• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.148-154
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• 2022

Background: Bus driving is a mentally demanding activity that requires prolonged attention to ensure safety. The aim of the study was to assess mental fatigue caused by driving a public bus and to find a profile of workers at higher risk. Methods: We evaluated changes of critical flicker fusion (CFF) (index of central arousal) and heart rate variability (HRV) (index of autonomic balance) in a 6-hour driving shift on a real route, in 31 professional bus drivers, and we tested the influence of personal factors such as sleep quality, BMI, and age. Paired t-test was used to test differences of CFF and HRV between both initial and final phase of driving, while multiple linear regression tested the influence of personal variables on the indexes of mental fatigue. Results: Results showed that CFF significantly decreased after 6 hours of bus driving (41.91 Hz, sd 3.31 vs. 41.15 Hz, sd 3.15; p = 0.041), and heart rate significantly decreased in the final phase of driving, with respect to the initial phase (85 vs. 78 bpm, p = 0.027). Increasing age (beta = -0.729, p = 0.022), risk of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (beta = -0.530, p = 0.04), and diurnal sleepiness (beta = -0.406, p = 0.017) showed a significant effect on influencing mental fatigue. Conclusion: Elderly drivers at higher risk of sleep disorders are more prone to mental fatigue, when exposed to driving activity. Monitoring indexes of central arousal and autonomic balance, coupled with the use of structured questionnaires can represent a useful strategy to detect profile of workers at higher risk of mental fatigue in such duty.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제64권3호
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• pp.127-153
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• 2012

이 논문은 정신보건실천현장에서 사례관리를 수행할 때 기본적으로 실천이 필요한 사례관리활동목록을 개발하는 데 목적이 있다. 목록 개발을 위하여 사례관리 수행 과정과 관련된 개념 및 척도에 대한 문헌 고찰을 통하여 예비문항을 추출하였다. 전문가들로부터 예비 항목에 대한 내용타당도를 평가받았으며, 예비조사를 실시하여 신뢰도를 검증하였다. 총 83개의 예비문항이 확정되었다. 척도의 타당화를 위해 사례관리를 의무사업으로 수행하고 있는 정신보건센터에서 현재 사례관리를 행하고 있는 265명의 실무자를 대상으로 평가하였다. 탐색적 요인분석, 신뢰도, 타당도 분석을 통하여 최종적으로 8요인의 43문항이 확정되었다.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.251-259
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• 2018

본 연구의 목적은 정신건강전문요원의 직무소진 및 정서노동과 정신건강의 관계에서 회복탄력성의 조절효과를 검증하는 것이다. 2014년 국립정신보건교육 연구센터의 학술용역연구에서 수집된 정신건강전문요원(간호, 사회복지, 임상심리의 3개 직역 각 1 2급 자격자) 1,020명의 자료를 분석한 결과, 직무소진과 정서노동 모두 정신건강과 유의한 부적 상관을 보였지만 회복탄력성의 조절효과 분석에서는 직무소진에서만 유의한 결과를 보였다. 따라서 정신건강 종사자들이 직무소진으로 인한 정신건강이 저하될 위험성을 회복탄력성이 완충시켜 줄 수 있음이 시사되었다. 본 연구는 정신건강 서비스 대상자들의 정신건강 뿐만 아니라 정신건강 서비스 제공자인 정신건전문요원들의 정신건강에도 동시에 주의를 기울여야 함을 강조하는 연구로서 정신건강 서비스에 관한 연구가 양측 모두에서 융합적으로 이루어져야 함을 보여준다. 본 연구결과를 바탕으로 정신건강전문요원을 비롯한 정신건강 분야 종사자들의 정신건강 관리에 관한 방안 등이 추가로 논의되었다.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.199-207
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• 2018

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate resilience, coping, and mental health in relation to burnout and to identify factors influencing burnout in student nurses. Methods: A descriptive correlational study was conducted. The participants were 241 student nurses from 2 universities in B city. Data were analyzed using the t-test, analysis of variance, the Pearson correlation coefficient, the $Scheff{\acute{e}}$ test, and multiple regression analysis. Results: The mean score for burnout in student nurses was 3.01 out of 5 points. Burnout explained 29.2% of the variance in satisfaction with college life (${\beta}=-.367$, p<.001), coping (${\beta}=.293$, p<.001), mental health (${\beta}=.228$, p=.011), and training hospital (${\beta}=-.198$, p=.026). Conclusion: The results of our research suggest that satisfaction with college life is an important variable affecting burnout student nurses. Therefore, education is needed in order to develop for more effective teaching coping methods and strategies and to reduce burnout with nursing practice.

