• 한국직업건강간호학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.163-170
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• 2014

Purpose: The purpose of this descriptive, cross-sectional study was to examine relationships among self efficacy, social support, and health promoting behaviors in correctional officers. Factors that influence health promoting behaviors of correctional officers were also assessed. Methods: Two hundred correctional officers completed a pack of self-report questionnaires. Collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and multiple regression. Results: There were statistically significant differences in health promoting behaviors depending on marital status and subjective health status. Significant positive correlations among self-efficacy, social support, and health promoting behaviors were found. Factors influencing health promoting behaviors of correctional officers were social support, subjective health status, marital status, and self-efficacy. Conclusion: Considering the findings from this study, health care providers need to develop effective nursing interventions which increase the level of self-efficacy and social support for correctional officers and to help correctional officers practice health promoting behaviors.

• 시큐리티연구
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• 제49호
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• pp.11-36
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• 2016

이 연구는 국내의 여성교도관들의 다양한 스트레스 관련요인과 그 영향력을 분석하기 위한 경험적 연구이다. 가장 중요한 연구의 검증주제는 어떠한 직업과 가정의 갈등요인들이 여성교도관들의 스트레스에 미치는지 그리고 영향력은 어떠한지를 분석하고자 하였다. 더 나아가 일반적으로 교도관들의 스트레스와 관련되어 있다고 알려져 있는 개인적 단위의 요인들과 조직적 단위의 요인들의 영향력과 유의미성 역시 검증하였다. 이 연구의 분석을 위해서 국내의 12개의 교도소에서 근무하고 있는 여성교도관들 172명을 대상으로 설문조사를 수행하여 데이터를 수집하고 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 분석결과 여성교정공무원들의 스트레스에 영향을 미치는 요인들은 보안과 근무여부, 생활만족도, 상관의 조직운영에 대한 인식, 그리고 육아와 가사를 근무와 병행하는 어려움, 남성중심조직문화의 어려움의 5가지 변수들이었다. 주목할 만한 것은 보안과 근무여부, 생활만족도, 상관의 조직운영에 대한 인식 그리고 육아와 가사와 근무병행의 어려움의 네 가지 요인들은 모두 여성교도관들의 스트레스를 감소시키는 요인들이었다. 그러나 남성중심조직문화의 어려움은 여성교도관들의 스트레스를 증가시키는 요인인 것으로 나타났다. 여기서 육아와 가사와 근무병행의 어려움과 남성중심조직문화의 어려움은 여성교도관들의 직업-가정갈등요인으로 분석에 사용되었다. 이와 같은 결과는 여성교도관들이 남성들에 비해 특별히 다른 스트레스 요인을 가지고 있지는 않으며 심지어 육아와 가정생활과 관련된 업무의 부담까지도 스트레스 요인으로 인식되지 않고 있다는 점이다. 그러나 남성중심적인 업무환경은 여전히 여성교도관들의 스트레스를 증가시키는 가장 심각한 위험요인이라는 것이 발견되었다. 이와 같은 연구의 발견에 근거한 논의가 결과와 논의에서 해석되고 논의되었다.

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.47-58
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• 2013

Objectives: Everyday correctional officers confront with so many criminals, so this situation could be a bad environment on correctional officer's mental health. But the study about their mental health status and related factors have rarely been focused, and besides, the actual mental health conditions of them have also been rarely investigated. Consequently, this study aimed to identify mental health status and related factors of correctional officers. Methods: Data were collected from July 10 to August 25, 2012. The Participants included 1,496 correctional officers in 50 correctional facilities. Results: The risk factors of mental health problems were living in urban region, 40 ages group, less experience in correctional field, unmarried marital status & not living with their spouse, over nine hours contact with criminals and so forth. On the other hand, stress coping methods were not related with socioeconomic and other factors. Conclusions: Lessening working hours or contact hours with criminals, providing a risk-group management for those who have many risk factors, making self-support group will be helpful to manage or promote their mental health status. Besides, employee assistance programs should be developed such as job stress management methods or counselling communication skills.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2013

This study is proposed to suggest the preventing methods for correctional officer's mental health problems. For this purpose, Delphi method was used and the study panel was composed of finally 10 people. Total Delphi process was performed for 4 times and six qualified researchers & skilled correctional officers participated in developing Delphi questionnaires. As the main results, major correctional officer's mental health problems are PTSD(post traumatic stress disorder), job stress, suicide witnessing, stress from violent accidents, and anger by related with their own work. All of these problems must need to be managed. Besides, the most effective preventing method for correctional officer's mental health problem is providing regular counsels & treatments with a psychiatrist or the fully qualified experts. The mental health promotion strategies for correctional officers must be settled for providing appropriate mental health services to them.

• 시큐리티연구
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• 제45호
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• pp.37-63
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• 2015

이 연구는 여성교정직원들에 대한 남자수용자들의 성고정관념적 인식과 태도를 조사하고, 남자수용자들의 성고정관념적 인식과 태도가 이들의 교정시설에서의 적응문제, 특히 스트레스의 수준에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 경험적으로 분석하고자 하는 목적이 있다. 이와 같은 연구의 목적을 위해 전국의 교도소에 수감되어 있는 남자 수형자들을 대상으로 설문조사하여 수집된 219명의 데이터를 사용하여 분석하였다. 연구의 분석을 위해서 연구 가설 4개를 세워 각 연구가설에 따른 분석의 수행결과, 남성수용자들의 여성교도관에 대한 성고정관념적 인식은 그리 높지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 이어서 남성수용자들의 수용생활 중의 스트레스의 수준에 여성교도관들에 대한 성고정관념적 인식이 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 남자수용자들의 전체 남녀교정직원에 대한 인식과 태도는 이들의 수용기간 동안의 스트레스 수준에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 남자수용자들이 여성교정직원들을 여성으로 인식하기보다 전문적인 교정직원의 일원으로서 남녀의 구별없이 인식하고 있는 것으로 이해된다. 이 연구의 결과에 대한 논의와 정책적, 학문적 함의 및 후속연구에 대한 제안 등이 결과와 논의에서 더욱 논의되었다.

