Work-Related Stress, Health Status, and Status of Health Apps Use in Korean Adult Workers

Although health apps have been developed and utilized in many countries, there is no baseline study about what percentage of Korean workers use these types of health apps. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to describe the work-related stress, health status, and utilization of health apps of K...

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Published inInternational journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 19; no. 6; p. 3197
Main Authors Hwang, Won Ju, Kim, Minjeong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 08.03.2022
MDPI
Subjects
Activities of daily living
Adult
Anxiety
Asian Americans
Baseline studies
Blood pressure
Body mass index
Body weight
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Demographic variables
Diabetes
Health Status
Humans
Hypertension
Management tools
Meditation
Mental depression
Mental health
Mindfulness
Mobile Applications
Occupational health
Occupational Stress
Public health
Questionnaires
Republic of Korea - epidemiology
Stress
Surveys and Questionnaires
Workers
Young adults
Republic of Korea
United Kingdom > UK
South Korea
Koreans
occupational stress
mobile applications
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Summary:Although health apps have been developed and utilized in many countries, there is no baseline study about what percentage of Korean workers use these types of health apps. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to describe the work-related stress, health status, and utilization of health apps of Korean adult workers. This descriptive study included 95 adults in South Korea. Demographic variables, work-related stress, health status, and utilization of health apps were obtained using an online self-reported survey. Descriptive analyses were used to explore prevalence of each variable. This study found that almost 65% of the participants fell into the higher work-related stress group. About 41.6% of the participants in this sample evaluated their general health status as fair to poor with 26.8% being overweight to obese and 11.6% having hypertension. However, only about 33.7% of the sample have used health apps. Therefore, utilization of health apps as health and stress management tools should be encouraged at a public health level.
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ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph19063197