Survey study on the Physical Therapy Experience of North Korea Defectors

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Mi-Hye Park, Myung-Chul Kim, Hae-In Kim, Hang-Sik Park, Jean-Kyung Paik

Abstract

Background/Objectives:  The purpose of this study is to help North Korean defectors residing in South Korea improve their physical therapy experience and improve their health.


Methods/Statistical analysis:  The district's target was 100 Korean defectors living in South Korea. The data of this study were statistically analyzed by the following procedure using the SPSS 22.0 program. Pearson's correlation analysis was conducted to determine the correlation between the experience of physical therapy, the prospect of experience it and satisfaction. The statistical significance level was set to 0.05.


Findings: As a result of this study, there was a correlation between physical therapy experience, satisfaction, and outlook. The middle school or lower and high school satisfaction rate was higher than that of above university, and this difference was also found to be statistically significant (χ2=9.548, p<.05). The moderately heathy and heathy satisfaction rate was higher than that of unhealthy, and this difference was also found to be statistically significant (χ2=10.024, p<.05).


As a result of this study, satisfaction with physical therapy showed a statistically significant positive (+) correlation with intention to recommend physical therapy (r=.423 p<.01) and intention to experience in the future (r=.429, p<.01). Intention to recommend physical therapy and intention to experience in the future also showed a significant positive (+) correlation (r=.766, p<.001).


This study is of great significance in that it investigated the actual state of physical therapy experience targeting North Korean defectors who had not previously been.


Improvements/ Applications: There was no detailed investigation on the physical therapy. In future studies, there is a need to understand this through various measurement tools and subdivided questions based on this study.


 

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