2020, Vol.16, No.4

Crisisonomy 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.64

pISSN : 2466-1198 / eISSN : 2466-1201
https://journal.kci.go.kr/cemtp

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of social support on the quality of life among disaster victims in one-person households. This study used the data from the 2nd Disaster Victims Panel Survey collected by the National Disaster Management Research Institute in South Korea. The results of data analysis for 1,659 victims who experienced natural or social disasters were as follows. First, most of the disaster victims in one-person households include vulnerable groups such as the poor, the elderly and women. Second, the levels of social support and quality of life among disaster victims in one-person households were lower compared to those in multi-person households. Third, social support had a significant effect on the quality of life for disaster victims in one-person households. This result confirmed the importance of social support for the recovery from disaster and suggested that a community-based program would be needed to improve social support and quality of life for disaster victims in one-person households who lack family support.

This study attempted to verify the relationship among knowledge, attitude and behavioral intention of residents regarding dementia and dementia patients. The research model was proposed based on the Knowledgeattitude- behavioral Model and previous researches. Structural Equation Model (SEM) was employed on the data collected from 700 residents in Chuncheon, South Korea. The results showed that the direct effect of dementia knowledge on behavioral intention was not statistically significant. It was also found that dementia knowledge reduced a negative behavioral intention indirectly through a rather positive cognitive attitude on dementia. However, in the model with a control variable, dementia knowledge was found to increase a negative behavioral intention indirectly through a more negative affective and behavioral attitude towards dementia. The results suggested dementia education and outreach campaigns for constructing a dementiafriendly environment which incorporate differential impacts of dementia knowledge.

The purpose of this study is to identify factors affecting patient safety management activities among nurses working in comprehensive nursing care units in South Korea. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with 150 nurses recruited from five general hospitals in Gangwon-do, Chungcheong-do, and Gyeonggi-do. The SPSS/WIN 23.0 program was used to analyze descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Mann-Whitney test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Pearson correlation coefficients, and hierarchical regression. The mean score of self-efficacy and safety culture perception was 3.59 and 3.67, respectively. The mean score of patient safety care management activities was 4.35. The results of a hierarchical regression analysis show that safety culture perception was the greatest influencing factor, followed by self-efficacy. The findings suggest the need of educational programs to enhance nurses’ perception of patient safety culture and promote patient safety management activities for nurses providing comprehensive nursing care.