1.Developing a community-based, multicultural-friendly prenatal education pilot program
EunSeok CHA ; Sojung LEE ; Gui-Nam KIM ; Byung Hun KANG ; Minsun JEON
Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 2024;35(3):226-239
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to examine the acceptability, availability and sustainability of a pilot prenatal program developed by an interdisciplinary team.
Methods:
Out of 19 multicultural women participated in the 6-session prenatal program, 6 women took part in an exit- focus group interview as a part of formative evaluation. The verbatim transcriptions of semi-structured interview data were analyzed using conventional content analysis.
Results:
In general, the participants expressed high satisfaction with program content, educators and education methods. A hybrid model including health professionals and community health workers and using online and offline education modes was suggested as a way to disseminate the program at a national level. Interventions using aesthetic approaches such as music and an integrated method such as the introduction of available social services in pregnancy and during the postpartum period may play a role as the facilitator of the program participation of multicultural women. These approaches may also help them develop healthy coping skills, problem solving skills and empowerment in multicultural childbearing women who need to adjust to life in a new country simultaneously taking a new role as a mother.
Conclusion
An interdisciplinary prenatal program using a holistic approach contributes to enhancing multicultural women’s empowerment to become a mother in a new country.
2.Developing a community-based, multicultural-friendly prenatal education pilot program
EunSeok CHA ; Sojung LEE ; Gui-Nam KIM ; Byung Hun KANG ; Minsun JEON
Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 2024;35(3):226-239
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to examine the acceptability, availability and sustainability of a pilot prenatal program developed by an interdisciplinary team.
Methods:
Out of 19 multicultural women participated in the 6-session prenatal program, 6 women took part in an exit- focus group interview as a part of formative evaluation. The verbatim transcriptions of semi-structured interview data were analyzed using conventional content analysis.
Results:
In general, the participants expressed high satisfaction with program content, educators and education methods. A hybrid model including health professionals and community health workers and using online and offline education modes was suggested as a way to disseminate the program at a national level. Interventions using aesthetic approaches such as music and an integrated method such as the introduction of available social services in pregnancy and during the postpartum period may play a role as the facilitator of the program participation of multicultural women. These approaches may also help them develop healthy coping skills, problem solving skills and empowerment in multicultural childbearing women who need to adjust to life in a new country simultaneously taking a new role as a mother.
Conclusion
An interdisciplinary prenatal program using a holistic approach contributes to enhancing multicultural women’s empowerment to become a mother in a new country.
3.Developing a community-based, multicultural-friendly prenatal education pilot program
EunSeok CHA ; Sojung LEE ; Gui-Nam KIM ; Byung Hun KANG ; Minsun JEON
Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 2024;35(3):226-239
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to examine the acceptability, availability and sustainability of a pilot prenatal program developed by an interdisciplinary team.
Methods:
Out of 19 multicultural women participated in the 6-session prenatal program, 6 women took part in an exit- focus group interview as a part of formative evaluation. The verbatim transcriptions of semi-structured interview data were analyzed using conventional content analysis.
Results:
In general, the participants expressed high satisfaction with program content, educators and education methods. A hybrid model including health professionals and community health workers and using online and offline education modes was suggested as a way to disseminate the program at a national level. Interventions using aesthetic approaches such as music and an integrated method such as the introduction of available social services in pregnancy and during the postpartum period may play a role as the facilitator of the program participation of multicultural women. These approaches may also help them develop healthy coping skills, problem solving skills and empowerment in multicultural childbearing women who need to adjust to life in a new country simultaneously taking a new role as a mother.
Conclusion
An interdisciplinary prenatal program using a holistic approach contributes to enhancing multicultural women’s empowerment to become a mother in a new country.
4.Developing a community-based, multicultural-friendly prenatal education pilot program
EunSeok CHA ; Sojung LEE ; Gui-Nam KIM ; Byung Hun KANG ; Minsun JEON
Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 2024;35(3):226-239
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to examine the acceptability, availability and sustainability of a pilot prenatal program developed by an interdisciplinary team.
Methods:
Out of 19 multicultural women participated in the 6-session prenatal program, 6 women took part in an exit- focus group interview as a part of formative evaluation. The verbatim transcriptions of semi-structured interview data were analyzed using conventional content analysis.
