• 치위생과학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.404-412
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• 2012

본 연구는 장애인의 구강건강을 위해 특수교사 및 보호자의 구강건강 중요성을 인식하게 하고, 장애인 스스로 올바른 구강용품 사용과 행위로 구강청결도를 높이기 위한 목적으로 수행되었다. 서울 지역 H 장애인 복지시설과 E 장애인 종합복지관을 이용하는 정신지체 장애인 총 93명을 대상으로 보호자 및 특수교사로부터의 설문지 응답과, 장애인들을 대상으로 잇솔질 교육, 식이조절, 구강보조용품 사용 등의 구강보건 교육과 간이구강위생지수, 치면세균막 지수, 개량 구강위생상태를 확인하는 구강검진을 실시하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 첫째, 정신지체 1급과 2급, 3급의 잇솔질 교육 후 실천도를 조사한 결과, 정신지체 1급의 경우, 아침식사 전에는 변함이 없었다. 아침식사 후는 2차 교육 이후에는 약간의 증가를 보였지만 3차 교육 후에는 다시 교육 전과 같았다. 둘째, 장애유형과 교육 횟수에 따른 간이구강환경지수의 변화에는 상호작용 효과가 없었으나 장애유형에 따른 주효과는 있는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 교육 횟수와 간이구강환경지수의 차이가 있는지 반복측정 분산분석 결과, 간이구강환경지수는 시간에 의한 차이는 통계적으로 유의하였다(F=5.961, p<.01). 넷째, 장애유형별 치면 세균막 상태의 변화는 시간에 의한 차이가 통계적으로 유의하였으며, 사후검증결과 1차와 4차간에 유의한 차이가 나타났다(F=5.126, p<.05). 마지막으로 연구대상자의 일반적 특성에 따른 구강보건 인식도 변화는 성별, 연령, 장애유형, 교육기관, 학력 정도 등 모든 변인에서 통계적으로 유의하지 않았다. 본 연구의 결과, 장애인의 잇솔질은 2차교육 때까지 잇솔질 횟수의 증가를 보였으나 그 이후 잇솔질 횟수의 감소경향이 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 잇솔질 교육을 받은 후, 처음에는 흥미를 갖고 잘 실천하다가 시간이 지나면서 흥미를 잃어 원래의 생활 패턴으로 돌아가기 때문인 것으로 보인다. 그러나 간이구강환경지수나 치면 세균막 지수 등의 결과로 볼 때 올바른 잇솔질 방법으로 구강청결도는 증가함을 보였다. 장애인의 구강보건 교육은 잇솔질 교육을 장기간 하는 것보다는 주기적으로 흥미를 유발하면서 진행하는 것이 장애인의 구강건강 향상을 증진시키는 것이라 생각한다.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.91-100
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• 2004

