일 지역 한국과 조선족 간호사의 건강증진행위 비교 연구

Comparative Study of Health Promotion Behavior between Korean Nurses and Korean-Chinese Nurses

This study was aimed to compare the health promotion behavior (HPB) between Korean nurses and Korean-Chinese nurses, and to test the validity of health promotion lifestyle profile (HPLP) to target two ethnic. Participants were composed of 82 Korean nurses, 60 Korean-Chinese nurses, 80 Korean women and 109 Korean-Chinese women. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire from October to September, 2014, and analyzed using the SPSS/WIN 21.0 version. Six factors were extracted from HPLP and the amount of variances explained was 56.05%. Health behavior scores of Korean nurses and Korean-Chinese nurses did not differ depending on the general characteristics, and merely the score of Korean-Chinese nurses was higher in the group with disease. The Korean-Chinese nurses showed significantly higher score than the Korean nurses in six subscales. It is implied that there is a difference in the relative value levels of health behaviors between two group nurses, the need for repeat studies which extended the subject has been provided to validate the potential effect on HPB.