• 우울조울병
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.128-136
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• 2014

Objectives : This study was undertaken to investigate the prevalence of depressive symptoms and their related factors among a group of medical students. Method : A total of 874 (529 male and 345 female) medical students were randomly selected to participate in a survey. Depressive symptoms, satisfaction with life, health behavior including alcohol use, stress, sleep disturbance and happiness were collected using self-reported questionnaires. Results : The prevalence of depressive symptoms was 10.8%. In stepwise multiple regression analysis, lower satisfaction of life, daytime dysfunction due to sleepiness, history of suicidal attempt, stress, sleep disturbance were found to be significant relating factors of depressive symptoms. In moderated regression analysis, the result showed that the impact of life stress were moderated by satisfaction of life on depressive symptoms, but the moderating effect of happiness was not significant. Conclusion : This study showed considerably high prevalence of depressive symptoms and BDI score in medical students. The findings suggest that early detection of depressive symptoms and intensive mental health promotion program is needed in order to improve medical student's mental health status.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.934-942
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• 2014

본 연구는 춘천지역 대학생 429명을 대상으로 일반적 특성 및 사회심리적 요인이 대학생의 문제음주정도에 어떻게 영향을 미치는지 분석하였으며 그 결과는 다음과 같다. 조사대상자의 평생음주율은 98.1%이었으며 일반적 특성에 따른 문제음주정도에서 전체 학년 모두 '위험음주'가 가장 많았다(P<0.001). AUDIT의 기준점을 8점으로 문제음주를 분류하였을 때 1학년(P<0.001)과 동아리 활동을 하고 있는 학생들(P<0.01)에서 문제음주자가 더 많았으며, 인지된 건강상태는 본인이 건강하다고 인지할수록 문제음주정도가 낮았다(P<0.001). 또한 어머니의 음주정도(P<0.05)가 많을수록, 음주시작연령이 빠를수록(P<0.001) 문제음주정도가 커지는 것으로 나타났다. 사회심리적 특성에 따른 문제음주정도에서 음주결과에 대한 긍정적 기대(P<0.001)와 음주대처동기(P<0.001)는 문제음주정도가 커질수록 높고, 음주문화에 대한 인식도(P<0.001)는 바람직하지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 각 변인들 간의 상호관련성을 알아본 결과 본인의 인지된 건강상태가 낮고, 음주시작연령이 빠를수록, 음주결과에 대한 긍정적 기대와 음주대처동기가 높을수록, 음주문화에 대한 인식도가 바람직하지 않을수록 AUDIT에 의한 문제음주정도가 커지는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 음주결과에 대한 긍정적 기대가 높을수록 음주대처동기가 높고, 음주문화에 대한 인식도가 바람직하지 않으며, 자기효능감이 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 또한 음주대처동기가 높을수록 음주문화에 대한 인식도가 바람직하지 않고, 자기효능감이 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 성별, 동아리 활동여부, 인지된 건강상태, 대학생활 만족도, 음주시작연령, 음주결과에 대한 긍정적 기대, 음주대처동기, 음주문화인식도, 자기효능감의 변인들이 대학생의 문제음주에 미치는 영향을 알아보고자 다중회귀분석을 실시한 결과 독립변인들이 대학생의 문제음주정도를 27.0% 설명해 주고 있으며, 음주대처동기(${\beta}=0.283$, P<0.001)가 문제음주에 영향을 미치는 가장 중요한 변인으로 작용하였다. 따라서 본 연구결과를 토대로 대학생의 문제음주를 바람직한 방향으로 개선하기 위한 예방적 차원의 대책을 제시하고자 한다. 첫째, 대학생들이 건전한 음주문화를 조성할 수 있도록 대학 내 음주환경을 변화시킬 수 있는 접근이 요구된다. 대학생들의 높은 음주율과 특히 1학년과 동아리 활동을 하고 있는 학생들에서 문제음주자가 높게 나타난 만큼 대학 당국에서는 신입생과 재학생을 대상으로 한 절주 캠페인 및 교육을 실시하고 절주 동아리가 구성 운영될 수 있도록 적극적으로 지원하며, 대학 내 음주관련 환경적 통제가 함께 이루어질 수 있도록 노력해야 할 것이다. 둘째, 음주대처동기가 과음 및 음주관련 문제행동을 증가시키고 알코올 의존으로 발전하게 하는 핵심요인으로 나타났다. 따라서 대학생의 음주관련문제를 예방하기 위해서는 부정적 정서 또는 사건을 경험했을 때 대처수단으로 음주를 선택하는 자신의 음주습관을 통찰해 보고, 음주가 아닌 다른 대처자원을 활용할 수 있는 실천적 방법들이 개발 교육되어 문제성 음주를 변화시킬 수 있는 개입이 필요하겠다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권17호
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• pp.7675-7681
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• 2015

