• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.47-56
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to observe the health status of the elderly, and to investigate the correlation between their health status and quality of life. Data from the years 2010 and 2011 were used which are from the fifth edition of the 'Survey of the Korean National Health and Nutrition'. According to multiple regression analysis, perceived health status, chronic illness, stress, depression, and suicidal thoughts were important factors in quality of life. Above all, the most important factor was perceived health status (its explanatory power was 36.5%). In conclusion, perceived health status has strong effects on the quality of life in the elderly, and it is necessary to provide more extensive welfare projects to improve the quality of life in Korean elderly.

• 여성건강간호학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.55-68
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• 2002

While the survival rate of preterm infants and employment rates of mothers with infants have been dramatically increasing, little is known about the impact of maternal employment and having premature infants on maternal health recovery after delivery. The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine differences in postpartum health by mother's employment and infant's prematurity over time during the first 3 months postpartum. The study used a longitudinal design and was secondary data analysis from a large study. A convenience sample of 132 mothers was recruited with mothers who had fullterm or preterm infants through the postpartum unit. They were followed up for 3 times (at 1-2 days, 6 weeks, and 3 months) during the first 3 months postpartum period. Level of fatigue and hysical symptoms were indicators for postpartum physical health; Positive affect and negative affect were assessed for postpartum mental health, and role functional status after childbirth was for role performance. Finding indicated that health indicators changed significantly over time but there was no main or interaction effect for maternal employment status. There were main effects of infant's prematurity on positive affect, negative affect, and role functional status (self-care and social and community activities). This study enhanced the understanding of postpartum health of mothers with preterm infants as well as those with fullterm infants during the postpartum period.

• 가족자원경영과 정책
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.49-60
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• 2001

This research examined elderly’s quality of life(q/l). In order to explore the elderly’s q/l, it was conceptualized into 8 dimensions tapping macro and micro aspects of elderly’s life: physical & mental health, self-esteem, anxiety, social support, family solidarity, economic state, and physical environment. The primary purposes were to describe dimensions of q/l by the elderly’s sociodemographic variables. And the intercorrelations among q/l dimensions were examined and then the effects of q/l sub-dimensions on psychological well-being were analyzed by using multiple regression. Based on the data collected for 677 subjects residing in rural and urban areas, the basic issues hypothesized were explored. The findings appeared that the psychological well-being was a positive function of physical and mental health, self-esteem, social support, and economic state and a negative one of social anxiety, controlling for subjects’s sociodemographic variables.

• 한국노년학
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.1135-1153
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• 2011

본 연구는 우리나라 중년기와 노년기의 주관적 건강, 신체적 건강, 정신적 건강수준의 차이에 학력과 소득의 사회경제적 지위가 어떻게 매개하는지를 알아보기 위한 연구이다. 선행연구에서는 증가하는 노년인구와 더불어 심각하게 증가되는 의존 수명에 대한 다양한 논의가 이루어지고 있다. 그러나 정작 수년 내에 노년기에 접어들게 될 중년기의 건강수준이 노년기와는 각 건강수준에서 어떻게 차이가 나며, 사회경제적 지위에 따른 건강수준이 어떠한가에 대한 연구는 매우 제한적이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 전 국민을 대상으로 한 자료를 토대로 중년기와 노년기의 계층별, 연령별 건강수준을 분석하고자 한다. 분석자료는 한국노동연구원에서 실시한 1차 한국고령화패널(KLOSA)을 활용하였고, 주관적 건강, 신체적 건강, 정신적 건강수준에 소득과 학력이 매개변수로서 작용하는지를 검증하기 위해 경로분석을 실시하였다. 연구결과 중년기에서 노년기로 접어들수록 주관적 건강수준은 낮아지고, 만성질환 유병은 높고, 정신건강수준은 매우 낮아지는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 중년기와 노년기 모두 학력과 소득이 높을수록 건강수준이 높고, 중년기와 노년기의 모든 건강수준에 학력과 소득이 매개효과를 갖는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제9권12호
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• pp.313-319
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• 2018

