• 대한간호학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.369-379
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• 1998

Despite acknowledgment that pain is likely to be a major problem for many older adults, it is difficult to estimate the frequency of pain problems for this population. The main purpose of this study was to identify the various characteristics of chronic pain in the elderly by gender. It examines by gender, pain frequency, pain intensity, number of chronic pain sites, localization of pain, impact on activities, methods of pain management, and effects of chronic pain management. The subjects were 189 elderly people(65 years and older) living in an urban area. They were surveyed at their homes. They were surveyed by interview using a closed-ended questionnaire. The survey was done from Nov. 6th. to Dec. 6th. 1997. Descriptive statistics were used to determine all of the reported pain variables. Chi-square tests were used to determine crude differences between pain intensity and gender. T-test was used to determine differences in number of pain sites between men and women. The findings are as follows ; Of the 189 subjects, 83.6% reported experiencing pain, and men reported a lower prevalence (69.5%) than women(89.2%). Women had significantly more severe pain than did men(p=.001). Lower back pain(20.2%) and leg pain(20.2%) were the most prevalent, followed by knee pain(17.4%), arm pain(13.3%), neck and shoulder pain(11.6%), and headache(9.9%). Women experienced more multiple localizations of pain(p=.0001), the greatest impact was on movement (83.5%) , followed by usual activities(60.8%), sleep(49.4%), visiting(29.1%), and hobbies and recreations(50.0%). No differences were observed between men and women in the proportion of subjects reporting a negative impact on each of these activities. The methods of pain management were hospital visit(70.9%), drug store medication(46.7%), oriental medicine clinic(32.9%), endurance(13.3%), self-management(6.3%). Drug therapy was the most effective pain management strategy(94%), followed by physical therapy(63%) and accupuncture.byssocausis(55%). The conclusion : Pain is a symptom of great clinical importance that is often associated with disability, loss of independence, and reduced quality of life. In this study chronic pain symptoms were common but unevenly distributed in men and women. The results further advance understanding of the experience and impact of pain by gender. Future studies should incorporate questions that gather systemic and more detailed information on the characteristics of pain, especially by gender and by age.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.429-437
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• 2016

본 연구의 목적은 도시 저소득층 밀집지역 중학생의 음주실태와 음주경험에 영향을 주는 요인을 알아보고 음주예방 프로그램 개발의 기초자료를 제공하고자 시도되었다. 본 연구 대상자는 도시 저소득층 밀집지역에 위치한 학교에 다니고 있는 중학생 1192명이다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS 19.0 Program으로 기술통계, logistic regression으로 통계 처리하였다. 대상자의 음주 경험률은 44.1%로, 이 중 57.2%는 초등학교 혹은 그 이전에 첫 음주를 경험한 것으로 나타났다. 음주동기는 부모님 권유가 48.9%로 가장 높게 나타났고, 부모님의 12.0%는 자녀의 음주에 대해 무관심하고, 21.5%는 허용적이기까지 한 것으로 나타났다. 대상자의 외로움과 부 모 양육태도 점수는 각각 36.71점, 40.07점, 50.87점 이었다. 음주에 영향을 주는 예측요인은 학교생활만족도, 자녀의 음주에 대한 부모님의 태도, 부의 양육태도인 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 도시 저소득층 밀집지역 중학생의 음주영향요인들을 고려한 음주관련 프로그램 개발과 향후 일반청소년의 음주에 영향을 미치는 변인과의 차이를 비교분석하는 후속연구의 필요성을 제안한다.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.833-852
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• 1996

