• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.170-178
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• 2022

Purpose: Gardening has been reported to have positive emotional and physical effects in older adults. However, limited studies have assessed this relationship in Korea. Therefore, in this pilot study of densely populated urban dwellers, we aimed to investigate whether temporary but repeated experiences of the natural environment could positively change metabolism-related blood indicators. Methods: This study used pre- and post-interventional designs to investigate the effects of 16 weeks of gardening on lipid profiles in an urban adult population and investigate their relationships. This study was conducted 30 times at the H Botanical Garden in Yongin City from August 16, 2021 to November 30, 2021 (16 weeks, twice a week, 3 hours each time). Before and after the gardening program, a clinical pathologist collected blood samples from the participants. Results: High-density lipoprotein levels increased, low-density lipoprotein levels decreased, and total cholesterol levels decreased after the gardening activity. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that gardening has potential for clinical application as it has good control over the lipid profile through physical activity. These findings can be used as basic data for studying the relationship between urban populations and their living environment and for various studies in the future as experiencing the natural environment provides many health benefits.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.11-23
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• 2003

Objectives : The 1990s has seen advances in the conceptualization of self-perceived health status which has important roles for individual health and the quality of life. Many types of standardized questionnaires have been developed with the current wide use of SF-36, NHP, andEuroQol. However, the outcomes of these tools may be different with regard to regional, cultural and emotional backgrounds. The purpose of this study was to trial the development of a Korean Health Profile (KHP 1.0) to measure the self-perceived health stati of Koreans. Methods : The KHP 1.0 was designed on the basis of the Medical Outcome Study Form 36 (SF-36), the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP), and the EuroQOL. It was composed of 9 scales; physical functioning, role limitation-physical, pain, general health, energy, social isolation, sleep, role limitation-emotional, and e-motional health. Self-reported chronic disease conditions, and the Zung's Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), were also checked for the evaluation of clinical validity. This study was conducted, from December 2000 to January 2001, on 800 middle-aged parents, with four high school students, with 100 retest sets being conducted two weeks later. From the 800 subjects there were 588 complete responses (effective response 73.5%). The reliability of the test-retest results, and the factor analysis on the validity of the KHP 1.0 components, were evaluated using the SPSS (ver 10.0) software. Results : The reliability of the KHP 1.0 was good with Cronbach's alpha (>0.6), test-retest correlation coefficients (>0.5), but with no significant differences from the paired t-test. From the psychometric validity tests, the 9 scales of the KHP 1.0 were divided into two components; physical and mental, and trimmed to the established model with 55% of the total variance, with the exception of role limitation-emotional. The clinical validity on the basis of the comparison for the four characteristic groups; healthy, physical conditions only, mental conditions only, and physical and mental conditions were also good. Conclusions : The KHP 1.0 appears to be a valid measurement tool of self-perceived health stati of Koreans, although there are limitations, i.e. sample size was too small, a limited number of middle-aged subjects, and it was based on unconfirmed diagnoses, etc. Therefore, further study is required to standardize the assessment.

• 대한치과교정학회지
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.59-69
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• 2019

In this report, we describe a case involving a 34-year-old woman who showed good treatment outcomes with long-term stability after multidisciplinary treatment for unilateral cleft lip and palate (CLP), maxillary hypoplasia, severe maxillary arch constriction, severe occlusal collapse, and gingival recession. A comprehensive treatment approach was developed with maximum consideration of strong scar constriction and gingival recession; it included minimum maxillary arch expansion, maxillary advancement by distraction osteogenesis using an internal distraction device, and mandibular setback using sagittal split ramus osteotomy. Her post-treatment records demonstrated a balanced facial profile and occlusion with improved facial symmetry. The patient's profile was dramatically improved, with reduced upper lip retrusion and lower lip protrusion as a result of the maxillary advancement and mandibular setback, respectively. Although gingival recession showed a slight increase, tooth mobility was within the normal physiological range. No tooth hyperesthesia was observed after treatment. There was negligible osseous relapse, and the occlusion remained stable after 5 years of post-treatment retention. Our findings suggest that such multidisciplinary approaches for the treatment of CLP with gingival recession and occlusal collapse help in improving occlusion and facial esthetics without the need for prostheses such as dental implants or bridges; in addition, the results show long-term post-treatment stability.