Background: Hazardous health behaviour in young people is an important factor that affects the individual risk for non-communicable diseases and other disorders later in life. This study aimed to determine the hazardous health behaviour of first and last class medical students of Erciyes University. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was carried out with 240 medical students from the first and 130 students from the last (sixth) class. Data were obtained by questionnaire between March-April 2012. In total, 339 students were included with a response rate of 91.6%. Socio-demographic characteristics, school success, self-reported economic difficulties, health perceptions, hazardous health behaviour related to chronic disease, tobacco, alcohol, substance use, body weight, height, traffic, violence and nutrition were assessed in line with the literature. Results: Of the participants; 64.0% were from first and 36.0% were from the last class. Mean ages for the first and last classes were $19.4{\pm}1.5$ and $24.0{\pm}1.5years$, respectively. In the current study, males exhibited more hazardous behaviour than females. Sime 19.8% of the students in the study group used alcohol, 35.4% used a waterpipe, and 24.8% used tobacco at least once. These rates increased in both genders in the last class and the increase in males was significant. Some 3.8% of the students in the current study used pleasure-inducing illegal substances at least once. All the students participating in the current study were single, the number of males reported not using condoms (8.6%) was 4.56 times higher compared to females. Some 64.0% of the students did not perform physical activity lasting at least 30 minutes for five times a week, 13.0% did not sleep for mean 7-8 hours daily, males having a 2.9 times higher risk. More than 1/3 of the students did not consume cooked vegetable dishes and 1/4 did not consume fresh fruits and salads, the rates were higher among males. Conclusions: In the current study, hazardous health behaviour was prevalent among medical students, with higher risks among males and last class students. According to these results, medical curriculum may be focused on decreasing hazardous health behaviour. In addition, in order to prevent unhealthy behaviour, the number of youth-friendly health facilities should be increased.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.378-385
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• 2016

Objectives: This study was conducted to investigate the association between sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity and cardiovascular disease risk in Korean postmenopausal women. Methods: We analyzed data of 2,019 postmenopausal women aged 50-64 years who participated in the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 2008-2011 and were free of cardiovascular disease history. Blood pressure, height, and weight were measured. We analyzed the serum concentrations of glucose, total cholesterol, high density lipoprotein cholesterol, low density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Waist circumference was used to measure obesity. Appendicular skeletal muscle mass was measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Sarcopenia was defined as the appendicular skeletal muscle mass/body weight<1 standard deviation below the gender-specific means for healthy young adults. The estimated 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease risk was calculated by Pooled Cohort Equation. Subjects were classified as non-sarcopenia, sarcopenia, or sarcopenic obesity based on status of waist circumference and appendicular skeletal muscle mass. Results: The prevalence of sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity was 16.3% (n=317) and 18.3% (n=369), respectively. The 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease risk in the sarcopenic obesity group was higher ($3.82{\pm}0.22%$) than the normal group ($2.73{\pm}0.09%$) and sarcopenia group ($3.17{\pm}0.22%$) (p < 0.000). The odd ratios (ORs) for the ${\geq}7.5%$ 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease risk were significantly higher in the sarcopenic obesity group (OR 3.609, 95% CI: 2.030-6.417) compared to the sarcopenia group (OR 2.799, 95% CI: 1.463-5.352) (p for trend < 0.000) after adjusting for independent variables (i.e., exercise, period of menopausal, alcohol use disorders identification test (AUDIT) score, income, education level, calorie intake, %fat intake and hormonal replacement therapy). Conclusions: Sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity appear to be associated with higher risk factors predicting the 10-year risks of cardiovascular disease risk in postmenopausal women. These findings imply that maintaining normal weight and muscle mass may be important for cardiovascular disease risk prevention in postmenopausal women.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.303-311
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• 2019

