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KMID : 0377619940590120963
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1994 Volume.59 No. 12 p.963 ~ p.975
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Descriptive Study of The Korean Health Behavior Patterns
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Abstract
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Nursing´s purpose being the promotion of health, the concept of health and health behavior patterns within the nursing paradigm needs to be defined in every culture.
The paradigm components must be explored for the meaning given by the people in their traditional thought and philosophy. Leininger´s Transculturai Nursing Theory and Korean philosophy and thought provided theoretical support for the study. People experience health behaviors for themselves and theses have diversity according to each culture and people and further there is an inherent meaning in health behavior. The purpose of this study was to explore the health concept of korean people and their pattern of health behavior. The research method was a questionaire including open questions and the subjects were 142 urban mothers.
The result of this study are as follows ;
1. Perceived health concepts by urban mothers were "confidency", ´vital power", "mental rest", "balance", "responsibility", "preciousness", "happiness", "state of nonillness", "being free"
2. Health behaviors carried out by korean urban mothers were "maintenance of balanced diet", "maintenance of psychological rest", "eating natural food", eating selective food", "exercise", "eating health food", "work", "having a leisure", "having religion", "health check up", "clean life", "making contact with nature", "rest", "talking about", "appropriate sleep"
Korean health concepts in this study showed a trend that reflects the rule of family and focused balance, harmony and eating habits. Korean health behavior patterns in this study showed a trend that focused on psychological comfort which reflects oriental thinking.
Harmony is a reflection of energy and movement whose source is in providential grace.
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