• 지역사회간호학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.73-85
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• 2021

Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the adaptation process of correctional officers' job stress. Methods: Participants collected were fourteen officers who had experienced the adaptation process of job stress. Data were collected through individual in-depth interviews until the point of theoretical saturation from May to August, 2017. Transcribed interview contents were analyzed using Corbin and Strauss' grounded theory method. Results: A total of 98 concepts, 27 subcategories, and 10 categories were identified through the open coding. As a result of axial coding based on the paradigm model, the job stress adaptation process centering phenomenon of correctional officers was revealed as 'repeat-mark hardening', and the core category was extracted as 'endurance in hardening' consisting of a three-step process: enduring, understanding prisoner management procedures, and rebuilding. The rebuilding was considered as the key phase to escape the repeat-mark hardening and the participants utilized various strategies such as finding fun elsewhere, restoring confidence, accepting values of the prison officer in this phase. Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that the adaptation process of correctional officers' job stress can be a process that endurance the hardening. Therefore, it is necessary to develop systematic practical education and vocational motivation programs.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.167-173
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• 2021

Background: Correctional officers (COs) experience elevated rates of mental and physical ill-health as compared with other general industry and public safety occupations. The purpose of this study was to investigate demographic, mental health, job tenure, and work-family characteristics and their prospective association to burnout within and between jail officers during one year of new employment. Methods: In 2016, newly hired jail officers (N = 144) completed self-reported surveys across four time points in a one-year prospective study at a Midwestern United States urban jail. Linear mixed-effects and growth modeling examined how work-family conflict (W-FC) and depressive symptoms relate to perceptions of burnout over time. Results: Jail officer burnout increased and was related to rises in W-FC and depression symptoms. Within-person variance for W-FC (B_pooled = .52, p < .001) and depression symptoms (B_pooled = .06, p < .01) were significant predictors of burnout. Less time on the job remained a significant predictor of burnout across all analyses (B_pooled = .03, p < .001). Conclusions: Results from this study indicate that burnout increased during the first year of new employment; and increased W-FC, higher depression, and brief tenure were associated with burnout among jail COs. Future study of correctional workplace health is needed to identify tailored, multilevel interventions that address burnout and W-FC prevention and early intervention among COs.

• 한국응급구조학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.121-131
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• 2009

The purpose of EMS is to provide emergency patients with prompt and suitable emergency treatments therefore it saves their lives and makes them recover fast to return to normal. The purpose of correctional administration is to return inmates to society as sound citizens after their service by providing various correctional education, reformational programs, vocational training and etc. In this way, the aim of correctional administration and EMS is like mutual agreement by their returning to society safely. Therefore this study makes some propositions like the followings for the safety between many inmates who can have physical injury and exposure to diseases caused by particularity of subculture within correctional institutions and the staffs who work for them. It is said about efficient pre-hospital EMS through various causes of emergency situation in the correctional institution, system, manpower, facility, equipments and problems and so on. 1. Recruit the first-rate EMT(emergency medical technician) as central role of pre-hospital EMS according to each correctional institution and working terms. 2. Equip specialized transference system with symptom of patients and purpose of transference. 3. Emergency medical equipments and first-aid medicines should be equipped for field and ambulance. 4. Educate correctional officers as first responders and inmates within correctional institutions about systematic emergency treatment.

• 한국가구학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.229-240
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• 2015

Most of crime occurrence in Korea is caused by ex-convict. Various correctional training programs support convicts to reform a criminal as a treatment program. This study is about the most crucial 'Correctional Industry Works Exhibition' that is hosted by the Ministry of Justice and supervised by Seoul Correctional Service and other related events. 'Correctional Industry Works Exhibition' divides into the convicts' works in prison, literary works and staffs' literary works. Based on the working experience as a judge for the last six years(2009~2014) and analysis of research cases, the writer grasps the problems that needs to be improved and suggests the strategies. In the future, 'Correctional Industry Works Exhibition' will be a festival for convicts and prison officers that communicates with the public and will vitalize the works in prison that will produce good products. Moreover, it can be expected to support the social reintegration of prisoners and repeated crime after released from prison.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.370-375
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• 2023

The responsibility to ensure the health rights of detainees, particularly their medical rights, fundamentally lies with the state in all nations. However, in the correctional facilities of the Republic of Korea, these rights are currently not adequately safeguarded. Numerous detainees express dissatisfaction with the medical services provided and show a preference for voluntary external treatment. However, barriers such as prolonged application processes for external treatment and the requirement for detainees to cover their medical expenses present significant challenges. Therefore, the National Human Rights Commission of Korea has advocated for an increased medical budget in correctional facilities and a bolstered professional medical workforce to improve the medical care of detainees. Recommendations for improvements include: (1) establishing dedicated correctional hospitals for detainees, (2) setting up specialized correctional wards, (3) collaborating with military hospitals, (4) launching mobile medical buses for diverse specialties, (5) enhancing collaboration with public and private medical institutions, (6) increasing compensation for partnering external medical institutions, (7) improving the working conditions of medical officers, (8) safeguarding the defense rights of medical staff, (9) improving the working conditions of public health doctors from the Ministry of Justice in correctional facilities, and (10) pre-assigning public health specialists and military doctors to correctional facilities. By implementing these measures, it is anticipated that the quality of medical services in the Republic of Korea's correctional facilities will improve, reducing the demand for external treatments among detainees and ensuring their health and medical rights are realistically upheld.