• Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.352-360
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• 2017

Objectives: This study aimed to determine the effects on musculoskeletal symptoms of both social demographic features and detailed characteristics of each task category of care workers who offer visiting home-help services. And to establish the measures that can reduce musculoskeletal symptoms among care workers. Methods: This study was conducted among 192 care workers from welfare centers C and K located in city P. After participants completed the task burden checklist regarding the scale of musculoskeletal symptoms and the details of their duties, the data collected were analyzed using the SPSS 21.0 program. Results: According to the degree of observable musculoskeletal symptoms in care workers, the highest figures were observed for back and shoulder pain. Based on the results of assessing the effect of detailed task category characteristics on musculoskeletal symptoms, "helping patients eat, helping patients move, helping patients bath, and changing body positions" were found to have an effect from the physical care category, "providing physical therapy assistance, treating bedsores" from the health care category, and "cleaning and doing laundry" from the facility management category. Conclusions: Due to the high proportion of patients requiring burdensome physical labor from care workers such as moving patients who have trouble doing so on their own, helping them change positions, and so on, it is highly likely that pain will occur in the low back, which carries most of the physical weight. So, education on human epidemiological positions that can reduce overload on areas prone to pain such as the low back and shoulders is essential. Proper equipment and personnel support must be provided for dangerous tasks. Further, multidimensional social support is required consistently.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.428-437
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• 2011

This study examines how caregivers' academic motivation to participate in training affects their learning flow with their training. This study surveyed 230 trainees at a caregiver training agency in City B. A survey was conducted, and questionnaire was conceived to obtain the measure of two latent variables: learning flow, motivation to learning. Descriptive statistics, factor analysis, correlation analysis and regression analysis were used. Intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation had positive effects on learning flow. However Intrinsic motivation had high level of correlation than extrinsic motivation on learning flow. Therefore, learning flow had not alone intrinsic motivation but also partial correlation with extrinsic motivation. The multidirectional study is require the caregivers' training for development, caregivers' training and Management.

• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.51-61
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• 2010

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to investigate the perception of LTCP trainees' on their professional. To accomplish the purpose, the perceived occupational nature and perceived clients' nature among the participants in the LTCP education are examined with the predicting variables. Methods: The participants of this study were composed of 320 people who have completed the long-term care provider certificate program. The participants were from 5 different long-term care provider licensing institution in the region of Gangdong-Gu, Seoul. Total of 320 self-administered questionnaires were distributed from June 2, 2008 to October 2, 2008 and 297 questionnaires were collected. Among them 283 surveys were analyzed. Results: In this model, active family support and recognition of task characteristics for the LTCP were the significantly predicting with beta of .187 and .507. The effect from active family support was remained significantly as model progressed. The magnitude of F-value and R-square value were significant. Conclusion: The results from this study will be helpful for the scholars who have investigated on the LTCP education program development as well as policy makers who have tried to supply dependable LTCP to the needy elderly and their families. In turn, the results from this study may empower constituents to make informed decisions about, and easily access, existing health and long-term care options.

• 한국노년학
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.1043-1061
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to evaluate cost side by type of long term care services economically, and then to discuss the findings and implications for the results of analysis. For this research, primary caregivers that provide care the elderly requiring long term care services sanctioned by National Health Insurance Corporation were drawn and surveyed. Among collected data, data for 422 primary caregivers were used for this study. The subjects used in this study consisted of family caregivers from various settings that give care to the elderly. The results of this study can be summarized as follows. First, caregiver's household income level is low. Therefore, caregiving families with the elderly are likely to have financial difficulties. Second, under coverage of long term care insurance system, the direct cost caregiving households pay for the elderly is still very high. Third, indirect cost of caregiving households accounted for the larger proportion caregiving costs. Fourth, social cost burden for caregiving the elderly is very high. This cost amount is appropriately equal to household income of caregivers surveyed in the research. Fifth, service use cost of caregiving households is differentiated by type of long term care service. Sixth, direct cost of caregiving households is statistically significantly differentiated by type of long term care service, but is differentiated less than service use cost. Seventh, social indirect cost for caregiving the elderly is statistically significantly differentiated by type of long term care service. Eighth, social cost amounts for the elderly utilizing long term care service is very high, total social cost per capita by types of long term care service tend to converge on average social cost per capita of total service.