본 연구의 목적은 우리나라 만 65세 이상 노인의 연령별 신체활동 및 식생활과 정신건강의 관련정도와 영향요인을 파악하여 노인의 정신건강에 긍정적으로 대처할 수 있는 요인을 확인하고, 노인건강프로그램 개발의 기초자료로 활용하기 위함이다. 본 연구는 2015년도 국민건강영양조사결과를 기초자료로 한 이차자료 분석연구이며, 우리나라 만 65세 이상의 노인 1,484명을 대상으로 하였다. 자료분석은 IBM 23 ver. SPSS를 이용하였다. 본 연구 결과 전기노인은 정신건강변수의 세부항목 중에서 우울감과 스트레스 인지가 높았으며. 후기노인은 자살생각이 높았다. 식생활형편은 전기노인보다 후기노인에서 '음식섭취 부족' 이 높았다. 회귀분석 결과 노인의 식생활 형편, 중강도 신체활동이 노인의 정신건강과 관련성이 있는 것으로 보고되었다. 연구결과를 토대로 세분화된 연령대에 적합한 차별화된 간호중재 프로그램개발이 필요하다.

• 근관절건강학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.373-382
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• 2012

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to compare levels of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) between fallers and non-fallers among community-dwelling elderly people. Methods: A cross-sectional comparative study was conducted with the secondary analysis of 2,067 elderly people registered in S-Gu Visiting Health Care Program in Seoul, South Korea. Participants were 206 fallers and 206 non-fallers who were age- and sex-matched with fallers. HRQOL was measured by SF-8 including physical component summary (physical HRQOL) and mental component summary (mental HRQOL). Results: There were more people in the faller group having more than or equal to three chronic diseases (p<.001), living in multiplex houses (p=.004), and being dependent by the activities of daily living (ADL) (p=.001) and instrumental ADL (IADL) levels (p<.001) than those in the non-faller group. Fallers had higher levels of depression than non-fallers (p<.001). Moreover, fallers had significantly lower levels of both physical HRQOL (p<.001) and mental HRQOL (p=.001), after adjusting for number of chronic diseases, ADL, IADL, depression, healthcare insurance, and living environment. Conclusion: Among the community-dwelling elderly people, falllers had lower levels of HRQOL than non-fallers, and such a difference remained even after the adjustment for covariates. Factors that underlie the different susceptibility to HRQOL need to be explored.

• 대한통합의학회지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.223-230
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• 2019

Purpose : Wellness tourism is defined as travel for the purpose of promoting health and well-being through physical, psychological, or spiritual activities. The development and verification of a comprehensive wellness program for health care for workers is needed. The purpose of this study is to investigate the wellness and skin health effects of skin health programs in order to develop high-value health care services. Methods : The subjects were 15 middle-aged women who understood the research and volunteered and participated in the two-day skin health wellness program. Participants were measured to determine their wellness index and skin health twice: before and after participating in the program. Wellness index measures include comprehensive wellness, physical wellness, mental wellness, emotional wellness, social/cultural wellness, financial wellness, and environmental wellness. Skin health measurement items consisted of skin oil, skin water, skin pore, skin elasticity, skin wrinkle, and skin pigment. The skin wellness program included aerobic exercise, endurance exercise, functional food, cosmetics, herbal tea, massages, spa treatments, meditation, and marine leisure sports. The t-test analysis was used to compare the difference between wellness index and skin health measurement items before and after the program. Results : Among the wellness index items, the comprehensive wellness index (p<.05), mental wellness index (p<.05) and environmental wellness index (p<.05) showed statistically significant differences. Among skin health items, skin oil (p<.05), skin elasticity (p<.01) and skin wrinkle (p<.01) all showed statistically significant differences. There was no statistically significant difference in physical wellness, emotional wellness, social/cultural wellness, financial wellness, skin water, skin pore and skin pigment. Conclusion : This study confirmed that the two-day complex wellness program is an effective program for some items of wellness index and skin health.

