PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of social support and emotional intelligence in the relationship between emotional labor and burnout among clinical nurses. METHODS: The sample for this study consisted of 382 nurses from four hospitals located in Seoul or Gyunggi Province. Data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe test, Pearson Correlation, Hierarchical Multiple Regression, and Path Analysis. RESULTS: It was found that: (a) emotional labor had a positive effect on burnout, while social support and emotional intelligence had negative effects on burnout; (b) social support and emotional intelligence moderated the relationship between emotional labor and burnout, and (c) social support mediated the relationship between emotional labor and burnout, whereas emotional intelligence did not. CONCLUSION: The results of the study indicate that high levels of support had a buffering effect and mitigated the negative effects of the emotional labor on burnout. Therefore, strategies to enhance social support for nurses are needed and further research needs to be done to refine this study.
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Artificial Intelligence

Twenty-six years earlier in their famous chess rematch, an IBM Supercomputer called Deep Blue defeated then-world chess champion Garry Kasparov: it was the first-ever chess match won by a machine, a much celebrated milestone in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Just last year, the World Association of Medical Editors released the “WAME Recommendations on Chatbots and Generative Artificial Intelligence in Relation to Scholarly Publications,” a recognition of not just the expanding applications of AI in scholarly publishing but more so of the accompanying emergence of concerns on authenticity and accuracy. In recognition of this relevant topic, our Vice Editor in Chief, Dr. Cecile Jimeno, provided a well-attended and interesting talk during the last ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Society Convention in Thailand on the “Emerging Issues on the Use of Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications.”
Artificial Intelligence

Background: Proper assessment and efficient diagnosis of central nervous system anomalies is essential in antenatal surveillance of pregnant patients. These anomalies are usually associated with genetic syndromes or severe malformations requiring timely intervention and antenatal counseling of the expectant couple. Objective: The study aims to evaluate the agreement of cranial biometric measurements and to determine if there is a significant difference in the time needed to complete the evaluation using standard 2D and semi-automated 5D ultrasound. Methods: An analytical cross-sectional study was employed on 93 women who underwent pelvic ultrasound scans from August to October 2022 in a tertiary hospital. Basic biometric fetal central nervous system (CNS) measurements were acquired using 2D ultrasound followed by 5D CNS ultrasound. Bland-Altman plots were used to evaluate the agreement of the measurements obtained. The difference in the time to completion was determined using independent t-test. Results and Conclusions Our study found that 5D CNS ultrasound measurements showed 96.8% agreement with 2D ultrasound in 90 out of 93 fetuses. The 5D CNS ultrasound takes a shorter time of 90 seconds (s) to completion in comparison to 99 s using the 2D method (p=0.076). Upon stratification of the study population per trimester, in the second trimester, it took 76 s with 5D CNS vs 89 s with 2D, resulting to a statistically significant 13-second difference (p=0.044). In the third trimester, 5D CNS took 105 s vs 108 s with 2D (p=0.614). The time to completion of the scan using this technology is faster when used for second trimester pregnancies but could be affected by fetal-dependent and operator-dependent factors. Therefore, application of this new technology has the potential to improve workflow efficiency after the necessary training on 3D sonography and 5D CNS ultrasound software.
Artificial Intelligence

This study was to find out whether there were differences in the levels of depressions between positive and negative schizophrenics. This research was derived from the fact that negative schizophrenics show higher levels of depression than positive schizophrenics. This study also examined the levels of psychomotor dysfunction in positive and negative schizophrenics. For this study, there were 453 subjects. They consisted of 119 positive schizophrenics, 122 negative schizophrenics and 212 normal people. They were asked to complete Zung's Self-Rating Depression Scale(SDS) and to perform one subtest, Digit Symbol of KWIS(Korean Wechsler Intelligence SCALE). Subjects levels of depression were measured by the SDS. The level of psychomotor dysfunction was measured by Digit Symbol subtest of Korean Wechsler Intelligence Scale. ANOVA and Duncan's multiple comparison analysis were used to examine whether there were differences of depression and psychomotor dysfunction among the normal people, positive and negative schizophrenics. The results were as follows ; It was found that the depression level was higher in the negative schizophrenic patients than positive schizophrenic patients. Levels of depression were significantly higher in negative schizophrenics than positive schizophrenics. Psychomotor retardation symptom was the most effective variable that discriminates between the normals and the schizophrenics. And it would be concluded that the psychomotor dysfunction was more severe in negative schizophrenics than positive schizophrenics.
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OBJECTIVES: Both story and cartoon task are sensitive to evaluate social cognition deficit in schizophrenia. However it is unclear whether social cognition deficits indexed by these tasks of schizophrenia reflect social functioning in their real life. To this purpose, we investigated the effect of social cognitive deficits detected in schizophrenic patients on social functioning. METHODS: Our investigation involved twenty-two schizophrenic patients and normal subjects. The story and cartoon tasks as mental state reasoning tasks and the 'Social Functioning Scale (SFS)' as a social functioning measure were administered for all subjects. RESULTS: The schizophrenic patients with average level of intelligence and mild psychotic symptoms, regarded as almost remitted, showed significantly poor performance on all of story task, cartoon task, and SFS. However, after controlling IQ's effects, only the performances on the story task were significantly contributed to the performances on the SFS, especially on subscales of 'Withdrawal', 'Independence performance' and 'Independence competence'. CONCLUSION: These findings indicate that performance of the story task is considered as a good predictor of social functioning for the schizophrenic patients in remission.
Cognition ; Humans ; Intelligence ; Schizophrenia