Sung Gwak

Sung Gwak is Associate Professor of Nursing at Borough of Manhattan Community College. She received her nursing training in medical-surgical, and critical care at the Medical College of Georgia, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Cross-Cultural Study of the Concerns of Western and Korean Postnatal Mothers

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This research study was funded by PSC-CUNY Research Grant for 2001-2002. This cross-cultural descriptive study compared the childbearing concerns and experiences of Korean and Western postnatal mothers in three areas: physiological, psychosocial and infant care. In order to ascertain whether there were cultural differences in these three areas, a survey was conducted. Fifty Western postnatal … Read more