Oh Hyang Soon, Ryu Mikyung
Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, College of Life Science and Natural Resources, Sunchon National University, Suncheon, Korea.
Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Daegu University, Daegu, Korea.
Child Health Nurs Res. 2020 Oct;26(4):393-401. doi: 10.4094/chnr.2020.26.4.393. Epub 2020 Oct 31.
This pilot study aimed to describe children's social contact patterns and to analyze factors related to their social contacts.
The participants were 30 children aged ≥13 months to <7 years, whose teachers at childcare centers and parents at home were asked to maintain diaries of their social contacts prospectively for 24 hours. Data were collected from November 30, 2018, to January 7, 2019.
The 30 participating children were in contact with 363 persons in a 24-hours period (mean, 12.1±9.1). The number of contacts showed significant relationships with day of the week (<.001), number of family members/cohabitants (=.015), area of residence (=.003), and type of housing (=.002). A multiple regression model showed significantly higher numbers of contacts on weekdays (B=10.64, =.010). Physical versus non-physical types of contact showed significant differences in terms of duration, location, and frequency (<.001). The duration of contacts showed significant relationships with their location and frequency (<.001), while the frequency of contacts was significantly related to their location (<.001).
This is the first survey describing the characteristics of Korean preschool children's social contacts. Further large-scale social contact studies of children should be conducted.
本试点研究旨在描述儿童的社会接触模式，并分析与其社会接触相关的因素。
参与者为30名年龄≥13个月至<7岁的儿童，要求其在托儿中心的教师和在家的父母前瞻性地记录他们24小时的社会接触情况。数据收集于2018年11月30日至2019年1月7日。
30名参与研究的儿童在24小时内与363人有接触（平均，12.1±9.1）。接触人数与星期几（<.001）、家庭成员/同居者数量（=.015）、居住地区（=.003）和住房类型（=.002）存在显著关系。多元回归模型显示工作日的接触人数显著更多（B = 10.64，=.010）。身体接触与非身体接触在持续时间、地点和频率方面存在显著差异（<.001）。接触持续时间与接触地点和频率存在显著关系（<.001），而接触频率与接触地点显著相关（<.001）。
这是首次描述韩国学龄前儿童社会接触特征的调查。应进一步开展关于儿童的大规模社会接触研究。