Background: Cerebrovascular disease is included in four major diseases and is a disease that has high rates of prevalence and mortality around the world. Moreover, it is a disease that requires a high cost for long-term hospitalization and treatment. This study aims to figure out the correlation between grip strength, which was presented as a simple, cost-effective, and relevant predictor of cerebrovascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease based on the results of a prior study. And furthermore, our study compared model suitability of the model to measuring grip strength and relative grip strength as a predictor of cerebrovascular disease to improve the quality of cerebrovascular disease's predictor. Methods: This study conducted an analysis based on the generalized linear mixed model using the data from the Korea Longitudinal Study of Ageing from 2006 to 2016. The research subjects consisted of 9,132 middle old age people aged 45 years or older at baseline with no missing information of education level, gender, marital status, residential region, type of national health insurance, self-related health, smoking status, alcohol use, and economic activity. The grip strength was calculated the average which measured 4 times (both hands twice), and the relative grip force was divided by the body mass index as a variable considering the anthropometric figure that affects the cerebrovascular disease and the grip strength. Cerebrovascular diseases, a dependent variable, were investigated based on experiences diagnosed by doctors. Results: An analysis of the association between grip strength and found that about 0.972 (odds ratio [OR], 0.972; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.963-0.981) was the incidence of cerebral vascular disease as grip strength increased by one unit increase and the association between relative grip strength and cerebrovascular disease found that about 0.418 (OR, 0.418; 95% CI, 0.342-0.511) was the incidence of cerebral vascular disease as relative grip strength increased by unit. In addition, the model suitability of the model for each grip strength and relative grip strength was 11,193 and 11,156, which means relative grip strength is the better application to the predictor of cerebrovascular diseases, irrespective of other variables. Conclusion: The results of this study need to be carefully examined and validated in applying relative grip strength to improve the quality of predictors of cerebrovascular diseases affecting high mortality and prevalence.

• 대한불안의학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.115-121
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• 2019

Objective : The purpose of this study was to investigate prevalence of psychiatric symptoms and determine predictors of emotional distress of military hospital surgical patients. Methods : This study examined 104 orthopedic patients admitted to the Armed Forces Military Hospital September-November 2018. For the study, every subject completed self-assessment inventories regarding depressive and anxiety symptoms (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale), sleep problems (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index), problematic alcohol and tobacco use (Cut off, Annoyed, Guilty, Eye-opener screening), and psychiatric history. We performed the Student's t-test and the chi-square test for the collected data to investigate the prevalence of psychiatric symptoms, including emotional distress. Logistic regression analysis was used to examine the risk factors related to emotional distress of hospitalized military personnel. Results : There were no significant differences in socio-demographic and psychiatric symptoms between soldiers and officers. The prevalence of depressive and/or anxiety symptoms (emotional distress) was 21.2% (n=21). In the logistic regression analysis, psychiatric history [Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR)=18.99 ; 95% Confidence Interval (CI)=1.42-253.57 ; p=0.026] and low military life satisfaction (AOR=15.67; 95% CI=1.46-168.11 ; p=0.023) correlated with emotional distress. Conclusion : Soldiers admitted to the military hospital showed similar prevalence of emotional distress as those at general hospitals. Considering military circumstances, it is necessary to detect and intervene regarding soldiers with a psychiatric history and low military life satisfaction to promote mental health at military hospitals.

• 사물인터넷융복합논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.99-110
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• 2023

