• 대한물리치료과학회지
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.275-287
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• 1994

본 연구는 일부 중소도시지역 노인들의 우울증 및 인지기능장애의 정도를 분석하기 위해 1944년 8월 29일부터 9월 9일까지 경상북도 안동시 소재 43개 경로당 중 10개 시설에 거주하고 있는 노인의 전체 237명 중 150명을 대상으로 분석 하였는데, 그 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 우울증의 항목별 평균값의 순위는 자기학대가 2.97점으로 1위, 성욕감퇴가 2.91점으로 2위, 절망감이 2.89점으로 3위 였다. 2. 성별에 따른 인지기능장애의 점수는 여자의 20.66점이 남자의 23.18점 보다 통계적으로 유의하게 낮았다(P<0.01). 3.교육수준과 인지기능장애에서 무학군이 20.41점으로 유학군의 23.05점 보다 유의하게 낮았다(P<0.01). 4. 결혼상태와 인지장애는 홀로사는 경우가 20.75점으로 배우자가 있는 경우의 22.87점 보다 유의하게 낮았다(P<0.01). 5. 일상생활활동 능력의 수준과 인지장애는 3단계(23.67점), 2단계(23.57점), 1단계(20.55점)로 내려갈수록 유의하게 낮은 점수였다(P<0.001). 6. 만성질환과 인지장애에서 질환을 가진군이 21.02점으로 가지고 있지않는 군의 22.52점 보다 유의하게 낮았다(P<0.05). 7. 성별과 우울증의 점수는 여성이 42.17점으로 41.10점인 남성 보다 유의하게 높은 우울점수를 보였으나 통계적 차이는 없었다. 8. 교육수준과 우울점수에서 무학군이 44.27점으로 유학군의 39.74점 보다 유의하게 높았다(P<0.05). 9. 흡연상태와 우울점수는 하루에 한갑이상의 흡연자 47.22점은 비흡연자의 40.34점 보다 높게 나타났다(P<0.05). 10. 신체이상유무와 우울점수는 가진경우가 44.22점으로 가지지 않은 경우의 40.46점 보다 유의하게 높았다(P<0.05). 11. 일상생활 활동능력의 수준과 우울점수는 3, 2, 1단계로 내려갈 수록 27.67, 38.41, 43.68점으로 높은 점수를 보였다(P<0.001). 12. 만성질환의 유무와 우울점수에서는 질환을 가진 군의 43.78점은 가지지않은 군의 37.63점 보다 높은 우울점수를 보였다(P<0.001). 이상의 본 연구결과에 의하면 연령이 높은 여성노인 이면서 교육을 받지못하고 수동적인 일상생활활동의 유지 및 만성질환을 가진 노인들일수록 인지기능장애와 우울증이 높음을 알 수 있다. 이러한 변수들이 직접적인 원인이라고는 할 수 없으며 단지 노인들의 복지정책에 참조사항이며 향후 이런 변수들을 중심으로한 전향적이고 인과적인 역학조사가 요구된다.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.33-41
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• 2008

Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare the activities of daily living, mental status, and life satisfaction of elderly persons living in home with those in institutions and to investigate the factors influencing life satisfaction and mental health. Methods: Data was collected through interview with persons over 60 years of age in a nursing home and in a community elderly center in Daegu City and Kyoungsang buk-do. Subjects were included 32 persons in the nursing home and 41 persons in the community elderly center. Data collection was undertaken 11 - 22 September 2007. Results: Elderly persons living at home showed higher dependency in instrumental activities of daily living, lower cognitive function, higher depression, and higher life satisfaction than elderly persons living in institution. The two groups were significantly different in this regard. Conclusion: As the age of the general population advances, we must prioritize quality of life in elderly persons by undertaking depression prevention through various means.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.357-360
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• 2009

It is hypothesized that a number of environmental factors affect animals' behavior. Without controlling these variables, it is very hard for researchers to get not only reliable, but replicable data from various behavioral experiments testing animals' cognitive as well as emotional functions. For example, laboratory mice which had restricted environment showed different synaptic potentiation properties with wild mice (Zhao MG et al., 2009). While performing behavioral experiments, however, it is sometimes inevitable that the researcher changes the animals' environments, as by switching the cages in which experimental animals are housed and separating animals raised together into small experimental groups. In this study, we investigated the effect of environmental changes on mice's emotional behaviors by socially isolating them or reducing the size of their cage. We found that social isolation selectively increases the animals' levels of anxiety, while leaving depression-like behaviors unchanged. On the other hand, alteration of the housing dimensions affected neither their anxiety levels nor their depression-like behaviors. These results suggest that environmental variables may have a prominent impact on experimental animals' emotional behaviors and possibly their psychological states, leading to bias in the behavioral data produced from experiments.

• 수면정신생리
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.29-38
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• 1997

치매는 기억력을 포함한 다양한 영역의 인지기능의 손상을 특징으로 하는 질병군으로 정의된다. 그러므로 현재 치매진단을 위하여 사용되고 있는 대부분의 진단기준들은 치매의 진단에 있어 기억 장애를 필수요소로 포함하고 있다. 기억력의 감퇴는 노화과정의 결과로서 나타날 수 있다. 치매와는 달리 노화에서의 기억력의 감퇴는 노화에 따른 정상으로 간주되며 사회적 그리고 직업적 기능의 영역에서 심각한 어려움이나 손상을 초래하지 않는다. 우울증 또한 기억장애를 동반할 수 있다. 하지만 치매와는 달리 우울증에서는 언어성 지연회상과 재인기억의 감소는 나타내지 않는다. 치매환자들에서의 기억장애도 병소의 위치에 따라 다른양상으로 나타날 수 있다. 피질성치매에서의 기억장애는 정보의 부호화와 기억강화과정의 이상에 의해 초래된 것인데, 피질하치매에서의 기억장애는 인출의 장애에 의한 것이다.

