1.The clinical epidemioiogic study of congenital anomalies in the newborn infants.
Hye Kyeong PARK ; Chang Hee LEE ; Kae Hyun NAM ; Kwon Hawe LEE ; Tai Ho CHO
Korean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1993;36(7):1383-1390
No abstract available.
Humans
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Infant, Newborn*
2.A case of 11q deletion syndrome.
Hye Kyeong NAM ; Rhee CHOI ; Chang Hwi KIM ; Sang Jhoo LEE
Journal of the Korean Pediatric Society 1991;34(11):1587-1592
No abstract available.
Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular
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Jacobsen Distal 11q Deletion Syndrome*
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Pyloric Stenosis, Hypertrophic
3.A clinical study in phenylketonuria.
Hye Kyeong NAM ; Jin Seop SHIM ; Dong Hwan LEE ; Sang Jhoo LEE ; Ki Weon CHA ; Jeong Bin YIM
Journal of the Korean Pediatric Society 1992;35(1):69-79
No abstract available.
Phenylketonurias*
4.Validation of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale among Korean Adolescents
Eun Hye HEO ; Kyeong Sook CHOI ; Je Chun YU ; Ji Ae NAM
Psychiatry Investigation 2018;15(2):124-132
OBJECTIVE: The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) is designed to measure the current level of depressive symptomatology in the general population. However, no review has examined whether the scale is reliable and valid among children and adolescents in Korea. The purpose of this study was to test whether the Korean form of the CES-D is valid in adolescents. METHODS: Data were obtained from 1,884 adolescents attending grades 1–3 in Korean middle schools. Reliability was evaluated by internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha). Concurrent validity was evaluated by a correlation analysis between the CES-D and other scales. Construct validity was evaluated by exploratory factor and confirmatory factor analyses. RESULTS: The internal consistency coefficient for the entire group was 0.88. The CES-D was positively correlated with scales that measure negative psychological constructs, such as the State Anxiety Inventory for Children, the Korean Social Anxiety Scale for Children and Adolescents, and the Reynold Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire, but it was negatively correlated with scales that measure positive psychological constructs, such as the Korean version of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale-2. The CES-D was examined by three-dimensional exploratory factor analysis, and the three-factor structure of the scale explained 53.165% of the total variance. The variance explained by factor I was 24.836%, that explained by factor II was 15.988%, and that explained by factor III was 12.341%. The construct validity of the CES-D was tested by confirmatory factor analysis, and we applied the entire group’s data using a three-factor hierarchical model. The fit index showed a level similar to those of other countries’ adolescent samples. CONCLUSION: The CES-D has high internal consistency and addresses psychological constructs similar to those addressed by other scales. The CES-D showed a three-factor structure in an exploratory factor analysis. The present findings suggest that the CES-D is a useful and reliable tool for measuring depression in Korean adolescents.
Adolescent Psychiatry
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Adolescent
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Anxiety
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Child
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Depression
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Epidemiologic Studies
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Fibrinogen
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Humans
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Korea
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Prothrombin
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Psychometrics
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Suicidal Ideation
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Thromboplastin
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Weights and Measures
5.A case of acute megakaryoblastic leukemia with chloroma in infant.
Jin Seop SHIM ; Hye Kyeong NAM ; Won Suk SUH ; Sang Man SHIN ; Sang Jhoo LEE ; Won Bae KIM
Korean Journal of Hematology 1991;26(1):201-208
No abstract available.
Humans
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Infant*
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Leukemia, Megakaryoblastic, Acute*
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Sarcoma, Myeloid*
6.Evaluating Appropriateness of Medication Use in the Operating Rooms of a Tertiary Hospital: Based on Survey.
