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KMID : 1137920100350020134
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Journal of Agricultral Medicine & Community Health
2010 Volume.35 No. 2 p.134 ~ p.150
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An Analysis of Articles for International Marriage Immigrant Women Related to Health
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Anh Ok-Hee
Hwang Yoon-Young
Jeon Mi-Soon
Kim Kyung-Ae
Youn Mi-Sun
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study was for analyzing the research about international marriage immigrant women and a trial to find the right direction for future research.
Methods: Sixty articles published from June, 2004 to June, 2009 were reviewed and analyzed according to the general characteristics, major of author, and theme of health domains.
Results: Most of them were master’s thesis(71.7%) and journals(21.7%) and doctoral dissertation(6.7%) have been published mostly after thesis. Among 83.3% for quantitative research, descriptive(33.3%) and descriptive correlation(41.7%) methods were the most used and there were some qualitative researches(16.7%). The most frequently used data gathering method was questionnaire(81.7%) and the next was interview(16.7%). The major rates of the author were 61.7% for social welfare and 2.1% for nursing. The investigated variables in social health domain were adaptation(28.3%), and communication(1.7%). In psychological health domain, marriage satisfaction(16.7%), life satisfaction(11.7%), and depression(10.0%) were most researched. Utilization of medical center(5.0%) and health promotion behavior(1.7%) were investigated in physical health domain.
Conclusions: Above this, most articles were researched about the adaptation of international marriage immigrant women. But the life in foreign countries can cause physical and psychosocial unhealthy conditions, so many-sided health related researches are supposed to be conducted for adaptation and prevention health problems of international marriage immigrant women.
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KEYWORD
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Immigrant, Women, Health
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