Incheon National University Researchers Add New Study Findings to Research in Health and Medicine (Reasons for Turnover Intention among Direct Care Workers in Korea’s Long-Term Care Insurance)

2020 OCT 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Hospital & Nursing Home Daily -- Investigators discuss new findings in health and medicine. According to news originating from Incheon, South Korea, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “This study explored reasons for turnover intention among direct care workers under the Korean long-term care insurance (LTCI) system.”

Financial supporters for this research include Incheon National University.

Our news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Incheon National University: “The author conducted semi-structured interviews with 19 care workers. The study revealed four main themes underlying the intention of care workers to change or leave their jobs. Care workers struggled with demanding working conditions, and their salaries were low. Moreover, the relationships with their directors and supervisors was not good, since some care workers felt that their directors despised them or gave them inappropriate instructions, and their supervisors did not complete administrative work fairly. Lastly, some workers’ health conditions prevented them from carrying out their care work.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “The results have implications for working practices of care workers, prices of LTCI services, training of directors and supervisors, and coverage of occupational health and safety insurance for care workers.”

For more information on this research see: Reasons for Turnover Intention among Direct Care Workers in Korea’s Long-Term Care Insurance. Healthcare, 2020,8(395):395. (Healthcare - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/healthcare). The publisher for Healthcare is MDPI AG.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8040395.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Yongho Chon, Department of Social Welfare, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Yun-Young Kim.

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