This study was conducted to investigate the effect of nutrition education on improving dietary attitudes, food habits and Food Frequency of 32 female shift workers by administering questionnaires. Dietary nutrient consumption data were obtained from the female shift workers by using 1 day 24-hr recall. The results were as follows: Score on 'Concerns about health (p < 0.05)' was significantly higher after-training. Dietary attitude (32.3 vs. 34.9, p < 0.01) and food habits (60.2 vs. 67.1, p < 0.01) were significantly higher after thetraining. Scores on 'Eating a lot of food that I want to eat is more important than nutrition (p < 0.01)', 'I have a tendency to use instant foods when I am busy (p < 0.01)', 'I am interested in information on nutrition and health (p < 0.01)' were significantly higher after the training. Scores on 'I have three meals a day (p < 0.001)', 'I have breakfast regularly (p < 0.01)', 'I take vegetables other than kimchi at every meal (p < 0.01)', 'I drink milk every day (p < 0.001)', 'I eat fruits every day (p < 0.01)', and 'I apply nutrition knowledge to daily life (p < 0.001)' were significantly higher after the training. Protein (p < 0.05), fiber (p < 0.05), vitamin C (p < 0.01), and calcium (p < 0.001) intakes were significantly higher after the training. These results showed that nutrition education had improved the dietary attitudes, food habits, and nutrient intakes. Therefore, we conclude that providing more systematic and appropriate nutrition education to shift workers during their tenure of office period is likely to improve dietary attitudes, food habits, and nutrient intakes.
Ascorbic Acid ; Breakfast ; Calcium ; Female ; Food Habits ; Fruit ; Humans ; Meals ; Milk ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Vegetables

We analyzed the predonation tests and the characteristics of plateletpheresis of the candidates and donors during 18 month at Korea University Guro Hospital from 1993 to 1995. Among the 810 candidates tested for predonation tests, 115(14.2%) candidates were deferred due to incompatible factors. The most common incompatible factor is elevated alanine aminotransferase(4.6%, ALT > 64 Iu) followed by incompatible ABO discrepancy (4.1%), positive HBsAg(3.3%), low platelet count(2.2%). 43.1 percent of the platelet donation candidates were processed plateletpheresis. 43(18%) of prospectively reviewed 240 plateletpheresis donors were relatives of the recipients. The percent of redonation was only 14% and its mean interval was 11.4 days. The result showed the plateletpheresis candidates have the relatively safety compared to that of the directed donation, social support of plateletpheresis donation program is strongly needed because of low redonation rate and characteristics of plateletpheresis donation.
Alanine ; Blood Platelets ; Directed Tissue Donation ; Fibrinogen ; Humans ; Korea ; Plateletpheresis* ; Prospective Studies ; Tissue Donors*

The evaluation of posterior cruciate ligament injury of the knee should be objective. Then stress machine, Gonylaxometer, knee ligament arthrometer (K-T 1000) and Genucome were introduced recently, but they have many problems such as soft tissue error, expensiveness and low popularity. Authors modified the radiological assessment of anterior cruciate ligament injury, reported by Hooper(1986), and applied to the evaluation of posterior cruciate ligament injury. The patient was positioned supine with the one side of leg held on a support so that the knee was flexed approximately 45°to 60°. The thigh was unsupported and a weight(0.9 Kg to 4.5 Kg with increment of 0.9 Kg) was placed on the anterior leg (just distal to the patellar tendon) and lateral view had been taken in this stressed position. Same procedure was done on the other side and the posterior displacement of both knees were compaired. The differences of posterior displacement between both knees of 50 normal adults were studied and 9 cases of posterior cruciate ligament injury were studied, too. The following results were obtained. 1. The difference of posterior displacement could be measured objectively and it is useful for the diagnosis of posterior cruciate ligament injury and the objective evaluation after conservative or operative treatment of posterior cruciate ligament injury patient. 2. The differences of posterior displacement between both knees of 50 normal adults were ranged from 0 to 3 mm with a mean of from 0.88 ±0.87mm to 1.14 ±0.94mm. 3. The differences of posterior displacement between injured knee and normal knee of posterior cruciate ligament injury patient were more than 6mm in 9 patients. 4. The radiological method was inexpensive and easy to perform.
Adult ; Anterior Cruciate Ligament ; Diagnosis ; Humans ; Knee ; Leg ; Ligaments ; Methods ; Posterior Cruciate Ligament ; Thigh

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Osteochondritis Dissecans* ; Osteochondritis*

No abstract available.
Child* ; Humans ; Peak Expiratory Flow Rate*

In order to determine its accuracy the authors conducted cytologic examination on patients found to have urothelial carcinoma by cystoscopy, histopathologic and radiological examinations at the Department of Urology, Catholic Medical College, from January 1971 to August 1981. The results were as follows: 1. Age distribution of the urothelial carcinomas is from 33 to 80 years age and the most frequent age group is 40 to 59 years age. The male: female ratio is 4.3:1. 2. Of the 32 patients, 4 cases (12.4%) were negative, 14 (43.8%) suspicious and 14 (43.8%) positive reports. 3. No significant correlations were found between the urine cytology and histologic grade, but the higher cytologic class had tendency to have the higher histologic grade. 4. In the aspect of the tumor size and cytology, large sized tumor had showed positive findings more frequently than that of, smaller one, but it showed high accuracy rate (77.8%) when small sized tumors were multiple.
Age Distribution ; Cystoscopy ; Diagnosis* ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Urology

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Insemination* ; Spermatozoa*

No abstract available.
Sclerosis*

Body Fluids ; physiology ; Dehydration ; metabolism ; prevention & control ; Fluid Therapy ; methods ; standards ; Humans ; Practice Guidelines as Topic

No abstract available.
Nevus, Epithelioid and Spindle Cell*