• 신경정신의학
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• 제57권2호
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• pp.190-208
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• 2018

Objectives To initiate and develop a treatment guideline in multidisciplinary approaches for related professions who are either working and/or living with children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders who show behavioral problems. Methods To collect and reflect opinions from multiple professions who assumedly have different interventions or mediations on behavioral problems, a self-report survey and Focus Group Interview (FGI) were conducted for a group of child and adolescent psychiatrists, behavioral therapists, special education teachers, social welfare workers, and caregivers. Results According to a self-report survey and FGI results from multiple professional groups, aggressive behavior is the mostly common behavioral problem necessitating urgent interventions. However, both mainly used intervention strategies and effective treatment methods were different depending on professional backgrounds, such as pharmacological treatment, parent training, and behavior therapy, even though they shared an importance of improving communication skills. In addition, there was a common understanding of necessity to include parent training in a guideline. Lastly the data suggested lack of proper treatment facilities, qualified behavior therapists, and lack of standardized treatment guideline in the field needed to be improved for a quality of current therapeutic services. Conclusion It is supported that several subjects should be included in the guidelines, such as how to deal with aggressive behavior, parent training, and biological aspects of neurodevelopmental disorders. Also, it is expected that publishing the guideline would be helpful to above multiple professions as it is investigated that there are lack of treatment facility and qualified behavioral therapists compared to need at the moment.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제51권
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• pp.63-91
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• 2002

본 연구는 정신보건기관에 근무하는 정신보건사회복지사 170명을 대상으로 서비스 연계실태 및 연계관련요인을 조사하였다. 조사결과, 첫째로 연계정도는 정보교환과 클라이언트 의뢰에서 높았으며, 자금동원과 공동협의는 상대적으로 낮았다. 기관유형별로는 정신의료기관과 정신보건센터 및 사회복귀시설에서 일하는 사회복지사들의 연계가 가장 빈번하였다. 또한 접촉은 전화로, 연계경로는 기관 홍보물과 친분에 의해, 접촉대상은 일선 담당자인 경우가 많았다. 둘째, 대부분의 응답자들이 연계의 필요성을 인식하고 있었고, 그 주요 이유를 클라이언트를 위한 다양한 서비스제공이라고 하였다. 또한 연계활성화를 위해서는 정보체계의 구축 및 연계대상기관의 확대, 기관의 지원이 필요하다고 하였다. 셋째, 개인요인과 조직요인에 따른 연계의 차이에서는 여성보다 남성이, 학력이 높을수록, 관리자급인 경우, 정신보건경력이 높을수록, 자격증이 있는 경우(이상 개인요인), 그리고 소재지가 농어촌이고, 사회복귀시설과 정신보건센터인 경우, 주요대상이 만성 정신장애인인 경우(기관요인)에 연계가 높았다. 넷째, 연계에 미치는 요인을 분석한 결과, 개인요인으로 정신보건경력 및 현 기관경력, 학력이, 그리고 조직요인으로 기관소재지 및 기관유형, 기관연도가 의미 있는 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과를 바탕으로, 정신보건서비스 연계를 위한 공식적 협의체 및 정보망을 마련하고, 연계를 정신보건 사회복지사의 공식업무로 인정하며, 나아가 연계내용과 대상을 확대할 뿐 아니라, 정부지원 하에 시범적 연계사업을 계획하는 방안을 강구할 것을 제안하였다.