• 한국노년학
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.917-933
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• 2009

This study examined the factors affecting forms of long-term care service use by elderly and the forms of use are classified facility care service, home care service, and unused. It is used data from the 2nd pilot program for the Long Term Care Insurance scheme and it is analysed 5,497 cases. Multi-nominal regression is used. According to the results, women use formal service more than man do, and wowen use facility care than home care. Those who eligible for National Basic Livelihood Security System(NBLSS) are shown to have higher use of formal care(especially facility care) than the middle income class, and the low income class than the middle income class has lower use of formal care. In addition, higher the family care is available, lower the taking part in the service. The big cities and mid sized cities than rural are used the formal service and moreover mid sized cities are used facility care than home care. Furthermore, the level of care need is determinants of service use and function of ADL, IADL, and abnormal behavior is also determinants of formal service(especially facility care). But nursing need and rehabilitation need are not determinants of formal service use. Based on the results, the recommendations are developed and implemented for the improvement the elderly long-term care insurance.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.646-656
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• 2021

This study examined effects of attitude toward the elderly, empathy and job stress on quality of service among caregivers in long-term care facilities. The participants were 133 caregivers in C province. Data were collected from May 1 to August 31, 2019 through self reported structured questionnaire. Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, and stepwise regression. Empathy correlated negatively with job stress and correlated positively quality of service. Attitude toward the elderly and job stress were negatively correlated with quality of service. Job stress, empathy and attitude toward the elderly explained 31.6% of variance in quality of service among caregivers in long-term care facilities. The findings indicate that caregivers' job stress, empathy and attitude toward the elderly are important factors to be considered for the improving quality of service among caregivers in long-term care facilities.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.65-80
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• 2023

Through inductive content analysis, this study sought to examine the crisis experienced by the institution, the quality of service, and the distrust of the system and institution based on the experience of distrust in the home-visiting care service of bbeneficiary and guardians. FGI was conducted on five managers of institutions that provide home-visiting care services. As a result, the central phenomenon was found: deterioration of service quality, distrust of systems and institutions, and difficulties in opera-ting long-term care institutions. In order to improve the quality of home-visited care services and build trust in care workers and institutions, first, home-based associations or operating corporations should develop new education program plans and manuals to strengthen the capabilities of care workers and social workers. Second, the NHIS's monitoring system and the professional management system of care workers should be established. Third, it is necessary to improve awareness of the role, expertise, and rights of care workers, and fourth, improvement measures are required to reduce the turnover rate of care workers, which is the cause of the deterioration of the quality of long-term care services.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.151-159
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to empirically analyze the effect that the job satisfaction of care workers would have on the organization commitment. For this study, 230 care workers were surveyed via mail who were working at the long-term recuperation institutes for the elderly located in the eastern part of Jeollanam-do. 141 sets of questionnaires were used for analysis, excluding those with missing data. The collected data were processed by using the SPSS 18.0 to conduct the frequency analysis, reliability analysis, t/F-test, and hierarchical regression analysis. The results of analysis suggested the followings : First, the difference in organization commitment based on individual characteristics and job characteristics of care workers was found to exist, depending on the age related to individual characteristics and types of institutes and work types related to the job characteristics. Second, hierarchical regression analysis was conducted to analyze the effect that the job satisfaction of care workers would have on organization commitment. With the individual characteristics and occupation environment variables of care workers being controlled, it was found that the job satisfaction of care workers had the greatest effect on organization commitment. This implies that the extent of job satisfaction determines the commitment level of care workers for the concerned job.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.167-177
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• 2010

It is really important that trained professional care givers service pursuer for long tenn care insurance in Korea. This study was done to evaluate the infection prevention knowledge and attitude on nursing caregiver students with one group pre test-post test to compare on the education program. The data was collected by standardized self-administered questionnaire with a total of 128 nursing caregiver students in G city. The data was analyzed using the SPSS WIN 10.0 program such as t-test. The knowledge of infection prevention was significantly increased on pre-education and post-education of Infection Prevention Education Program. It is necessary for continuous education to maintain quality of nursing and improve the knowledge of infection prevention and program development on nursing caregiver.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.9
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• pp.297-307
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• 2016

This study aims to carry out empirical analysis on the effect of care workers' awareness of professionalism on the service quality, and to provide policy level and action oriented recommendations for the improvement of care workers' awareness of professionalism and service quality based on the key findings. The study targeted care workers who work at the senior citizen care take centers at the S and Y cities in the Jeollanam-do Province, carrying out survey research. A total of 190 questionnaires among the collected questionnaires were used for the analysis. Key research methods included factor analysis, reliability analysis, descriptive statistic analysis, correlation analysis, t/F-verification and regression analysis. The following are the results. First, conviction of the care workers' awareness of professionalism towards public service and the empathy of service quality were manifested at the highest level. Second, there was a difference in the service quality according to the care workers' experience. Third, care workers' awareness of professionalism affected service quality while service quality increased as the awareness of professionalism increased. The research results were utilized to recommend the need to develop and to disseminate structured education program for the care workers, to set the guideline for the care workers' employment form and salary, and to develop structure for the care workers' ethics.