Regular long term dance movement could be one of ways to induce improvement of psychophysiological variables, resulting in improvement of quality of life. However, there have been few studies to evaluate the effect of dance movement training on both physiological and psychological variables in the elderly. This study was focused to determine the effect of Korean traditional dance movement training on psychophysiological variables-body weight, body fat, lean body mass, muscle strength, muscle endurance, flexibility, agility, resting heart rate and blood pressure, depression and life satisfaction-in Korean elderly women. Thirty four subjects, aged between 65 and 75years who have normal cognition, sensory function, cerebellum function, cardiovascular function, participated in this study. Seventeen experimental group subjects were selected from E-elderly university in Kyung Gi province, and Seventeen control group subjects were selected from N-welfare facility in Seoul City. Seventeen experimental group subjects participated for 12weeks dance movement program. Korean traditional dance movement program was developed on the basis of Korean traditional dance and music by the author. The program consisted of approximately 50minutes of dance, 3times a week for 12weeks. During 50minutes workout, there were 15minutes of warm-up dancing, 25minutes of conditioning dance and 10minutes of cool-down dancing. The intensity for the conditioning phase was at between 60% and 65% of age-adjusted maximum heart rates. The body weight, body fat, lean body mass, muscle strength(grip strength, leg strength), muscle endurance, flexibility, agility, resting heart rate and blood pressure, depression and life satis-faction were measured prior to and following the experimental treatment. The participants in dance movement were interviewed focusing on subjective feeling following 12 week's regular dance movement. Data were analyzed with mean, standard deviation, percentage of change, X²-test, t-test, and ANCOVA test using SPSS PC/sup +/ program. Subjective feeling was categorized into cognitopsy-chological and physiological responses. Results were obtained as follows : 1) The body weight (F=15.52, p=.000), body fat (F=18.33, p=.000) and lean body mass (F=7.28, p=.011) of the experimental group were significantly lower than those of the control group following the dance movement training. 2) The leg strength (F=30.96, p=.000), muscle endurance (F=9.06, p=.005), agility(F=44.92, 000), flexibility(F=6.84, p=.014) of the experimental group were significantly higher than those of the control group following the dance movement training. There was no significant difference of grip strength(F=.43, p=.515) between experimental and control groups. 3) The heart rate(F=26.96, p=.000), systolic (F=10.40, p=.000) and diastolic(F=3.99, p=.005) blood pressure at rest of the experimental group were significantly lower than those of the control group following the dance movement training. 4) No significant difference of score of depression (F=3.49, p=.071) was observed between experimental and control groups. 5) Score of life satisfaction of experimental group was remarkably higher than that of control group following 12weeks of dance movement training (p<0.05). 6) Thematic responses about the dance movement following the training were positive. "I feel good" was the most frequent among cognitopsychological responses and "I feel lightness of body" was the most frequent among physiological responses. The results suggest that Korean traditional dance movement training can improve psychophysiological variables of Korean elderly.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.820-832
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• 1996

The average smoking rate for Adults' in our country is 40.6% : It is 74.2% for men and 5.0% for women. Particularly, the smoking rate for men is reported higher than that of men in U.S.A. or Japan. Since the first report on the association between smoking and cancer appeared, 370 thousand smokers have succeeded in smoking cessation and over 90% of them have responded that they depended on a self-help smoking cessation approach. Despite this positive evidence about self- help approaches for smoking cessation, most studies on smoking cessation have focused on evaluation of formal treatment programs that are provided by clinics. Reports on the smoking cessation process used by smokers in our country could not be found. However, it is believed that the situation in our country would be quite similar to that in U.S.A. as far as approaches to successful smoking cessation are concerned. This study was conducted to classify the smoking stage to which they smoker belong and which changing mechanisms could be included at each changing stage (precontemplation stage, comtemplation stage, action stage) with a sample of 155 college students between 20 and 29 years old. And it also identified which variables related both to smoking pattern and to health, which ones were significantly discriminating in the changing stages. From the results of the data analysis it was found that Self-Determination is the most influential variable as one of the changning mechanisms which can discriminate three changing stages. And as the next significant mechanisms were Reinforcement, Dramatic Relief, Cognitive Restructuring, Helping Relationship, and Information Management in that order. Among variables related to the smoking pattern, years of regular smoking, whether smoking is continued or not even when they are sick, the number of attempts to stop smoking, number of cigarettes smoked per day, and whether they have smoked over 100 cigarettes up to now, but not the time of the first cigarette after waking-up, were the significant factors to descriminate changing stages. It was confirmed that among variables related to health that, perceived control for health, confidence of health maintence ability, and self confidence in smoking cessation, were significant variables in determinating changing stages. The most influential variables among them was self-confidence in smoking cessation. Conclusively, it was shown that smoking cessation is the process of attempting to change smoking habits through the various changing processes. Also it can be shown that a few factors smoking habit, self-confidence of smoking cessation, and belief in self control of his /her health, were influential in discriminating the changing stages of the smoking habit.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.173-183
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• 1995

