• Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.191-196
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• 2020

Objective: Congenital muscular torticollis (CMT) is a disease with abnormal head and neck posture in infants. It affects the child's movement and development and can lead to complications. Therefore, this study aims to find out what factors influence the rehabilitation treatment duration of infants with CMT. Design: Cross-sectional study. Methods: The subjects were 63 infants under 90 days of age who were diagnosed with CMT. Age, thickness of the sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM) on the affected and non-affected side, head tilt angle, and head rotation angle of the affected head in infants were collected. The ratio of muscle thickness was calculated from the thickness of the affected SCM and the thickness of the non-affected SCM (A/N ratio). All subjects underwent conservative physical therapy twice a week for 30 minutes, and the end of the treatment was when the angle of head tilt was normal or less than 5 degrees, and the treatment duration was calculated. Results: Age, thickness of affected SCM, and head tilt were significantly correlated with treatment duration (p<0.05). The thickness of the non-affected SCM, A/N ratio, and head rotation angle did not show any correlation with treatment duration. The factors affecting the treatment duration were head tilt and age, showing 21% explanatory power of adjusted R². Conclusions: The main factors affecting the treatment duration of infants with CMT are head tilt and age. Therefore, more attention should be directed to the infant's head tilt and age for effective physical therapy of infants with CMT.

• Pediatric Infection and Vaccine
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.107-112
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• 2018

포도알균은 피부 및 연조직 감염과 관련된 병원체로 재발 감염의 위험이 높다. 저자들은 국내에서 Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) 양성 메티실린 감수성 포도알균 ST1에 의한 가족 내 재발성 종기를 경험하였으며, 16개월의 남자 환아와 아버지, 어머니의 종기에서 획득한 검체는 모두 동일한 항생제 감수성을 보였다. 세 환자의 균주 모두 agr 그룹으로 확인되었고, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) 검사에서 sec, seh가 확인되었으며 PVL 유전자를 포함하고 있었다. 가족 내 신체 접촉으로 인한 포도알균의 전파 가능성 및 예방에 대한 고려를 해 볼 필요가 있다.

• 한국농공학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.73-80
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• 1991

In Korea, small-scale reclaimed areas have been suffering from many problems because of the lack of comprehensive developing strategy although considerable investments have been inputed by the public sector since 1970's. For 3 reclaimed sites in Chonnam Province chosen as case study areas, the analysis, the third attempt of widely-spanned studies on areal conditions, concentrated on their living conditions. Its results were as follows : 1. Although rural residents have increased their concern on health and medical services, the public sector can only serve basic and emergent level of them, and therefore, the private sector, which is mostly placed in urban areas and costed much higher than public one, has the dominant share of those services. So, because those costs are a great expense to rural residents, their supplying system should be planned with special reference to lightening the economic burden of them. 2. By the development of locally fitted programs and innovative systems, the rural education should be qualitatively improved to deal successfully with its small scale. That will result in increasing the schooling rate to schools in rural communities, lightening the economic burden of rural residents on education services and finally activating them to contribute the betterment of rural education. 3. Servicing level of water supply, sewerage and garbage disposal in the reclaimed areas has been remaining at the lower order even in other rural areas. In the design of rural water supply, average daily consumption per capita should be changed according to the composition rate of fishing households and variety of the source of water supply. 4. Most of rural residents in the reclaimed areas want to establish the welfare facilites for the infant, youth, aged and public bath However in the long-term basis, the cooperative production and processing facilities should be considered for modernized efficient farming.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.153-167
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• 2011

This study analyzed changes in postpartum depression in mothers from one month after childbirth to the first year using panel data collected overtime, in an effort to determine the relationship between the amount of change and child-rearing system variables. The subjects were 1097 mothers who belonged to both the lower and upper $30^{th}$ percentile groups in the depression change distribution of the 2008 Korean Children Panel Study (PSKC), a large, population-based study conducted by the Korea Institute of Childcare and Education. The data were analyzed by t-tests, $x^2$ tests, partial correlation coefficient analyses and regression analyses. The results are summarized as follows: First, the mothers' postpartum depression showed a significant increase during the first year as opposed to the first month after birth. Second, after controlling for socio-demographical variables of the mothers, the changes related to depression showed a positive relationship with child-rearing stress, and the child's emotional temperament, but showed a negative relationship with the mother's self-esteem, the child's birth order, and the father's participation in child-rearing activities. Third, variables having a significant effect on changes in postpartum depression were the mother's self-esteem and child-rearing stress, the child's age in months, and social support. Variables pertaining to the mother's characteristics variables had a more powerful effect than other child-rearing system variable categories. The results suggest the necessity to develop a parental education program or a mother-child health service in consideration of the variables that affect mothers, as determined in this study, in an effort to prevent postpartum depression.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제64권3호
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• pp.130-135
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• 2021

