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Effect of Occupational Health and Safety Management System on Work-Related Accident Rate and Differences of Occupational Health and Safety Management System Awareness between Managers in South Korea's Construction Industry

  • Yoon, Seok J.;Lin, Hsing K.;Chen, Gang;Yi, Shinjea;Choi, Jeawook;Rui, Zhenhua
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.201-209
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    • 2013
  • Background: The study was conducted to investigate the current status of the occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS) in the construction industry and the effect of OHSMS on accident rates. Differences of awareness levels on safety issues among site general managers and occupational health and safety (OHS) managers are identified through surveys. Methods: The accident rates for the OHSMS-certified construction companies from 2006 to 2011, when the construction OHSMS became widely available, were analyzed to understand the effect of OHSMS on the work-related injury rates in the construction industry. The Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency 18001 is the certification to these companies performing OHSMS in South Korea. The questionnaire was created to analyze the differences of OHSMS awareness between site general managers and OHS managers of construction companies. Results: The implementation of OHSMS among the top 100 construction companies in South Korea shows that the accident rate decreased by 67% and the fatal accident rate decreased by 10.3% during the period from 2006 to 2011. The survey in this study shows different OHSMS awareness levels between site general managers and OHS managers. The differences were motivation for developing OHSMS, external support needed for implementing OHSMS, problems and effectiveness of implementing OHSMS. Conclusion: Both work-related accident and fatal accident rates were found to be significantly reduced by implementing OHSMS in this study. The differences of OHSMS awareness between site general managers and OHS managers were identified through a survey. The effect of these differences on safety and other benefits warrants further research with proper data collection.

A Study on Relationships between Youth Smart Phone Addiction and Mind Health, and Parameter Effect of School Life Adaptation (청소년의 스마트폰 중독과 마음건강과의 관계에서 학교생활적응의 매개효과)

  • Ha, TaiHyun;Beak, HyeonGi
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.147-159
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    • 2014
  • This study aims to offer a wide range of practical implications for Smartphone addiction prevention by verifying the effect of mind health as a factor that is influenced by Smartphone addiction, and testing the relationships between Smartphone addiction and mind health with school life adaptation as a mediation effect. For this research, a survey was conducted of 250 elementary school students who use Smartphones. The relationships between Smartphone addiction, mind health and school life adaptation were set as the structural equation model, and they were verified by the mediation effect of school life adaptation. The results showed that school life adaptation turned out to be an entirely mediating variable on the relationship between mind health and Smartphone addiction. The statistical significance of the effect on school life adaptation was verified by the Sobel test. The mediation effect resulted in mind health reducing the occurrence of negative emotion of school life adaptation, and also reinforced decreased Smartphone use.

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Relationship between Acculturative Stress and Mental Health of Multicultural Youths - Focused on the Mediating Effect of Social Support - (다문화 청소년의 문화적응 스트레스와 정신건강의 관계 -사회적 지지 매개 효과 중심으로-)

  • Jang, Seon-Ah;Go, Jeonghun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.662-673
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    • 2021
  • This study is to investigate the mediating effects of social support on the relationship between acculturative stress and mental health of multicultural youth. The results of the study were as follows: 1.573 of the 4th(middle 1) to 6th(middle 3) of the multicultural youth panel were analyzed by AMOS 22.0. First, the acculturation stress of multicultural youths had a positive effect on mental health. Second, acculturation stress of multicultural youths had a negative effect on social support. Third, social support of multicultural youths had a negative effect on mental health. Fourth, social support of multicultural youths had a mediating effect on the effect of acculturation stress on mental health. This result shows that the stress of multicultural youths in the process of adapting to the dual culture negatively affects social support, and this social support has a positive effect on the mental health of multicultural youths.

