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Bang, Kyung-Sook
- Child Health Nursing Research
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- v.12 no.3
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- pp.398-404
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- 2006
Purpose: To investigate the rate of questionable development in infants born prematurely and explore factors affecting developmental delays. Method: The participants were 46 infants born prematurely being seen in one of two urban health centers. A questionnaire and the HOME checklist were used to collect data, and the Korean Denver II developmental screening test was administered. Results: Of the participants 21.7% were classified as having questionable development. The only variable with a significant difference between the two groups was acceptance　in the HOME checklist. Psychosocial factors such as mothers' burden, depression, family functioning, and social support were not significantly different between the two groups. Conclusion: An early developmental screening test for prematurely born infants is needed. Also, the childrearing environment was identified as a significant factor in infants' development. These findings suggest that HOME score might be useful for identifying infants at risk for developmental delays and interventions for these infants will probably be more effective if their mothers can provide a more appropriate social environment. Further studies are suggested with larger samples.
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Choi, Jin;Jeong, Kwan-Yong;Park, Ji-Yun
- Korean System Dynamics Review
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- v.6 no.2
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- pp.73-93
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- 2005
This paper on an experiment, using System Dynamics, on the affect of increase in number of beds and medical instruments used for the care of premature infants, which constitute the physical requirements in quality of medical services, on changes in the survival rate of premature in ants that leads to demographic changes of Newborn infants. The model has four sectors: take-in capacity, survival rate of premature infants, demographics without newborn infants and demographics with newborn infants. The model simulates the changes in demographics of the newborn infants from 2002 to 2022. The study results show that the survival rate of premature infants can be increased by improving the physical aspects in the quality of medical services. An average of 1,900 premature infants can survive as a result of the physical quality improvements in medical services, adding up to an increase of 37,300 newborn infants by the year 2022.
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Won, Mi-Suk
- 주택과사람들
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- s.193
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- pp.50-53
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- 2006
도예의 경계를 무너뜨리고 흙을 이용해 새로운 예술 장르를 개척한 홍익대학교 미술대학장 신상호 교수. 그는 다른 이들이 발견하지 못한 가능성을 끌어내고 끊임없이 새로운 것을 만들어내는 자유로운 예술가다. 흙내음 물씬 풍기는 자연에 취한 신상호 교수의 삶과 공간을 만나본다.
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