이 연구는 한국의 중독 연구의 동향을 파악하고 발전 방향을 모색하기 위해 2020년부터 2022년까지 지난 3년간 국내 전문학술지 게재 논문 817 건을 대상으로 텍스트마이닝 기법을 활용하여 분석한 연구이다. 분석 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 다양한 중독 관련 키워드가 나타났으나 스마트폰, 게임, 인터넷, 도박, 관계중독 등 모바일을 중심으로 한 온라인에서의 행위중독 관련 중독 연구들이 주요 상위 키워드로 두드러지게 나타났다. 둘째, TF-IDF 분석결과 중독연구에서 지난 3년 간 스마트폰이나, 게임, 인터넷, 일 중독과 같은 행위중독 관련 중독연구가 많이 수행되었고 특히, 아직 임상적으로 중독문제로 진단화 하고 있지 않은 스마트폰이나 게임, 인터넷 등에 대한 중독문제들에 대한 연구수행이 많다는 것을 알 수 있다. 셋째, 2-gram 분석 결과 스마트폰이나 게임, 인터넷 등 주로 행위중독에 해당 되는 단어들이 중독이라는 키워드와 나란히 등장하는 비율이 매우 높으며, 그 가운데 스마트폰과 중독문제와 관련하여 쌍을 이루는 단어들이 연구논문에서 많이 언급되고 있음을 알 수 있다. 넷째, CONCOR 분석결과 알코올사용장애, 인터넷 등 보편적 중독문제에 관한 연구, 마약과 도박중독의 회복 관련 연구, 모바일기기와 미디어 중독 관련 연구, 행위중독 관련 최신 경향 연구, 그 외 기타 중독 문제 관련 연구로 5개의 군집으로 나타났다. 마지막으로 본 연구 결과를 바탕으로 향후 중독 관련 연구를 위한 방향성을 제언하였다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.4517-4525
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• 2016

Background: Sperm DNA damage is underlying aetiology of poor implantation and pregnancy rates but also affects health of offspring and may also result in denovo mutations in germ line and post fertilization. This may result in complex diseases, polygenic disorders and childhood cancers. Childhood cancer like retinoblastoma (RB) is more prevalent in developing countries and the incidence of RB has increased more than three fold in India in the last decade. Recent studies have documented increased incidence of cancers in children born to fathers who consume alcohol in excess and tobacco or who were conceived by assisted conception. The aetiology of childhood cancer and increased disease burden in these children is lin ked to oxidative stress (OS) and oxidative DNA damage( ODD) in sperm of their fathers. Though several antioxidants are in use to combat oxidative stress, the effect of majority of these formulations on DNA is not known. Yoga and meditation cause significant decline in OS and ODD and aid in regulating OS levels such that reactive oxygen speues meditated signal transduction, gene expression and several other physiological functions are not disrupted. Thus, this study aimed to analyze sperm ODD as a possible etiological factor in childhood cancer and role of simple life style interventions like yoga and meditation in significantly decreasing seminal oxidative stress and oxidative DNA damage and thereby decreasing incidence of childhood cancers. Materials and Methods: A total of 131 fathers of children with RB (non-familial sporadic heritable) and 50 controls (fathers of healthy children) were recruited at a tertiary center in India. Sperm parameters as per WHO 2010 guidelines and reactive oxygen species (ROS), DNA fragmentation index (DFI), 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxy guanosine (8-OHdG) and telomere length were estimated at day 0, and after 3 and 6 months of intervention. We also examined the compliance with yoga and meditation practice and smoking status at each follow-up. Results: The seminal mean ROS levels (p<0.05), sperm DFI (p<0.001), 8-OHdG (p<0.01) levels were significantly higher in fathers of children with RB, as compared to controls and the relative mean telomere length in the sperm was shorter. Levels of ROS were significantly reduced in tobacco users (p<0.05) as well as in alcoholics (p<0.05) after intervention. DFI reduced significantly (p<0.05) after 6 months of yoga and meditation practice in all groups. The levels of oxidative DNA damage marker 8-OHdG were reduced significantly after 3 months (p<0.05) and 6 months (p<0.05) of practice. Conclusions: Our results suggest that OS and ODD DNA may contribute to the development of childhood cancer. This may be due to accumulation of oxidized mutagenic base 8OHdG, and elevated MDA levels which results in MDA dimers which are also mutagenic, aberrant methylation pattern, altered gene expression which affect cell proliferation and survival through activation of transcription factors. Increased mt DNA mutations and aberrant repair of mt and nuclear DNA due to highly truncatred DNA repair mechanisms all contribute to sperm genome hypermutability and persistant oxidative DNA damage. Oxidative stress is also associated with genome wide hypomethylation, telomere shortening and mitochondrial dysfunction leading to genome hypermutability and instability. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to report decline in OS and ODD and improvement in sperm DNA integrity following adoption of meditation and yoga based life style modification.This may reduce disease burden in next generation and reduce incidence of childhood cancers.