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Related Factors for Not Washing Hands at School among Adolescents (청소년의 학교 내 손씻기 미실천율과 관련요인)

  • SaGong, Hyo Jin;Lee, Yu-Mi;Choi, Eunsuk;Kim, Keonyeop
    • Journal of agricultural medicine and community health
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.14-26
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    • 2022
  • Objectives: Handwashing is one of the most effective methods to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. This study assessed the related factors and reasons for not practicing handwashing at school among adolescents. Methods: We analyzed data collected from 57,303 adolescents who participated in the 15th Korea Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2019. Results: The proportions of not washing hands "before meals at school" and "after using the toilet at school" were 15.9% and 4.4%, respectively. The adjusted odds ratio for not washing hands before meals at school was significantly higher in girls (Odds Ratio [OR]=1.52, 95% Confidence Intervals [CI]=1.42-1.63), metropolitan city (OR=1.32, 95% CI=1.11-1.56), city (OR=1.29, 95% CI=1.08-1.54), higher grade, higher academic performance, lower economic status, not handwashing at home (OR=14.36, 95% CI=13.37-15.42), and without annual personal hygiene education (OR=1.41, 95% CI=1.33-1.49). Reasons for not washing hands at school among adolescents who do not wash their hands before meals at school included 'it is bothersome (52.3%)', 'there is no soap or hand sanitizer (13.8%)', and 'I do not feel the need (9.5%)'. Conclusions: Improving handwashing before meals at school among adolescents requires raising awareness of the importance of handwashing before meals and establishing a suitable environment and handwashing-encouraging culture.

Factors affecting hand hygiene behavior among health care workers of intensive care units in teaching hospitals in Korea: importance of cultural and situational barriers

  • Jeong, Heon-jae;Jo, Heui-sug;Lee, Hye-jean;Kim, Min-ji;Yoon, Hye-yeon
    • Quality Improvement in Health Care
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.36-49
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    • 2015
  • In Intensive Care Units (ICUs), where severely ill patients are treated, importance of reducing Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI) cannot be overstated. One of the simplest and most effective actions against HAI is proper hand hygiene (HH) behavior of Health Care Workers (HCWs). However, compliance varies across different cultures and different job types of HCWs (physicians, residents and nurses). This study aims to understand determinants of HH behavior by HCWs' job types in Korea. Qualitative analysis was performed based on Reasoned Action Approach style interviews with staff physicians, residents and nurses across 7 teaching hospitals. We found that all HCWs strongly believe HH is important in reducing HAI. There were, however, job type-specific HH behavior modifying factors; staff physicians stated feeling pressure to be HH behavior role model. Residents identified Quality Improvement team that measured compliance as a facilitator; a notable barrier for residents was senior physicians not washing their hands, because they were afraid of appearing impudent to their seniors. Nurses designated their chief nurse as a key referent. All participants mentioned heavy workload and lack of access to alcohol-based sanitizer as situational barriers, and sore and dry hand as deterrents to HH compliance.

Study of Recognition about Hospital Infection Management in Physical Therapists (물리치료사의 병원 감염관리에 대한 인지도 연구)

  • Song, Min-Young;Lee, Tae-Sik
    • Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Science
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.141-150
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    • 2002
  • Most of physical therapists has thought be exposed themselves to risk of hospital infection but it is reported that have been low concern about infection management. Above like this haven t done systematical education on hospital infection, also physical therapist's information management of infection disease is found very low. It is lack of driving information about disease condition of the patients. Physical therapists has thought their working room may be polluted a lots of micro-organism(%). The control situation of infection waste articles, only 53% responded that the controller has managed very intensive so we can feel to need more intensive It's reported that air culture investigation of physical therapy room has never initiated. To wash the hand, before, after treatment of the patients of physical therapist, is very low frequency. And 73% have responded that the time to wash the hand stays 15-45 second. It is examined that 70% physical therapy room is equipped with washing system, a response of 58% disinfects physical therapy room 1-2times per one month. 36% responded disinfection of treatment modality have done everyday, 25% responded have never done. The location physical therapy room is above one floor - 65%. A response of 57% is ventilation system sufficiency, it is considered that physical therapists needs more efforts on management of hospital infection.

