• Korean Parent-Child Health Journal
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.11-16
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• 2013

Purpose: Ethiopia is one of the sub-Saharan countries most affected by high maternal and infant mortality. The government has trained health extension workers (HEWs), the community health workers, to deliver preventive and basic curative health services to community residents in Ethiopia. Very few studies have investigated on-the-job educational effects for HEWs on improvement of their knowledge and performance confidence in maternal and child health care (MCH). This study aimed at identifying the educational effects for HEWs in one health center in Tigray, Ethiopia on improvement of their knowledge in MCH. Methods: Twelve HEWs from 6 health posts participated in this study. A health center officer provided a total of 5 educational sessions on antenatal and postnatal care, family planning, and newborn care from August, 2012 to April, 2013. Ten to 12 items regarding the topics were tested before and after each education. Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to analyze the data. Results: All the HEWs were female with average 4-year working experience. Their knowledge significantly increased after education, except the first session. Their satisfaction on education was greater than 45 points out of 50. Conclusion: This study suggests a focused education for HEWs should continue to improve their capacity on MCH.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.99-116
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• 2004

This study examined the time use of married female home-based workers in comparison with married female on-site workers. The data were collected from 165 home-based workers and 292 on-site workers in Busan and Kyungnam province, by a self-administered questionnaire. Frequency distributions, Pearson's correlations, and multiple regression analyses were conducted by SPSS/PC/sup +/. The major findings are summarized as follows: (1) both groups spent more time in physiological activities, household work, and leisure on weekends than on weekdays, while they spent more time in work on weekdays than on weekends; and (2) generally, the age of the youngest child and the home presence of an aged or handicapped relative had effects on the time use of home-based workers. These results imply that home-based workers need to develop some strategies for time management to harmonize their home-based work with household work.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.195-214
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to investigate on the effect of the elderly reading education activity for the children in local child care center. For this study, the data was collected, based on questionnaires by children who participated in the elderly reading assistant education activity program in 14 local child centers. And The study employs a survey observation of reading guidance lesson and individual interviews with the workers at the local child care center. As a result, this shows that the elderly reading guidance activity effects on draws children' interest in reading effectively, and that the workers' opinions about the elderly reading education activity are positive.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.51-65
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• 2015

Case management is becoming increasingly more important in the field of social welfare. The purpose of this study was to examine the practice of case management at community child centers and to identify factors influencing their performance. In addition, this study also analysed the performance level of case management at each stage and the factors influencing the level at each stage. For the purpose of this study, data obtained from about 181 community child center workers in Busan, Ulsan and Gyeongsangnamdo were analyzed. According to the results of the analysis, in Model 1 which represents the category of socio-demographic and personal factors, three factors namely gender, experience in case management, and interpersonal skills were found to be significantly influential and they have an explanatory power of 21.5%. Under the category of organizational factors in Model 2, four factors were found to be influential: experience in case management, interpersonal skills, availability of case management guidelines, and holding case conferences. These factors account for 33% explanatory power, 11.5% higher than that of Model 1. In Model 3 which represents the third category of community network literacy, three factors namely interpersonal skills, availability of case management guidelines, and ability to utilize networks were found to influence case management at community child centers, and they have an explanatory power of 43.4%, 10.4% higher than that of Model 2. For the practice of social welfare, these findings have the implication that community child center workers need to improve their interpersonal skills by cultivating communication skills, collaborative problem-solving skills, conflict-management skills, and other relevant skills. Furthermore, it is necessary to provide specific guidelines for case management, to have regular case conferences, to establish a community network, and to reinforce cooperation and mutual support among institutions within the network.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.406-416
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• 2019