Background: The clinical significance of lip-tie, or a tethered maxillary frenulum, remains under debate. Clinicians and parents are often perplexed when deciding whether procedures available to relieve a seemingly tight or severe maxillary frenulum are needed. Purpose: No previous studies have assessed the consequences of not subjecting a tethered maxillary frenulum in newborns to surgical intervention. This study aimed to contribute the first prospective trial on this topic with a relatively extended follow-up of these newborn infants. Methods: This prospective observational questionnaire-based cohort trial was performed in a community setting and aimed to determine whether lip-tie is associated with an increased likelihood of eventual feeding or oral disorders. Results: The convenience sample comprised of 61 consecutively arriving infants with concomitant tethered frenula who were treated at the clinic for various reasons. This cohort was compared with a random sample of 66 age-matched children for a mean follow-up period of 6.42 years. Infants undergoing oropharyngeal procedures were excluded. Awareness of a deviation in oral structures was reported by 18% of the study group versus 0% of the controls. Mothers participating in the study group (24.6%) less frequently recalled painful nipples or discomfort during breastfeeding than those in the control group (47.0%) (P<0.01). There were no intergroup differences in other types of feeding difficulty, dental hygiene, pronunciation, or speech development. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that a tethered labial frenulum is not associated with an increase in breastfeeding disturbances or oral disorders. These data encourage clinicians to question the need to intervene in cases of tethered maxillary frenula.

• 여성건강간호학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.326-336
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• 2021

Purpose: This study explored the prevalence of prenatal and postpartum depression in Korea and its influencing factors from 20 weeks of pregnancy to 12 weeks postpartum. Methods: Using a prospective cohort study design, data on women's depression and its influencing factors were collected at 20, 28, and 36 weeks of pregnancy and at 2, 6, and 12 weeks postpartum. The participants were 219 women and 181 spouses during pregnancy; and 183 mothers and 130 spouses after childbirth. Depressive symptoms were assessed by the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and influencing factors were measured by the Postpartum Depression Predictors Inventory-Revised, parity, and spousal depression. Results: The prevalence of maternal depression was 10.5% to 21.5% before birth, and it was 22.4% to 32.8% postpartum. The prevalence slightly decreased during the prenatal period but peaked at 2 weeks postpartum. Antenatal depression was influenced by low socioeconomic status, lower self-esteem, having experienced prenatal depression, having experienced prenatal anxiety, a previous history of depression, lower social support, lower marital satisfaction, and higher life stress. The factors influencing postpartum depression were lower self-esteem, having experienced prenatal depression, having experienced prenatal anxiety, lower social support, lower marital satisfaction, and higher life stress, as well as infant temperament and maternal blues. Parity and spousal depression had no impacts. Conclusion: The prevalence and influencing factors of maternal depression changed over time. Nurses need to screen women accordingly during the perinatal period and should provide education or counseling to prevent depression and promote adjustment to parenthood.

• 사회복지연구
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.225-246
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• 2010

본 연구는 한국복지패널 1~2차년도를 활용하여 가족구조의 변화 여부가 성인이행기 신체적 발달, 우울, 교육성취에 미치는 영향을 확인하고 나아가 가족구조의 변화 시기에 따라 성인이행기 발달에 미치는 영향이 상이한지 살펴보았다. 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 0~18세 때 가족구조의 변화 여부는 성인이행기 우울, 교육성취에 부정적 영향을 미치지만 주관적 건강상태에는 유의미한 영향을 미치지 않는다. 둘째, 0~18세 때 가족구조의 변화 여부는 성인이행기 주관적 건강상태에 부정적 영향을 미치지 않지만, 세부 발달단계로 나누어 분석한 결과, 영유아기 때의 가족구조의 변화는 성인이행기 주관적 건강상태에 부정적 영향을 미친다. 셋째, 영유가기 때의 가족구조의 변화는 성인이행기 우울에 영향을 미치지만, 아동기와 청소년기 때의 가족구조의 변화는 유의미한 영향을 미치지 않는다. 넷째, 영유아기, 아동기, 청소년기 때의 가족구조의 변화는 모두 교육성취에 유의미한 부정적 영향을 미치며, 그 영향의 크기는 영유아기, 청소년기, 아동기 순이다. 이를 통해, 아동·청소년기 때의 가족구조의 변화가 성인이행기 발달에도 지속적으로 영향을 미치고 있으며, 가족구조 변화의 시기에 따라 영향을 미치는 발달영역과 강도가 다소 상이함을 알 수 있다. 특히, 주관적 건강상태와 우울과 관련하여 영유아기 때의 가족구조의 변화만 영향을 미쳤지만, 교육성취는 모든 발달단계가 유의미한 영향을 주며 특히, 영유아기, 청소년기, 아동기 순으로 그 영향정도가 큰 것으로 나타났다. 이는 가족구조의 변화가 일어난 시점의 자녀의 발달단계에 따라 영향을 받는 발달영역이 상이하기 때문에, 한부모 가족 자녀를 위한 정책 및 서비스의 종류는 달라야 함을 시사한다.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.23-32
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• 1981

