• 지역사회간호학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.322-334
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• 2018

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify factors related to compliance with respiratory infection preventive behaviors including hand washing, cough etiquette, and oral hygiene of older adults. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with a convenience sample of 100 older adults (mean age: $76.11{\pm}6.35$ years, female: 86.0%). Data were collected from a community senior center through face to face interviews by using instruments including measuring knowledge, perceived threat, self-efficacy, compliance with respiratory infection preventive behaviors. Results: The mean score of knowledge was 7.52 out of 13 in total. The compliance with hand washing with soap was 6.0% for 8 or more times per day. Among the participants, 12.0% adhered to the cough etiquette. Sixty-two older adults (62.0%) didn't use interdental brushes or floss at all. The stepwise linear regression indicated that age and self-efficacy for respiratory infection preventive behaviors were significant factors and explained 24.0% of the compliance with hand washing and the cough etiquette. Education level, cancer diagnosis, and self-efficacy for respiratory infection preventive behaviors were significant predictors of oral hygiene. The factor with the greatest effect was self-efficacy in the two models. Conclusion: The findings suggest that it is necessary to improve compliance with respiratory infection preventive behaviors among older adults using senior centers. In order to enhance the compliance, it is necessary to develop nursing programs based on the self-efficacy for respiratory infection preventive behaviors in the senior centers.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제35권7호
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• pp.940-944
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• 2006

급식소 고객의 손 위생실태를 파악하여 향후 소비자 위생교육의 계획 수립을 위한 기초자료를 제공하고자 점심식사 시간에 대학교 내 학생식당을 찾은 일부 남녀 대학생을 대상으로 손 세척에 대한 설문조사와 손의 미생물 검사를 실시하였다. 조사대상자 190명의 1일 평균 손 세척횟수는 전체 평균 6.46회였다. 일반세균, 대장균군, 대장균, 황색포도상구균에 대한 미생물 검사를 실시한 결과 일반세균수는 평균 3.11 log CFU/hand로 $0.70{\sim}6.47\;log\;CFU/hand$가 검출되었고, 대장균군수는 평균 1.06 log CFU/hand로 검출되지 않은 경우부터 최대 5.04 log CFU/hand까지 검출되었다. 대장균은 조사대상자 전원이 검출되지 않았으며, 황색포도상구균의 검출율은 20.5%였다. 고객의 성별에 따른 손의 미생물학적 위해 분석의 차이검정 결과 남자가 여자에 비해 일반세균수(p<0.001)와 대장균군수(p<0.05)가 유의적으로 높게 검출되었다. 황색포도상구균도 남자가 여자에 비해 더 많은 수가 검출되었으나 유의적인 차이는 없었다. 손 세척횟수에 따른 미생물학적 위해분석의 차이검정 결과 일반세균수는 손 세척횟수가 4번 이하일 때 평균 3.25 log CFU/hand, $5{\sim}7$번일때 2.75 log CFU/hand, 8번 이상일 때 2.75 log CFU/hand로 손 세척횟수가 증가함엠 따라 유의적으로 감소하였다(p<0.001). 대장균은 전혀 검출되지 않았으며, 대장균군과 황색포도상구균의 검출량은 손세척 횟수에 따른 유의적인 차이는 없었다. 점심시간 전 손 세척여부에 다른 미생물학적 위해분석의 차이검정 결과 일반세균수는 점심시간 전 손 세척을 항상 하는 경우가 전혀 하지 않는 경우에 비해 유의적으로 낮게 검출되었다(p<0.005).

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.91-103
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• 2022

본 연구는 COVID-19 발생 전후에 작업치료를 수행하고 있는 작업치료사 101명을 대상으로 손 씻기, 개인 보호 장비 사용, 주변 환경 정리의 감염관리에 대한 인식과 수행을 비교하고자 설문조사를 실시했으며, 맨-휘트니 U 검정(Mann-Whitney U test), 크루스칼-왈리스 H 검정(Kruskal-wallis H test), 윌콕슨 부호 순위 검정(Wilcoxon signed-rank test), 피어슨 상관분석(Pearson's correlation coefficient)을 사용해 분석하였다. 그 결과, COVID-19 발생 이전보다 발생 이후에 감염관리 교육을 더 잘 받았고 감염성 질환의 경험이 낮은 것으로 확인되었다. 또한, COVID-19 발생 이전보다 발생 이후에 손 씻기, 개인 보호장비 사용, 주변 환경정리에서의 감염관리에 대한 인식 및 수행이 향상된 것으로 나타났다. 하지만 현재까지도 질병관리청에서 권고하는 흐르는 물에서 40초 이상의 손 씻기와 치료실 청소 및 치료 도구의 소독은 개선이 필요한 실정이다. 본 연구를 통하여 감염성 질환의 발생을 최소화하기 위해 감염관리 교육을 정기적으로 반복해야 하며, 향후 작업치료사를 대상으로 하는 감염관리 교육 및 후속 연구에서 활용할 수 있는 기초자료가 될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.91-97
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• 2022

