in the effect of family support.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.12
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• pp.697-704
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• 2021

This study was conducted to provide data for the development of foods suitable for the level of oral health by analyzing the consumption of elderly-friendly foods according to the oral health status of the elderly. Using data from the health questionnaire, oral examination, and nutrition survey of the 7th National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the oral health status and nutritional intake status of the elderly by each stage of elderly-friendly foods were analyzed, and a complex sample analysis method was applied. The elderly who mainly consume stage 3 elderly-friendly foods appear to have very poor oral health and nutritional status. Therefore, when developing elderly-friendly foods, it is necessary to develop various foods and provide systematic education considering the oral health status of the elderly and appropriate nutrients.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.62-70
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• 2021

The purpose of this study was to identify health literacy among elderly and to investigate the relationships between healthy literacy and health status. A cross-sectional study was conducted with a sample of 158 participants between July and December 2019. The linguistic and functional health literacy (using the KHLAT and NVS) and self-rated physical and mental health were assessed. Above third of elderly have difficulties reading and understanding linguistic and functional health literacy. There were significant differences in health literacy according to residence, spouse, living together, educational level, occupation, monthly income, and number of diagnosed disease. Linguistic and functional health literacy and self-rated physical and mental health are closely related. Sociodemographic and disease related factors such as residence, educational level, monthly income, and multi-morbidity need to be considered when developing educational programs to improve health literacy. It could be possible to promote health status by improving the health literacy through individualized convergent educational program.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.271-280
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to offer basic data for developing effective program for promotion elderly people's oral condition, and oral health behavior upon the appearance of denture. This study was performed by utilizing health questionnaire survey and oral examination survey for first year(2010) law data of the 5th korea national health and nutrition examination survey. The research subjects were 1419 people who were aged over 65 and completed the oral examination and oral questionnaire survey. In the general characteristics, the need of denture was indicated highly in the male elderly. Factors of having relationship with a need of denture in oral health condition were indicated to be chewing difficulty(p<0.001) and dental caries(p<0.0001). The case of not using oral hygiene device was high in a need of denture(p<0.001). Also, a case of not dental treatment was indicated to be high in a need of denture(p<0.001). Through these related findings, the elderly's oral condition and oral health behavior were indicated to have high relationship with a need of denture. There is a need of securing basic data for promoting the elderly's oral health in the future and of seeking a plane for application in order to improve the elderly's health in the aging society. Therefore there is a need of securing and seeking elderly's health program which is considered the aging society's characteristics to improve the elderly's health promotion.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.318-327
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of perceived health status on resilience of life of elderly people participating in physical activity. Total of 282, elderly people participated in this study. Data ware analyzed by descriptive statistical analysis, reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis, correlation analysis, and multiple regression with SPSS 18.0 ver. program. The results were as following. It was found that sub-factors of perceived health status such as a health care factor, current health factor and future health factor significantly affected resilience of life.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.424-433
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to meta-analyze and compare the effect sizes of socioeconomic status and psychosocial factors on self-rated health among older adults. Also, to examine whether those effect sizes had been affected by certain moderator like gender through meta-regression analysis was attempted. A total of 487 effect sizes computed from 80 studies published in Korea before 2013 were analysed. The results of this research were as follows. Firstly, spousal support had the largest effects, followed by income, educational level, occupation, support of children, assets, non-family support, family support and social activities. Secondly, while the positive effect of non-family support on self-rated health increased for women than men, the positive effect of income decreased. The findings suggest the following; The importance of spousal support should be recognized for later life's health and the health support for those who had been bereaved must come first. Income security policies and non-family support for elderly women must be strengthened.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.147-153
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of sleep pattern on regular exercise and to examine mediating effect of subjective health status in the relationship between sleep pattern and regular exercise of older people. For the purpose of the study, older people aged over 65 years old who participated in 2020 Social Survey conducted by Statistics Korea were analyzed. Multiple regression analyses were used and significance of mediating effect was examined using Sobel test for 4,567 older people. Results of the analyses showed that sleep pattern had a significant effect on regular exercise of older people. That is, having an appropriate sleep increased the possibility of doing regular exercise, so the direct effect of sleep pattern on regular exercise was found. Sleep pattern had a significant effect on subjective health status, so older people having an appropriate sleep perceive their subjective health status more positively. As for the mediating effect, subjective health status had partial mediating effects in the relationship between sleep pattern and regular exercise of older people. Results of this study show that sleep pattern of older people should be considered in intervention for improving practicing regular exercise.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.571-581
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among the physical competence, subjective health status, and health promoting behavior of elderly participating in health activity program. For these purposes, we conducted a survey with 207 elderly. The findings were as follows. First, high physical strength group compared to the other groups had high subjective health status and health promoting behavior. Second, physical competence influenced positively on subjective health status. Third, physical competence influenced not significantly on health promoting behavior. Fourth, subjective health status influenced positively on health promoting behavior. These results were discussed based on previous literature and theory.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.341-347
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to identify factors affecting the perceived health conditions of the elderly in Korea, and to provide basic data on ways to improve the perceived health conditions of the elderly and future direction of the elderly welfare project. As an analysis method, Pearson's correlation was used to examine the correlation betwwen perceived health conditions, ADL, IADL, social participation, depression, nutritional conditions, and multiple regression analysis was used to find out which of these factors influenced. Also, to see the difference in depression according to the degree of perceived health conditions, a post-test(Scheffe) was used after one-way variance analysis(p<0.5). As a result of the analysis, perceived health conditions was positively correlated with ADL, IADL, social participation, and nutritional conditions, and negatively correlated with depressive state. In addition, as a result of examining the degree of depression according to the perceived health status, it showed a significant difference between groups. and the more the group perceived that their health was bad, the more severe it was. perceived health condition was found to be most associated with depressive status. and the positively perceived health conditions showed that the degree of depressive status also decreased, indicating that it is effective to actively manage depression to promote perceived health conditions.