Research in Community and Public Health Nursing

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[English] Associations between Self-esteem, Social Support, Family Empowerment, and Health Empowerment among Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Hye-Jin Kim; Res Community Public Health Nurs. 2025;36(1):49-58. Published online March 31, 2025; DOI: https://doi.org/10.12799/rcphn.2024.00794

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This study aimed to identify associations between self-esteem, social support, family empowerment, and health empowerment among children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods
A cross-sectional study was conducted among fifth- to sixth-grade children and their parents who were recruited from C elementary school in Gangwon-do, South Korea. The health empowerment, self-esteem, and social support as reported by children were measured by the Korean version of Health Empowerment Scale (K-HES), Self-Esteem Scale, and Perceived Social Support, respectively. The family empowerment as reported by parents of children was measured by the Family Empowerment Scale. Linear regression analysis was performed.
Results
Of the participants, children’s self-esteem (β=.46, p<.001) and social support (β=.47, p<.001) and parents’ family empowerment (β=.27, p=.008) were significantly and positively associated with children’s health empowerment.
Conclusion
Among children in health-vulnerable environments due to the COVID-19 pandemic, establishing interventions for improving health empowerment needs to be considered as a nursing strategy for self-esteem, social support, and family empowerment at the intrapersonal and interpersonal levels.

[English] The Effects of Digital Literacy and Health Empowerment on Elders' Communication with Doctors: Focusing on Moderating Effect of Health Beliefs: Soon Tae An, Yu Jin Lim, Soon Dool Chung; J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 2022;33(1):53-62. Published online March 31, 2022; DOI: https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2022.33.1.53

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Purpose
This study explored the effects of the elderly group's digital literacy and health empowerment on communication with doctors, considering moderating effect of health beliefs about chronic diseases.
Methods
A one-on-one interview survey was conducted with 500 older adults in South Korea. The main variables were digital literacy, health empowerment, communication with doctors, and health belief of chronic diseases.
Results
The interaction effect between health empowerment and susceptibility, and health empowerment and perceived barrier were significant.
Conclusion
Communication with doctors greatly increased when the elders had high levels of health empowerment and low levels of susceptibility. Also, communication with doctors greatly increased when the elders had high levels of health empowerment and low levels of perceived barriers.

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Identifying Profiles of Digital Literacy Among Community-Dwelling Korean Older Adults: Latent Profile Analysis
Jiyoung Shin, Hun Kang, Seongmi Choi, Sang Hui Chu, JiYeon Choi
Journal of Medical Internet Research.2025; 27: e57122. CrossRef
Digital literacy among Korean older adults: A scoping review of quantitative studies
Hun Kang, Jiwon Baek, Sang Hui Chu, JiYeon Choi
DIGITAL HEALTH.2023;[Epub] CrossRef

[English] The Effects of Social Participation Attitude, Social Support, and Empowerment on Ageism Experience in the Elderly Using Welfare Centers: Doo Ree Kim, Ju Hui Ryu, Hyo Won Moon, Su Hyeon Min, In Young Jeong, Shin Suk Park, Gi Ran Lee; J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 2020;31(3):300-309. Published online September 30, 2020; DOI: https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2020.31.3.300

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This study was conducted to investigate the factors affecting the discrimination of the elderly using welfare centers.
Methods
A cross-sectional study was conducted with 217 elderly people from a welfare center in D city. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire survey consisting of ageism experience, social participation attitude, social support, and empowerment. For data analysis, descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients, and multiple regression were performed using SPSS/WIN 21.0 program.
Results
As a result of analyzing the correlations among the variables, the discrimination experience of the elderly showed negative correlations in social participation attitude and child relationship support. The factors affecting the discrimination experience of the elderly include gender, job, smartphone use, and child relationship support had a significant effect. The explanatory power of the discrimination experience of these factors was 15.4%.
Conclusion
This study found that gender, job, social support, and smartphone use were factors influencing the discrimination experience of the elderly. It is hoped that public relations and policy measures should be considered.

