• 대한건축학회논문집:계획계
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.13-21
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• 2018

The elderly are more likely to experience passive emotions such as loneliness, anxiety, and depression due to decreased physiological function and low participation in social activities. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to seek how to apply biophilic design from a healing perspective considering mental health to the residential space for the elderly. Biophilic design has a positive effect on the psychological stability of human being and the creation of a human-centered environment that provides various benefits to people's health through the combination with natural elements. The method of this study is as follows. First, survey tools are developed by reviewing literature related to biophilic design and planning factors in housing. Second, we conduct the survey around mental health status and preference of applying biophilic design patterns to the elderly and pre-elderly. Third, we propose a plan to apply biophilic design patterns in houses based on the analyzed results. The biophilic design pattern covered in this study is meaningful in that it seeks clues, the housing plan to create healing environment for the elderly with the nature friendly view.

• 한국엔터테인먼트산업학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.231-242
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• 2019

본 연구의 목적은 노인의 자살생각에 영향을 미치는 개인적 요인을 분석함으로써 노인자살의 위험요인을 확인하고 자살예방을 위한 기초자료를 제공하고자 한다. 연구대상은 제천시에 거주하는 노인종합복지관, 노인교실, 시니어클럽을 이용하는 65세 이상의 노인 260명을 대상으로 하였으며 영향요인을 살펴보기 위해 위계적 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 본 연구결과 노인의 자살생각에 영향을 미치는 개인적 요인은 심리적 요인에서 스트레스, 우울감, 고독감이 유의미한 것으로 나타났다. 이는 스트레스, 우울감, 고독감이 높을수록 노인의 자살생각 정도가 높아짐을 의미한다. 또한, 노인의 자살생각에 가장 영향을 많이 미치는 요인은 스트레스로 나타났으며, 다음은 고독감, 우울감 순으로 나타났다. 이러한 연구결과를 근거로 제언하면 첫째, 노인 자살예방을 위해 심리적 치료 및 예방 프로그램이 필요하다. 둘째, 노인의 정신건강 지원제도나 교육 및 서비스 확대가 필요하다. 셋째, 스트레스 대처·완화·중재 프로그램의 개발 및 보급이 필요하다.

• 산업융합연구
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• 제21권11호
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• pp.147-154
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• 2023

이 연구는 청소년의 일반적 특성과 정신건강에 대한 조사를 통해 만취경험과의 관계를 파악하고, 이를 향후 음주 예방프로그램의 기초자료로 활용하고자 수행되었다. 연구에서는 제18차 청소년건강행태조사(2022년)의 원시자료를 사용하였으며, 최근 30일 동안 만취한 경험이 있는 530명을 대상으로 연구가 진행되었다. 가중치를 적용한 복합표본 분석 방법을 적용하여 빈도분석, 교차분석, 로지스틱 회귀분석을 사용하여 자료를 분석하였다. 연구 결과에 따르면 만취경험은 성별, 학업성적, 경제 상태, 성관계 경험, 흡연 등에 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 있었다. 또한, 정신건강 특성 중 스트레스 인지, 우울, 외로움, 자살생각, 자살계획, 자살시도 등이 만취경험에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 청소년의 정신적, 신체적 건강을 고려할 때 음주 습관에 대한 예방프로그램의 필요성을 강조한다. 특히, 정신건강과 음주 간의 관련성을 고려하여 프로그램을 개발하고 이를 통해 청소년기에 건강한 생활습관을 형성하는 데 도움을 줄 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.144-153
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• 2021

Objectives: Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric disorders in adolescents and seem to occur the earliest among all forms of psychopathology. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of anxiety severity with health risk behaviors and mental health in adolescents. Methods: Data from the 2020 Korean Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Survey were analyzed. A total of 54948 adolescents responded to the 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7) for the assessment of their anxiety severity as well as to the mental health and health risk behavior survey. Logistic regression analysis, t tests, and variance analysis of a complex sample general linear model were used to examine the association of anxiety severity with health behaviors and mental health. Results: After statistical adjustment for sociodemographic characteristics, the subjects in the severe anxiety group were significantly more likely to be current smokers (odds ratio [OR]: 2.08, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.72-2.50), current drinkers (OR: 1.91, 95% CI: 1.67-2.19), experience habitual substance use (OR: 10.89, 95% CI: 8.22-14.42), have sexual intercourse (OR: 2.10, 95% CI: 1.76-2.51), and have unprotected intercourse (OR: 2.21, 95% CI: 1.67-2.92) than those in the normal group. Anxiety severity negatively correlated with sleep satisfaction and happiness, but positively correlated with stress perception, loneliness, depressive symptoms, and suicidality. Conclusion: Adolescent anxiety is associated with health risk behaviors and poor mental health. Thus, early screening and intervention for anxiety in adolescents could contribute to the management and coping of youth health risk behaviors in the community.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.639-648
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• 2008

This study is to examine the meaning of death, the level of death anxiety, and the aspect of death anxiety that the aged have. For this, a quantitative research subjecting 532 of the aged living in local area, Jeollabuk-do was carried out. And among those 532 questionnaires, 10 were subjected for depth interview. The following is a summary of the result from this study. First, the meaning of death for the aged is classified into three classes as positive, neutral and negative meaning. Among these, there were far greater numbers of the aged who put neutral or negative meanings on their death than the positive one. Second, death anxiety of the aged are divided into three factors: 'annihilation anxiety', 'process anxiety', and 'afterdeath anxiety'. The factor that involves death anxiety the most was process anxiety, then afterdeath anxiety, and annihilation anxiety, in the order. Third, as a result of classifying the feature of death anxiety in the aged into the symptoms of death anxiety and the motive of recognizing death anxiety. Death anxiety is classified into the people with symptoms and those without symptoms, and those with certain symptoms are classified into the physical symptoms and the mental symptoms. The motive of recognizing death anxiety appeared when the individual is aged, experiences the death of other people, suffers physical pains, and when there is a mental loneliness.

