Gahui Hwang

ORCID: 0000-0002-4298-5763
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Research Areas
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • School Health and Nursing Education
  • Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Health and Wellbeing Research
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Halal products and consumer behavior
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
  • Cultural Competency in Health Care
  • Health and Lifestyle Studies
  • Patient Dignity and Privacy
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Ethics in medical practice
  • Diverse Approaches in Healthcare and Education Studies
  • Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

Yonsei University
2020-2025

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
2019

Background: Pandemic-related weight gain disproportionately has affected children from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. However, key determinants of childhood obesity among these vulnerable remain relatively underexplored. Methods: In a secondary data analysis using longitudinal dataset, the relationships between child status and its individual environmental influences were examined based on an ecological model. We analyzed three-point time-series for 1308 participants Korean...

10.1177/01939459251314943 article EN Western Journal of Nursing Research 2025-02-08

Diet-related disparities that have often been observed in vulnerable families may play a negative role children's health and health-related quality of life. In South Korea, an afterschool care policy, called Community Childcare Center (CCC), was established the 1960s to protect educate children; this has expanded provide meal services recent times. Therefore, CCCs' food environment become pivotal platform for observing nutrition disparities. Using mixed-methods approach including survey with...

10.3390/nu15081940 article EN Nutrients 2023-04-18

Schools are important environments for promotion of healthy behaviors to reduce childhood obesity; however, many barriers prevent schools from sustaining wellness programs. The goal the Healthy Champions program was assist with identifying areas improvement through a nutrition and activity-focused assessment, delivery customized score report welcome kit materials promote healthful behavior change. In this study, we aimed describe participation assessment results across five-year period....

10.1016/j.pmedr.2019.101018 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Preventive Medicine Reports 2019-11-12

Although more people from Middle Eastern countries are visiting South Korea for medical treatment, Korean nurses lack experience in treating them. Understanding and describing nurses' experiences can help them provide quality care to these patients by enhancing their competency culturally appropriate care. This study described the of who clinical settings Korea.

10.4040/jkan.24036 article EN Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2024-01-01

COVID-19 brought significant changes to the role of school nurses, necessitating development remote health education programs. However, there is a lack evidence and pedagogical lessons for digitally transforming socially vulnerable children. This qualitative study analyzes educational needs barriers faced by children service providers in childcare-based obesity prevention program during pandemic South Korea. Through thematic content analysis, four core themes emerged: (a) heightened concerns...

10.1177/10598405241228448 article EN The Journal of School Nursing 2024-02-19

Purpose: Community child centers (CCCs) were introduced to provide after-school activities and care, including meal services children from low-income families. The assistant cooks, who have the main responsibility for making serving food at CCCs, are a major factor influencing eating habits of using CCCs. In this study, we tried identify understand cooks are, what their job responsibilities they need in order be able with healthy meals.Methods: Three focus group interviews held 17 workfare...

10.4094/chnr.2020.26.4.445 article EN cc-by-nc Child Health Nursing Research 2020-10-31

This study aimed to systematically develop an obesity prevention program for adolescents promote healthy eating and physical activity in schools.The development of the Let's Eat Healthy Move at School followed six steps intervention mapping (IM). IM is a widely used protocol developing systematic effective interventions based on theories evidence.To better understand problem identify needs adolescents, interviews were conducted with teachers, school nurses, students (step 1). In step 2,...

10.4094/chnr.2021.27.3.225 article EN cc-by-nc Child Health Nursing Research 2021-07-30

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of moral sensitivity and distress on caring behavior neonatal pediatric intensive care unit nurses. A survey 121 nurses working in units five general hospitals two regions South Korea. The found significant differences (p =.002), =.001), =.013) according age. There were also career, marriage, experience ethics education. multiple regression analysis confirmed that <.001) =.027) had a behavior, accounting for 22.5% 10.3% observed data,...

10.35301/ksme.2022.25.3.261 article EN Korean Journal of Medical Ethics 2022-09-01

Given that the obesity rate among school-age children is increasing, school nurses can play a vital role in managing and encouraging healthy living settings. Obese from low-income backgrounds are more vulnerable than other students require careful attention intervention. This qualitative study aimed to explore understand barriers recognized by household children. A focus group interview was conducted with 17 working at an elementary school. Children, home, school, political structural,...

10.1177/10598405211045888 article EN The Journal of School Nursing 2021-10-18
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