Ye Ji LEE ; Kyeong Hye JEONG ; Young Nam KIM ; Eun Young KIM
Korean Journal of Clinical Pharmacy 2016;26(3):230-237
BACKGROUND: Since the use of opioid analgesics is frequent in operation rooms (OR), the risk of medication error is high; however the use of medication in the OR has been operating independently with the hospital pharmacy. Therefore, the assessment on management of medication use in operation and the pharmacist's role is needed. METHODS: We conducted the literature review and survey from anesthesiologists, operating nurses at Chung-Ang Hospital on management of medication for operation use, awareness on need for medication management efficiency, need for satellite pharmacy in the operating room and its effect. RESULTS: 56% of medical staffs responded that management of medication in the operating room is efficient; however, 82.6% responded that they felt the inconvenience in medication delivery to the OR when additional prescription was ordered. 51.5% also responded that extra time was required for management of narcotics and inventory/record keeping. 80% agreed that there could be lost costs due to prescription missed. Medical staffs responded improving the drug management system could increase the OR efficiency (87%), and eventually bring the increase in hospital revenue (80.4%). Those who responded that implementation of OR satellite pharmacy was needed include physicians (84.6%), nurses (63.6%), and also responded that it'd bring more profit to the hospital by increasing the efficiency in OR (60.9%). CONCLUSION: For efficient management of medications, implementation of OR satellite pharmacy would lead to improved drug management and increased efficiency in OR and reduced cost and improved patient care.
Analgesics, Opioid
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Humans
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Medical Staff
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Medication Errors
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Narcotics
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Operating Rooms*
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Patient Care
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Pharmaceutical Services
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Pharmacy
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Prescriptions
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Tertiary Care Centers*
7.The Effects of Low-sodium Diet Education Program on Dietary Habits, Diet Quality and Obesity Index in Overweight and Obese Middle-aged Women.
Soo Bin JEONG ; Seoyun PARK ; Sohyun AHN ; Jin Nam KIM ; Hye Kyeong KIM
Korean Journal of Community Nutrition 2014;19(6):513-526
OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to investigate the effect of low sodium diet education program on dietary habits, diet quality, and measures of obesity in overweight or obese middle-aged women. METHODS: Subjects were 81 individuals aged 45 years or over, who completed an 8-week nutrition education. The subjects were divided into a normal group (N = 30) and an overweight-obese group (N = 51) according to the BMI. The effects were evaluated by anthropometric measurement, biochemical analysis, questionnaire, and diet records before and after the program. RESULTS: Overweight-obese group showed significant decreases in weight (p < 0.0001), BMI (p < 0.0001), percent of body fat (p = 0.0087), waist circumference (p < 0.0001), systolic (p = 0.0003) and diastolic blood pressure (p = 0.0261). Nutrients intakes were not different between the two groups and only sodium intake was decreased after education. Total score of general dietary habits, dietary behavior related to sodium intake, dietary diversity score (DDS), diet variety score (DVS), and diet quality index-international (DQI-I) were improved in both groups compared to the baseline. Overweight-obese group showed significant improvement in 'having fruits everyday', 'having fish everyday', 'trying to eat many kinds of food', 'eating less broth when eating soup, stew, and noodles', 'eating less kimchi and salt-fermented vegetable', and 'propensity to think that dishes should be pretty seasoned'. In addition, moderation of empty calories food (p = 0.0064) and macronutrient ratio (p = 0.0004) were improved in the overweigh-obese group, but in the normal group, the results did not reach statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggested that low sodium diet education program may contribute to obesity management by improving diet quality and dietary habits in middle-aged women.
Adipose Tissue
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Blood Pressure
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Diet Records
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Diet*
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Diet, Sodium-Restricted*
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Eating
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Education*
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Female
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Food Habits*
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Fruit
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Humans
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Obesity*
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Overweight*
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Sodium
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Waist Circumference
8.Clinical evaluation of Reversible Posterior Leukoencephalopathy Syndrome in Korean Children: Multicenter Study.