• 성인간호학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.86-94
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• 2009

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine correlates of depression and perceived health status in patients with atrial fibrillation. Methods: The study utilized a descriptive correlational survey design. A convenience sample of 115 subjects were recruited from 3 tertiary medical centers. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, hierarchical multiple regression. Results: 1) Study subjects perceived the low frequency of symptoms, relatively high social support, low depression, moderately low physical health, and mental health. 2) The 38% of variance in depression was significantly explained by symptom(${\beta}$ = .49), social support(${\beta}$ = -.21), and education(${\beta}$ = -.17). 3) The 40% of variance in physical health was significantly explained by symptom(${\beta}$ = -.55), social support(${\beta}$ = .16), and education(${\beta}$ = .20). 4) the 12% of variance in mental health was significantly explained by symptom(${\beta}$ = -.26), and social support(${\beta}$ = .24). Conclusion: Most health care providers assume atrial fibrillation patients have very few symptoms. However, symptom related to atrial fibrillation was found to be the most important factors in explaining depression and perceived health status. Additionally, higher social support had great influences on the lower depression and higher perceived health status. Based on the findings of this study, directions for nursing practice and further nursing research for patients with atrial fibrillation are suggested.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.11-23
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• 2003

Objectives : The 1990s has seen advances in the conceptualization of self-perceived health status which has important roles for individual health and the quality of life. Many types of standardized questionnaires have been developed with the current wide use of SF-36, NHP, andEuroQol. However, the outcomes of these tools may be different with regard to regional, cultural and emotional backgrounds. The purpose of this study was to trial the development of a Korean Health Profile (KHP 1.0) to measure the self-perceived health stati of Koreans. Methods : The KHP 1.0 was designed on the basis of the Medical Outcome Study Form 36 (SF-36), the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP), and the EuroQOL. It was composed of 9 scales; physical functioning, role limitation-physical, pain, general health, energy, social isolation, sleep, role limitation-emotional, and e-motional health. Self-reported chronic disease conditions, and the Zung's Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), were also checked for the evaluation of clinical validity. This study was conducted, from December 2000 to January 2001, on 800 middle-aged parents, with four high school students, with 100 retest sets being conducted two weeks later. From the 800 subjects there were 588 complete responses (effective response 73.5%). The reliability of the test-retest results, and the factor analysis on the validity of the KHP 1.0 components, were evaluated using the SPSS (ver 10.0) software. Results : The reliability of the KHP 1.0 was good with Cronbach's alpha (>0.6), test-retest correlation coefficients (>0.5), but with no significant differences from the paired t-test. From the psychometric validity tests, the 9 scales of the KHP 1.0 were divided into two components; physical and mental, and trimmed to the established model with 55% of the total variance, with the exception of role limitation-emotional. The clinical validity on the basis of the comparison for the four characteristic groups; healthy, physical conditions only, mental conditions only, and physical and mental conditions were also good. Conclusions : The KHP 1.0 appears to be a valid measurement tool of self-perceived health stati of Koreans, although there are limitations, i.e. sample size was too small, a limited number of middle-aged subjects, and it was based on unconfirmed diagnoses, etc. Therefore, further study is required to standardize the assessment.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.33-41
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• 2008

Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare the activities of daily living, mental status, and life satisfaction of elderly persons living in home with those in institutions and to investigate the factors influencing life satisfaction and mental health. Methods: Data was collected through interview with persons over 60 years of age in a nursing home and in a community elderly center in Daegu City and Kyoungsang buk-do. Subjects were included 32 persons in the nursing home and 41 persons in the community elderly center. Data collection was undertaken 11 - 22 September 2007. Results: Elderly persons living at home showed higher dependency in instrumental activities of daily living, lower cognitive function, higher depression, and higher life satisfaction than elderly persons living in institution. The two groups were significantly different in this regard. Conclusion: As the age of the general population advances, we must prioritize quality of life in elderly persons by undertaking depression prevention through various means.