Comfort

Comfort Theory, developed by Katharine Kolcaba, proclaims that providing comfort interventions a holistic approach can lead to positive outcomes, health seeking behaviors, and improved health-care delivery system. Comfort can be difficult to define and subjective to every person. However, Kolbaca used other theories to propose three types of comfort: relief, ease, and transcendence. Relief comes when a specific comfort is met, while ease is a state of calm or contentment. Transcendence occurs when the individual learns to cope with the discomfort or “rises above” (p. 382-383). Comfort and discomfort can be perceived in on or more of the following contexts; physical, psychospiritual, environmental, and sociocultural (p. 382). In order for…

“military comfort women” during World War Two when Korea was under Japanese rule. In fact, a ‘comfort woman’ is an inappropriate word for the female victims; a ‘sex slave’ is the correct term. Although the sex slave is the right term, people use the ‘comfort women’ because it is well known by many people and sounds smoother than the sex slave. When Korea was under Japanese rule,…

A brief explanation of the comfort concept is when a person will feel mental or physical ease or relief from stress or pain. A sense of security and contentment. An example of comfort would be a child that knew their mother would read a story to them, when it was time to go to bed in the evening. A brief explanation of the privacy concept is having the freedom of others in their space or environment. An example of privacy would be a child that has their own room. This child would be able to have…

extortion of comfort women during World War II has only been brought to light in the early 1990’s when nineteen of the remaining comfort women survivors broke decades of silence and shared their personal experiences of Japan’s army-run comfort stations. From the development of the stations, the actual procurement of women and the sexism and dehumanization present in the comfort camps, the Japanese government fully supported and approved a war crime “to exploit in warfare” to oppress women and…

felt during the Japanese era." –Niyem (A Korean woman who was forced to be a sex slave during the World War II) This quote expresses the horrid life experience of many different women during the World War II. As full scale war advanced in 1930s, Japan felt the necessity to devise a system of “comfort” and “leisure” for their soldiers. The soldiers were inclined to seek sexual outlets in the local society. Because Japanese soldiers were indiscriminately committing rape they often contracted…

government in a vulnerable state where the image was tainted by various atrocities. By confining rape and sexual abuse to military-controlled facilities, the Japanese hoped to restore the image of the Imperial Army, especially in a war that required a mass mobilization of the nation. As well as preventing any anti-Japanese sentiment among those peoples in the occupied territories to ensure there would be no rebellions or any backlash while the Japanese were focusing on the war. Comfort women…

The Theory of Comfort was developed by Katharine Kolcaba in the 1990’s when she was a graduate student. Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory was a springboard off of her thesis and dissertation and Kolcaba revealed in a documentary she retired from teaching to focus on her Nursing Theory (Kolcaba, 2010). Kolcaba focus on comfort was bred from a systematic interdisciplinary literature review (Kolcaba, 2010). The Comfort Theory is considered a middle-range nursing theory because the focus is a more…

In this segment we are bringing attention to comfort women; the Japanese Army forced comfort women into sexual slavery during World War II. Comfort women have endured so much pain that they are requesting to receive an apology from Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe and they would like to receive an $8 million dollar compensational fund for the survivors. Many of the survivors believe that what they are asking for isn’t enough to pay for everything they have suffered. Christine Ahn states that…

As most Filipino comfort women decided to finally embark on the way toward justice, they were stopped by opposition and criticisms. For instance, memories of abuse by comfort women opposes the claim that comfort station functions to prevent rape cases. According to the Japanese officials, the “comfort stations” built during World War II serves to “prevent rape and sexually transmitted disease.” (Yoko 54). This is because during war times, Japanese armies performed numerous sexual crimes toward…

In Japan’s Comfort Women, subtitled the Sexual slavery and prostitution during World War II and the US occupation, the author Yuki Tanaka unearths a topic largely undiscussed throughout history. Published by Routledge in 2002, Tanaka goes into depth about the history of the exploitation of thousands of women used as comfort women, a euphemism for sexual slavery, for Japanese soldiers. The book is broken up into six chapters, including an epilogue, which focus on the different areas regarding…