PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the factor affecting adjustment of freshmen nursing students to college life. METHOD: The data were collected from questionnaires filled out by 265 nursing students six schools from all parts of the country from May 19 to June 4, 2010. Data was analyzed by the SPSS (frequency, ANOVA, and multiple regression analysis) program. RESULTS: A positive correlation was found for college adjustment with psychological well-being, coping and mother attachment. The strongest predictor of college adjustment was an psychological well-being. In addition psychological well-being, coping, and contact frequency for interview with professor accounted for 39.2% of variance in college adjustment. CONCLUSION: The results of this study suggest that development of psychological well-being and coping in nursing students is important to college adjustment. Further research in improving psychological well-being and coping is warranted.
Humans ; Mothers ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Students, Nursing*

PURPOSE: The purposes of this study were to examine the relationship between health belief and exercise compliance among elderly adults at senior centers and to identify factors influencing their exercise compliance. METHODS: The subjects of this study were 100 elderly adults who were using senior centers in J City. Data were collected from the 5th of August to the 14th of September in 2014 using a questionnaire about general characteristics, health belief, and exercise compliance. Data analysis included one-way ANOVA, independent t-test, Pearson's correlation, and stepwise multiple regression using the SPSS/WIN 18.0 program. RESULTS: The mean score for exercise compliance was 3.85 (range 1~5), and for perceived health state 3.17 (range 1~5). The mean score for each of the sub-factors of health belief was 3.89 for benefit, 1.94 for barrier, 3.34 for severity, 2.43 for sensitivity, and 3.65 for exercise self-efficacy (range 1~5). There was a significant correlation between exercise compliance and exercise benefit, and 28% of variance in exercise compliance was explained by exercise benefit in health belief, family history of illnesses, and perceived sensitivity in health belief. CONCLUSION: To promote exercise compliance among elderly adults at senior centers, exercise programs emphasizing exercise benefit should be developed.
Adult* ; Aged* ; Compliance* ; Humans ; Self Efficacy ; Senior Centers* ; Statistics as Topic ; Surveys and Questionnaires

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify the influence of nursing organization culture on resilience of new nurses. METHODS: Participants were 1,033 new nurses with careers of less than 12 months and who were from 43 general hospitals located in Seoul, Incheon, other metropolitan cities and provinces in Korea. The data were analyzed using t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression with SPSS/WIN 24.0 program. RESULTS: Relation-oriented culture was scored highest for perception of organizational culture by new nurses (3.35), followed by hierarchy-oriented culture (3.19), innovation-oriented culture (3.12), and task-oriented culture (2.73). The score for resilience of the new nurses was 3.49, and the first subcategories were interpersonal relationship ability 3.66, self-positivity 3.45, and self-control ability 3.36. Relation-oriented culture (β=.30, p < .001) was the most significant factor influencing resilience of new nurses, followed by innovation-oriented culture (β=.14, p=.001), hierarchy-oriented culture (β=.12, p < .001), task-oriented culture (β=−.10, p=.003) in that order (R2(adj. R2)=.16, F=47.04, p < .001). CONCLUSION: Findings show that for improved resilience in new nurses it is necessary to develop relation-oriented culture to provide a cooperative work environment( friendly interpersonal relation and dialogue) for new nurses and to encourage involvement of these members in the hospital culture.
Hospitals, General ; Incheon ; Interpersonal Relations ; Korea ; Nursing ; Organizational Culture ; Self-Control ; Seoul

PURPOSE: This study was to investigate the relationships between spiritual well-being, attitude towards death and perception of hospice, and the factors influencing hospice perception of high school students. METHODS: A survey was conducted with 229 students in four high schools in B city from May 1, 2015 through May 31, 2015. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients, stepwise multiple regression using the SPSS 18.0 program. This study was approved by the internal review board. RESULTS: The factors influencing hospice perception of the high school students were previous recognition of hospice (β=0.412, P<0.001), attitude towards death preparation among sub-variables of attitude towards death (β=-0.244, P<0.001), subjective school life satisfaction (β=-0.215, P<0.001), and sex (β=0.191, P<0.001). The more positive the attitude towards my body after death and that towards death preparation was, the more positive recognition for hospice was. The total explanatory power of these factors was 34.5%. CONCLUSION: To improve high school students' perception of hospice, it is necessary to provide them with a hospice education program to help them with their attitudes towards death preparation and their understanding of hospice.
Adolescent ; Attitude to Death ; Education ; Hospice Care ; Hospices* ; Humans ; Korea* ; Palliative Care* ; Spirituality

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Arthritis, Rheumatoid* ; Depression* ; Humans

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to explore the parenting image of modern Korean society through modern novels published during in the stage of modern change in Korea. METHOD: The data were analyzed through latent content analysis. Modern Korean novels (N=138) written during the Korean modernization stage were chosen for analysis. Five categories and seventeen meaningful sub-categories were drawn out from 636 significant sentences. RESULTS: The parenting images expressed in modern Korean society were as follows: From the category of [Devotional love], 5 sub-categories were drawn: Hedgehog's love, Lavish love, Sacrificial care, Exertion of the mind, and Prayer for the future of their children. From the category of [Stern father and affectionate mother], 3 sub-categories were drawn: Stern and Strict father, Tender and loving mother, and Strong maternal love. From the category of [Enthusiasm for their children's education], 3 sub-categories were drawn: Sense of duty to provide good education for their children, Zeal for their children's education, and Satisfaction with their hard-working children. From the category of [The head of family], 3 sub-categories were drawn: Person who has the right to make decisions, Reliable protector, and Object of filial devotion. From the category of [sexual discrimination], 3 sub-categories were drawn: Preference and favoritism to sons, Attaching importance to education of sons, Regarding daughters as those who help support the family. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study will help to improve the basic understanding the parenting image and parent-child relationship in present day Korea.
Child ; Education ; Fathers ; Head ; Humans ; Korea ; Love ; Mothers ; Nuclear Family ; Parent-Child Relations ; Parenting* ; Parents* ; Religion ; Social Change ; Child Health

