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The Korean Study of Women’s Health-Related Issues (K-Stori): Rationale and Study Design
BACKGROUND: Measures to address gender-specific health issues are essential due to fundamental, biological differences between the sexes. Studies have increasingly stressed the importance of customizing approaches directed at women’s health issues according to stages in the female life cycle. In Kor...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492879/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28662652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4531-1 |
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author | Cho, Ha Na Choi, Eunji Seo, Da Hea Suh, Mina Lee, Hoo-Yeon Park, Boyoung Park, Sohee Cho, Juhee Kim, Sue Park, Yeong-Ran Lim, Joong-Yeon Ahn, Younjihin Park, Hyun-Young Choi, Kui Son Rhee, Yumie |
author_facet | Cho, Ha Na Choi, Eunji Seo, Da Hea Suh, Mina Lee, Hoo-Yeon Park, Boyoung Park, Sohee Cho, Juhee Kim, Sue Park, Yeong-Ran Lim, Joong-Yeon Ahn, Younjihin Park, Hyun-Young Choi, Kui Son Rhee, Yumie |
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description | BACKGROUND: Measures to address gender-specific health issues are essential due to fundamental, biological differences between the sexes. Studies have increasingly stressed the importance of customizing approaches directed at women’s health issues according to stages in the female life cycle. In Korea, however, gender-specific studies on issues affecting Korean women in relation to stages in their life cycle are lacking. Accordingly, the Korean Study of Women’s Health-Related Issues (K-Stori) was designed to investigate life cycle-specific health issues among women, covering health status, awareness, and risk perceptions. METHODS: K-Stori was conducted as a nationwide cross-sectional survey targeting Korean women aged 14–79 years. Per each stage in the female life cycle (adolescence, childbearing age, pregnancy & postpartum, menopause, and older adult stage), 3000 women (total 15,000) were recruited by stratified multistage random sampling for geographic area based on the 2010 Resident Registration Population in Korea. Specialized questionnaires per each stage (total of five) were developed in consultation with multidisciplinary experts and by reflecting upon current interests into health among the general population of women in Korea. This survey was conducted from April 1 to June 31, 2016, at which time investigators from a professional research agency went door-to-door to recruit residents and conducted in-person interviews. DISCUSSION: The study’s findings may help with elucidating health issues and unmet needs specific to each stage in the life cycle of Korean women that have yet to be identified in present surveys. |
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spelling | pubmed-54928792017-06-30 The Korean Study of Women’s Health-Related Issues (K-Stori): Rationale and Study Design Cho, Ha Na Choi, Eunji Seo, Da Hea Suh, Mina Lee, Hoo-Yeon Park, Boyoung Park, Sohee Cho, Juhee Kim, Sue Park, Yeong-Ran Lim, Joong-Yeon Ahn, Younjihin Park, Hyun-Young Choi, Kui Son Rhee, Yumie BMC Public Health Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Measures to address gender-specific health issues are essential due to fundamental, biological differences between the sexes. Studies have increasingly stressed the importance of customizing approaches directed at women’s health issues according to stages in the female life cycle. In Korea, however, gender-specific studies on issues affecting Korean women in relation to stages in their life cycle are lacking. Accordingly, the Korean Study of Women’s Health-Related Issues (K-Stori) was designed to investigate life cycle-specific health issues among women, covering health status, awareness, and risk perceptions. METHODS: K-Stori was conducted as a nationwide cross-sectional survey targeting Korean women aged 14–79 years. Per each stage in the female life cycle (adolescence, childbearing age, pregnancy & postpartum, menopause, and older adult stage), 3000 women (total 15,000) were recruited by stratified multistage random sampling for geographic area based on the 2010 Resident Registration Population in Korea. Specialized questionnaires per each stage (total of five) were developed in consultation with multidisciplinary experts and by reflecting upon current interests into health among the general population of women in Korea. This survey was conducted from April 1 to June 31, 2016, at which time investigators from a professional research agency went door-to-door to recruit residents and conducted in-person interviews. DISCUSSION: The study’s findings may help with elucidating health issues and unmet needs specific to each stage in the life cycle of Korean women that have yet to be identified in present surveys. BioMed Central 2017-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5492879/ /pubmed/28662652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4531-1 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Study Protocol Cho, Ha Na Choi, Eunji Seo, Da Hea Suh, Mina Lee, Hoo-Yeon Park, Boyoung Park, Sohee Cho, Juhee Kim, Sue Park, Yeong-Ran Lim, Joong-Yeon Ahn, Younjihin Park, Hyun-Young Choi, Kui Son Rhee, Yumie The Korean Study of Women’s Health-Related Issues (K-Stori): Rationale and Study Design |
title | The Korean Study of Women’s Health-Related Issues (K-Stori): Rationale and Study Design |
title_full | The Korean Study of Women’s Health-Related Issues (K-Stori): Rationale and Study Design |
title_fullStr | The Korean Study of Women’s Health-Related Issues (K-Stori): Rationale and Study Design |
title_full_unstemmed | The Korean Study of Women’s Health-Related Issues (K-Stori): Rationale and Study Design |
title_short | The Korean Study of Women’s Health-Related Issues (K-Stori): Rationale and Study Design |
title_sort | korean study of women’s health-related issues (k-stori): rationale and study design |
topic | Study Protocol |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492879/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28662652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4531-1 |
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