Korean J Occup Health Nurs.  2018 Feb;27(1):25-35. 10.5807/kjohn.2018.27.1.25.

The Relationships among Needs for Health Promotion Programs according to Emotional Labor and Heathy Lifestyle of Flight Attendants

• Baek SE
• Kim YI
• Cha JE

• KMID: 2407405
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5807/kjohn.2018.27.1.25

Abstract

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to figure out emotional labor, healthy lifestyle, needs for health services of flight attendants and the relationships among needs for health services according to various characteristics of flight attendants.
METHODS
The participants of this study were 140 flight attendants who work on major and low cost airlines. Data were collected through a questionnaire from 2017 .Jan.~2017. Feb. Data were subsequently analyzed using the SPSS 21 Program.
RESULTS
The score of emotional labor was 3.76 surface acting was 3.75 and deep acting was 3.77. The average of healthy lifestyle was 2.41, and the highest was 3.13 of personal relationship and the lowest was 1.91 of eating habits. There is a positive correlation between emotional labor-deep acting and healthy lifestyle. Flight attendants demand health services for physical exercise, stress and emotional labor management, healthy eating habits, emergency treatment, prevention of fatigue, cancer screening, sexual harassment prevention, sex education and etc.
CONCLUSION
These results show that flight attendants need to various interventions for improving healthy lifestyle and reducing emotional labor. It is necessary to develop customized health promotion program suited to their job and general characteristics.

Keyword

Health promotion; Healthy lifestyle; Health services needs; Emotional labor; Flight attendants

MeSH Terms

Early Detection of Cancer
Eating
Emergency Treatment
Exercise
Fatigue
Health Promotion*
Health Services
Health Services Needs and Demand
Humans
Life Style*
Sex Education
Sexual Harassment