본 연구의 목적은 간호대학생의 손씻기 교육 봉사 활동을 경험한 그 의미와 본질을 파악하기 위한 질적 연구이다. 손씻기 교육 봉사에 참여한 학생은 10명이며, 자료수집은 2021년 10월부터 11월 까지 2개월 실시하였으며, 3개의 포커스 그룹을 구성하여 면담을 진행하였다. 면담자료는 Colaizzi의 현상학적 연구방법으로 분석하였다. 연구 결과 3개의 주제와 10개의 하부주제로 도출되었다. 3개의 주제는 '개인의 발전', '예비 간호사로서 자부심', '봉사의 의미를 알아감'등으로 나타났다. 간호대학생들은 손씻기 교육 봉사를 통해 봉사의 의미를 알게되었으며, 본인의 내적 성숙을 경험할 수 있는 것으로 나타났다. 간호대학생들은 손씻기 교육봉사를 통해 봉사의 참된 의미를 알아가는 시간이었음을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구 결과 간호 대학생의 교육 봉사에 대한 이해를 제공하였으며, 이는 교육 봉사 프로그램의 다양화에 적용할 수 있을 것이다.

• 치위생과학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.132-141
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• 2023

Background: The purpose of this study was to identify the connection between handwashing and toothbrushing, focusing on eating habits, and to verify whether eating habits can be used as an action cue for forming health habits. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study using secondary data from the 2019 community health survey. The participants included 229,099 adults aged 19 years or older, representative of the South Korean people. We employed two dependent variables: one was washing hands, and the other was brushing teeth. Eating habits was a major independent variable. Socioeconomic variables, such as age, gender, income, occupation, economic activity, education, and residence were adjusted as confounders. Multivariate logistic regression was performed to calculate adjusted odds ratio and 95% confidence intervals. Results: Most of the participants had good health behaviors: those who wash their hands and brush their teeth were each approximately 80%. Our finding indicated that brushing teeth and washing hands can be connected with eating habits. After adjusting for confounders, it was found that people who wash their hands before meals (compared to those who did not wash their hands before meals) had a higher toothbrushing rate after meals (i.e., socioeconomic status) (Adjusted Odds Ratio: 2.0, Confidence Intervals: 1.9 to 2.1). Conclusion: Those who practice either washing hands before meals or brushing teeth after meals were found to have a connection between washing hands and brushing teeth based on the results of practicing other health behaviors. This implies that eating habits can be connected as a behavior cue to promote health habits, such as washing hands before meals and brushing teeth after meals.

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.109-132
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• 2002

The study surveyed 1,127 mothers whose children aged 3 to 5 went to 25 randomly selected kindergartens, which were located in Busan Metropolitan City and the adjacent Gimhae City, and analyzed the preventive health behaviors on their children and the condition of home health education on their children. As the compulsory kindergarten education will e to be implemented within 4 years, this study aimed to draw up the rudimentary material for health education at kindergartens. The study results are summed up as follows: 1. Mothers' awareness of health-related attitude and behavioral level for their children at kindergarten: 1) The general health condition of the children, which mothers are aware of, was that they were healthy on the whole. As their children becomes older, the income level of the parents is lower, and mothers have lower level of educational standard, the health condition of the children was found a little lower. 2) In terms of mothers' recognition of the practice level of preventive health behaviors, the items such as going to bed regularly, washing hands and feet well, and having meals regularly were high in the practice level, while exercise and tooth-brushing were not practiced well. 2. The condition of mothers' health education of their children: 1) It was found that washing hands and feet, restriction of overeating and preference for specific kinds of food, guidance on regular sleep and regular meal were practiced well among items of home health education targeting kindergarten children. 2) Mothers have obtained information on family health from printed matter such as newspaper or magazine rather than the visual media. 3) From the cross analysis of mothers' health education on children and children's health behaviors, as the standard of education of mothers was higher, so was the level of preventive health behaviors of children. 3. From the result of multi regression analysis of the factors influencing the preventive hygiene of kindergarten children, it was found that as the home health education level was higher, so was the health behavior of children. On the other hand, as the mothers were older, the health behavior of children became lower.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.73-88
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• 2009

