The Validity and Reliability of the Second Korean Working Conditions Survey

Kim, Young Sun; Rhee, Kyehan; Oh, Min Jung; Park, Jungsun

doi:10.1016/j.shaw.2013.05.001

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“…Secondly, 10 household were extracted from each enumeration district using randomized systematic sampling methods. Interviewers visited the sampled households up to four times but when the interview failed, alternative household was selected in an adjacent neighbor . This study's sample represents the working population aged 15 years and older (excluding home makers, the retired, the unemployed, and students) in Korea.…”

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“…The KWCS data were collected by well‐trained investigators using face‐to‐face interviews in house‐to‐house visits; it included employment status, workplace environments, mental and physical health, and safety . The validity and reliability of KWCS data have been guaranteed . The review and approval from an Institutional Review Board were not required because the source of this study data was public and analysis of the data did not indicate individuals’ identity.…”

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Physical and mental health problems of self‐employed small business owners in South Korea

Kim

Min

2019

American J Industrial Med

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Background Self‐employed business owners in Korea make up one‐quarter of the working population, and half of those who are self‐employed are in micro and small businesses. Compared to the significant research interest in business management and economics, to date, there has been little interest in the health of small business owners. We investigated the health status of self‐employed small business owners compared to standard workers. Methods The third Korean Working Conditions Survey, which included a total of 32 630 adults aged 20 to 59 years, was analyzed. A small business was defined as an enterprise with between 0 and 4 workers. Standard employment included full‐time employment with a permanent or 1‐year contract. Health outcomes included eight types of physical health and mental health problems assessed using the WHO‐5 Wellbeing Index. Results Small business groups were found to have an increased prevalence of depression after controlling for all potential covariates (odds ratio [OR] = 1.37; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.29‐1.47). In addition, the prevalence of work‐related physical health problems was significantly higher among self‐employed small business owners in a full adjusted model: backache (OR = 1.16; 95% CI, 1.06‐1.26), muscular pains in upper limbs (OR = 1.19; 95% CI, 1.12‐1.27), and muscular pains in lower limbs (OR = 1.14; 95% CI, 1.07‐1.22). Conclusion We found a positive association between small business entrepreneurs and increased prevalence of mental and physical illness in adults in the Republic of Korea.

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Physical and mental health problems of self‐employed small business owners in South Korea

Kim

Min

2019

American J Industrial Med

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“…The response rate was 36%, and the contact rate was 57% in the 2011 KWCS. The validity and reliability of the 2010 KWCS, the study design of which was same as that of the 2011 KWCS, were evaluated, and the quality of the survey was assured 28) .…”

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Work‐related Risk Factors for Workplace Violence among Korean Employees

Lee

Kim

2014

Journal of Occupational Health

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The aim of this study was to identify work-related risk factors for workplace violence in a representative sample of Korean employees. Methods: We analyzed the associations between work-related factors and workplace violence in 29,171 employees using data from the 2011 Korean Working Conditions Survey. The survey included questions about verbal abuse, unwanted sexual attention, threats and behavior that humiliated the victim, physical violence, bullying/harassment and sexual harassment, and a respondent who answered yes to any of these 6 items was considered a victim of workplace violence. Results: The prevalences of verbal abuse, unwanted sexual attention and threats/ behavior that humiliated victims in the month preceding the study were 4.8, 1.0 and 1.5%, respectively. The prevalences of physical violence, bullying/harassment and sexual harassment in the year preceding the study were 0.7, 0.3 and 0.4%, respectively. Service workers had higher prevalences of overall workplace violence. Non-regular workers (OR=2.38, 95% CI=2.01−2.84), working more than 60 hours per week as opposed to 40−48 hours per week (OR=1.83, 95% CI=1.45−2.31) and night shift work (OR=1.88, 95% CI=1.54−2.30) were significant risk factors associated with workplace violence. Conclusions: Long working hours, job insecurity and night shift work were associated with a significant increase in workplace violence among

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“…Perceived discrimination at work was measured by the question, “Over the past year, have you ever experienced workplace discrimination?” If subjects answered “yes,” they were asked to select the perceived reason(s) for discrimination from a list of six possible answers: (a) gender; (b) birth region; (c) age; (d) education; (e) office or field work; or (f) job division (eg, firefighting, EMS, or rescue). The same question was used in the Korean Working Conditions Survey (KWCS) which benchmarked the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) to measure workplace discrimination and the statistics quality of the KWCS was assured by previous studies, though we modified the examples to reflect characteristics of the working conditions of firefighters. For example, we excluded “employment” as a reason for discrimination which was presented in the KWCS because all firefighters are public officials in Korea.…”

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confidence: 99%