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the educational content which had been given by midwifery training program. It was hoped that this result would help. It was sponsored by com-munity health worker plan effective health education. College of Nursing Ewha Womans University and The Korean Nurses Academic Society during the November 19 thru 24, 1979. It was carried out on July through on September 1980, and involved 22 community health workers. The results were as follows: 1. Most of the community health workers came from Seoul ＆ Pusan areas and have been working at the hospitals. There were 31.82% of Head Nurses, 27.2% of Staff Nurses, 22.73% Nurse Supervisons, 13.6% of Nurse Directors and 4.5％ of educational coordinator for Nurses. These participant had nurse-midwifery lincences by 63.64%. None of there had just midwifery lincences. 2, Age structures of the study population shows 31.82% of whom are.26-30 years and 22.73% of whom are 36. 40 years of age. This shown that seniority proportion is higher than the younger. There are 31.82% of 1-5 years, 27.27% of 6-10 year and 11-15 years, respectively by work career. 3. There are 54.55% of the institutions have opened their own midwifery training course for their nursing staff members. Because of lack of the facilities, shortage of instructors, and problems of administrative process. 4. According to the institution which opened for midwifery training courses, the participant was responsible for “midwifery”“Infant care”“MCH”“practice of midwifery”“Nursing adjustment”and“F. P.”5. During the midwifery couse, there were 8 institution who used the textbook and 4 institution who did not. Least of there referned to content matinals which was given by the sponsored. 6. There are 7 insititues who kept their training courses with other professional helps such as physicians., professiors and nurses. Some problems are pointed out by respondents such as“conflict with residents”“poor suportive administration”and“lake of manpower”. 8. The participant showed that they learned new knowledge as trends during this programs for there quality work so it need (one or twice times) a year. But they suggested that it needed more emphasis on the“maternal health care”and“role of the nurse-midwifery”. 9. The analysis of the results are as follows within the 6 areas which are given by the sponsored: There are highest ranks between“basic theory & family planning”“role of midwifery & nursing practice”. In the prenatal care the highest rank ware related to“health risk”on“idenify of risk symtoms”. In the health care areas which related to delivery, the responsers were related to“general conditions”or“high risk criteria”. In the health care area which related to high risk maternity care. In the neonatal health care, the highest rank was related to”health assessment of normal infant”. In the infant health care the responses was related to“abnormal symptoms”and“risk symptoms”. Actually, the participants show that they are more interested in“role of midwifery”“health assessment”and “high risk maternity care”are which emphasised on health promotion, health maintenance & disease preventive. 1) The midwifery training program need higher education for midwifery on a regular basis. 2) Within the open institution of midwifery training program, the nurses must be supported by their own institution and administry of social welfare must give systematic support. Also non-open institution must be open very soon. 3) All health workers including the residents & other workers, must cooperate for their phased common good of impovement of the maternity health. 4) Administration agonies & education institutions must provide the curriculum facilitis and administration systems which are needed for training of nurse-midwifery.

• 한국보육학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.39-50
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• 2018

