• 한국노년학
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.1247-1263
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• 2011

The rapidly aging society entails the increases of medical service utilizations among the elderly. Medical services utilized by the elderly influence their life satisfaction. However, little is known about the effects of medical service utilizations on life satisfaction. Much less is known about whether the effects of medical service utilizations on life satisfaction tend to vary by the presence of chronic health conditions. Including 3,944 individuals aged 65 and over who participated in the 3rd wave of Korean Welfare Panel Study, the current study aims to examine (1) the relationships between medical service utilizations and life satisfaction and (2) whether the effects of medical service utilizations on life satisfaction vary by the presence of chronic health conditions. Data were processed through structural equation modeling(SEM) and multi-group SEM. Results indicate that (1) levels of both outpatient and inpatient service utilizations are related to life satisfaction, whereas levels of health monitoring service utilizations are not and (2) the effects of medical service utilizations varied by the chronic health condition status of the elderly. These results indicate that, in order to enhance levels of life satisfaction, medical services should be strategically utilized by the elderly depending on their chronic health condition status. Based on the findings, we discussed implications for practice and policy, suggesting future research directions based on the limitations of the current study.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.8-18
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• 2019

Purpose: This study was conducted to better understand the illness experiences and palliative care needs in community-dwelling persons with cardiometabolic diseases. Methods: This qualitative descriptive study was conducted with 11 patients (and three family members) among 28 patients contacted. Interviews were led by the principal investigator in her office or at participants' home depending on their preference. All interviews were digitally recorded and transcribed by a research assistant. The interviews were analyzed by two independent researchers using a conventional method. Results: Participants' ages ranged from 42 to 82 years (nine men and two women). Three themes were identified: (1) same disease, but different illness experiences; (2) I am in charge of my disease(s); (3) preparation for disease progression. Participants were informed of the name of their disease when they were diagnosed, but not provided with explanation of the diagnosis or meant or how to do self-care to delay the disease progression, which increased the feelings of uncertainty, hopelessness and anxiety. Taking medication was considered to be the primary treatment option and self-care a supplemental one. Advanced care plans were considered when they felt the progression of their disease(s) while refraining from sharing it with their family or health care professionals to save their concerns. All participants were willing to withhold life-sustaining treatment without making any preparation in writing. Conclusion: Education on self-care and advanced care planning should be provided to community-dwelling persons with cardiometabolic diseases. A patient-centered education program needs to be developed for this population.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.45-56
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• 2022

This paper proposes an optimal methodology for automatically diagnosing and predicting the severity of the chronic kidney disease (CKD) using patients' utterances. In patients with CKD, the voice changes due to the weakening of respiratory and laryngeal muscles and vocal fold edema. Previous studies have phonetically analyzed the voices of patients with CKD, but no studies have been conducted to classify the voices of patients. In this paper, the utterances of patients with CKD were classified using the variety of utterance types (sustained vowel, sentence, general sentence), the feature sets [handcrafted features, extended Geneva Minimalistic Acoustic Parameter Set (eGeMAPS), CNN extracted features], and the classifiers (SVM, XGBoost). Total of 1,523 utterances which are 3 hours, 26 minutes, and 25 seconds long, are used. F1-score of 0.93 for automatically diagnosing a disease, 0.89 for a 3-classes problem, and 0.84 for a 5-classes problem were achieved. The highest performance was obtained when the combination of general sentence utterances, handcrafted feature set, and XGBoost was used. The result suggests that a general sentence utterance that can reflect all speakers' speech characteristics and an appropriate feature set extracted from there are adequate for the automatic classification of CKD patients' utterances.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology
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• 1994.04a
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• pp.207-207
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• 1994

I) 지금까지 만성골수성백혈병의 치료법으로서 골수이식이나 인터페론의 투여등이 시행되어왔으며 백혈병세포에서 Interleukin-1$\beta$(이하 IL-1$\beta$)이 자율적으로 생성됨이 보고 되어 이러한 질병의 진행에 IL-1$\beta$의 활성증가가 관련될것이라는 견해가 대두되어 왔다. 최근 단핵구성백혈병 환자의 소변에서 분리된 IL-1수용체 길항제(1L-1 receptor antagonist: IL-lRA)가 clonig되었고 인터페론치료에 저항하는 환자들의 치료에 IL-1RA 가 이용될수 있을것이라는 견해가 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 유전공학연구소가 분리 정제한 IL-1RA가 만성골수백혈병 환자로부터 유래한 K562세포주의 증식에 미치는 영향을 평가하고 알파인터페론과의 병용투여시의 상호작용에 관해 검토하였다.

• 건강소식
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• v.34 no.9
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• pp.38-39
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• 2010

노인장기 요양보험제도가 시행된 지 2년이 흘렀다. 그동안 가족이 책임졌던 노인에 대한 장기요양을 국가와 사회가 부담함으로써 만성질환 및 노인성 질환으로 어려움을 겪는 노인과 가족들의 부담이 줄어들었다. 하지만 적지 않은 문제점도 드러나고 있다. 외국의 사례를 통해 우리나라 노인장기 요양보험제도의 현재와 미래를 그려보고자 한다.