Results:
In general, the participants expressed high satisfaction with program content, educators and education methods. A hybrid model including health professionals and community health workers and using online and offline education modes was suggested as a way to disseminate the program at a national level. Interventions using aesthetic approaches such as music and an integrated method such as the introduction of available social services in pregnancy and during the postpartum period may play a role as the facilitator of the program participation of multicultural women. These approaches may also help them develop healthy coping skills, problem solving skills and empowerment in multicultural childbearing women who need to adjust to life in a new country simultaneously taking a new role as a mother.
Conclusion
An interdisciplinary prenatal program using a holistic approach contributes to enhancing multicultural women’s empowerment to become a mother in a new country.
5.Developing a community-based, multicultural-friendly prenatal education pilot program
EunSeok CHA ; Sojung LEE ; Gui-Nam KIM ; Byung Hun KANG ; Minsun JEON
Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 2024;35(3):226-239
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to examine the acceptability, availability and sustainability of a pilot prenatal program developed by an interdisciplinary team.
Methods:
Out of 19 multicultural women participated in the 6-session prenatal program, 6 women took part in an exit- focus group interview as a part of formative evaluation. The verbatim transcriptions of semi-structured interview data were analyzed using conventional content analysis.
Results:
In general, the participants expressed high satisfaction with program content, educators and education methods. A hybrid model including health professionals and community health workers and using online and offline education modes was suggested as a way to disseminate the program at a national level. Interventions using aesthetic approaches such as music and an integrated method such as the introduction of available social services in pregnancy and during the postpartum period may play a role as the facilitator of the program participation of multicultural women. These approaches may also help them develop healthy coping skills, problem solving skills and empowerment in multicultural childbearing women who need to adjust to life in a new country simultaneously taking a new role as a mother.
Conclusion
An interdisciplinary prenatal program using a holistic approach contributes to enhancing multicultural women’s empowerment to become a mother in a new country.
6.Plasma Levels of N-terminal pro-brain Natriuretic Peptide (NT-proBNP) and Left Ventricular Function in Patients with Chronic Renal Failure.
So Yeon CHOI ; Jung Ah KIM ; Jung Eun LEE ; Yeon Sil DO ; Eun Hee JANG ; Hyun Jeong BAE ; Jung In KIM ; Jung Ho DO ; Sung Chul CHOI ; Dae Joong KIM ; Wooseong HUH ; Ha Young OH ; Seung Woo PARK ; Eunseok JEON ; Chang Seok KI ; Yoon Goo KIM
Korean Journal of Nephrology 2006;25(3):413-421
BACKGROUND: Circulating levels of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) have been used to identify and monitor myocardial dysfunction in patients with various cardiac diseases. However, its clinical significance in patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) is uncertain because NT-proBNP clearance may be affected by renal function. METHODS: We studied 331 patients with CRF (eGFR <60 mL/min/1.73m2) admitted to Samsung Medical Center between March 2003 and March 2005, in whom both NT-proBNP measurement and echocardiography were performed within a week. RESULTS: Mean value of eGFR was 29+/-15 mL/ min/1.73m2 and median value of NT-proBNP was 6,971 pg/mL. NT-proBNP levels increased with declining eGFR (p<0.05). NT-proBNP levels were also elevated in patients with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), systolic dysfunction and diastolic dysfunction. In multiple regression analysis, ejection fraction (beta=-0.373, p>0.01) was strong independent correlate of NT-proBNP, eGFR (beta=-0.358, p<0.01), left ventricular mass index (beta=0.126, p>0.01) and diastolic dysfunction 2 or higher (beta=0.171, p< 0.05) were also independent correlates of NT-proBNP. Receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) analyses demonstrated NT-proBNP to be 75% sensitive and 76% specific for the detection of left ventricular systolic dysfunction, as indicated by area under the ROC curve of 0.78 (p<0.05), with NT-proBNP cutoff concentration of 25,000 pg/mL. CONCLUSION: Circulating NT-proBNP levels increased with declining renal function. However, its level were significantly correlated with LVH, systolic and diastolic dysfunction in patients with CRF. The measurement of NT-proBNP levels might be useful to predict left ventricular dysfunction in patients with CRF.
Echocardiography
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Heart Diseases
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Humans
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Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular
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Kidney Failure, Chronic*
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Plasma*
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ROC Curve
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Ventricular Dysfunction, Left
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Ventricular Function, Left*