Korean J Women Health Nurs.  2008 Jun;14(2):104-113.

Experience of 'Well-being' of Female College Students

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  • 1College of Nursing Science, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea. kuikim@khu.ac.kr

Abstract

PURPOSE: This study was to identify the meaning of the experience of 'well-being' of female college students in Korea and provide fundamental materials to improve nursing interventions.
METHODS
The participants were six female students who gave consent to participate in this study. This study was conducted between August 2006 and November 2006. Each interview took one to three hours. The contents of the interviews were recorded and dictated afterwards. In addition, the interviews were carried out such a way that the gathered information was sufficiently saturated. The data was analyzed with the phenomenological analytic method suggested by Giorgi (1985).
RESULTS
As a result of analysis, the following have been identified.: proper dietary treatment, proper physical treatment, harmonized psychological treatment, environmental- friendly treatment, and hypersensitivity to the mass media.
CONCLUSIONS
The finding of this study offers profound information on the 'well-being' of female college students in Korea and provides fundamental materials to improve the quality of nursing interventions.

Keyword

Female college students; Well-being; Experience

MeSH Terms

Female
Humans
Hypersensitivity
Korea
Mass Media
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