[English] Health Empowerment of Older Adults with High-risk of Cardio-cerebrovascular Diseases: Hyo Jin Son, Gwang Suk Kim; J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 2017;28(4):410-420. Published online December 31, 2017; DOI: https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2017.28.4.410

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PURPOSE
This study was to identify factors explaining health empowerment of older adults with high-risk of cardio-cerebrovascular diseases.
METHODS
Using a structured questionnaire, data were collected from 148 older adults residing in two areas who have one or more of the following diseases; hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, and atherosclerosis. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson correlation analysis, and hierarchical multiple regression.
RESULTS
Health empowerment had a positive correlation with health literacy and social support. Perceived health status and social activity participation showed significant contribution in explaining health empowerment.
CONCLUSION
This study showed that enhancing perceived health status and social activity participation are vital in an effort to improve health empowerment of the population. Main findings of this study can contribute to developing health empowerment interventions to improve health behavior practices of the older adults.

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Association between health-related empowerment and health-protective behaviors among community-dwelling older adults
Manal Mohammed Hawash, Abeer Abd El-Rahman Mohamed, Mona Metwally El-Sayed, Ayman Mohamed El-Ashry, Sarah Ali Hafez
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing.2024; 48: 59. CrossRef
The Mediating Role of Health Empowerment in the Relationship Between Social Support and Loneliness Among Nursing Home Residents: A Correlational Study
Hüsne Demirel, Sultan Ayaz‐Alkaya
Journal of Advanced Nursing.2024;[Epub] CrossRef
The effects of health empowerment and social support on health promotion behavior in older adults: A cross-sectional study
Kyungmi Lee, Semi Lim
Journal of Korean Gerontological Nursing.2022; 24(4): 433. CrossRef
Development and evaluation of the Coronary Artery Disease Empowerment Scale (CADES) in Korea
Jiyoung Kim, Nayeon Shin, Kyungmi Lee
Clinical Nursing Research.2021; 30(8): 1241. CrossRef

[English] The Influence of Self-care Behaviors, Empowerment and Social Support on Glycosylated Hemoglobin in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Hwa Kyung Oh, Eun Ju Lee; J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 2017;28(2):216-225. Published online June 30, 2017; DOI: https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2017.28.2.216

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PURPOSE
The purpose of the study was to analyze the effects of self-care behavior, empowerment, and social support on glycosylated hemoglobin in patients with type 2 diabetes.
METHODS
The data were collected during the period of July 1 to July 31, 2016. In total, 172 participants were recruited from outpatients who had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at a health care center, a health promotion center at National Health Insurance Corporation, and a tertiary hospital. Statistical data were analyzed with SPSS 20.0 using frequency analysis, t-test, ANOVA, ScheffÃ© test, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and hierarchical regression analysis.
RESULTS
The study results showed that self-care behavior (Î²=âˆ’.34, p<.001), empowerment (Î²=âˆ’.34, p<.001), and social support (Î²=âˆ’.20, p=.018) were found to be influential factors affecting glycosylated hemoglobin, with an overall descriptive power of 69%.
CONCLUSION
Self-care behavior, empowerment, and social support are considered to be important factors in blood glucose management for the patients with type 2 diabetes. Therefore, self-caring blood glucose programs and internal synchronizing education through social support and empowerment need to be improved.

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Effect of depression and empowerment on medication adherence in patients with breast cancer: a descriptive survey
Sookyung Jeong, Eun Jeong Kim
BMC Nursing.2025;[Epub] CrossRef
Relationships Among Health Literacy, Self-Efficacy, Self-Management, and HbA1c Levels in Older Adults with Diabetes in South Korea: A Cross-Sectional Study
Geun Young Jang, Soo Jung Chang, Jun Hee Noh
Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare.2024; Volume 17: 409. CrossRef
Factors affecting the health status of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus receiving insulin treatments: A multi‐mediation path analysis
Kang Sun Lee, Hye Young Kim, Heung Young Jin
Journal of Clinical Nursing.2022; 31(9-10): 1285. CrossRef
Multimodal Diabetes Empowerment for Older Adults with Diabetes
Keumok Park, Youngshin Song
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.2022; 19(18): 11299. CrossRef
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Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing.2021; 32(1): 86. CrossRef
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Kyung Suk Shin, Eun‐Hyun Lee
Journal of Advanced Nursing.2018; 74(10): 2363. CrossRef

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