Factors Influencing the Preventive Practice of International Students in South Korea against COVID-19 during the Pandemic

Gun Ja Jang, Ginam Jang and Sangjin Ko
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Gun Ja Jang: Department of Nursing, Daegu University, Daegu 42400, Korea
Ginam Jang: School of International Studies, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea
Sangjin Ko: Department of Nursing, University of Ulsan, Ulsan 44610, Korea

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 5, 1-10

Abstract: As the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spreads worldwide, quarantine guidelines are being constantly updating to prevent the transmission of this virus. Regardless of which country international students live in, they might receive limited crucial quarantine guidelines from that country’s government. The purpose of this study was to identify factors influencing the preventive practice of international students in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a cross-sectional descriptive study. Data were collected from international students in three universities from July 10 to July 31 in 2020. A total of 261 international students participated in the survey, using an online questionnaire. Data were analyzed by independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients, and multiple regression analysis. Preventive practice during the COVID-19 pandemic was affected by duration of stay in Korea (? = ?0.21, p < 0.001), attitudes (? = 0.22, p = 0.001), and trust in Korea’s quarantine system (? = 0.33, p < 0.001). This study showed that attitudes and trust in the quarantine system could affect personal preventive practice during the outbreak of a highly contagious disease such as COVID-19.

Keywords: coronavirus; infection control; quarantine; students (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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