Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Attitude, Stress Coping, and Resilience of North Korean Female Defectors

he, Jeon jeong; Kwon, Myoung-Ok; Kim, Hyewon; Jung, Yoomi; Hwang, Se-Min; Ha, Beomman

doi:10.31148/kjmnr.2018.36.1.22

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“…The summary of the characteristics of selected studies is presented in Table 1. It includes 18 quantitative studies [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] and 4 qualitative studies [28][29][30][31]; among the quantitative studies, 5 studies report comparisons with South Korean people [11,[13][14][15]22]. The number of participants in these studies varied from 8 to 932 participants, and 54.6%-100% of them were women.…”

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Promoting health behaviors for preventing and controlling noncommunicable disease among North Korean defectors: A systematic review

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Baek

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Background: Recently, noncommunicable disease (NCDs) has emerged as a new major health issue in North Korea. However, studies on the prevalence of its risk factors and their related health behavior among North Koreans are lacking. The studies on North Korean defectors could help us in understating their awareness and health‑promoting behavior as well as their vulnerabilities for metabolic diseases or NCDs under the current circumstances where South and North Korea have limited exchanges in the health and medical sectors. In this study, we reviewed the prevalence of risk factors or the health‑promoting behavior related to NCD among North Korean defectors. Methods: Search on the PubMed (MEDLINE), CINAHL, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, Korean Nursing Database, Korean Medical Database, KIHASA Repository, and RISS were performed. We included all study types reporting any type of risk factors or prevalence or health behaviors with the following inclusion criteria: (1) published in English or Korean; (2) NCD‑related topic; and (3) age ≥18 years. The data were extracted independently by the 2 authorsResults: Finally, 22 studies were included in the analysis: 18 quantitative study and 4 qualitative studies, and among the quantitative studies, 5 studies had comparisons with South Koreans. The number of participants ranged from 8–932 participants, and 54.6%–100% of them were women. The survey using the questionnaires was the most popular research method. Data from objective measurements, such as body weight, waist circumference, blood test, and urine analysis were used in a few studies. North Korean defectors were found to have higher smoking rates, drinking rates, and increased abdominal obesity caused by the lack of awareness and management of risk factors since they moved to South Korea.Conclusions: In this study, we showed that there were not enough studies related to NCDs and health behaviors among North Korean defectors. Nevertheless, North Korean defectors were found to be more vulnerable to NCDs, including metabolic syndrome. It is necessary to improve the awareness of NCD and its risk factors among North Korean defectors. Efforts for promoting North Korean defectors’ health behaviors by the government and related professional organizations are needed.

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“…This category included a variety of variables, including sub or total score of HPLP [18,20,21], medical service utilization [22], health-related [20] or sex-related knowledge and attitude [24,25], and vaccination coverage [10].…”

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Promoting health behaviors for preventing and controlling noncommunicable disease among North Korean defectors: A systematic review

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Baek

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“…Research on the reproductive health of North Korean women has been limited to their experiences in the process of defecting from North Korea (Kim & Kim, 2017; Lee et al., 2013), or approached with fragmentary topics such as sexual function (Lee et al., 2013), sexual knowledge (Jeon et al., 2018), menstruation (Kim et al., 2016), and cervical cancer (Kim & Kim, 2017; Lee et al., 2013). However, these studies do not comprehensively investigate the actual condition of the reproductive health of North Korean women.…”

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North Korean women’s reproductive health experience

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2021

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Objectives(s) The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of women's reproductive health in North Korea through statements from North Korean female refugees. Design and Sample A qualitative phenomenological study was conducted using Colaizzi's methods. Through purposive and snowball sampling, a total of eight North Korean women refugees were recruited. Measures Data were collected through in‐depth, unstructured interviews with individual participants. Results A total of 18 themes, eight theme clusters, and three categories emerged. The three categories of North Korean women's reproductive health experience were: distorted sexual concepts, internalization of sexual repression, and threat of women's health rights. The study on the reproductive health experiences of North Korean women was based on the premise that their “right to health was threatened due to the internalization of sexual repression by distorted sexual concepts.” Conclusion The reproductive health of North Korean women must be approached as a fundamental right, and as a human and health right.

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Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Attitude, Stress Coping, and Resilience of North Korean Female Defectors

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Promoting health behaviors for preventing and controlling noncommunicable disease among North Korean defectors: A systematic review

Promoting health behaviors for preventing and controlling noncommunicable disease among North Korean defectors: A systematic review

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