Purpose: Children in migrant villages in Kyrgyzstan have a high incidence of anemia and need effective health promotion programs. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a pilot study of a health promotion project for infants and toddlers based on community participation. Methods: This was a retrospective study conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the project. The project was carried out by nurses at a public health center, community health workers, and local residents in a migrant village. After the operational system of the project was established, health assessments, child-care education, provision of vouchers for iron supplements, and activities to improve residents' awareness were conducted during 6 months among 100 children, of whom 85 were finally analyzed. Results: In international health projects, close cooperation of the project team with community residents and health workers is important. Access to the community-based program was feasible in the socially and economically poor migrant village, and improvements were shown in children's anemia and awareness of health care. Conclusion: By focusing on the effective aspects of this preliminary project, plans to utilize community health workers and promotion strategies can be added to the main project to improve health promotion among children in this area.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.53
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• pp.209-230
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• 2003

This is the study to find out the differences between the mandated reporters who reported child abuse and who did not report and to know which factors affect the reporting behavior The researcher sent questioners to 595 doctors, teachers, nurses and social workers in 3 different cities as a sample. 477 people responded to questioner and only 116 people who said that they have found out abused child during the last year were used for analysis of this research. Among 116 people, only 35.4% reported child abuse. There were significant differences between two groups, groups that reported child abuse and groups that did not report, in attitude about Abuse, the experience of child abuse training and knowledge about abuse. However, the result of Logistic regression showed that reporting behavior are significantly affected by occupation, experience of child abuse training and severity of abuse.

• The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.1-14
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• 2018

Objectives : The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of welfare system of medical institutions on job satisfaction and organizational commitment of female workers. Methods : A survey was performed with 556 female workers of 11 general hospital and 7 acute period hospital in Busan. Data were collected from October to November 2017 with a self-report questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS 24.0. Results : Among those aged over 40 years, high awareness of obligatory welfare, job education, free use of the annual leave, and flexible working system was a positive factor in job satisfaction. Among managers, free use of the annual leave, job education, flexible working system and child-care facilities was a positive factor in organizational commitment. Conclusions : In medical institutions with a relatively high proportion of married women, although interest in welfare for childbirth and child rearing is high, execution is sluggish, hence, policy support of government and medical institutions in this field is necessary.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.67 no.2
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• pp.285-310
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to verify qualitatively and quantitatively practitioners' perceptions of functions and roles of community child center which plays a pivotal role in afterschool care in Korea. To achieve its purposes, we investigate environments, services, workers, service users, and delivery systems of community child center. As a result, 4 types of perception of community child center(service integration-oriented type focusing on professional workers, care-oriented type based on child care center's physical environment, delivering service-oriented type working in collaboration with schools, and individual case management-oriented type) were examined. These results were also classified into two categories. One focused on the importance of workers and supports for service environments. The other focused more on the functions of community child center to find commonality and originality in other afterschool care systems. This study can be valuable in understanding practitioners' different perception on functions and roles of community child center which have not yet been confirmed statistically. The results allow us to apply diverse practitioners' perceptions to the practice, and to elicit discussions regarding improved practice directions for managing community child center. It also can provide useful baseline data in policy decisions and enforcement.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.23 no.1 s.73
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• pp.223-239
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to explore the impacts of personality variables, family variables, job variables, work-family conflict and job satisfaction on life satisfaction of family business workers. The major findings are as follows: 1. There was direct causal effects of job satisfaction, Sunday working level, the duration of the family business, an academic background on life satisfaction of family business workers. 2. Such variables family variables(family size, number of family workers, number of unpaid family workers), working time variables (working hours per a day, saturday working level, flexibility of working time), work-family conflict had indirect causal effects on life satisfaction of family business workers

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.47-66
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to find the difference of household/work characteristics, family life satisfaction, and work satisfaction between home-based workers and out-of-home workers. The data of this study was collected from 230 married womens(home-based worker : 103 cases out-of-home worker : 127 cases) living in seoul. The major findings of the study are as follows. 1) Home-based worker's consumption expenditure structure, wive's housework time, schedule flexibility and degree of interruption, work loads were significantly higher than out-of-home workers. 2) Home-based worker's average monthly wage of her own and work time were significantly lower than out-of-home jokers. 3) Home-based worker's child care satisfaction and time use satisfaction were significantly higher than out-of-home workers. Out-of-home worker's self-fulfillment satisfaction, satisfaction of relation with supervisor, job stability satisfaction, work time satisfaction was significantly higher than home-based workers.