• 웰빙융합연구
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.21-26
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• 2020

The purpose of this article is to capture this situation within the changes that take place due to it, inside the Greek society where there is a great need for professional social workers who are able to work targeted and effectively with foreigners, both children and adults, who have or develop mental health problems for the very first time. Over the recent decades the increasing number of migration flows has exerted and continues to exert great pressure on the health system and on the welfare structures of Greece. The bases for the development of a rudimentary reception and integration system that still is in progress have been delayed, while there has been no happy medium, between the enormous pressure that foreigner users of this system put on, and the humanitarian obligation of a well-governed state towards all residents of the country. Straight through everyday clinical practice in the field of intercultural work, social work has the knowledge and techniques for a total management of emerging problems and at the same time provides a value system with an ethical background which approaches refugees and migrants in order to provide quality services, mostly to users of mental health services.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.1543-1555
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• 2000

Home health care is moving into a set of new realities. An era of competition and cost containment has arrived. Before nurses are able to contain costs or describe the relationship between nursing activities, cost must be accurately measured based on the nurse's workload. Nurses in home health care usually desire to measure expenses for one of three reasons : reimbursement, management, or research. The purpose of the study was to investigate the work input by Registered Nurse in each of the home health care activities by relative value units and identify the factors affecting the nurses' total work input in health care services. To measure the work input by nurses, work was defined by four dimensions: time, physical effort, mental effort, and stress. This study used a descriptive-correlational design. Data collection consisted of two phases. In phase I, data on home health activities performed by nurses were collected. In phase II, data on nurses' time, physical effort, mental effort, and stress in each of home health care activities discovered phase I were collected. In this method, the respondent was asked to rate a service in relation to a reference service using a ratio scale. The sample included 39 home health care nurses. The results of the study indicated that home health care activities performed by the nurses were in 10 categories and 69 items. Measuring the relative work inputs in each of home health care activities, and foley catheterization was selected as the reference to service. In terms of time and physical effort dimensions, full bath service was rated as the most strenuous among 69 activities by the respondents, and intramuscular injection was rated as least. It was found that emergency treatment required the highest mental effort and the highest stress, while blood sugar tests required the lowest mental effort. Approximately 91.3% of the variance in total work input was accounted for by the linear combination of time, physical effort, mental effort judgement, and stress. Examining the regression coefficients of those variables, physical effort, time, and stress were found as the predictors which were significantly associated with the total work of nurses in home health care. Professional nursing's next step in the conundrum of economic volatility is to develop a tool to reflect the interaction of functional deficiency and direct professional nursing care. And this will be a more accurate predictor of nursing resource use and ultimately a great forcaeter cost.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.3162-3171
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• 2015

본 연구는 사회복지사를 대상으로 사회복지사의 공동의존의 실태, 공동의존과 정신건강과의 관련성을 중심으로 사회복지사의 전문적 돌봄에 요구되는 공동의존의 개입의 필요성을 탐색함으로써 사회복지사에 대한 개입의 새로운 시각을 조성하는 기초자료를 제공하고자 한다. 분석자료는 G지역 사회복지전담공무원 및 민간사회복지기관 근무자 290명을 대상으로 직접 혹은 우편으로 조사된 내용을 사용했으며, 수집된 자료는 코딩 후 전산화 과정을 통해 오류 검증을 거쳐 SPSS 18.0을 이용하여 신뢰도 검사, 빈도분석, t검증, 상관관계분석을 실시하였다. 연구결과, 사회복지사의 공동의존은 평균 '약간 심한 정도의 공동의존'으로 역기능적 문제를 일으킬 수 있는 수준이었고, 사회복지사의 공동의존과 정신건강은 강한 상관관계를 보였다. 본 연구결과를 토대로 사회복지사의 전문적 돌봄을 위해 공동의존 개입의 필요성을 제언하였다.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.522-529
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• 2021

Background: Burnout syndrome (BOS) is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. This study aims to create the Korean version burnout syndrome scale (KBOSS) that conforms to WHO's definition of BOS and present the cut-off points for screening. Methods: We developed the KBOSS based on WHO's definition of BOS. An online survey was conducted through a specialized online research company. We recruited 444 workers for this research. The validity of the KBOSS was assessed using factor analysis and Pearson's correlation. The KBOSS reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The cut-off points for each of the three dimensions were derived using the upper quartile score. Results: The validity and reliability of the KBOSS were good. Regarding reliability, the scale's overall Cronbach's alpha was 0.813. Cronbach's alpha of each three-dimension was as follows: exhaustion, 0.916; cynicism, 0.865; and professional inefficacy, 0.819. The cut-off points of BOS three dimensions are exhaustion S 21; cynicism S 18; and inefficacy S 15. Conclusion: The developed questionnaire (KBOSS) can be a useful tool for screening of BOS.