Self-assessments of health by Korean immigrant women.
The purpose of this study was twofold: to discover how Korean immigrant women perceived their health and to identify associations between social indicators and the health of Korean immigrant women. Participants in the study comprised a nonprobability sample of 137 Korean immigrant women living in the United States who submitted questionnaires about their health to the researcher by U.S. mail in 2004. Approximately 49% of the participants perceived their health as fair or poor. After age, income, education, marital status, and occupational status were controlled, the significant predictors of self-assessed health were involvement in exercise and length of residency in the United States. In future studies, the relationships between perception of health related to acculturation and self-rating health should be investigated.
Yang
Kyeongra
K
School of Nursing, The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA. yangk@pitt.edu
D000069:Acculturation; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007723:Korea; D008393:Marriage; D008875:Middle Aged; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D016387:Women's Health