시대의 변천에 따라 보건진료원의 업무활동 내용의 변화를 전라북도내에 근무하는 보건진료원을 대상으로 비교 분석한 결과는 다음과 같다. 1) 보건진료원의 수는 1989년 255명에서 2000년 224명으로 감소하였다. 2) 보건진료원의 일반적 특성은 1989년에 비하여 2000년에 연령, 기혼자, 근무경력이 증가하였다. 3) 보건진료원의 시간별 업무량은 1989년과 2000년 모두 진료업무가 가장 높았고, 1989년에 비해 2000년에는 모성보건, 영 유아보건, 가족계획, 진료업무, 결핵관리가 현저히 감소하였으며, 2000년에는 업무시간에 지역사회보건정보수집이 새롭게 추가된 것으로 조사되었다. 4) 1일 평균 진료환자 수 및 주민과의 친밀도는 1989년보다 2000년에 증가하였다. 근무에 대한 만족도는 1989년에 보통이다, 괜찮은 직업이라 생각한다, 보람을 느끼고 있다 라고 응답한 경우가 36.6%, 37.4%, 17.6% 이었던 반면에 2000년에는 11.6%, 22.6%, 56.8%로 보람을 느끼고 있다 고 응답한 경우가 증가하였다. 5) 지역사회의 실정을 감안할 때 가장 필요한 업무라고 응답 한 경우 진료업무가 57.7%이었으며, 보건교육이 31.4%, 지역사회보건정보수집이 10.9%순으로 나타났다. 또한 불필요한 업무로는 가족계획이 68.8%로 가장 높았고, 결핵관리 11.1 %, 영 유아보건 6.3%, 모성보건 5.6%순으로 조사되었다. 6) 보건진료소 이용도 감소 시 가장 바람직한 방안으로는 새로운 보건기능을 수행하는 기관으로 전환이 79.0% 이었으며, 기타(가정방문, 만성질환 및 노인환자 건강관리)가 12.3%로 조사되었다. 이상의 결과로 보아 보건진료원은 본인의 직능에 대하여 지역사회주민의 접근성 및 친밀도가 높고 직업에 대한 만족도가 높은 것으로 인식하고 있으며, 업무는 시대의 변화에 따라 감소하는 추세이고, 지역주민의 보건진료소 이용 감소 시 보건진료원은 새로운 보건기능을 수행하는 기관으로 전환을 원하고 있는 것으로 조사되었다. 그러므로 보건진료소의 현 실태를 정확히 인식하고, 보건진료원의 장점, 즉 지역사회에 대한 높은 접근성과 친밀도 및 전문성을 도대로 공공보건사업 기능이 강화된 새로운 역할을 모색함이 바람직하다고 판단된다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.83-90
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• 2018

Purpose - Journals of Korea Distribution Science Association (KODISA) made great efforts in responding to the constant shifts in academic paradigms and in producing synergetic effects among KODISA journals to achieve the goal of maintaining their status in the world's reputable scholarly journals. The aim of this study is to analyze the current practice and performance of KODISA journals and develop strategies that will continuously meet and respond to the changes and success in the future. Research design, data, and methodology - This is a case study, an analytical approach, which focuses on analyzing current and previous strategies, practices, and performances of the four major journals of KODISA and the association. The organizational structure, including election and terms of KODISA officers, new membership, and members of editorial board, is discussed and analyzed. The citation, submission, publication, and rejection rates of all four journals are examined, and the progress, including the status of indexing of each journal, is discussed. Results - The analysis indicates that KODISA has significantly invested its resources into improving its journals and attracting new members. The analysis also shows the strategy of the organizational structure, which includes election and terms of officers and editorial board members that implemented over the years, was successful. Both Journal of Distribution Science (JDS) and Journal of Finance, Economics, and Business (JAFEB) are indexed in SCOPUS, with East Asian Journal of Business Management (EAJBM) in the final stage of the SCOPUS indexing evaluation, and International Journal of Industrial Distribution and Business (IJIDB) will complete and submit their indexing evaluation materials to SCOPUS this summer. Conclusions - The success and progress of KODISA and its journals clearly support the need for continuous development, analysis, revision, and implementation of strategies. Based on the analysis, conducting the annual performance reviews of the association and its journals and planning and strategizing based on the reviews since 2011 have greatly contributed to the overall success. In terms of meeting the short term strategy, KODISA has to continue developing relationships with relevant and appropriate scholarly/academic associations to expand the scope of its business, establishing independence of each journal and its respective procedures and practices and improving the quality of the journals and their publications through KODISA's international conferences.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.186-196
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• 2018