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Perception of COVID-19, and Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Hand washing in Elementary School Students (초등학생의 코로나19에 대한 인식과 손 씻기 지식, 태도 및 실천)

  • Lee, Young-Hee;You, Mi-Ae
    • Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.20-32
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: This study aimed to investigate factors affecting handwashing practice among elementary school students by assessing the perception of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) and characteristics related to knowledge, attitude, and practice of handwashing. Methods: The cross-sectional study design and an online self-reported survey were used in this study. The subjects were 211 elementary students at a school located in G province, Korea. Data were collected from January 4 to 8, 2021. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 25.0. Results: Mean scores for knowledge, attitude, and practice of handwashing were 17.09 (out of 20), 21.15 (out of 24), and 27.51 (out of 33), respectively. There were significant positive correlations between the perception of COVID-19 and knowledge of handwashing (r=.23, p=.001), between knowledge and attitude toward handwashing (r=.45, p<.001), between knowledge and practice of handwashing (r=.18, p=.010), and between attitude and practice of handwashing (r=.28, p<.001). The factors influencing handwashing practice were handwashing frequency at home (β=.39, p<.001), handwashing frequency at school (β=.18, p=.006), and attitude toward handwashing (β=.15, p=.026), which explained 34.2% of the variance. Conclusion: These results suggest a need to raise awareness of the importance of handwashing and develop an education program for infectious disease prevention.

Studies on Silk Textile Wash and Wear Finishing (絹織物 Wash and Wear 加工硏究)

  • Choe, Byong-Hee;Lee, Yang-Hoo
    • Journal of Sericultural and Entomological Science
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.47-55
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    • 1981
  • Silk textile finishing has been studied for many years by many workers in order to meet more utilities for various endusers. Such studies, however, could not be successful because any natural fibers are hardly change their natures by artificial treating methods. Textile finishing is of course to improve the mechandise qualities and the poor natures of silk so that it may be available as the best textile fiber in the world. Sometimes, famous trade marked textile plays more power than its quality in the silk market, nevertheless, this should be over line of research activities. Meantime, the silk demand has been also transferred from ladies stocking to other clothes since nylon or other synthetic fibers were developed. That is why, the extension of silk demand should be developed by various research works. Specially, silk is known as difficult textile to handle it during washing or ironing process which happened to depress down the silk usage for house wives. In order to solve such problems, the reporter has been worked for many years and now, he believes that he has developed a proper finishing method to coversuch problems. The developed finishing method may be said to eligible with economical aspect and shorten the dry duration after water washing in half against normal silk textile without harming the specific silk nature. As all of us know, silk fiber starts to denature since it was spinned by silkworm and the fiber is formed as overlapped "S" type curves during its concooning process. After it is made as raw silk or sericin silk, it shows as straight line form, but it changes in to waved form in case refining or degumming process in order return to its original spinned form. Such nature is continued during its textile form and ends with hard ironing nature than other textile fibers. Mean while, the silk fiber keeps to continue its denaturing and this is iniciated by repeat of washing and drying which takes many years to reach its final stage, The reporter has found the iniciating denature of silk by his finishing process, with out heat, decreasing the swollen nature which ended with shortening the drying duration after wash. Each washing was carried out by soaking the previously weighed sample in cold water for one hour, then pressed the sample for ten minutes to eliminate its free water component before weighing with same condition. According to this, the treated silk showed much denaturing after the finishing, but the standard silk progressed the denaturing by and by with the repeat of washing and drying, finally reached the same swollen degree of treated silk, Such treating result explains that the treated silk happened to be stebilized nature by the treating immediately. On the other that the treated silk happened to be stebilized nature by the treating immediately. On the other hand, standard silk may reach to such condition by the time of worn out clothes after repeat of washing and drying for many years while the clothes will be no more useful. The decreased swelling nature has brought about the drying period in half against standard silk after all. Not only the tests of tenacity and elongation but also crease resistance recovery, stiffness and shrinkage tests were carried out after each washing and drying which he has found better result on the treated silk textile against the standard silk. The most important thing was to keep the textile feeling of silk by such finishing work before improve any poor nature of silk. The general silk has a nature to absorb smoke or dirt from its surrounding air and reaches to dirty color shade upon such exposure, but the treated one has improved such nature because of its artificial denaturing, another word, it keeps clean longer than the normal silk. Many previous finishing works could improve some specific nature of silk, but it happened to deprave other important natures. The reporters work is, however, specialized to improve the silk to be useful as Wash and Wear Silk without harming its standard natures. So far, this work happened to be a overall innovative finishing method of silk textile.