PURPOSE: Experience of chest pain may be different in women from that of men and this discrepancy may cause misdiagnosis of angina contribute to mortality by this disease in women. The purpose of this study was to analyze the characteristics of chest pain and responses to the symptoms in women. METHOD: A content analysis was conducted with interviewed data obtained from women who underwent the treadmill test RESULT: Seven major categories were identified from this content analysis: attributes of chest pain; accompanied symptoms; precipitating factors; relief strategies; family support; communication with physicians; and effects of chest pain on their lives. Characteristics of pain were described as heaviness, tightness, heating sensation, tearing, and others. Duration and intensity of pain varied in a wide range. Radiating pain presented in 9 patients, and the locations of radiation were throat, neck, shoulder arm and fingers. Women tended not to respond actively to their chest pain, and didn't get appropriate support either from their family or from their physicians when they reported chest pain. CONCLUSION: Women express non-typical as well as typical patterns of pain when they experience chest pain. Clinicians have to consider the variability of symptoms when they assess women with suspicions of angina.
Angina Pectoris* ; Arm ; Chest Pain* ; Diagnostic Errors ; Exercise Test* ; Female ; Fingers ; Heating ; Hot Temperature ; Humans ; Male ; Mortality ; Neck ; Pharynx ; Precipitating Factors ; Sensation ; Shoulder ; Thorax*

BACKGROUND: The present study was aimed (1) to assess the effects of nitric oxide (NO) synthesis inhibitor on regional myocardial function and systemic and pulmonary hemodynamics; (2) to determine whether the blockade of the cyclo-oxygenase (COX) pathway modifies these effects on the variables, and (3) to investigate the mechanism of cardiac depression following NO synthesis inhibition in an open-chest canine model. METHODS: Twenty-five dogs of either sex were acutely instrumented under 1.6% ethrane anesthesia to measure aortic, pulmonary arterial and left ventricular pressure, pulmonary (cardiac output) and left circumflex coronary flow, and subendocardial segment length. NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L- NAME) at doses of 0.3, 1.0, 3.0, or 10.0 mg/kg i.v. was administered alone (control dogs, n = 10) or in the presence of COX inhibitor, indomethacin (10 mg/kg i.v., n = 10). Seven dogs (n = 7) received phenylephrine at doses of 0.1, 0.3, 1.0, or 3.0 microgram/kg/min i.v. to compare its hemodynamic effects with those of L-NAME. The preload recruitable stroke work slope (Mw) and percent systolic shortening (%SS) as an index of regional myocardial contractility, and the maximum segment lengthening rate (dL/dt max) and percent post-systolic shortening (%PSS) as an index of regional diastolic function, were evaluated. RESULTS: L-NAME dose-dependantly attenuated both regional systolic (Mw and %SS) and diastolic functions (dL/dt max and %PSS), whereas it caused an increase of coronary flow. L-NAME dose- dependently increased systemic blood pressure and vascular resistance as well as pulmonary arterial pressure and vascular resistance. L-NAME also reduced cardiac and stroke volume indices. Pretreatment with indomethacin did not affect the regional myocardial and systemic hemodynamic responses to L-NAME, but did blunt the coronary flow and pulmonary pressure responses. The magnitude of decreases in cardiac and stroke volume indices and Mw was greater with L-NAME than with phenylephrine (P <0.05), despite the comparable blood pressure increases. CONCLUSIONS:These results suggest (1) that NO plays a significant role in cardiac function as well as in systemic and pulmonary but not coronary, vasomotor activities, and (2) that COX products are involved in pulmonary hemodynamic responses to NO synthesis inhibition. It is also suggested that the decline in cardiac output following the NO synthesis inhibition results from a direct myocardial depressant effect of the drug.
Anesthesia ; Animals ; Arterial Pressure ; Blood Pressure ; Cardiac Output ; Depression ; Dogs* ; Enflurane ; Hemodynamics* ; Indomethacin ; NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester ; Nitric Oxide* ; Phenylephrine ; Prostaglandin-Endoperoxide Synthases ; Stroke ; Stroke Volume ; Vascular Resistance ; Ventricular Pressure

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PURPOSE: Purpose of this research was to identify nursing activities and the time required in the psychiatric ward to provide basic knowledge for development of cost of psychiatric nursing. METHODS: In this research 'a list of psychiatric nursing activities' was used to identify the issues. A list of psychiatric nursing activities was developed by a professional psychiatric nursing panel, and 138 nursing activities in 15 domains were identified. RESULTS: The result of this research showed that the average number of work hours per duty was 515.1 minutes and the average number of minutes per patient per nurse while on duty was 35.7 minutes. Also the results showed that the nurses used the majority of their time in 'Nursing care and information management' (528.0 minutes/day, 33.6%), followed by 'communication and coordination' (209.2 minutes, 13.3%), 'safety care' (185.3 minutes, 11.8%), and 'medication' (120.9 minutes, 13.3%). CONCLUSION: The result of this research indicate that the number of nursing staff is insufficient for the performance of necessary therapeutic activities. Nursing practices such as counseling, activity therapy, and psychiatric treatment and specific therapy need to be developed and nursing care fees need to be included in psychiatric nursing fields.
Counseling ; Fees and Charges ; Humans ; Nursing Care ; Nursing Staff ; Psychiatric Nursing