Jang WH, Jang JS, Bang JH. Time usage analysis and satisfaction comparison by occupational area according to the sex of single-parent families. World J Clin Cases 2023; 11(21): 5097-5107 [PMID: 37583857 DOI: 10.12998/wjcc.v11.i21.5097]
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Jin-Hyuk Bang, Master's Student, Department of Occupational Therapy, College of Health Science, Kangwon National University, 346 Hwangjo-gil, Dogye-eup, Samcheok-si 25949, Gangwon-do, South Korea. lyote@naver.com
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Health Care Sciences & Services
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Observational Study
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World J Clin Cases. Jul 26, 2023; 11(21): 5097-5107 Published online Jul 26, 2023. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v11.i21.5097
Time usage analysis and satisfaction comparison by occupational area according to the sex of single-parent families
Woo-Hyuk Jang, Jong-Sik Jang, Jin-Hyuk Bang
Woo-Hyuk Jang, Jong-Sik Jang, Jin-Hyuk Bang, Department of Occupational Therapy, College of Health Science, Kangwon National University, Samcheok-si 25949, Gangwon-do, South Korea
Author contributions: Jang WH was the guarantor and designed the study; Bang JH participated in the acquisition, analysis, interpretation of the data, and drafted the initial manuscript; Jang WH and Jang JS revised the article critically for important intellectual content; all authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Kangwon National Institutional Review Board (Approval No. KWNUIRB-2021-07-002).
Informed consent statement: Patients were not required to give informed consent to the study because the analysis used anonymous clinical data that were obtained after each patient agreed to treatment by written consent.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors declare having no conflicts of interest.
Data sharing statement: All data are available on reasonable request from the corresponding author.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement—checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement—checklist of items.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Jin-Hyuk Bang, Master's Student, Department of Occupational Therapy, College of Health Science, Kangwon National University, 346 Hwangjo-gil, Dogye-eup, Samcheok-si 25949, Gangwon-do, South Korea. lyote@naver.com
Received: March 17, 2023 Peer-review started: March 17, 2023 First decision: May 12, 2023 Revised: March 23, 2023 Accepted: July 3, 2023 Article in press: July 3, 2023 Published online: July 26, 2023 Processing time: 131 Days and 23.6 Hours
ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS
Research background
Single-parent families face not only economic poverty but also time poverty due to the absence of a spouse.
Research motivation
Single-parent families have time issues for a variety of reasons, so it's important to identify what time issues they have so that you can address them.
Research objectives
We wanted to categorize single-parent families by occupational area to examine their time use and understand their sense of time deficiency and life satisfaction.
Research methods
This study utilized microdata from Statistics Korea to categorize single-parent households and understand their time use.
Research results
Single-parent families differed in the amount of time spent on each occupational area by sex, and while they did not differ in life satisfaction, they did differ in their perceived lack of time.
Research conclusions
The findings on the time use characteristics of single-parent families by sex should be used to explore ways to address time poverty.
Research perspectives
It is hoped that our findings on the time use of single-parent families by occupational area will serve as a basis for addressing time poverty.