• 대한영양사협회학술지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.331-348
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• 2001

The purpose of this study was to obtain basic data for nutrition education of the children in a health promoting elementry school. The data was collected by a questionaire of food habits, and anthropometric measurement and biochemical test in comparison with obesity index. The study subjects were boys and girls aged 10 to 12 years who participated in the “99 Children Nutrition Camp”. The average obesity index was 1.7$\pm$21.6% in boys and -11.4$\pm$12.6% in girls. After school, major leisure items were significnatly different by gender but both boys and girls played mainly computer game. In concern for body image and eating habits, girls had more concern and girls had attempted weight control more than boys. 80.2% of subjects had prejudice for special food, especially, all subjects in the severely underweight group had prejudice. But this tendency was significantly decreased with the increasing obesity index. The lowest preferency was for vegetables(64.4%). The tendency of prejudice of subjects was higher whose mother are thirties than those of subjects whose mother are in fourties. The serum GOT and GPT values were significantly higher in overweight and obese group than the other groups. The only serum T-chol was significantly higher in boys than in girls. The number of risk factors related to coronary heart disease(CHD) based on coresponding criteria of TG, T-chol, HDL-chol, and LDL-chol was not increased significantly with the degree of obesity index. The results indicated the need of nutritional management for the children. At a point of view, to educate children early who are able to change food habits and life-styles means to help heathy growth and to deliver up heathy adults. Active nutrition education for both children and mothers will be recommended with joint participation of nutritionists in community public health center and elementary school.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.441-453
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• 2007

This study was conducted among 831 industrial workers in Gumi City in Gyung-Sang-Buk Do for the purpose of acquiring knowledge to improve quality of life though industrial workers' oral health promotion. Oral examination and questionnaire surveying were used to evaluate workers' oral health state and subjective health state and analyze their effect on quality of life. At the same time, the scales used in measuring the subjects' health state and quality of life-OHIP and WHOQOL-BREF-were validated for their constituent concepts and their relations were analyzed through structural modeling. The analysis results can be summarized as follows; The constituent concepts of OHIP and QOL factor structural models were validated since they were all in the range of appropriateness, as shown in the result of analysis using Indices of Fit-GFI, CFL, TLI and RMSEA. The result of analysis of constituent concepts to identitify the relations between OHIP and QOL confirmed that OHIP influences QOL.

• 한국간호교육학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.333-341
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• 2021

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the predicting factors of nursing work performance. Methods: The participants in this study were 148 nurses working in S university hospital in P city. The scales included social support, health promoting lifestyle profile-II (HPLP-II), and nursing work performance. A descriptive analysis and stepwise multiple regression were used for data analysis. Results: Significant correlations were found among social support, health promotion behaviors and nursing work performance. The significant predictive factors of nursing work performance were the emotional support subscale of social support (β=.31, p<.001) and the interpersonal relations subscale of health promotion behaviors (β=.32, p<.001). These two subscales explained 27% of nursing work performance. Conclusion: Nursing education programs should include an emphasis on developing methods of emotional support and interpersonal relations in order to improve nursing work performance among clinical nurses.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.155-167
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• 2009

본 연구는 국내 건강도시사업을 추진하는 지역사회 담당자를 대상으로 세계보건기구의 건강도시 특성을 중심으로 건강도시 추진 현황을 살펴봄으로 국내 건강도시의 나아가야 할 방향을 위한 기초자료를 제공하고자 실시되었다. 2007년 2월부터 2007년 12월까지 우편설문조사를 하였는데, 설문문항은 건강도시 현황, 건강도시 담당자의 일반적 특성, 건강도시 기본 특성, 건강도시에 대한 자체평가, 건강도시 발전방향 등으로 구성하였다. 전체 23개 지역사회 중 도시가 11개(47.8%), 농촌이 12(52.5%)였으며, 건강도시 담당부서는 보건소가 73.9%로 대부분이었다. 건강도시 담당자는 여자가 60.9%, 연령은 40대가 65.2%, 건강도시 경력은 6~12개월인 경우가 34.8%로 가장 많았다. 건강도시 기본 특성을 살펴보면, 건강도시 자체 예산 확보(91.3%), 도시건강 프로파일 작성(91.3%), 협력대학 기술지원(82.6%), 건강도시 조례 제정(78.3%), 주민참여(78.3%), 운영위원회 구성(73.9%), 생활터 접근 사업(69.9%), 건강도시 네트워크에 적극적 참여(69.6%) 등이 높았으며, 부서간 협력 활성화(34.8%), 건강도시 장기 계획 수립(39.1%), 공약 및 시정방향에 건강도시 포함(43.5%), 취약 계층 대상 사업(47.8%), 전담조직 구성(47.8%), 건강도시 자체 세미나 실시(47.8%)가 낮았다. 도시농촌간 건강도시 전담조직의 경우 도시가 72.7%가 구성되어 있는 반면 농촌은 25.0%만 구성되어 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 보였다(p<0.05). 건강도시 전담조직 유무에 따른 건강도 기본특성을 살펴보면, 전담조직이 있는 경우 부서간 협력, 주민참여, 생활터 접근, 건강도시 네트워크가 잘 된다고 응답하였다(p<0.05). 건강도시 수행시 사업개발과 예산확보가 어려웠으며, 건강도시 사업시 우선 고려 사항으로는 부서간 협력이 34.8%로 가장 높았다. 건강도시성공을 위한 핵심인물로는 82.6%에서 단체장이라고 응답하였고, 국내 건강도시 활성화를 위해 향후 역할을 할 기관으로는 중앙정부인 보건복지가족부(52.2%)가 가장 높았다. 국내에서는 AFHC 회원도시 수가 급속히 증가하여 왔으나 건강도시를 위한 정치적 지원과 전담조직의 설립 등이 미진하며, 건강형평성을 고려한 사업 및 부문간 협력에 의한 포괄적인 건강도시 경험이 축적되어 오지 못하였다. 이를 해결하기 위해서는 건강도시의 정의와 선진 건강도시들이 제시하고 있는 원칙 및 특징에 충실하도록 노력하여야 할 것이다.