본 전문대학은 고등교육기관으로 우리나라 산업발전에 필요한 인적자원을 제공함으로서 국가경제 발전의 원동력으로서 큰 역할을 하였으나 최근 학령인구 감소로 인한 전문대학의 어려움이 예상되고 있다. 따라서 급변하는 환경변화 속에서 전문대학이 고등직업교육을 대표하는 기관으로서의 역할과 상호협력과 경쟁을 통한 생존전략이 필요한 시점이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 전국 보건대학의 보건계열 중심으로 현황을 분석하고, 전문대학에 대한 정책변화와 대학에 제시하고 있는 방향성을 조사하여 전문대학 수업연한 및 학위과정 다양화 추진을 위한 구체적인 방안마련의 근거자료로 활용하고자 실시되었다. 본 연구는 현재 전국 보건대학 보건계열학과에 재직 중인 교수와 산업체 종사자 636명을 2017년 5월 1일~5월 30일까지 설문지를 이용하여 조사하였다. 연구결과, 3년제 보건계열학과의 4년제 전환에 대해 찬성한다는 의견이 70.7%였다. 이유로는 충분한 수업연한으로 현장실습 및 인성교육을 강화할 수 있고, 동등한 학력을 가질 수 있기 때문인 것으로 나타났다. 4년제 전환 시 가장 기대되는 효과는 의료기사의 사회적 위상 향상과 대학의 교육환경개선이었으며, 4년제 전환을 위해 대학, 협회, 교육부가 주도적인 역할을 수행해야 한다고 하였다. 본 연구의 결과를 토대로 다가오는 4차 산업혁명시대에 요구되는 전문보건의료인 양성을 위한 더 체계적이고 고도화된 직업교육체제가 필요한 상황에서 전문대학의 수업연한 조정을 통한 학위과정의 다양화를 자유롭게 열어놓아 일반대학 졸업자들과의 경쟁력을 갖추어 선진 보건의료인 양성에 적극적으로 대비를 해야 할 것으로 사료된다.

• 간호행정학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.247-275
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• 1998

The purpose of this study was to offer the results of content analysis and qualitative study that explored the perceptions about quality nursing care of patients and families as consumers and to identify the implications of this study for quality nursing care management and research. The data was collected from 12 adult patients and 9 families who were admmitted at medical and surgical nursing unit of one university hospital in Seoul from October, 1996 to January, 1997. Research participants were asked to response "what do you think quality nursing care?" and similar questions during the interviews was performed. Data were analyzed using open coding and content analysis with frequencies and percents of attributes of quality nursing care. Attributes of quality nursing care and meaning of quality nursing care that patients and families perceived were explored. 1. The attributes of quality nursing care that patient and families perceived were categorized into 56 attributes. The highest response rate among the attributes was 'one's heart at ease' (76.2%), and the next high response rates were ranked in order 'consideration' , 'care about' (each 61.9% 'expert skill' (57.1%), 'deal with problem promptly' , 'information offer' (42.9%), 'intimate feeling' (38.1%), 'smile' 'service spirit' , 'do one's best' (each 33.3%), 'frequent visit' (23.8%), 'observe the time' (23.8%), 'direct nursing care' , 'speaking warmly' , give a hope' , 'address kindly' , 'a sense of duty' , 'good facilities' (each 19.0%), 'inquire after a patient health' , 'patient-centered nursing care' , 'showing an example' , 'professional knowledge' , 'careless moraly patient' , 'give encourage to patients' , 'good answer a question' (each 14.3%), 'do not imprudently' , 'do not disregard' , 'broad knowledge' , 'emergency treatment skill' , 'dependability' ,'consolation' giving a sense of security' , 'a self sacrificing spirit' , 'a sense of responsibility' 'hard - working', 'enough disposition of nursing staff (each 9.5%), 'improve patient's pride' and the rest attributes exhibited 4.7%, respectively. 2. The attributes that were identified in patients' data only were 8 categories, 'service sprit' (58.3 %) 'expert knowledge' , 'good answer a question' (each 25.0%), 'hard working' (16.7%), 'a warm character', 'professional attainments', 'do without reserve', 'satisfaction' (each 8.3%), 3. The attributes were identified to families' data only were 31 categories, 'speaking warmly' , 'direct nursing care', 'adress kindly', 'patientcentered nursing care', 'showing an example' (each 33.3%). 'do not imprudently' , 'do not disregard' , 'consolation', 'giving a sense of security', 'broad knowledge' , 'emergency treatment skill', 'dependability' ,'a self - sacrificing spirit', 'a sense of responsibility' (each 22.2%), 'improve patient's pride' , 'without discrimination' , 'show kindness' , 'individual nursing care', 'being with patient' , 'helping' , 'accuracy' , 'without any mistake' , 'love' , 'self - confidence', 'self possession', 'a self - denying spirit' , 'a sense of duty' , 'tighten discipline' , 'disposed room with similar patient to diagnosis', 'compensatory relationship between me dical team' , 'role of connection' (each 11.1 %). 4. The attributes of quality nursing care were integrated into 11 categories that they were 'patientcentered nursing care' (25.1%), 'expertise' (22.1%), 'caring'(18.1%), 'kindness'(11.1%L 'nurse attainments(10.1%), 'sincerity' (7.5%), 'good environment' (2.0%), 'effective organizational management', 'coordination', 'enough nursing staff' ( each 1.0%), 'satisfaction' (0.5%) were showed in the order of the highest rate. 5. The concept of quality nursing care were defined as 'give a satisfaction to patients by patientcentered care based on professional skill and caring with kindness and sincerity'. The description of the meaning of quality nursing care provided by this research participants, patients and families can provide important information for quality nursing care management, medical marketing, education and researches of this field. On the basis of the above findings the following recommendations are made: to suggest to utilize this results for patient care in practice setting, development of quality assessment tool in nursing care, repeat study by the same subjects and method, and to a comparative study by the same method to nurse.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.40-62
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• 1989

