KoreaMed, a service of the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE), provides access to articles published in Korean medical, dental, nursing, nutrition and veterinary journals. KoreaMed records include links to full-text content in Synapse and publisher web sites.
Backgrounds
Irregular and unpredictable work schedules have become more common in most societies. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between unpredictable work schedules and depressive symptoms in...
OBJECTIVES: Culture-based gender norms regarding who performs daily activities can bias the assessment of instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). This study evaluated item-response biases in the activities of daily...
Background: We performed this study to investigate the inequalities in site-specific cancer incidences among workers across different occupations in Korea.
Methods: Subjects included members of the national employment insurance. Incident cancers...
Objectives
Epidemiological evidence linking long working hours and shift work to metabolic syndrome remains inadequate. We sought to evaluate the impact of reducing working hours on metabolic syndrome.
Methods
We compared the prevalence...
Objectives
This study examined the timing of menarche and spermarche and their associations with physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) after controlling for body mass index (BMI).
Methods
Multiple logistic regression analyses...
BACKGROUND: Within marital dyads, we focused on the so-called positive spillover effects of one spousal partner's educational attainment on the health of the other partner. This study examined the relationship...
PURPOSE: This ecological study examined demographic and institutional differences in informal caregiving. We conducted a cross-national study about the characteristics of informal caregivers in 12 European countries and Korea.
METHODS: Data...