This study attempted to analize the health education needs between Korean-Chinese in Gilin Province and Chinese.
Data was collected from 3 high schools of 480 boy and girl students at Gilim Province.
The research has been carried out through self-administered questionnaires.
The results were as follows.
1. Among 457 students, 383 students were Korean-Chinese and 74 students were Chinese. 29.3% of Family Income were 400-549 Yuen.
2. For the perceived health status, 58.3% of the students answered they were healthy. 8.8% of the students experienced disease during the past 4 weeks. 88.8% of the students were interested in health status.
3. They had more health education needs in health habits, environmental health, and the following was drug poisoning. They were not interested in sex education.
4. Korean-Chinese had more health education needs in all of areas of health education except nutrition, growth and development, and prevention of disease(p<0.001).
5. In Korean-Chinese, the students whose mother graduated in high school and more level and who made good marks in schools were more interested in the needs of health education(p<0.05). In Chinese, the students who had been experienced disease had more needs of health education.