• 한국보건간호학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.445-455
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• 2016

Purpose: This study was performed to identify the effects of an integrated nursing intervention program on the quality of life, depression and self care agency of community dwelling cancer patients. Methods: The design of this study was a quasi-experimental, one group pre-post test. A total of 25 community dwelling cancer patients in J city were included in this study. An integration intervention was 30 times, 10 weeks program. The data were collected between May and November of 2014. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS 18.0 through paired t-test. Results: There were significant differences in the quality of life (p=.007) and self-care agency (p=.042) after 10 week's intervention. Conclusion: The results indicate that an integrated intervention program including educational, cognitive, emotional and physical intervention is effective for community dwelling cancer patients. Further attention should be paid to the intensity and period of an integrated intervention program.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.58-64
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• 2019

Over the past decades there has been a growing body of researches that examines the psychological traits related to safety outcomes. After briefly reviewing the relationships between psychological dispositions and safety outcomes, we empirically examine the relationships with 2 samples of 1,102 participants. Fifteen psychological dispositions (big 5 personality, locus of control, cognitive failure, affection from job and relations, 4 achievement goal orientations, self-efficacy, fatigue, and depression) and four psychological outcomes (safe behavior, unsafe behavior, accidents, and injuries) are examined. After covariance structure modeling variances of safety outcomes are well explained by simple 4 dispositions of consciousness, mastery-approach goal orientation, self-efficacy, and depression. We name them 'core safety disposition', and name four psychological outcomes 'safety consciousness', and the relationships between those latent variables are stronger than between measurement variables. We propose core safety disposition as a cause of safety consciousness, and discuss implications for research and practices.

• 한국직업건강간호학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.242-252
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• 2019

Purpose: This study aimed to identify factors influencing depressive symptoms in public and private sector employees. Methods: Survey data on 23,602 workers who had worked in the public or private sector were obtained from the 2014 Korean Working Condition Survey (KWCS). Symptoms of depression were measured using the WHO-5 Well-being Index. Data were analyzed using a $x^2$ test, t-test, and multivariate stepwise logistic regression to determine the factors affecting the symptoms of depression. Results: First, the prevalence of depressive symptoms was 41.1 % in public sector employees and 43.4 % in private sector employees. Second, the factors commonly affecting depressive symptoms in public and private sector employees were residence area, cognitive demands, development opportunities, social support from colleagues, social support from supervisors, social community at work, job rewards, and work-family conflict. In addition, age, company size, atypical work, ergonomic risks, quantitative demands, emotional demands, influence, and job insecurity were found to be predictors of depressive symptoms unique to private sector employees. Conclusion: Mental health programs including the employee assistance program (EAP) should be developed and implemented after considering the risk factors affecting depressive symptoms.

• 생물정신의학
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.29-33
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• 2015

The brain maintains homeostasis and normal microenvironment through dynamic interactions of neurons and neuroglial cells to perform the proper information processing and normal cognitive functions. Recent post-mortem investigations and animal model studies demonstrated that the various brain areas such as cerebral cortex, hippocampus and amygdala have abnormalities in neuroglial numbers and functions in subjects with mental illnesses including schizophrenia, dementia and mood disorders like major depression and bipolar disorder. These findings highlight the putative role and involvement of neuroglial cells in mental disorders. Herein I discuss the physiological roles of neuroglial cells such as astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microglia in maintaining normal brain functions and their abnormalities in relation to mental disorders. Finally, all these findings could serve as a useful starting point for potential therapeutic concept and drug development to cure unnatural behaviors and abnormal cognitive functions observed in mental disorders.

• 국제물리치료학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.545-551
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to determine the correlations between problematic behaviors and activities of daily living(ADL) targeting 106 demented elderly people hospitalized in a geriatric hospital. To examine the cognitive function of the subjects, the study used Korean Mini Mental State Examination(K-MMSE). For problematic behaviors and ADL, the study collected data based on Patient Assessment Forms in the geriatric hospital. Among problematic behaviors, apathy/indifference had the highest correlation with the items of ADL. Irritability/lability, agitation/aggression, depression/ dysphoria, night-time behavior and wandering also showed to be correlated to items of ADL(p<.05). This study demonstrated that cognitive function, problematic behaviors and ADL of the demented elderly hospitalized in the geriatric hospital are correlated to each other.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제61권6호
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• pp.371-378
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of group combined intervention that combined animal-assisted therapy and integrated elderly play therapy on the depression, self-esteem, and emotional expression of geriatric patients residing in nursing homes. This was achieved by providing cognitive, physical, and emotional activities and social interaction at the same time. The group combined intervention method was applied to twelve elderly patients (six in the control group, six in the experimental group) aged 65 or older who live in a nursing home for the elderly in C province, from May 3, 2019 to June 21, 2019, for a total of 8 times (once a week, 50 minutes at a time). The quantitative evaluation was analyzed through SPSS 21.0 for comparison before and after the program was implemented, using the Korean version of the depression and the self-esteem scale. The qualitative evaluation compared emotional expression pre-test and post-test. The major results of the study were as follows: First, the group combined intervention was effective in reducing depression levels of the experimental group among the elderly patients. Second, it was effective in improving the self-esteem of the experimental group among the elderly patients. Third, it showed a significant difference in the emotional expression of the experimental group among the elderly patients. Therefore, it was found that group combined intervention reduces depression and improves self-esteem and emotional expression of the elderly. Based on these results, it is hoped that this study will be a cornerstone in the development of concrete programs for the benefit of elderly patients living in facilities.