Effects of Health Perceptions and Social Support on Health Promotion Behaviors among College Students: the Mediating Effect of Self-efficacy (대학생의 건강지각, 사회적 지지가 건강증진행위에 미치는 영향: 자기효능감의 매개효과)

  • Su Jeong Park;A Reum Lee;Byoung Gil Yoon;Jung Hee Park
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.461-469
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    • 2023
  • We attempted to identify the mediating effect of self-efficacy on the relationship between health perception, social support, and health promotion behaviors among university students and to provide basic data to improve health promotion behaviors. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire from a sample of 173 university students in City C. Health promotion behaviors according to general characteristics were found to have statistically significant differences in gender(t=3.892, p<.001) and major satisfaction(F=5.867, p=.003) .There was no statistically significant difference in age, grade, major field, hospitalization or surgery experience in the last three years, and economic activity. Health promotion behavior was positively correlated with health perception (r=.439, p<.001), social support (r=.532, p<.001), and self-efficacy (r=.533, p<.001) and was statistically significant. It was found that self-efficacy had a partial mediating effect (Z=3.964, p<.001) on the effect of health perception on health promotion behavior, and self-efficacy had a partial mediating effect (Z=4.24, p<.001) on the effect of social support on health promotion behavior. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the factors affecting health support, social support, and self-efficacy among college students and prepare intervention measures to improve health promotion behavior.

Moderated Mediation Effect of Mindfulness on the Relationship Between Muscular Skeletal Disease, Job Stress, and Turnover Among Korean Firefighters

  • Lee, Jong-Hyun;Lee, Jaeeun;Lee, Kyung-Sun
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.222-227
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    • 2020
  • Background: This study investigated the effect of increased job stress, caused by musculoskeletal disease (MSD) among firefighters, on a firefighter's intention to leave the profession, henceforth referred to as "turnover intention," and verified the moderating effect of mindfulness on such a relationship. Methods: A survey involving a total of 549 Korean male firefighters as participants was conducted herein, and the following results were obtained: the mediation effect of the MSD to turnover intention through job stress was confirmed, and the indirect effect of job stress was verified. Results: We verified the moderated mediation effect of mindfulness on the relation:MSD, job stress, and turnover intention. The conditional indirect effect for middle and high levels of mindfulness is significant. Conclusion: The result of this study is supported by proofs of the relationship between a firefighter's MSD, job stress, and turnover intention, and these case studies reveal the moderated mediation effect of dispositional mindfulness.

The Effect of Health Care Program for Newly Married Couple in a Community Health Care Center (일 보건소의 신혼부부 건강프로그램의 효과)

  • Lim, Jae-Ran;Kim, Hyun-Il
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.188-195
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    • 2008
  • Purpose: The research purpose was analysis of the effect of a health education program for newly-married executed from 2003 to 2005 as a part of health care service from community health center and providing the fundamental source for health education needed during newly-married. Method: The data collection with structured questionnaires was conducted during October to December in 2006. From the health center 106 brides who participate the program and 130 brides who didn't participate. Health care program for newly married couple were composed health examinations and health educations. Health examinations were CBC, LFT and Ag & Ab prevallence rates of hepatitis B, rubella. Health educations were done two times, the first individual health education was done at enrolled in health center for establishment of desirable couple relationship, family planning, contraception method and management of pre-pregnancy. The second individual health education was done for explanation of blood examination results, prevention of the congenital deformity and the vertical transmission of hepatitis B, management for pregnancy, breast feeding method, introduction to safety delivery method and encouraging self-study using by materials made by health center after two weeks at revisiting health center. SPSS/PC(ver. 12.0) and $X^2$-test, t-test was used to analyze the collected and tabulated data. Socio-demographic characteristics and regional characteristics of residence area of two groups shows no significant difference. Result: As a variables of experimental effect. The natural childbirth rates of participants group was significantly higher than Non-participants group(p=.012). Breast feeding rates for participants group was also statistically significant higher than Non-participants group. Contraception rates showed no significant difference. The rubella vaccination rates (p=.001) and The hepatitis B vaccination rates (p=.012) shows statistical differences. Conclusion: Therefore health care program for newly married couple in a community health care center was effective generally. We supposed that explore participation ways for nonparticipants, expand the program to community health care center in whole country.