• 인간식물환경학회지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.565-574
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• 2018

Previous studies have shown that forest therapy program can help prevent dementia. However, few studies have focused on low-income elderly people living alone. The current study examined the meanings that the elderly living alone receiving medical care assigned to the urban forest therapy program, as a way to understand the pathways that nature-based intervention affect preventing dementia. Twenty-one participants were recruited and they participated in a five-week urban forest therapy program. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 21 participants who experienced the urban forest therapy program, and analyzed qualitative data using thematic analysis. Results showed that all themes identified were related to connectedness with oneself, neighbors and nature. Awarenesses of change were consisted of positive and negative themes. The themes of positive awareness were improvements of mental and emotional condition, feelings of isolation and loneliness, and health-related lifestyle. The negative themes were terminations of short-term programs and inconvenient access to the urban forest. Based on these data, we suggest an urban green welfare framework for future research and interventions for preventing dementia of underprivileged elderly group.

• 한국학교보건학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.92-103
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• 2022

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to prepare basic data for education and policy proposals related to enhancement of happiness by identifying factors affecting the subjective happiness among Korean adolescents by family type. Methods: The study was a secondary analysis using the raw data of the 16th Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey (2020). A complex sample multiple logistic regression analysis was conducted to identify factors affecting adolescent happiness by family type. Results: As a result, the factors that commonly affect the subjective happiness of adolescents for all family types were identified as economic status, academic performance, perceived stress, and loneliness. Additional factors that affect the subjective happiness of adolescents of both Korean two-parent and single parent families were sleep and subjective health status. Financial assistance, number of toilets, breakfast, exercise, depression, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempt were also reported for Korean two-parent families. Conclusion: This study provided empirical basic data for enhancing adolescent happiness in consideration of priority targets and family composition characteristics by identifying factors affecting subjective happiness by family type. Adolescent happiness is a factor that should be actively pursued at home, school, and society, and it should be the goal of education for holistic growth of students.

• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.59-73
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• 1999

It is known that the role of informal support for elderly women is critical to their physical and mental health, adjustment in old age, and their overall life satisfaction. Elderly women's situation such as social losses, widowhood, living alone, and geographic relocation etc. may result in a need for more informal supports for elderly women's health than ever before. Particularly, women's same-sex friendships were rated higher for overall quality, intimacy, enjoyment, and nurturance. Unlike a generally accepted notion that later life for women is a time of isolation and loneliness, elderly women tend to maintain and reestablish their friendship regardless their marital status and living situation. Although studies on informal support for elderly women were inconclusive in many ways, elderly women's friendship tends to be stable despite of changing health status and life events. The relative importance between daughters and friends was also controversial. This study suggests that more research with reliable measurements is necessary for the practical prevention and intervention program of elderly women's health on this issue.

• 한국식생활문화학회지
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.127-137
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• 2024

This study examined dietary habits and mental health according to generalized anxiety disorders (GAD) and caffeine consumption in adolescents. The data were collected from the 18^th Korea Youth Risk Behavior Survey with a sample of 51,850 students. The proportion of students in the GAD High-Risk·Caffeine consumption group (GHRCC) who consumed sweet drinks (p< .001), fast food (p< .001), and midnight meals (p< .001) every day was 15.6, 21.9, and 22.4%, respectively. These proportions were higher than those of students who consumed sweet drinks, fast food, and midnight meals 1-2 times a week, 3-4 times a week, or not at all. In addition, the proportions of GHRCC among students who responded "yes" to experiencing sadness and despair (p< .001), suicidal thoughts (p< .001), suicide plans (p< .001), suicide attempts (p< .001), and loneliness (p< .001) were higher than students who responded "no." The GAD High-Risk group (GHR) had higher odds with the consumption of midnight meals (OR: 2.51, 95% CI: 2.10-2.99), caffeine consumption (OR: 2.46, 95% CI: 2.21-2.74), and fast food (OR: 2.11, 95% CI: 1.75-2.55) than GAD Low-Risk group. Based on the above results, the risk of GHR was higher among students who consumed midnight meals, caffeine, and fast food daily than those who did not.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.435-441
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• 2017

본 연구는 미국에 거주하고 있는 한인 노인을 대상으로 현재 뉴욕 시에서 시행하고 있는 데이케어 프로그램(Adult Day Care Program)의 일환인 치료 레크리에이션의 신체적, 정신적 효과를 평가하고자 시행되었다. 연구 방법은 비동등성 대조군 사후 실험 연구로 2017년 2월부터 4월까지 진행되었다. 본 연구에 참여한 대상자는 실험군 35명, 대조군 35명이었으며 이 중 66명의 자료를 분석하였다. 본 연구에 참여한 대상자의 평균연령은 79.4세 이었으며 미국에 거주한 기간은 평균 24.6년 이었다. 치료 레크리에이션 프로그램은 데이케어센터에서 제공하는 프로그램으로서 본 연구결과, 데이케어센터 치료 레크리에이션에 참여한 노인의 일상생활 수행능력, 우울 및 외로움에 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 향후 문화적 감수성을 고려한 노인 대상 다양한 치료 레크리에이션 프로그램이 개발, 운영되어져야 할 것이며 이에 대한 효과를 평가하기 위하여 근거기반 연구가 수행되어져야 할 것이다.