This study was conducted to measure the effects of clinical application of a Nursing Diagnosis Protocol. The dependent variables were the degree of patient's satisfaction and the degree of nurse's satisfaction with the nursing activity. Analysis of the effect of the use of the nursing diagnosis protocol was based on the nursing record. The subjects for this study were 61 nurses(experimental group 31, control group 30) and 155 patients (experimental group 55, control group 100) on four internal medicine wards in K University Hospital in Seoul. Data collection was done from August to October 12,1988. The results obtained in this study can be summarized as follows, 1, Effect of the clinical application of the nursing diagnosis protocol. 1) The first hypothesis ; “nurses who use the nursing diagnosis protocol will have higher degrees of satisfaction than those who use traditional methods” was rejected (t＝.54, df＝58, p＝.59). 2) The second hypothesis ; “patients nursed by nurses using the nursing diagnosis protocol will have higher degrees of satisfaction than those nursed with traditional methods” was supported(t＝1.93, df＝154, p＝.05). 3) The third hypothisis : Major hypothesis ; “the nursing records of the experimental group, who used the nursing diagnosis protocol, will be more detailed than those of the control group” was supported (t＝6.40, df＝79.90, p＝.000). (1) The first subhypothesis ; “The recorded data collection of the experimental group will be more detailed than that of the control group” was rejected (t＝1.79, df＝118, p＝.07). (2) The second subhypothesis ; “The recorded patient's problem statement of the experimental group will be more detailed than that of the control group”, was supported. (3) The third subhypothesis ; “The nursing record of the experimental group will be more convenient for implementation than that of the control group” was supported. 2. Factors related to the nurse's degree of satisfaction with protocol. 1) No general characteristics(age, religion, education level, duty career, present duty career) were related to the nurse's degree of satisfaction. 2) Variables related to the nurse's degree of satisfaction were “satisfaction as a nurse” and “consider nursing as lifelong job” (t＝-2.6, df＝13.22, p＝.02, t＝2.41, df＝23.85, p＝.02). 3. Factors related to the patient's degree of satisfaction. 1) General characteristics related to the patient's degree of satisfaction with nurses using the protocol were age, educational level, and being married.(F＝5.17, df＝3/153, p＝.00, t＝ -2.39, df＝154, p＝,01, f＝5.91, df＝2/153, p＝.00) 2) The variables previous hospitalization, duration of hospitalization, the hospital unit presence of a relative, medical insurance, or medical diagnosis were not related to the patient's degree of satisfaction. 1. The experimental group's nursing record was more detailed than the control group's record with regard to the physical and psychological state of the patients. As noted above, the experimental group nurses, who use a nursing diagnosis had protocol were less satisfied than the control group who used traditional methods of the recording, but experimental group patients had a higher degree of satisfaction than the control group patients. The nursing records of experimental group, using the nursing, diagnosis protocol was more detailed than that of the control group. If the nursing diagnosis protocol is used in clinical nursing practice, the quality of nursing care may be improved.