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Pollution Research about Radiology radiographic laboratory (방사선 영상학 실습실 오염실태 조사 (D대학교 DR장비와 방사선 발생장치, Cassette 오염실태 조사))

  • Park, Chang-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Digital Imaging in Medicine
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.69-76
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    • 2013
  • We checked the existence of bacteria at DR equipment, radiation generator and cassette in 'D university' to propose optimized management method for bacteria and disinfection at DR equipment, radiation generator and cassette at used in radiographic laboratory of the department of radiology. The infected region is treated by alcohol and cresol and compared before spraying and after spraying for 1, 3, 5 and 10 minutes. As time goes on, amount of bacteria colony decreases significantly. The Cresol is useful to disinfect the diminutive devices. However alcohol disinfection, at least 5 minutes later, and hand washing before practical training and shooting image is recommended due to the big and fixed radiography equipment which cause the soakage.

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A Study on the Actual Condition on the Utilization of Apartment Balcony in Economically Sized Housings (국민주택 규모 아파트의 발코니 이용실태에 관한 연구)

  • 정미란;임소연;안옥희
    • Korean Journal of Rural Living Science
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.52-59
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of this study is to find the current problems of using balcony in apartment. For this study, 255 subjects who are resided in economically sized apartment housings were selected. The major results of this study were ; 1) The front balcony was used as arrangement space a laundry drier and a flowerpot table. On the other hand, the rear balcony was used as storage space for a kind of washing powder and receptacle, kim-chi jar and storage container for food etc. 2) The most dissatisfactory respect on the balcony is the width of space. 3) The shelves were often used as storage facilities.

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DYNAMIC AND CONTROLLABILITY OF A NONLINEAR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROBLEM

  • Jourani, Abderrahim;Serhani, Mustapha;Boutoulout, Ali
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.30 no.5_6
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    • pp.883-902
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    • 2012
  • In this work we deal with a nonlinear dynamical system, namely the wastewater treatment model. We proceed to a dynamical analysis of the model. Invariance, boundness, controllability and the sensitivity with respect the initial conditions are studied. On the other hand, using the nonsmooth analysis tools, we look for the viability of the model, that is, the necessary and sufficient conditions under which trajectories move in a suitable time-moving sets, to avoid the washing problem (died of bacteria).

Actual status of infection control by the dental hygienist in Korea (일개지역 치과위생사의 감염관리 실태에 관한 연구)

  • Yun, Kyoung-Ok
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.369-376
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    • 2013
  • Objectives : The objectives of this study is to investigate the handwashing and use of personal protection equipment in dental hygienists and provide the basic data for dental infection control guideline. Methods : A questionnaire survey was performed in the dental hygienists who participated in the continuing education by the Daejeon City Commission in October 2012. The collected data were analyzed using PASW 18.0. Results : Handwashing was well practiced in group working for 3 to 5 years of employment. Those who took the infection cnotrol training used liquid soap, paper towel, dental mask, protective goggles, face shield, and gloves. Conclusions : Infection control is the most important practice in dental hygienists. So it is necessary to emphasize the inportnace of personal protection equipment including medical gloves, dental mask, and goggles.

A study on isolated microorganisms from dental cast (석고 모형으로부터 분리 배양된 미생물에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Ju-Young
    • Journal of Technologic Dentistry
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.321-332
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    • 2013
  • Purpose: This study was examined the characteristics of bacteria isolated from the dental stone that is made ??in the dental laboratory. Methods: 104 dental stones samples were collected from the 4 dental laboratory. Characteristics of bacteria were investigated by microorganism isolation culture method using a Blood Tryptic Soy Agar(TSA) medium. Results: The detected various bacteria was confirmed as pathogenic bacteria, non-pathogenic bacteria and natural bacteria. The isolated bacterial number was confirmed $2.9{\times}10^3CFU$ and maxium bacterial number of $3.0{\times}10^4CFU$. Conclusion: Therefore, infection prevention education is required, it must be to live up the hand-washing and wear protective clothing to protect themselves when working in a dental laboratory.