• 건강소식
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• v.31 no.8 s.345
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• pp.30-31
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• 2007

천식은 기도가 수축하고 염증이 생기는 흔한 만성 호흡기 질환이다. 천식은 평소에도 기관지에 염증이 존재하므로 가벼운 자극에도 쉽게 기도가 좁아지게 되어 천명음(숨쉴 때 쌕쌕거리는 소리), 기침, 가슴이 답답함, 호흡곤란 등의 증상이 나타나게 된다. 만일 치료를 하지 않고 그대로 방치한다면 오랫동안 폐 기능이 감소된다. 아직까지 천식을 완치할 수 있는 치료법은 발견되지 않았지만, 올바른 방법으로만 하면 성공적으로 관리할 수 있는 질병이다.

• KOREAN POULTRY JOURNAL
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• v.5 no.10 s.48
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• pp.121-123
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• 1973

[ $\circ$ ]금후 MMA는 양돈업의 가장 심각하고도 중요한 문제중의 하나이다. $\circ$MMA는 모돈에 급성으로 중대한 질병을 유발할 수도 있지만 만성으로 증상이 나타날 수도 있기 때문에 조기에 확진하기는 경험을 요구한다. $\circ$MMA는 모든 경우에 있어서 돼지의 성장 및 위생에 관한 매우 중요한 영향을 미치는 복합된 상태이다. $\circ$MMA가 유발시 곧 양돈전문 수의사와 상담하는 것이 현명하다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.401-404
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• 2008

In livestock, diagnosis of disease is found on body temperature variation like a human. In case of cattle, body temperature variation can estimate disease that milk fever, toxication, diarrhea, dyspepsia, chronic enteritis, influenza, pneumonia, anthrax. So we are suggested the temperature measurement system for livestock. This system will be useful to a stock farmer and alternative that a worker.

• 월간산업보건
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• s.69
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• pp.26-32
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• 1994

어떠한 직업성 폭로와 그리고 특정한 질병간의 원인결과 관련성이 매우 명확할 때 이러한 질병은, 의학적으로 또한 대부분의 경우에 법적으로 직업성 질환으로 규정된다. 그러나 작업과 작업조건은 이러한 명확한 원인결과관계 이외에도, 일반적인 질환의 발생에 일부분 기여할수 있는데, 이는 원인의 일부로 또는 일단 발생된 질환을 악화시키는 것으로 기여할수 있고, 근로자의 직업과 관련된 생활습관을 통하여 간접적으로 그게 되는데, 이는 반드시 원인결과의 관계이어야만 한다는 것은 아니고, 직업과 직업 또는 작업조건에 어떠한 면으로 관련되어 있으면 이러한 범주에 들게 된다. 고전적인 직업병은 이러한 관련성의 한 극단을 이루고 있으며, 직업과 관련되어서 매우 미약한 관련성을 가지는 또는 불확실한 관련을 가지는 질환들은 다른 극단을 점하고 있다. 이러한 극단들 사이에 위치한 많은 질환들은 어떠한 특정한 조건에서만 업무관련성을 지니며 그들의 원인은 항상 다원적인(multifactotial) 것이다. 이러한 관련성의 확정은 역학의 중요한 역할중의 하나이나 이 글에서는 대표적인 몇가지 질환을 대상으로 이러한 연구에서 고려하여야 할 점들을 Sven Hernberg의 "Introduction to Occupational Epidemiology"를 통하여 정리하여 보고자 하였다.

• Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.501-509
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• 2002

Purpose: This study was performed to identify the illness intrusiveness, quality of life, and their relationships in patients with chronic liver disease. Method: Data was collected using scales of illness intrusiveness developed by Devins et al and Korean health related quality of life (KoQoLS) developed by Shim et al to measure the illness intrusiveness and quality of life from 141 chronic liver disease patients. Result: The total mean score of illness intrusiveness was $38.85{\pm}18.45$. The domain of illness intrusiveness which showed the highest mean score was health ($4.60{\pm}2.02$), and the lowest mean score domain was relationship with spouse ($20.4{\pm}1.69$). The subcategory of KoQoLS which showed the highest mean score was bodily pain ($6.96{\pm}2.98$), and the lowest mean score subcategory was vitality ($2.75{\pm}1.20$). There were negative relationships between illness intrusiveness and KoQoLS in all subcategories. Abovel all, Illness intrusiveness had the strongest negative relationship with role limitation (r=-0.641) among the KoQoLS subcategories. Conclusion: Because the illness intrusiveness had negative influence on the quality of life in patients with chronic liver disease, further research will need to specify detailed illness intrusiveness and to explore influencing factors on quality of life in them.