• 과학기술학연구
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.55-92
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• 2005

한국에서 중요한 과학적 개념의 형성과 그 사회적 유통에 기여하는 것은 미국과 유럽, 그리고 일본에서 형성, 성숙, 정립된 후에 한국으로 유입되고 수용되는 과학 지식과 한국 사회가 근대화의 과정에 형성한 제도이다. 유전적 정보라는 개념도 이러한 맥락에서 예외일 수는 없다. 유전적 정보 개념은 고전적 유전학의 틀에서 이해되는 유전, 또는 계승성의 개념에서 인간유전체 연구사업의 와중에서 등장하여 성숙한 유전체학과 생물정보학에 의해 확대 심화된 것이다. 본 연구는 서구적 개념 및 지식 생산 구조를 모델로 하는 개념적, 과학지식적, 제도적 통합성을 기준으로 한국에서 유전적 정보의 생산 구조가 어떻게 형성되어 있는가에 대한 것이다. 한국에서 1980년대 중반에 나타났던 유전공학 담론은 한국에서 분자생물학의 발달은 촉진시켰지만, 생화학-생화학교실과 같은 균형성이 없이 유전공학-유전학교실의 불균형성이 존재하게되었다. 주로 의과대학의 (인간)유전학과 혹은 유전학교실의 수와 질에 있어서의 부족함 때문에 생명과학 전체에 미치는 영향력에서도 크게 성공하지 못했고, 통합적, 거시적 발전을 이루지 못한 것으로 보인다. 유전학의 발전적 재구성이라고 할 수 있는 유전체학은 한국에서는 유럽, 미국, 일본의 인간유전체연구사업의 발전 궤적의 '기초단계' 혹은 '제 1기' 형태에는 거의 인프라, 투자, 연구개발이 없었고 기능유전체학과 단백체학을 중심으로 하는 '성숙단계' 혹은 '제 2기' 형태를 주축으로 하여 한국의 연구개발이 진행되고 있다. 유전체학과 같이 발달한 생물정보학에는 내적 구조에 이미 정보학과 연결되는 논리와 내용을 가지고 있는데, 한국에서는 정보기술(IT)의 아류 정도로 보는 편협하고 왜곡된 시각이 주도적인 가운데 시작된 것으로 보인다. 결과적으로 한국 생물정보학은 유전학 및 생명과학과의 통합적인 면에서는 결함을 노출하고 있다. 이러한 유전적 정보의 생산 구조가 가지는 문제점으로 인하여 한국에서 유전적 정보는 기초가 부실한 편이며 파편화된 유형으로 생산되어 나올 개연성을 가진다. 개념적, 제도적인 파편화의 사례는 개인식별의 유전학이 기존의 유전공학-유전학교실 체제로 흡수되지 못하고 의과대학 법의학교실에서 전문성과 연구실천을 확보한 것에서도 확인된다. 유전적 정보의 생산 구조에 영향을 미치는 환경은 한국의 생명공학과 시민사회운동으로 존재한다.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.36-53
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• 1987

