• The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.31-40
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• 2023

Purpose: The study aims to provide basic data for understanding the department of paramedicines' bachelor's degree courses to enable curriculum development and reorganization. Methods: The 2023 academic curricula for all eleven universities with active departments of paramedicine offering bachelor's degrees were investigated from April 25 to May 10, 2023. Results: The average courseload was 22.0 units. There were 7.73 major subjects, with 19.45 units on average. The culture subject was available in 7 colleges and was 2.55 units on the average 1.18 subject. Grouping the major subjects showed that 15.3% of subjects were related to advanced paramedicine (the most common course), followed by 11.8% related to research methodology and seminar, and 10.8% related to radiology and simulations. Related subjects in statistics, disaster, and forensic science were also offered. Conclusion: This study found that the curricula of the departments of paramedicine differed from that of the general bachelor's degree. Going forward, university leaders should organize the paramedicine curriculum considering the environmental changes in emergency medicine and the scalability of EMT-Paramedic jobs.

• The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.113-124
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• 2023

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the level of depression, anxiety, and stress among health college students and to identify factors affecting sleep quality to provide a basis for improving sleep quality among health college students. Methods: Data was collected using a structured questionnaire from 181 college students at a university in City D from October 1 to October 31, 2023. Results: Sleep quality was significantly and positively correlated with depression (r=.703, p<.001), anxiety (r=.680, p<.001), and stress (r=.708, p<.001), and its predictors were caffeine consumption (β=-.174, p=.044), Satisfaction with college life (β=-.137, p=.009), depression (β=.251, p=.013). Stress (β=.277, p=.007), with an explanatory power of 56%. Conclusion: To improve the sleep quality of college students, we should encourage them to reduce their caffeine intake, run various programs to improve their satisfaction with college life, and expand mental health counseling programs on campus to monitor their mental health status regularly so that they can actively manage depression and stress.

• The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.59-70
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• 2023

Purpose: This study was designed to identify the effects of social support, learning flow, and learning satisfaction on academic achievement in university students. Methods: This study involved university students who agreed to participate the investigation in D City using a structured online questionnaire from December 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. Results: Social support, learning flow, learning satisfaction, and academic achievement had significant correlations. The influencing factors of academic achievement were age and learning flow, with an explanatory power of 20%. Conclusion: Further active management and attention are imperative for vulnerable students in high-age groups to search for the ways to improve learning flow.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.3661-3661
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• 2016

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.209-210
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• 2013

• The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.79-90
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• 2023

Purpose: The study attempted to improve the health promotion behavior of university students by identifying the factors that affect health promotion behavior and by checking depression, anxiety, and stress levels of university students after the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We collected data using a structured questionnaire targeting 170 university students in C-province between December 1 and December 31, 2022. Results: Health promotion behavior had a significantly negative correlation with Depression (r=-.361, p<.001), Anxiety (r=-.191, p=.012), and Stress (r=-.301, p<.001), respectively. The influencing factors of health promotion behavior are gender (r=0.184, p<.001) and depression (r=-0.303, p<.001); the explanatory power is accounted for 15%. Conclusion: A practical method with counseling programs and mental health support services for early detection of risk groups by periodically monitoring the depression state of university students requires practicing health promotion behavior. Therefore, active support and attention should be provided to manage the mental health of university students.

• The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.101-111
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• 2023

Purpose: This study aimed to provide basic information for university students to improve disaster preparedness by identifying disaster and safety cognition, safety education perception and identifying factors influencing disaster preparedness. Methods: Selected articles were programmed statistically by SPSS to analyze 162 third and fourth-year students in Chungcheong-do, from December 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. The general characteristics of the subject with the effect of disaster and safety cognition, safety education perception, and disaster preparedness was analyzed by t-test and ANOVA. Results: Disaster preparedness had a positive correlation with Disaster and safety cognition (r=.499, p<.001) and safety education perception (r=.328, p<.001). Furthermore, the influencing factors on disaster preparedness were sex (β=0.17, p<.011), disaster and safety cognition (β=0.39, p<.001), and 28% was explanatory power. Conclusion: Preparing educational method for strengthening safety and disaster cognition requires improving the disaster preparedness of university students, and a new educational approach to program development to elevate disaster and safety cognition at the university level.

• The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.19-30
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• 2023

Purpose: The study examined disaster recognition, disaster preparedness, and the willingness to participate in disaster response among healthcare students. It also identified the factors that can improve healthcare students' willingness to participate in disaster response. Methods: A structured questionnaire was designed, and data were collected from 171 students, who agreed to participate in the study at C-province between December 14, 2022, and December 28, 2022. Results: The scores of disaster preparedness and the willingness to participate in disaster response were 3.22 and 3.53, respectively. The willingness to participate in disaster response was high among those who had experienced a disaster and had disaster-related education. Furthermore, the willingness to participate in disaster response was significantly and positively correlated with disaster preparedness (r = 1.357, p<.001). Conclusion: It is important to mandate the provision of disaster preparedness education to increase the level and quality of disaster preparedness and the willingness to participate in disaster response.

• The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.19-29
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• 2023

Purpose: This study attempted to identify job stress, resilience, and job satisfaction among firefighters and to identify factors that influence job satisfaction. Methods: The study was conducted among 150 active firefighters who agreed to participate after reading an explanation of the purpose and importance of the study. They were sent a link to the self-report questionnaire URL via text message. Results: The mean scores for the variables were 2.26 for job stress, 3.55 for resilience, 3.30 for empathy, and 3.23 for job satisfaction. There was a significant difference in job satisfaction based on age. Job satisfaction was significantly positively correlated with empathy (r=248, p=.002) and resilience (r=463, p<.001) and significantly negatively correlated with job stress (r= -.740, p<.001). In other words, higher resilience and empathy were associated with higher job satisfaction, while higher job stress was associated with lower job satisfaction. And job stress was the influencing factor of job satisfaction, with an explanatory power of 55%. Conclusion: To improve firefighters' job satisfaction, management programs should be developed to enhance resilience and empathy and specific measures should be taken to reduce job stress.

• The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.101-111
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• 2023

Purpose: This study attempted to identify how academic self-efficacy, grit, and learned helplessness influence Academic delay behavior in college students and provide a foundation for reducing Academic delay behavior in college students. Methods: Data was collected from October 12, 2023 to October 30, 2023 using a structured questionnaire from 170 college students at a university in City D. The data was collected using a structured questionnaire. Results: Academic delay behaviors were significantly negatively correlated with academic self-efficacy (r=-.371, p<.001) and grit (r=-.562, p=.012), and significantly positively correlated with learned helplessness (r=.341, p<.001). Conclusion: Finally, In order to reduce academic delay behaviors among college students, it is necessary to actively utilize educational environments that promote academic achievement and grit, academic-related counseling programs, and learning environments that do not suffer from academic helplessness.