• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.29-34
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• 2013

In this study, the corelation among the knowledge of and attitude to health care and the actual health protective practices of seafarers was surveyed and analyzed in order to provide the management method for improving seafarers' health care. The subjects of this study were 516 seafarers who took refresh training courses in Korea Institute of Maritime and Fisheries Technology. The questionnaire was constructed under the Guidelines for National Health of the Ministry of Health and Welfare and modified for studying seafarers' health state. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS package. The results were as follows: 1) The older, married, religion believer, higher ranker, the man who have longer career have the higher degree of knowledge, attitude, and practice-degree(p<0.05). 2) The degree of knowledge, attitude, and practice are $4.24{\pm}0.35$, $3.45{\pm}0.41$, and $3.39{\pm}0.22$ in mean by 5-score scale, respectably. 3) The corelation among the degree of knowledge, attitude, and practice was significant(r=0.33~0.63, p<0.05).