It is utmostly important to establish the efficient fitable way of peoples' active participation in primary health care especially in the areas where the public or governmental service input for the basic health care is insufficient like as in rural areas of Korea. In light of above reason, this study focused mainly on the evaluation of roles and activities of village health workers (VHWs) who were selected from grass- root level of village people in order to derive further motivation for active participation. This is believed to be a sort of feedback mechanisms. Actually, the authors collected the activity reports of VHWs who had been devoting themselves in the primary health care services of Jeomdong Area, of Yeoju Gun one of Korea University Community Health Action Programmes and survey record on the VHWs activity from correspondent people. 1 hose data were analyzed through computer programmed package. The activities performed by VHWs were limited to the performance in 1985 for conveniance. The summarized results were as follows; 1) General characteristics of VHWs. Among a total of 28 VHWs in the area, about 39.3g of them have been replaced up to the date since the implementation in 1983, because of moving out, occupational employment and of others. The age of majority (75.0%) lied between the range of 30-50, and educational background of 67.9% belonged to category of primary school graduation, about 50% of them experienced to be or were also entiled "chief of women club" of corresponding villages. 2) Work-load of VHWs. Each VHW was assigned for tasks of health care for average 55 households of 248 persons. They shared approximately 6 days a month for the activity in average and it covered 17 cases of basic health care in a month. A half of the VHWs performed home visits irregularly without solidified schedule. 3) Work performance analysis. Informations collected through VHWs were compared with data from official vital registration at local administration center "Myon Office" in 1985. VHWs collected 100.8 of new born, 116.2 of death, 58.3 of move in and 74.8 of move out in comparison with 100.0 of official registration each. Pregnant women of 79.8% of mothers among the total pregnancy of 94 which were confirmed as normally delivered or aborted cases by all means afterwards had been detected by VHWs as being pregnant and all of them received some of antenatal cares by VHWs. All(100%) of delivered women were detected by VHWs through home visits and they were cared postnatally. Whereas, according to the records of birth registration, the places of delivery were clinic in 33.7%, and mother's home in 66.3%, VHWs reported them to be clinic in 48.9%, midwifery in 20.2%. It was cleared that most of misinformation was caused by uncautious filling of birth registration at notification. Among the total of 717 eligible women under age 44 years, family planning status of 92.6% was reported by VHWs confirming practice of control to be 70.8% of reported fertile women. 4) Attitude of VHW on the roles and functions. Although 92.0% of VHWs expressed VHWs to be worthwhile, only 52.0% of them had dignity and satisfaction in their activity and 44.0% of them had passive attitude of working saying they followed direction regardlessly. Concerning difficulties in performance as a VHW, 60.7% of them pointed out lacking of medical and health related knowledge by themselves. Still, 64.0% of them thought visiting unfamilier house to be awful and 40.0% complained forms of activity to be difficult and hard. It was also revealed that 56.6% confessed lack of interest on community health service itself. Most of VHWs needed more educational training especially on clinical fields such as cares of gynecological diseases, hypertension, diabetes, and other chronic diseaes of the aged. Regular on-the-job basic trainings were said to be needed twice a year.

• 재활간호학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.240-247
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• 2001

