Quality of Life and Health Service Utilization of the Migrant Workers in Korea

Lee, Eunjoo; Lee, Jung Mi

doi:10.5762/kais.2014.15.7.4370

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“…Thus, Indonesian migrant workers in South Korea are considered to have a higher level of quality of life compared to migrant workers in Eastern China. The quality of life score for the present study is also higher than that of the previous study that explored the factors influencing the quality of life among foreign migrant workers from diverse countries in South Korea (mean score=71.3) [24]. Namely, regardless of high level of acculturative stress, Indonesian migrant workers had mild level of depression and still managed to maintain high quality of life.…”

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“…For Indonesian migrant workers, living in Ansan might feel less stressful compared to living in Seoul because of a number of Indonesian people living in Ansan shared the same experience as migrant workers. In the previous study with a diverse group of migrant workers in Korea, living area was found to be one of the factors influencing migrant workers' quality of life [24]. Social support has a positive impact on an individual, in terms of feelings of self-worth, sense of security about life situation, and avoiding negative experiences [26].…”

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Associations of Acculturative Stress, Depression, and Quality of Life among Indonesian Migrant Workers in South Korea

Farah

Choi

2019

J Korean Acad Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs

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We applied descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and multiple linear regression analyses with SPSS 22 program. Results: A positive correlation was shown between acculturative stress and depression and a negative correlation was found between acculturative stress and quality of life. Significant factor associated with depression was acculturative stress. Significant factors associated with quality of life were acculturative stress and social support. Conclusion: Our study findings assist nurses to improve the quality of mental health services for Indonesian migrant workers by providing important information such as contact information for health services and counseling and to guide future studies on mental health issues among the population.

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Associations of Acculturative Stress, Depression, and Quality of Life among Indonesian Migrant Workers in South Korea

Farah

Choi

2019

J Korean Acad Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs

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“…Therefore, efforts to eliminate discrimination and violence against female immigrant workers are urgently needed in entire society including at workplace. The immigrants who have better social support and social relationships are less likely to experience unmet healthcare needs [27] because it is easy to obtain information on healthcare utilization [26]. However, due to long working hours, fatigue, competition in the workplace, and different holidays with friends, marriage immigrant women have difficulty establishing a social networks [28].…”

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Factors Affecting Unmet Healthcare Needs of Working Married Immigrant Women in South Korea

Lee

2018

J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs

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Purpose: This study was conducted to identify the factors affecting on unmet healthcare needs of married immigrant women, especially who are working in South Korea. Methods: It is designed as a cross-sectional descriptive study. We analyzed data from 8,142 working married immigrant women to the 'National Survey of Multicultural Families 2015.' Based on Andersen's health behavior model, logistic regression was conducted to determine the predictors of unmet healthcare need. Results: The prevalence of unmet healthcare needs among the subjects was 11.6%. In multivariate analysis, significant predictors of unmet needs included existence of preschooler, country of origin, period of residence in predisposing factors, monthly household income, helpful social relationship, social discrimination, Korean proficiency, working hour per week in enabling factors, and self-rated health, experience of grief or desperation in need factors. Conclusion: The association between labor-related factors and unmet healthcare needs of marriage immigrant women currently working was found from nationally representative sample. Support policies for immigrant women working more than legally defined hours and having preschooler should be supplemented to reduce unmet healthcare needs. In addition, eradicating discrimination in workplace, enlarging social relationship, and developing culturally competent nursing services tailored to health problems caused by labor are needed.

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“…Research has found that the acculturation stress that occurs when migrant workers adjust to Korean society causes mental health problems such as depression and anxiety, and negatively affects the life satisfaction of migrant workers [ 13 ]. Furthermore, subjective health status, average monthly income, and working hours were identified as factors affecting the HRQoL of migrant workers in Korea [ 5 , 7 , 9 ]. Migrant workers with higher HRQoL exhibit increased productivity, which can facilitate economic development in Korea.…”

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“…Migrant workers with higher HRQoL exhibit increased productivity, which can facilitate economic development in Korea. In addition, it is necessary to manage the HRQoL of migrant workers beyond the individual level, at the social and national levels to guarantee their basic rights [ 7 , 9 ]. HRQoL can affect the priority of resource utilization and decision making regarding mid- to long-term health care among migrant workers.…”

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Health-related quality of life of migrant workers: a systematic literature review

2023

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Background Currently, the number of migrant workers residing in Korea is continuously increasing, which is exacerbating the workforce shortage in its society. Migrant workers experience health problems or stress due to rapid environmental changes, consequently impairing their quality of life (QoL). Accordingly, this literature review aimed to prepare basic data by identifying factors related to the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of migrant workers in Korea. Method In total, the literature search used seven databases to find all documents corresponding to related subject words until June 7, 2022, including PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Embase, Regional Information Sharing Systems, Korean Medical database, Science ON, and DataBase Periodical Information Academic. Furthermore, this study used the Cochrane Library and Google Scholar to manually search, to include comprehensive literature. Moreover, both English and Korean were used to search for the main terms. Results In total, nine articles were selected. The World Health Organization Quality of Life Brief Version tool was used in six studies to measure HRQoL. Factors affecting the HRQoL of domestic migrant workers included general characteristics such as monthly income and residence period, physical and psychological health-related characteristics such as health promotion behaviour, medical service satisfaction, and depression, and social factors such as social support and cultural adaptation stress. Social support was an important variable affecting the QoL. Particularly, increased social support improved health-related QoL. In addition, higher medical service satisfaction and lower cultural adaptation stress increased HRQoL. Conclusions Social factors such as social support and cultural adaptation stress affect the HRQoL of migrant workers. Therefore, the social integration program should be expanded to ensure that migrant workers can adapt to the domestic culture at an early stage. In addition, people require active support to improve the QoL in Korea through activities such as self-help groups to help them cope with stressful situations and experience positive emotions. Moreover, it is necessary to provide information on domestic medical services as well as support for medical information for self-health management to improve the quality of medical services for migrant workers.

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Quality of Life and Health Service Utilization of the Migrant Workers in Korea

Cited by 6 publications

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Associations of Acculturative Stress, Depression, and Quality of Life among Indonesian Migrant Workers in South Korea

Associations of Acculturative Stress, Depression, and Quality of Life among Indonesian Migrant Workers in South Korea

Factors Affecting Unmet Healthcare Needs of Working Married Immigrant Women in South Korea

Health-related quality of life of migrant workers: a systematic literature review

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