• Journal of Korean Biological Nursing Science
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.306-315
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• 2023

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the rest-activity circadian rhythm (RAR) using data obtained from wearable actigraph devices in hospitalized older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and to investigate its relationship with salivary alpha amylase (sAA). Methods: This secondary data analysis used data from the Hospitalized Older Adults' Cognition and Physical Activity Study. Actigraph data for 3-4 days were analyzed for RAR. RAR indices such as interdaily stability (IS), intradaily variability (IV), activity level during the most active 10-hour period and during the most least active 5-hour period, and relative amplitude (RA) were calculated. Data on sAA collected in the morning and general characteristics, including body mass index (BMI), were analyzed. Results: Data from 92 hospitalized older adults with MCI were analyzed. The IS, IV, RA were 0.23, 0.73, 0.88, respectively. The average level of sAA was 77.02 U/mL, and a higher level of sAA was significantly associated with better IS and RA in the regression analysis, while age, BMI, and cognitive level were not. BMI showed positive correlations with IS and RA. Conclusion: RAR in the hospitalized older adults with MCI was attenuated, showing especially low IS, which implies they failed to maintain regular and repetitive 24-hour RAR. Increased sAA and BMI were associated with robust RAR. Nurses need to pay attention to maintain robust RAR in hospitalized older adults with MCI, and strategies should be developed to improve their RAR.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제51권3호
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• pp.294-304
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• 2021

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate objectively measured physical activity (PA) in institutionalized older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and to elucidate the influence of autonomic nervous function, salivary cortisol, and PA on cognitive functions based on neurovisceral integration model. Methods: Overall cognitive function was evaluated using the mini-mental state examination (MMSE) and executive function was evaluated using semantic verbal fluency test and clock drawing test. Actigraph for PA, HRV and sAA for autonomous function, and the geriatric depression scale for depression were used. Saliva specimens were collected in the morning for sAA and cortisol. Results: Ninety-eight older adults from four regional geriatric hospitals participated in the study. They took 4,499 steps per day on average. They spent 753.93 minutes and 23.12 minutes on average in sedentary and moderate-to-vigorous activity, respectively. In the multiple regression analysis, lower salivary cortisol level (β = - .33, p = .041) and greater step counts (β = .37, p = .029) significantly improved MMSE score. Greater step count (β = .27, p = .016) also exerted a significant influence on verbal fluency, and greater sAA (β= .35, p = .026) was significantly associated with a better clock drawing test result. Conclusion: Salivary cortisol, sAA and physical activity were significantly associated with cognitive functions. To prevent older adults from developing dementia, strategies are needed to increase their overall PA amount by decreasing sedentary time and to decrease salivary cortisol for cognitive function, and to maintain their sympathetic nervous activity for executive function.

• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.57-67
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• 2007

현대인들에게는 다양한 증상과 징후를 나타내는 스트레스성 질환이 증가되고 있는 추세에 있다. 이러한 스트레스 시에 구강 내에는 구강건조이나 구강작열감증후군, 구강점막질환, 구취 등이 호발 된다는 것은 이미 널리 알려진 사실이다. 이때 대부분의 환자에서 공통적으로 나타나는 현상은 타액선의 기능적 및 구조적 변화에 따른 타액성분의 변화이다. 이에 저자는 스트레스가 구강 내 타액선에 어떠한 영향을 미치며, 타액선으로부터 분비되는 ${\alpha}$-amylase에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 알아보고자 본 실험을 시행한 결과 다음과 같은 유의성 있는 결과를 얻었다. 1. 구속 스트레스에 의하여 타액선 조직은 선포세포가 공포화되며 변성되었고, 선포간극이 이개되었으며, 도관주위조직도 변성되었다. 2. 구속 3시간 후에는 선포세포가 위축되기 시작하였고, 구속 6시간 후에는 선포 간 이개현상이 관찰되었으며, 구속 72시간 후에는 도관 주위 조직도 변성되기 시작하였고, 점차 심화되어 구속 168시간 후에는 선포와 도관 주위조직이 모두 심하게 변성되었다. 3. 면역조직화학적 검사에서 구속 3시간 후에는 amylase의 발현이 부분적으로 불규칙하게 관찰되었으며, 구속 6시간 후에는 다소 감소되었고, 구속 12시간 후에는 amylase가 부분적으로 응집되었으며, 점차 감소되고 응집되어, 구속 48시간 후에는 전 타액선에 amylase의 응집현상이 심화되었고, 구속 168시간 후에는 amylase의 발현이 매우 감소되었다. 이상의 결과를 바탕으로 정서적인 스트레스를 받으면 타액선이 변성될 수 있으며, 타액선으로부터 분비되는 중요한 소화 효소인 amylase가 변화되어 소화 장애를 일으키거나 구강건강과 관계없이 구취발생에도 영향을 미칠 수 있다고 예측할 수 있어, 향후 amylase의 분비변화에 따른 지속적인 연구가 필요할 것으로 생각된다.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.82-87
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• 2016

As contemporary society has become more complicated, specialized, and segmented, people are experiencing more diverse types of stress. In particular, while several factors associated with job stress have been examined among nurses, who belong to a professional group, the existing research has made no quantitative assessments of stress that reflect temporal differences in individuals. Therefore, the aim of this study is to understand the effects of job stress on alpha-amylase with regard to the working hours of nurses, to assess the variations in jobs stress over time, and provide basic data to improve the quality of nursing services. Ninety nurses working in three shifts in general, emergency, and intensive care wards of a university hospital in D City participated in this study. Salivary alpha-amylase (SAA) was extracted and analyzed at two-hour intervals from 07:00 to 15:00 from nurses on the day shift and from 23:00 to 07:00 from those working the night shift. The SAA level was highest between 23:00 and 01:00 for nurses in general wards ($mean{\pm}S.D.\;39.00{\pm}14.88$) and between 11:00 and 13:00 for those in both intensive care units and emergency wards ($mean{\pm}S.D.\;67.50{\pm}62.93$ and $mean{\pm}S.D.\;39.67{\pm}35.96$, respectively). The characteristic variation in SAA was significant between 23:00 and 01:00 (p < 0.01) and for those in their fifties or older (p < 0.01). The activation ratio of alpha-amylase, a stress reactant, showed an increase when the sympathetic nervous system was activated by mental stress; in addition, job stress was manifested with the effect of awakening at different time segments and at different ages among the nurses. With the aim of raising the level of service based on the nurses maintaining their mental health, it is necessary to focus sharply on the time segment for critical control and to conduct repetitive studies to determine the divisions of eustress critical values as well as to expand the population.