• 여성건강간호학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.157-165
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• 2010

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify differences in Health Locus of Control (HLOC), depression, wellbeing, and Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP) between middle aged Korean and Korean-American women. Methods: Data from 80 Korean-American women living in Los Angeles, USA and 82 Korean women living in W-city, Korea, were collected using a self administered questionnaire including items on HLOC, HPLP, a Wellbeing Index and Major Depression Inventory. Results: There were statistically significant differences between the middle aged Koreans and Korean-Americans on mean age, education, religion, and current health insurance. Significant differences were found on HLOC (F= 2.504, p=.033) and Wellbeing (F=2.451, p=.036). The results also showed significant differences on HPLP (total HPLP, F=4.655, p=.001; physical activity, F=2.967, p=.014; nutrition, F=4.250, p=.001; spiritual growth, F=4.398, p=.001; interpersonal relations, F=2.648, p=.025; and stress management, F=5.201, p<.001) using ANCOVA. However, there were no significant differences on depression, or health responsibility in HPLP between the groups. Conclusion: Understanding middle aged women's health adjustments based on their culture will enhance the ability of health professionals to provide culturally congruent care and enable middle aged women to develop healthy lifestyles.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.316-325
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• 2012

페인트제조시설에서 다량 발생하는 VOC/HAPs은 물질별 독성, 발암성 등의 특징으로 미량으로도 인체에 유해할 뿐만 아니라, 하절기 오존 생성과 악취 민원의 원인물질로 작용하고 있어 이들 시설에 대한 배출특성과 제어방안에 대한 연구가 시급한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 부산지역에 소재한 페인트제조시설 4개소를 선정하여 VOC/HAPs 주 배출공정 및 주요 오염물질을 도출하고 적절한 제어방안을 제시 하였으며, 천연소재인 Kapok fiber의 흡착 시험을 통하여 상용 흡착제로서의 적용 가능성을 평가하였다. 연구결과, 발생되는 VOC/HAPs의 60% 이상이 방지시설로 유입되지 않고 공장내부로 자연 휘발되어 외기로 확산되는 것으로 조사되었고 주요 물질로는 Toluene, Ethylbenzene, Xylene이 70% 이상의 분포를 나타내었다. 주요 악취 원인물질은 A, B, C사는 Toluene, D사는 m/p-Xylene으로 나타났으며, 악취방지시설인 활성탄 흡착시설의 평균 제거효율은 66.2%로 평가되었다. 이 결과를 토대로 오염물질의 외부확산을 최소화하기 위한 방안으로 중앙제어식 환기장치의 설치 등 다양한 제어방안과 함께 실제 운영시설의 규모를 고려한 흡착시설의 규격, 흡착제량, 교체주기 등을 산출 제시하여 현장에 적용 가능하도록 하였다. 도출된 원인물질을 표준시료로 활용하여 유통 활성탄과 천연소재인 Kapok fiber의 Toluene 흡착시험을 실시한 결과, 활성탄의 제거율은 대부분 99% 이상 우수한 것으로 나타났으나 Kapok fiber는 Space Velocity의 차이에 따라 91.9%, 66.7%의 제거효율을 나타내어 Kapok fiber의 흡착능은 미흡한 것으로 나타났으나, 저렴한 소재 가격, 친환경성 등을 감안한다면 기초 흡착제로서의 적용은 가능한 것으로 판단되었고 향후 상용화에 필요한 추가연구가 필요할 것으로 사료된다.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.137-148
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• 2002

Objectives: This study was to investigate the needs for developing the health promotion program for elderly and to compare the health promoting lifestyles behaviors and perceived health status of elderly in urban and rural area. Methods: The data was collected from 82 elders in urban(D city) and 77 elders in rural area(C county) by face to face interview. The Health Promoting Lifestyle ProfileII(HPLPII) and Perceived Health Status were used. Results: 1) The total score of HPLP was 2.44. In the subscales, the highest degree of performance was 'nutrition', following 'interpersonal relationship', 'stress management', 'health responsibility' and 'spiritual growth' and the lowest degree of performance was 'physical activity'. 2) Elderly people living in urban area had significantly higher the total HPLP score than elderly people living in rural area The urban elderly had significantly higher the score of HPLP subscales such as 'physical activity', 'interpersonal relationship' and stress management than rural elderly. 3) The mean score of perceived health status was 8.79. There was no significant difference in the perceived health status between urban and rural elderly. Conclusions: The above findings indicate that it is necessary to develop a health promotion program with reinforced physical activity, health responsibility and spiritual growth for elderly people in Korea. Especially the physical activity need to he strengthened for rural elderly.