The Factors Associated with Health Promotion Behavior of International Students in South Korea
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Abstract
Background: We aimed to explore the factors associated with health promotion behavior of international students in South Korea.
Methods: The convenience sample of 263 participants was recruited from two universities in Gangwon-do and Jeollanam-do, South Korea. The data were collected by using structured questionnaires from Apr to Jun 2019. Demographic characteristics, health conception, acculturative stress, self-efficacy, interpersonal support, and health promotion behavior were assessed. T-test, ANOVA, and multiple regression analyses were used for statistical analyses.
Results: Participants from Vietnam (P=.040), with more health conception (P<.001), more acculturative stress (P<.001), more self-efficacy (P<.001), and greater interpersonal support (P<.001) were more likely to engage in more health promotion behaviors.
Conclusion: This study is meaningful as it collected the data on which to design health promotion programs for international students. Future studies are needed to investigate further factors relating to international students’ health promotion behavior, including internal and external environments.
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2. Sherry M, Thomas P, Chui. WH (2010). In-ternational students: a vulnerable student population. Higher Education, 60:33-46.
3. Kim OS (2015). A structural equation model of coping with acculturative stress and college adaption among international stu-dents in Korea. Multicultural Education Studies, 8(3): 109-131.
4. Lee NY, Han JO (2011). Health status of in-ternational students in Korea. Journal of East-West Nursing Research, 17(1): 48-56.
5. Do EY, Cho IS (2009). Comparison of per-ceived health status, health promoting behaviors and depression between Kore-an and foreign students at a women’s university. Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing, 20(2): 161-168.
6. Chen MY, James K, Wang EK (2007). Comparison of health-promoting behav-ior between Taiwanese and American ad-olescents: a cross-sectional questionnaire survey. Int J Nurs Stud, 44(1): 59-69.
7. Park SJ, Choi SH (2006). Factors influencing health promotion behavior of Korean students in China. J Korean Acad Funda Nurs, 13(2): 269-274.
8. Oh JW, Moon YS (2014). A predictive model of health promotion behavior in nursing students. Journal of Digital Conver-gence, 12(10): 391-403.
9. Han KS (2005). [Self-efficacy, health pro-moting behaviors, and symptoms of stress among university students]. Taehan Kanho Hakhoe Chi, 35(3): 585-92
10. Bhandari P (2012). Stress and health related quality of life of Nepalese students study-ing in South Korea: A cross sectional study. Health Qual Life Outcomes, 10: 26.
11. Walker SN, Sechrist KR, Pender NJ (1987). The health-promoting lifestyle profile: development and psychometric charac-teristics. Nurs Res, 36(2):76-81.
12. Walker SN, Sechrist KR, Pender NJ (1995). Health promotion model-instruments to measure health promoting lifestyle: health-promoting lifestyle profile [HPLP II] (Adult version). University of Michi-gan, Deep Blue. https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/85349
13. Peterson SJ, Bredow TS (2017). Middle range theories: application to nursing research and prac-tice. 4th ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer.
14. Kim SJ, Yoo IY (2016). Health promotion behavior of Chinese international stu-dents in Korea including acculturation Factors: a structural equation model. Asian Nursing Research, 10: 25-31.
15. Laffrey SC (1986). Development of a health conception scale. Res Nurs Health, 9(2): 107-13.
16. Sandhu DS, Asrabadi BR (1994). Develop-ment of an acculturative stress scale for international students: preliminary find-ings. Psychol Rep, 75(1 Pt 2):435-48.
17. Schwarzer R, Jerusalem M. (1995). General-ized self-efficacy scale. Measures in health psychology: A user’s portfolio. Causal and Control Beliefs, 35-37.
18. Scholz, U, Doña, BG, Sud S, et al (2002). Is general self-efficacy a universal construct? Psychometric findings from 25 countries. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 18(3): 242-251.
19. Cohen S, Memelstein R, Kamarck T, et al (1985). Measuring the functional components of social support. In I.G. Sarason & B. Sarason (Eds.). Social support: Theory, research and ap-plication. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
20. Jeong HS (2012). Health promoting behav-iors and differences according to sub-jects’ characteristics among Chinese stu-dents in Korea. Journal of the Korean Data Analysis Society, 14(1): 231-245.
21. Hwang AR, Kang HW (2019). Influence of e-health literacy on health promoting be-haviors among university students. Journal of the Korean Society of School Health, 32(3): 165-174.
22. Jin XL, Kim JS, Kim DH (2011). A compar-ison of health-promoting behaviors of Han-Chinese to Korean-Chinese univer-sity students in Korea. The Journal of the Korean Society of School Health, 24(1): 89-98.
23. Jang KO (2018). Convergence research on academic adjustment of foreign students. Journal of the Korea Convergence Society, 9(11): 169-177.
24. Liu H, Jang JS (2018). A study on the dietary habits, life habits, drink preference and intake according to the Chinses students’ gender in Gyeonggi province. The Korean Journal of Food and Nutrition, 31(2): 293-300.
25. Kim HJ (2018). A comparative study on the acculturation of international students studying in Korea: focusing on Chinese, Vietnamese, Mongolian, Japanese inter-national students. Journal of Korean Lan-guage Education, 29(4): 31-63.
26. An NY, Le MT, Park CH, et al (2019). A comparative study of eating behavior and self-body image, weight control between Korean and Vietnamese students. The Ko-rean Journal of Sport, 17(4): 815-824.
27. Woo BJ, Lee HK (2019). Effects of health perception, self-efficacy and social sup-port of college students on the health promotion behaviors. Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology, 36(4): 1290-1302.
28. Pender N, Murdaugh C, Parsons MA (2014). Health promotion in nursing practice (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
29. Smith RA, Khawaja, NG (2011). A review of the acculturation experiences of interna-tional students. International Journal of Inter-cultural Relations, 35(6): 699-713.
30. Wei M, Heppner PP, Mallen MJ, et al (2007). Acculturative stress, perfectionism, years in the United States, and depression among Chinese international students. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 54(4): 385-394.
31. Yan Z, Cardinal BJ (2013). Perception of physical activity participation of Chinese female graduate students: A case study. Res Q Exerc Sport, 84(3): 384-96.
32. Yan Z, FitzPatrick K (2016). Acculturation and health behaviors among international students: a qualitative approach. Nurs Health Sci, 18(1): 58-63.
33. Ayoob M, Alsultan A (2017). Cultural intelli-gence as a moderator of acculturative stress to health among college students. Int J Sci Res, 6(4): 1905-1910.
34. Arthur N (2017). Supporting international students through strengthening their so-cial resources. Studies in Higher Education, 42(5): 887-894.
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Cha J, Kang H, Yu J, Choi M. The Factors Associated with Health Promotion Behavior of International Students in South Korea. Iran J Public Health. 2022;51(1):56-66.