The research questions of this study were : Will the level of sexual satisfaction of women who have had a hysterectomy 4 months before be decreased compare to the level of sexsual satisfaction before the hysterectomy\ulcorner, Will the level of perceived spouse support of women who have had a hysterectomy 4 months before be decreased compare to the level before the hysterectomy\ulcorner, and What is the relationship between sexual satisfaction and spouse support\ulcorner This is a perspective descriptive correlational study. The number of subjects was 44. The subjects were limited to Korean women who had an abdominal or vaginal hysterectomy for non - malignant diseases, were married(living with their husbands), mentally healthy, and premenopause at the time of operation. The instrument was consisted of 4 items of demo-graphic characteristics, 13 items of spouse support, and 10 items of sexual satisfaction. The instrument of sexual satisfaction was a component of the Derogatis Sexual Function Inventory. Data analysis was done by paired t-test to see the differences between the pre-post scores of sexual satisfaction and spouse support. The Pearson Correlation Coefficiency was calculated to see the relationship between the scores of sexual satis-faction and spouse spport of pre-post hysterectomy. Results were summerized as follow : The mean age of the subjects was 43.5 years : 72.7% of the subjects were above middle school graduates : their mean income level was 1, 453, 000 Korean won and 86.4％ of the subjects have had bi-lateral oophrectomy. 1. The scores of sexual satisfaction of women at 4 months after hysterectomy was decreased significantly compare to the score before hysterectomy(paired t=.274, p=.009). 2. The scores of spouse support of the women at 4 months after hysterectomy was not decreased significantly compare to the score before hysterectomy(paired t=.19, p=.847). 3. The scores of sexual satisfaction and spouse support before hysterectomy was significantly related(r=.5186, p=.000). 4. The scores of sexual satisfaction and spouse support at 4 months after hysterectnmy was significantly related(r=.4110, p=.005). It carl be conlcluded that the sexual satisfaction level could be decreased 4 months after the hyster ectomy, but the spouse support level may not be decreased at 4 months after hysterectomy. Further studies have to be done to identify the factors related to the decrease of sexual satisfaction and spouse support after hysterectomy.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.304-319
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• 1996

It is important to evaluate nutritional status of elderly patients receiving dialysis, since wasting and malnutrition are their common problems. This study aims at assessing their nutritional status by the type and duration of dialysis. The nutritional status such as somatic fat and protein storage was evaluated with anthropometric measure including weight/height ratio, triceps skinfold thickness and midarm muscle circumference. It was also measured with albumin, transferrin, C3 and IGF-1 and calorie and protein intakes. The general clinical condition of patients was evaluated with the severity of uremia and metabolic acidosis. which were measured through the levels of serum urea, creatinine and bicarbonateion. The data were analyzed by using t-test, ANOVA, Wilcoxon-rank sums test, Scheffe test, Kruskal-Wallis test and Pearson correlation coefficients. The results are following : 1. There was no significant difference in the calorie and protein intakes by the type and duration of dialysis received. 2. As for the anthropometric measures, no significant difference was found by the type of dialysis in body mass index triceps skinfold thickness and midarm muscle circumference. Yet these anthropometric measures differed significantly by the duration of dialysis in those elderly patients receiving hemodialysis(HD group), but this finding was not found in those receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis(CAPD). 3. Regarding the indicators of uremia and metabolic acidosis, blood urea nitrogen(BUN) and creatinine were lower in the CAPD group than in the HD group, whereas bicarbonate ion was higher in the CAPD group than in the HD group, with no statistical significance. In the HD group, creatinine increased significantly with the increase of the duration of dialysis. 4. Serum trasferrin and C3 were significantly higher in the CAPD group than in the HD group. However. each of biochemical indices did not show statistical significance by the duration of dialysis in both HD and CAPD groups. 5. Anthropometric measures were significantly associated with dietary intake. Significant correlations were observed between biocarbonate ion, BUN and creatinine. In addition, the correlations between serum protein and albumin and between transferrin and C3 were statistically significant. Yet, IGF-1 revealed no significant correlation with other nutritional indices. The above findings indicate that there were no difference in nutritional status measured with protein and calorie intakes between the type and duration of dialysis, but CAPD seems to benefit correcting uremia and metabolic acidosis than HD. Studies of dietary management for dialysis patients need to be pursued in order to improved the quality of aged patients receiving dialysis.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.63-70
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• 2003

Objectives : To investigate the prevalence of cognitive impairment and dementia in elderly people, aged 65 or above, residing in Busan Metropolitan City. Methods : Total of 1,101 old people, aged 65 or above, living in Busan as of December 31, 2001 were selected using stratified three-stage cluster sampling. Cognitive impairment was determined from the MMSE-K score, and dementia confirmed from five psychometric measures and the Barthel index. The crude prevalence, sex-age adjusted for the Korean population, were obtained. Results : With the cut-off point for cognitive impairment was set at 24 points, or below, on the MMSE-K scale, the crude rate of cognitive impairment was 29.3% (15.7% for men and 37.5% for women), and the sex-age adjusted prevalence was 30.5% (17.5% for men and 37.0% for women). When the cut-off point for cognitive impairment was set at 20 points, or below, on the MMSE-K scale, the crude rate of cognitive impairments were 10.0% (4.1% for men and 13.5% for women), and 10.6% (4.7% for men and 13.1% for women), respectively. The crude dementia, and the sex-age adjusted rates were 7.4% (2.4% for men and 10.5% for women), and 8.0% (2.7% for men and 10.0% for women), respectively. Conclusions : The prevalence of dementia in this study was somewhat lower than that reported by other domestic and foreign studies. Our results related to the difference in time and space, diagnostic tools, response rates, and distribution of male and female subjects, etc.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.303-311
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• 2018

