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KMID : 0377619900550020113
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1990 Volume.55 No. 2 p.113 ~ p.122
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The Concepts of Illness of Rural Korean Peoples
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Abstract
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The problem addressed by this study was to reveal what people of Korean rural villages think about the cause, treatment and prevention of illness. The purpose was to contribute to the building of a concept of health toward the development of Korean Nursing Theory. Subjects were residents of five districts among four counties in a farming area of Chung nam Su san Gun Nam Myoun by health workers as appropriate informants.
They were interviewed, using ethnoscientific methods developed in anthropology. The research tool consisted of open questions. Data were analyzed by classifying each concepts of cause, treatment and prevention of illness or illness symptoms collated by frequency and percentage.
The causes of illness are conceived as primarily concerete physical and natural. Compared to others studies, few supernatural causes related to traditional view of illness were identified. Concepts of the treatment of illness included formal treatments used by modern western or oriental physicians and traditional therapists. The concept of illness prevention originated in the concept of the cause of illness, thus primarily physical and natural.
When the concept of illness of rural Korean is researched from a sociocultural aspect, the traditional veiw of an evil cause of ill health and treatment by supernatural methods is not found. The significance of this study lies in the fact that ethnonursing research can contribute basic data toward the development of Korean Nursing theories. Modern western medical concepts have not been accepted unconditionally: traditional concepts are alive and dynamic in Korea and must be recognized in Korean Nursing.
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