The history of rehabilitation of disabilities in Korea began with the foreigners and missionaries who were interested in it after Korean War. In 1981, Disabled Persons Welfare Act was enacted and the 88 Paralympics brought the nations attention to the welfare and rehabilitation of persons with disabilities. Since then, the facilities and the services for the disabled persons have expanded rapidly and the rehabilitation treatment and nursing intervention are drawing more attention. Against this background, the survey on the current status of disabilities, welfare service, facilities, and rehabilitation nursing was conducted. The results of this survey are as follows. 1. According to the 2000 census of disabilities, the number of persons with disabilities in Korea is estimated at 1,449,500, or 3.09% of the entire Korean population, 0.74% up from 2.35% in 1995. 2. Disability Types in 2000 The 2000 census showed that the persons with disabilities numbered 1,449,496 out of the total population and 1,024,371 persons are registered for disability, making up 70.7% of the estimated disabled population. Among them, physically disabled persons accounted for the largest 41.7% (605,127) and mentally retarded persons stood at the smallest 9% (13,481). 3. Percentage of Disability Presence The survey showed that more than 90% of disability were acquired. However, 44.8% of mental disability and 61.4% of hearing/speaking disability were not acquired after birth. This means that these disabilities happened by congenital cause or birth accident. 4. Yearly Figure of Registered Disabled Persons In 1989, 218,601 persons registered for disability and, in 2000, the number increased by 4.7 times to 1,024,371. These figures are different from the actual number of disabled persons. According to the 1995 census, 1,053,486 were disabled persons but only 378,323registered for disability. And, in the 2000 census, 1,024,371 out of the 1,449,496 of disabled persons registered for disability. 5. Welfare Service for Persons with Disability 62.6% of the total disabled people are registered and physically disabled persons accounted for the highest percentage of 96.7%. 26.5% of non-registered disabled people said that they didnt know the registration procedure. The rest of them replied that they didnt think they were disabled or that registration didnt seem to give any benefits. 6. Welfare Policies for Disabled Persons The welfare benefits given to the disabled are as follows: Issuance of disabled sign for car drivers, Permission to use LPG fuel, Communication fee reduction, Tax exemption related to cars, Reduction of public facility fees, Household allowance, Tax reduction or exemption, Medical allowance and education subsidy for children, and Housing. 7. Current Condition of Welfare Facilities by Disability Type The welfare institutions for disabilities numbered 188 in total and they can accommodate 16,823 persons. Categories of these institutions are physical disability(37), visual disability(10), hearing/speaking disability(14), mental retardation(59), and sanatoriums(68). 8. Human Resource of Rehabilitation of Disabilities Advanced education programs include rehabilitation nursing in its curriculum and this was selected as the program of Korean Academic Society of Nursing in 1990. In November 1997, Korean Academic Society of Rehabilitation Nursing was launched and many academic meeting and seminars were held. This organization is also making efforts to develop the education program for qualified rehabilitation nursing professionals and to develop the standards of rehabilitation nursing practice. In the professionals of the rehabilitation, there are rehabilitation specialist, physical therapist, speech therapist, occupational therapist. It is needed to come up with the measures to supply stable human resources following the demand of disabled persons and to recognize the private certificates for rehabilitation professionals as official ones after reviewing the education and training programs of private institutions. 9. Rehabilitation Nursing 1) Rehabilitation nursing was taught as an independent subject in 11 undergraduate programs and 9 graduate programs. 2) Research on rehabilitation nursing in Korea were 24 experimental research and 11 non-experimental research. The intervention of experimental research were mostly education and exercise rehabilitation programs. 3) In the three rehabilitation hospitals, nursing is divided into two categories, direct nursing and education & counseling. Direct nursing includes tracheostomy or nasogastric tube care, urination and defication, skin care, pain control, complication prevention and care, prevention of injury from a fall, etc.

• 생물정신의학
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.6-11
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• 2013

Objectives There are only a limited number of studies on instruments assessing fatigue in university students, although fatigue exerts negative influences on their health and academic performances and fatigue-related complaints are more frequently reported in young adults than middle-aged adults. The aim of this study was to validate the 9-item Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) among university students including both undergraduate and graduate students in South Korea. Methods A total of 176 university students completed a battery of self-report questionnaires, including the FSS, the Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI), the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 36 version 2 (MOS-SF36v2), and the Inclusion of Community in the Self Scale (ICS). The data were collected from February of 2012 to June of 2012. The reliability, convergent validity, divergent validity, and exploratory factor analyses were conducted to assess psychometric properties of the FSS. Results The mean FSS score was 3.20 (standard deviation = 1.43). The FSS demonstrated an excellent internal consistency (Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ = 0.93) and item-total correlations ranged from 0.56 to 0.90. Correlations of the FSS with the BFI (r = 0.71, p < 0.01), BDI-II (r = 0.54, p < 0.01), BAI (r = 0.46, p < 0.01), MOS-SF36v2 physical component summary (r = -0.28, p < 0.01), MOS-SF36v2 mental component summary (r = -0.55, p < 0.01), and ICS (Spearman's rho = -0.07, p = 0.33) showed acceptable convergent and divergent validity. Exploratory factor analysis defined one underlying factor (eigenvalue = 5.67) that explained 93.50% of the total variance. Conclusions To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to investigate reliability and validity of the FSS in university students. The FSS exhibits good psychometric properties for evaluation of fatigue among university students in South Korea. Since the FSS is easy to administer, score, and interpret, it could be a useful tool in research and practice for assessing fatigue among university students.