최근 보육교사가 수행하는 업무의 다중성 및 법적 신분과 관련된 쟁점이 부각되고 있다. 보육교사는 "근로기준법"상의 근로자이면서, "영유아보육법"상의 보육교직원이고, 누리과정 실시로 인해 "유아교육법"상의 유치원 교사의 업무도 수행한다. 영유아를 보호하고 양육하는 보육교사의 주업무를 기본으로 유아를 대상으로는 누리과정을 통한 교육프로그램을 진행하는 것이다. 하지만 보육교사의 직업적 의무가 법적인 권리와 부합되지 않는 부분이 있어 보육교사의 권리와 의무는 불균형적인 상황에 놓여 있게 된다. 본 연구는 해석주의 인식론에 기반한 질적방법을 활용하여 보육교사들이 현장의 경험을 통해 자신의 권리를 어떻게 인식하는지를 실증적으로 고찰하였다. 연구참여자는 수도권에 근무하는 보육교사 61명이며, 자료수집을 위해 프로토콜(protocol) 서술과 포커스그룹면접(FGI: focus group interview)을 활용하였다. 수집된 자료는 Creswell(2013)이 제안한 자료분석법에 따라 중심주제로 도출되었다. 연구결과를 보면, 보육교사들은 전문직으로서 교육권과 자율권, 근무여건 개선 및 복지후생 요구권, 고충처리 및 신분보장권에 대한 경험적 인식을 구체적으로 진술하였다. 보육교사들은 어린이집의 열악한 근무여건 및 복지후생을 지적하는 동시에 교육권과 자율권이 양질의 보육활동을 위해 강화되어야할 필요조건임을 강조하였다. 한편, 연구참여자들은 고충처리 및 신분보장권이 자신의 권리라는 점에 대한 인식 자체가 낮았고, 해당 권리의 침해를 감수하는 경향을 보였다. 본 연구결과는 보육교사들의 의무와 권리 사이의 간극을 드러내면서 이에 대한 제도적 마련이 필요함을 보여준다. 영유아 전문가로서 인성 및 전문성 강화에 대한 사회적 기대가 높아짐과 동시에 근로에 대한 사회적 가치관의 변화를 고려하여, 보육 현장에 근무하는 교사의 권리 향상을 위한 실천적 대안이 필요하다는 점을 논의하였다.

• 한국인구학
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.15-59
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• 1992

After world war II Japanese life expectancy has been improved remarkably, and reached the highest level in the world around late 1970's. The life expectancy of Korean has also shown tremendous improvement in recent years with about 20 year's gap from the Japanese. The reason of rapid improvement of life expectancy can be explained by changes in the structure of cause of death due to health system, living standard, social welfare, health behavior of individuals and so on. Korean in Japan is placed under different situations from both Korean in Korea and Japanese in these regards, and expected to show different picture of cause of death pattern. The objective of this study is the comparision of changing patterns of cause of death of three population groups, Korean in Japan, Korean in Korea and Japanese, and to investigate the reasons which effect to the structural difference of mortality cause with special emphasis on health ecological aspects. One of the major limitations of the Korean causes of death statistics is the under-registration which ranges about 10% of the total events, and inaccuracy of the exact cause of death. Some 20% of registered deaths were unable to classify by ICD. However, it is concluded that the Korean data are evaluated as sufficient to stand for over-viewing of trends of cause of death pattern. The evaluation is done by comparing data from registration and field survey over the same population sample. Population data of Korean in Japan differ between two sources of data; census and foreigner's registration. Correction is done by life table method under the assumption that age-specific mortality pattern would accord with that of the Japanese. The crude death rate was lowest among Korean in Japan, 5.7 deaths per 1,000 population in 1965. The crude death rates of Korean in Japan and Japanese are increasing recently influenced by age structure while Korean in Korea still shows decreasing tendency. The adjusted death rate is lowest among Japanese, followed by Korean in Japan, and Korean in Korea. The leading causes of death of Korean in Korea until 1960's was infectious diseases including pneumonia and tuberculosis. The causes of death structure changed gradually to accidents, neoplasm, hypertensive disease, cerebro-vascular disease in order. The main difference in cause of death between Korean and Japanese if high rate of liver diseases and diabetes for both Korean in Japan and Korea. A special feature of cause of death among Korean in Korea is remakably high rate of hypertensive disease, which is assumed to be caused by physicians tendency in choosing diagnostic categories. The low ischemic heart disease and high vasculo-cerebral disease are the distinctive characteristic of the three population groups compared to western countries. Specific causes of death were selected for detailed sex, age and ethnic group comparisons based on their high death rates. Cancer is the cause of death which showed most dramatical increase in all three population groups. In Korea 20.1% of all death were caused by cancer in 1990 compared with 10.5% in 1981. Cancer of the liver is the leading cause of cancer death among Korean in Japan for both sexes, followed by cancer of the lung and cancer of the stomach, while that of Korean in Korea is cancer of the stomach, followed by cancer of the liver and cancer of the lung for male. Causes of infant mortality were examined among the three population groups since 1980 on yearly bases. For both Japanese and Korean in Japan, leading cause of death ranks as conditions originating in the perinatal period, congenital anomalies, accidents and other violent causes. Trends since 1980 for these two population groups in the leading cause of infant mortality showed no changes. On the contrary, significant changes in leading cause of death structure in Korea were observed : the ranking of leading cause of death in 1981 were congenital asnomalies, pneumonia bronchitis, infectious disease, heart disease, conditions originating in the perinatal period, accident and other violent causes ; in 1990 the ranking shifted to congenital anomalies, accident, pneumonia bronchities, conditions originating in the perinatal period, infectious disease. The mortality rate by congenital anomalies in Korea continuously grew than any other causes. Larger increase ocurred during the 1990's