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A Study of the Effects upon Satisfaction, Intention to Revisit and Perceived Value by Cerebrovascular Disease Patients through the Quality of Medical Services (뇌혈관질환 환자가 인지하는 의료서비스 질이 지각하는 가치, 만족도 및 재이용 의도에 미치는 영향)

  • Ji, Kyung-Ja;Park, Chun-Man
    • The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.53-67
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    • 2013
  • This study aims to analyze the effect of quality of health care on perceived value, patient satisfaction and revisit intention. Especially, it was focused on outdoor environment, admission procedure, hospital image, service quality of physicians that patients perceived. For inpatients, hospital image and service quality of medical technicians have an effect on perceived value. Service quality of physicians has an effect on the patient satisfaction. For outpatients, hospital image and service quality of physicians and medical technicians have an effect on perceived value. Outdoor environment, hospital image, service quality of physicians and medical technicians, and perceived value have an effect on patient satisfaction. Perceived value and patient satisfaction have an effect on revisit intention. They should evaluate customer satisfaction on their services and analyze various factors that affect on it to improve specialty hospitals.

The Effect of Family of Origin Experiences on Self-Esteem and Marital Conflict among Married Men and Women (기혼남녀가 지각한 원가족 경험이 자존감 및 부부갈등에 미치는 영향)

  • Ha, Sang-Hee
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.17-29
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of family of origin experiences on self-esteem and marital conflict among married men and women. For this purpose, a survey was conducted using self-administered questionnaires with 311 married men and women. The results of the study were as follows: First, men and women's family of origin experience(family of origin health, parents' marital conflict, triangulation) were correlated with self-esteem and marital conflict. Second, results of multiple regression analyses showed that men and women's self-esteem was most powerful predictors of marital conflict. Finally, men's family of origin experiences(family of origin health, parents' marital conflict, triangulation) had a direct effect on marital conflict, and family of origin health had a indirect effect through men's self-esteem on marital conflict. Women's parents' marital conflict, triangulation had a direct effect on marital conflict, and family of origin health had a indirect effect through women's self-esteem on marital conflict.

Influence of Qualitative Information Gap of Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance's Rehabilitation Programs on Satisfaction with Work and Daily Life. - Mediation Analysis of Self-esteem (산재보험 재활사업 프로그램 질적 정보격차가 직무와 일상생활 만족에 미치는 영향 - 자존감의 매개효과 검정)

  • Shim, Hyun-Jin;Rhee, Hyun-Sill
    • The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.143-154
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    • 2016
  • Objectives : The aim of this study was to validated the effectiveness of the information gap in work and daliy life satisfaction. Additionally, this study attempted to verify the mediating effect of self-esteem. Methods : The study examined 327 students who participated in a study on the PSWCI 1st Wave by KCOMWEL. Data were analyzed through descriptive statistics using the reliability test in SPSS 22.0 Ver. Moreover, hypothesis testing was analyzed with covariance based on structure equation modeling (CB-SEM) using Amos 21.0 Ver. Results : The low information gap has a positive effect on satisfaction with work and daily life. Additionally, self-esteem also has a positive effect on each satisfaction measure. However, self-esteem does not have a mediating effect between information gap and each satisfaction measure. Conclusions : The results of the study found the factor of effect on effect factor on beneficiary's satisfaction of industrial accident compensation insurance. Therefore, new ways need to be found that reduce the information gap and increase self-esteem.

A Study of Health educational effect on the AIDS related Knowledge and Attitude among chonbuk area women (보건교육을 통한 일부여성의 AIDS에 대한 지식 및 태도의 변화)

  • 서인선;안옥희
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.95-104
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    • 1998
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the educational effect on AIDS related Knowledge and Attitude among chonbuk area women. This study examed the AIDS related knowledge and attitude of pre, post educational effect. The subjects of this study were consisted of 152 women who participated in health education by video tape after 60 minutes. 59 itemed self-reporting questionaires were collected from the 20th December to the 30th December, 1997. The results were as follows; 1. The level of knowledge about AIDS ; The mean score of pre-test knowledge was 23.2 out of 32.0. The mean score of post-test knowledge was 26.0 out of 32.0. 2. The educational effect on AIDS related knowledge was significantly increased. 3. The educational effect on AIDS related attitude; was desirably increased.

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