Jin-Hyang Yang; Myung-Ok Cho; Hae-Ok Lee

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Qualitative Research Investigating Patterns of Health Care Behavior among Korean Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B: Jin-Hyang Yang, Myung-Ok Cho, Hae-Ok Lee; Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2009;39(6):805-817.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2009.39.6.805
Published online: December 31, 2009

¹Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, Inje University, Busan, Korea.

²Professor, Department of Nursing, Dongeui University, Busan, Korea.

³Associate Professor, College of Nursing and Health Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA.

Address reprint requests to: Cho, Myung-Ok. Department of Nursing, Dongeui University, 995 Umgwang-ro, Busanjin-gu, Busan 614-714, Korea. Tel: 82-51-890-1556, Fax: 82-51-890-2621, mocho@deu.ac.kr

• Received: April 20, 2009 • Accepted: November 13, 2009

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Abstract

Purpose
This ethnograpy was done to explore patterns of health care behavior in patients with chronic health problems.
Methods
The participants were 15 patients with chronic hepatitis B and 2 family members. Among the patients 4 had progressed to liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. Data were collected from iterative fieldwork in a department of internal medicine of I hospital. Data were analyzed using text analysis and taxonomic methods.
Results
Illness and disease, relationship between health care givers and clients, and communication patterns between health professions and clients were discussed as the context of health care behavior. Health care behavior of the participants was categorized by its focus: every day work centered, body centered, organ centered, and pathology centered.
Conclusion
Participants' health care behavior was guided by folk health concept and constructed in the sociocultural context. Folk etiology, pathology, and interpretation of one's symptoms were influencing factors in illness behavior. These findings must be a cornerstone of culture specific care for the chronic diseases.
Keywords: Ethnography; Health care behavior; Chronic hepatitis B

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Qualitative Research Investigating Patterns of Health Care Behavior among Korean Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B

J Korean Acad Nurs. 2009;39(6):805-817. Published online December 31, 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2009.39.6.805

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