Friendships are essential to human function and survival and are one of the many influences affecting health, well-being, and happiness in both personal and professional life. This concept analysis aims to clarify the meaning of friendship among professional nurses by presenting the attributes, antecedents, and consequences of friendship and discussing surrogate terms and model cases.
Friends

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Friends* ; Humans

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Child* ; Friends* ; Humans ; Saints*

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate self-esteem, family function, and social support which might influence stress in college students. METHOD: Data were collected from October 15 to December 20, 2007 when 411 students completed a questionnaire which included Self-esteem scale, Family APGAR questionnaire, Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support and Global Assessment of Recent Stress scale. The collected data was analyzed with the SPSS Win 14.0 statistics program. RESULTS: The scores for stress showed significantly negative correlations with the scores for self-esteem (r=-.394, p<.001), family function (r=-.215, p<.001), and social support (r=-.249, p<.001). Self-esteem, family function and social support by friends were significant predictors and accounted for 18.5% of the variance in stress in undergraduate students. CONCLUSION: Future stress management programs for undergraduate students should be developed to reinforce self-esteem, family function and social support by friends.
Friends ; Humans ; Questionnaires

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Friends ; Humans ; Learning

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Crohn Disease* ; Friends* ; Humans ; Necrosis*

OBJECTIVES: How dose the Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association reconcile both the essential companion in clinical practice and the leading academic journal of general psychiatry? METHODS: I have been involving 2 projects of the British Journal of Psychiatry (BJP), the leading international journal of general psychiatry. The first is a comparison between papers that are seen by referees who are willing for their names to be closed to the authors of previous papers and those who do not wish their names to be closed. The second involves the rejection rates and long-term outcome of papers submitted from low and middle income countries (LAMI). RESULTS: Many referees of BJP were supportive of disclosure but not so much when it comes to the bad news. LAMI are contributing well to the psychiatric literature, though conclusions from the results can only be tentative in view of the relative small numbers. CONCLUSION: The BJP showed me that good journalism in an academic publication is not oxymoron. The criterion of the originality and the scientific reliability should remain uncompromised at any time and these should remain the clearest guides. I also would like our journal to be more excellence in clinical communication.
Disclosure ; Friends ; Humans ; Journalism ; Publications

OBJECTIVES: How dose the Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association reconcile both the essential companion in clinical practice and the leading academic journal of general psychiatry? METHODS: I have been involving 2 projects of the British Journal of Psychiatry (BJP), the leading international journal of general psychiatry. The first is a comparison between papers that are seen by referees who are willing for their names to be closed to the authors of previous papers and those who do not wish their names to be closed. The second involves the rejection rates and long-term outcome of papers submitted from low and middle income countries (LAMI). RESULTS: Many referees of BJP were supportive of disclosure but not so much when it comes to the bad news. LAMI are contributing well to the psychiatric literature, though conclusions from the results can only be tentative in view of the relative small numbers. CONCLUSION: The BJP showed me that good journalism in an academic publication is not oxymoron. The criterion of the originality and the scientific reliability should remain uncompromised at any time and these should remain the clearest guides. I also would like our journal to be more excellence in clinical communication.
Disclosure ; Friends ; Humans ; Journalism ; Publications

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the subjectivity of undergraduate students about happiness. METHODS: Q methodology, which scientifically measures individual subjectivity, was used. Thirty-four Q-statements selected from 40 participants were classified into a shape of normal distribution using a nine-point scale. The collected data were analyzed using a PQMethod PC program. RESULTS: Type I: Self-directed, growth-seeking type. This group of people searches for their objectives and direction in life while consistently making efforts to realize their goals. Type II: Oriental and wealth-seeking type. This group of people sympathizes with the oriental worldview and believes in having luck such as wealth or health. Type III: Realistic and pleasure-seeking type. This group of people tries to think positively but while rooted in reality, searches for pleasure and satisfaction in their surroundings. Type IV: Altruistic and relationship-seeking type. This group of people stresses the importance of religious life, small happiness in life, and relationship with friends or neighbors. CONCLUSION: The results of this study provide the foundation for understanding college students' perception about their happiness. Furthermore, these results suggest the necessity of specific and integrated education to improve happiness.
Education ; Friends ; Happiness* ; Humans ; Pleasure

BACKGROUND: It is expected that the demand for the information about the primary medical service in the forthcoming supersede age of communication will be on the increase. For that reason, family doctors who are in charge of the primary medical service have to play an important part in constructing a data-base for furnishing the medical information. This article presents a model which includes the roles of family doctors, constructing medical-related information site of family medicine in the communications net with PC to gat,her fundamental data in operating the system of medical information and elucidating the formation of medical-related information site and the effect of operating that system. METHODS: Since Aug. 20 in 1996, the site of family medicine, the program of medical information, has been set up in Unitel. The medical information of the site of family medicine is to be classified into two parts : for doctors and for the public. The former is composed of medicine documents, several kinds of medical data, a linkage with medicine site in Internet, movements of an academic society and information exchanges for friendship. The latter is mainly made up of some practical medical sense and medical counsel. RESULTS: From the opening the medical information site to Jul. 30 in 1997, 250 persons a day have connected with medical information site and this fact implied 15 hours connection a day in terms of the daily mean. The cases of health counsel averaged 6 cases connection a day and the annual statistics of those cases were about, 1980 cases. The major content of health counsel was related to common symptoms that could be settled in primary medical problem. According to the survey for connectors, most of connectors answered that the medical information through communications net was much more effective t.han that from other media in the educational aspects and very helpful in the prevention of diseases and in the medical expenditure. Above all, the medical information through communications net was very effective in correcting the mistaken practical medical sense. CONCLUSIONS: It is necessary for family doctors to give thought to the connection of both information communication and medicine and to have correct understanding of medical domain in the cyberspace. On the foundation of these necessities, all the family doctors have to make the best of their way to construct a database with rnedical data and to transfer these data into the computer sites.
Friends ; Health Expenditures ; Humans ; Internet