PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify effects of a refresher program for inactive nurses on nursing professionalism and nursing clinical self-efficacy. METHODS: A pre-experimental design with one group pretest-posttest was used. The refresher program consisted of 150 hours and was provided to inactive nurses who were recruited from a refresher program at S institute. Eighty inactive nurses participated in the study. Data were collected between June and November 2009. To evaluate the effectiveness of the refresher program, researchers explored participants' nursing professionalism and nursing clinical self-efficacy through self-evaluation questionnaire before and after the refresher program. RESULTS: The refresher program was effective in increasing nursing clinical self-efficacy for inactive nurses (p<.001). However, no significant increase was found in nursing professionalism after completing the program. CONCLUSION: The refresher program had a positive impact on increasing the nursing clinical self-efficacy for inactive nurses.
Diagnostic Self Evaluation ; Surveys and Questionnaires

The purpose of this study was to analyze important issues in the self-evaluation system and to develop approaches for dealing with them. It would be necessary, first to discuss quality of medical education on review of literatures. After this, it were examined that the problems of self-evaluaton based on data from 23 evaluators. We would, then, be dealing with the approaches and utilization of self-evaluation in medical school. The result of this study was as follows; First, self-evaluation system is important method to improve the quality of medical education. Second, although many people recognized self-evaluation important, evaluators pointed out the problems of self-evaluation as high cost, low effect, weight works and so on. And from this what we can conclude is that in order to perform self-evaluation effectively, the medical schools should recognize the neccesary of self-evaluation. Secondly, self-evaluation system should be developed to fit contexts of medical school. Finally, it is important to develop a monitoring system after self-evaluation process.
Diagnostic Self Evaluation* ; Education, Medical ; Schools, Medical*

BACKGROUND: Chemical peels using glycolic acid and tretinoin are known to be safe and effective for treating facial pigmentary lesions. OBJECTIVE: We evaluated and compared the efficacy of tretinoin and glycolic acid peeling for facial pigmentary lesions by using a digital camera and L*a*b* color scale in Adobe Photoshop 5.5(R) METHODS: Thirty eight patients with facial pigmentary lesions were treated with 50% glycolic acid and 1% tretinoin peelings. The treatment was performed 2-3 times per week for a period of 2 weeks and a half. Exposure time was 2 minutes for the glycolic acid and 6 hours for the tretinoin. Before and after the treatment, pigmentary lesions were evaluated using self evaluation forms and the L*a*b* color system (Commission International de I'Eclairage) in Adobe Photoshop 5.5(r) (Adobe Systems Incorporated, USA). Corneometer (Corneometer(r) CM820, Courage Khazaka Electronic GmbH, Germany) was used for the evaluation of skin hydration before and after the treatment. RESULTS: Facial pigmentary lesions were significantly improved in 10 out of 38 patients after 50% glycolic acid peeling and in 12 out of 38 patients after 1% tretinoin peeling. The state of hydration of the treated skin improved significantly after the peeling using both 50% glycolic acid and 1% tretinoin. CONCLUSION: Topical 1% tretinoin peeling is as effective as 50% glycolic acid peeling in the treatment of facial pigmentary lesions and more frequent peeling results in quicker improvement than the previous studies without significant side effects.
Diagnostic Self Evaluation ; Humans ; Skin ; Tretinoin*

The author developed a simplified self-evaluation rating scale with 10 check points to assist the individual faculty members in medical colleges in assessment of their educational competence with ease and to strengthen their teaching ability for better pedagogical practice. Number of the developed items were minimized to 10 points to meet the simplicity and comparative weighing of individual components, with which they can be easily implemented.
Diagnostic Self Evaluation* ; Mental Competency ; Teaching

OBJECTIVES: The dysfunctional neural networks underlying self-evaluation in schizophrenia are overlapped with the neural structures involved in emotion regulation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of anhedonia on the self-evaluation attitude of patients with schizophrenia. METHODS: Twenty healthy controls and twenty patients with schizophrenia performed a self-evaluation task, presenting a pair of the face (self, familiar other, and unfamiliar other) and word (negative, neutral, and positive noun) at the same time. Participants were asked to evaluate relevance between the pairs by pressing a corresponding button. Relevance rating scores were compared between the groups and were correlated with the severity of physical and social anhedonia. RESULTS: Patients evaluated the condition of a self face with a negative word and a familiar face with a negative word to be more relevant than healthy controls. In the patient group, the scores of relevance rating in the condition of an unfamiliar other face with a negative word were positively correlated with the anhedonia scale scores (physical : r=0.486, p=0.030 ; social : r=0.499, p=0.025). There was no correlation between the self-evaluation attitude and the severity of anhedonia. CONCLUSION: Patients with schizophrenia evaluate themselves badly in only negative circumstances, and anhedonia is not related to self-evaluation, but rather other-evaluation.
Anhedonia* ; Diagnostic Self Evaluation ; Humans ; Schizophrenia*