본 연구는 심뇌혈관질환위험군의 구강건강인식과 구강건강행위가 심뇌혈관질환 예방행위에 미치는 영향을 파악하여 간호중재 프로그램의 기초자료로 제공하고자 한다. 자료수집은 전라남도에 소재한 2개의 종합병원 및 보건소, 보건진료소, 노인복지관에서 관리하고 있는 심뇌혈관질환위험군 131명을 대상으로 설문지를 통하여 조사하였다. 연구기간은 2018년 2월부터 3월까지 2개월간 시행되었다. 수집한 자료는 기술통계와 t-test, Pearson 상관분석, 단계적 다중회귀분석으로 분석하였다. 연구결과 심뇌혈관질환 예방행위는 치주질환인식인 주관적 구강건강상태(r=.261, p=.003), 구강건강의 중요성(r=.250, p=.004), 그리고 구강건강행위(r=.303, p<.001)와 양의 상관관계가 있었고, 심뇌혈관질환 예방행위에 영향을 미치는 요인은 구강건강행위(${\beta}=.29$, p<.001), 연령(${\beta}=.27$, p=.001), 주관적 구강건강상태(${\beta}=.24$, p=.003)로 나타났다. 즉, 구강건강행위가 높을수록, 연령이 높을수록, 주관적 구강건강상태가 좋을수록 심뇌혈관질환 예방행위의 점수가 높아진다고 할 수 있다. 이들 변수의 설명력은 19.3%이었다. 따라서 심뇌혈관질환위험군의 구강건강 수준을 향상시키기 위한 교육 및 중재프로그램 개발이 필요하며 구강건강 인식, 태도 및 행동과 구강건강상태 등에 관한 지속적인 추후연구가 필요할 것이다.

• 아시안잔디학회지
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• 제17권2_3호
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• pp.67-73
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• 2003

본 연구는 이식 후 경기를 수용할 수 있는 잔디의 생육기간과 잔디뿌리의 활착 요구기간을 측정함으로써 2002년 월드컵 잔디그라운드 조성 공사에서 발생될 문제를 예측하고 이를 해결하는데 필요한 자료를 얻기 위하여 1998년부터 2000년까지 2년에 걸쳐 월드컵 경기장과 동일한 지반에서 포장실험을 실시하였다. 한지형잔디와 한국잔디 모두 묘포장의 뗏장에서 경기장 그라운드로의 이식시기는 잔디의 활착력과 근계 발달에 직접적인 영향을 미쳤으며 초종에 따라 그 영향은 달리 나타났다. 한국잔디로 그라운드를 조성하려면 한지형잔디와 달리 충분한 양생기간을 확보한 적기에 뗏장을 식재하는 것이 좋았다. 또한 동계 간 보온 등의 관리가 수반되면 지하부의 발육과 근계 활착이 동계에도 지속되어 활착력이 조기에 증가하는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.3832-3842
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• 2013

본 연구는 한국에 이주한 노동자들이 문화적응 과정에서 경험하는 스트레스를 파악하기 위해 실시되었다. 123명의 연구대상자들에 대한 자료는 2010년 1월부터 5월까지 수집되었으며 SPSS WIN 18.0을 활용하여 대상자의 일반적 특성과 문화적응 스트레스를 비교하였다. 연구결과 대상자들은 문화적응 스트레스의 7개 하위영역 중 향수병과 차별감에 대한 스트레스를 가장 많이 경험하였으며, 고졸 졸업자가 중졸이하보다, 모국 공동체를 가지고 있지 않은 경우가 있는 경우보다 문화적응 스트레스를 더 느끼는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 대상자들의 일반적 특성에 따른 문화적응 스트레스 하위영역별 차이 중, 차별감, 향수병, 문화충격, 모국 공동체가 없는 경우 및 공공장소에서의 부당대우를 경험한 경우가 그렇지 않은 경우보다 스트레스를 더 많이 느끼는 것으로 나타났다. 배우자와 동거하지 않는 경우가 동거하는 경우보다 향수병을 더 느끼며, 남자가 여자보다, 고졸이 중졸이하 보다, 배우자와 동거하지 않는 경우가 그렇지 않은 경우보다 죄책감을 더 느끼는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구결과를 토대로 이주노동자들이 한국사회에 건전하게 적응하기 위한 향후 연구가 활발히 이루어지길 기대한다.