The purpose of the study was to provide the basic for the prevention of infection control by analyzing the level of recognition and practice of dental hygiene students. It is important for dental clinic staffs to know and practice infection control measures in favor of effective infection control. Thus, this study conducted an one-month questionnaire survey (during October 2008) for dental hygiene students who ever experienced in 16-week clinical practice, and analyzed total 206 questionnaire forms as collected from them, so that it could determine potential associations between their recognition and practice of infection control and thereby suggest an efficient solution for infection control in dental hygiene. 1. It was found that our students' recognition about infection control averaged $4.49{\pm}.58$ points on the whole, and they were best aware of instrumental disinfection and sterilization among other measures, which was followed by hand washing, extirpation control, post-sterilization management, personal protective outfit and instrumental surface maintenance respectively. 2. It was found that our students' practice of infection control averaged $3.85{\pm}.57$ points on the whole, and they practiced hand washing most actively among other measures, which was followed by extirpation control, post-sterilization management, instrumental disinfection and sterilization, personal protective outfit and instrumental surface maintenance respectively. 3. It was found that our students scored higher mean points in recognition about every measure of infection control than those in practice (t=15.676, p=0.000). Particularly, it was notable that there were significant differences between their mean points in recognition and practice of some infection control measures, such as instrumental surface maintenance (t=15.361, p=0.000), personal protective outfit (t=15.245, p=0.000) and instrumental disinfection and sterilization (t=11.169, p=0.000). But there was least significant difference between mean points in recognition and practice of hand washing (t=5.460, p=0.000). 4. For potential associations between recognition and practice of infection control, it was found that higher recognition was in significantly positive associations with higher practice in every measure of infection control (r=.478, p=.000), such as extirpation control (r=.630, p=.000), instrumental disinfection and sterilization (r=.477, p=.000) and post-sterilization management (r=.433, p=.000). 5. It was found that there were differences in our students' recognition depending upon availability of infection control guideline (t=4.587, p=.011), and there were significant differences in practice depending on necessity of infection control education on a statistical basis (t=2.229, p=.027). Overall, it is found that our dental hygiene students are very likely to practice hand washing and extirpation control, because both of these measures are relatively easy to practice or are considered legally binding.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.547-556
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• 2011

Objectives : The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the infection control education experiences of dental hygienists and the state of their infection control. Methods : The subjects in this study were the dental hygienists who worked in Seoul. The relationship of their infection control education experiences to their gender, marital status, academic credential, workplace, length of service, infection control implementation, experience of being exposed to infection, way of coping with it, hand washing, use of personal protection devices and equipment management was analyzed. Results : It is found that the variable to affect the state of infection control was educational experiences about handpiece water pipe management, ultrasonic scaler water pipe management and three-way syringe water pipe management. Conclusions : Dental hygienists who are one of major dental personnels should receive systematic education on infection control to acquire accurate knowledge to ensure the successful prevention of cross infection.

• Journal of Korean Biological Nursing Science
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.114-119
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• 2009

Purpose: The effectiveness of an infection control program is important to hospital quality improvement and decreases of mortality rate and prevalence. Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is the most common pathogen causing nosocomial infection. The aim of the study was to identify the most important risk factors for acquiring an MRSA, to evaluate the MRSA incidence rates after the nursing intervention in Neurosurgery intensive care unit (ICU). Methods: Clinical data were collected prospectively from December 2008 until July 2009 in Neurosurgery ICU. The patients were divided into preintervention and postintervention groups. An infection was defined as an MRSA if it occurred 48 hr after admission to the Unit. Infection control program including hand washing, education of health care workers about MRSA, standard precaution and contact isolation of patients were applied for three month. Results: A total of 85 patients were included in the study. Forty-five patients of S. aurerus were detected. Among 45 of S. aurerus, MRSA were isolated from 38 patients. The incidence MRSA rate of postintervention group was 26.9% while incidence MRSA rate of preintervention group was 66.7%. In total, The incidence MRSA rate was 44.7%. The incidence of MRSA have decreased in the postintervention as compared with the preintervention group. Conclusion: The infection control program for MRSA was effective to decrease the MRSA isolation rate. The health care workers regular hand washing, education of nosocomial infection control is important enough to be emphasized.

• 기본간호학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.122-133
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• 2012

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop a web-based education program on control vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) infections and to identify the effects of the program on knowledge and performance of nursing students. Methods: The web-based VRE infection control education program was developed by using the network-based instructional systems design model. The nursing students in the experimental group could access this web-based education program at any time, and as many times as they wanted, during the clinical training period. Effects were evaluated by assessing knowledge and performance of VRE infection control measures during the clinical training period. Results: The contents of the education program included diagnosis, transmission, and treatment of VRE, contact precautions, hand washing, personal protective equipment, environment management, and quizzes. The lecture portion was filmed in a virtual screen studio using flash animation, video, and sound effects, and it was uploaded on an internet site. The knowledge and performance scores of the experimental group after using the education program were significantly higher than those of the control group. Conclusion: The results suggest that the web-based VRE infection control education program is an effective educational method to enhance knowledge and performance of VRE infection control measures.