To survey user satisfaction, correlates of satisfaction, and self reported evaluation about order communication system in Seoul National University Hospital, we performed this study. We met 63 users who were involved in hospital's digitalization committee and surveyed the Questionnare for User Interaction Satisfaction(QUIS) as evaluation tool and self-evaluation about OCS. We received 55 replies out of 63 users. The users were generally satisfied with order communication system(mean scale = 5.8 on a 1 to 9 scale). QUIS scored highest in the area of screen design and lowest in the area of system capability. Overall user satisfaction was most highly correlated with task-flow. Users noticed retrieval of laboratory result as the most useful aspect and worried about system stability and system response time. But, system response time was weekly correlated with overall user satisfaction. In SNUH, user showed that satisfaction with order communication system was good. Satisfaction was more correlated with perceptions about order communication system's efficiency than with order communication system response time.
Diagnostic Self Evaluation ; Reaction Time ; Self Report ; Seoul*

To survey user satisfaction, correlates of satisfaction, and self reported evaluation about order communication system in Seoul National University Hospital, we performed this study. We met 63 users who were involved in hospital's digitalization committee and surveyed the Questionnare for User Interaction Satisfaction(QUIS) as evaluation tool and self-evaluation about OCS. We received 55 replies out of 63 users. The users were generally satisfied with order communication system(mean scale = 5.8 on a 1 to 9 scale). QUIS scored highest in the area of screen design and lowest in the area of system capability. Overall user satisfaction was most highly correlated with task-flow. Users noticed retrieval of laboratory result as the most useful aspect and worried about system stability and system response time. But, system response time was weekly correlated with overall user satisfaction. In SNUH, user showed that satisfaction with order communication system was good. Satisfaction was more correlated with perceptions about order communication system's efficiency than with order communication system response time.
Diagnostic Self Evaluation ; Reaction Time ; Self Report ; Seoul*

Sleepiness, or hypersomnia, is a relatively common complaint and one of the main problems of modern society. Accurate evaluation and diagnosis of sleepiness are important. The methods used for evaluating sleepiness are subjective measures or self-evaluations, performance decrease measures, sleep propensity measures, and arousal decrease measures. A clear and detailed history is important in differential diagnosis of sleepiness because symptoms of sleepiness may be expressed in terms of 'tiredness' or 'fatigue' that do not directly denote sleepiness. Comprehensive diagnostic evaluation is also invaluable because these symptoms may result from a variety of causes ranging from medical disorders to insufficient nocturnal sleep.
Arousal ; Diagnosis* ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Diagnostic Self Evaluation ; Disorders of Excessive Somnolence

PURPOSE: This study was done to investigate factors influencing successful aging in middle-aged women. METHODS: A convenience sample of 103 middle-aged women was selected from the community. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics, two-sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, Kruskal Wallis test, Pearson correlations, Spearman correlations and multiple regression analysis with the SPSS/WIN 22.0 program. RESULTS: Results of regression analysis showed that significant factors influencing successful aging were post-traumatic growth and social support. This regression model explained 48% of the variance in successful aging. CONCLUSION: Findings show that the concept 'post-traumatic growth' is an important factor influencing successful aging in middle-aged women. In addition, social support from friends/co-workers had greater influence on successful aging than social support from family. Thus, we need to consider the positive impact of post-traumatic growth and increase the chances of social participation in a successful aging program for middle-aged women.
Aging* ; Diagnostic Self Evaluation* ; Female ; Humans ; Social Participation

The purposes of this study were to evaluate students' performance by student self-evaluation and by educators in the field respectively after an internship program, to analyze the gap between the two groups, to identify students, satisfaction and behavior intention and to suggest the direction of an internship program in the Food and Nutrition Department. The results of the survey of 133 students and 129 educators as follows: a majority of the program periods was two weeks and most students experienced an internship program once. Both students and educators evaluated highly in 'I (Students) worked faithfully as a trainee.', 'I (Students) observed the rules and cooperated with other colleagues.', 'I (Students) behaved with clear and polite words.'. Educators estimated higher than students in all items, especially in 'I (Students) prepared and planned needs for internship in advance.' (p < 0.001), 'I (Students) got on close terms with the staff and enjoyed their confidence.' (p < 0.001). For details of the internship program, students were satisfied with 'professors' roles' (3.95), 'educator's abilities' (3.85), 'treatment of students' (3.84) but dissatisfied with 'pay to students' (1.94). Students perceived that an internship program was helpful to understand their major (4.37) and to decide upon their job (4.17). They had an intention to participate in another internship program (4.63) and to recommend to their juniors to participate in a program (4.73). Students had a diversity of opinions for program periods and most wanted to participate two times in summer or winter vacation of junior. Therefore an internship program needs curriculum in the food and nutrition department and the continuous and active cooperation between university and institutions would lead to an effective and efficient internship program.
Curriculum ; Diagnostic Self Evaluation ; Humans ; Intention ; Internship and Residency*