Eun Joo LEE ; Sang Ook NAM ; Sun Jun KIM ; Won Seop KIM ; Hye Eun SEO ; Su Kyeong HWANG ; Soonhak KWON
Journal of the Korean Child Neurology Society 2009;17(2):167-173
PURPOSE: Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome(RPLS) is a complex condition affecting gray/white matter of parieto-occipital lobes from multiple and different etiologies. This study was aimed to analyze clinical characteristics of this condition in Korean children. METHODS: A total of 36 patients from tertiary care medical centers were involved in the study. They were diagnosed as RPLS mainly by clinical and radiological manifestations. Their medical records and radiological features of brain MRI were retrospectively analyzed. RESULTS: Thirty six patients were involved in the study(21 males and 15 females, mean age: 9.8+/-4.1 years of age). Main underlying causes included drug induced(47%), renal diseases(28%), neurogenic tumors(8%) and so on. Initial manifestations were seizures, headache, visual disturbance, mental change, and nausea/vomiting. 13 patients(36%) had two or more symptoms. The brain MRI showed typical pattern of fairly symmetric, high T2 signal intensity in both parieto-occipital regions in 23 patients(64%) and various, atypical pattern in 13 patients(36%). 26 patients had the lesions affecting predominantly white matter, but 10 patients had the lesions affecting predominantly gray matter. 34 patients(94 %) had bilateral lesions, but 2 patients(6%) had unilateral lesion. This complex syndrome was associated with acute rise of blood pressure from a variety of conditions. A patient ended up a visual deficit despite the good prognosis. CONCLUSION: RPLS in Korean children seems to be complex, but a better understanding of this complex syndrome will lead to better clinical outcome by avoiding unnecessary investigations and appropriate management.
Blood Pressure
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Brain
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Child
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Female
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Headache
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Humans
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Leukoencephalopathies
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Male
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Medical Records
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Posterior Leukoencephalopathy Syndrome
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Retrospective Studies
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Seizures
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Tertiary Healthcare
9.A Survey on the Salt Content of Kindergarten Lunch Meals and Meal Providers' Dietary Attitude to Sodium Intake in Gyeonggi-do Area.
Jin Nam KIM ; Seoyun PARK ; Sohyun AHN ; Hye Kyeong KIM
Korean Journal of Community Nutrition 2013;18(5):478-490
Dietary habit of excess sodium consumption is formed mainly by excessive salt intake from the younger age and this may lead to hypertension, stroke, and stomach cancer. This study was performed to estimate the salt content in kindergarten meals and provide basic data on meal providers' dietary attitude to sodium intake for nutrition education. We collected data on161 food items from 16 institutions in Gyeonggi-do and salt content was calculated from salinity and weight of individual food items. The average salt content from lunch meals was 2.2 g, which was about daily adequate intake of sodium for children aged 3 to 5 years old. Greatest contributor to the salt content in a meal was soup and stew (47.8%). The most salty dishes were sauces and kimchi followed by stir-fried food, deep-fried food, braised food, and grilled food. The salt content was higher in soup and stew despite of low salinity, due to the large quantity per serving. The salt contents of soups and kimchi were 40.6% and 14.3%, respectively of the total salt content in dish groups. Staff members and caregivers at home who prepared food for the child showed preference for one-dish rice meal, dried fish and salted mackerel, and broth when eating soup, stew, and noodles. Caregivers showed higher sodium index score and had higher preference for processed food such as Ramen, canned food, and ham compared with staff members (p < 0.05). These results suggested that monitoring salt content of kindergarten meals and nutrition education for those prepare meals for children are needed to lower sodium intake in childhood.
Caregivers
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Child
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Eating
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Education
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Food Habits
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Food, Preserved
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Humans
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Hypertension
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Lunch*
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Meals*
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Perciformes
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Salinity
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Sodium*
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Stomach Neoplasms
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Stroke
10.Assessing the Fear Factor of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Korea Using the COVID-19 Phobia Scale: A Cross-Sectional Study
Hocheol LEE ; Hye Ji KIM ; Dan Hee KWON ; Myung Bae PARK ; Sang Mi KIM ; Kyeong Na KIM ; Eun Woo NAM
Journal of Korean Medical Science 2023;38(7):e52-
Background:
A study on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) phobia among students revealed that fear of contracting COVID-19 was associated with commuting to school and spending time with others at school. Therefore, it is the need-of-the-hour for the Korean government to identify factors affecting COVID-19 phobia among university students and to consider these factors while framing the policy direction for the process of returning to normalcy in university education. Consequently, we aimed to identify the current state of COVID-19 phobia among Korean undergraduate and graduate students and the factors affecting COVID-19 phobia.
Methods:
This cross-sectional survey was conducted to identify the factors affecting COVID-19 phobia among Korean undergraduate and graduate students. The survey collected 460 responses from April 5 to April 16, 2022. The questionnaire was developed based on the COVID-19 Phobia Scale (C19P-S). Multiple linear regression was performed on the C19P-S scores using five models with the following dependent variables: Model 1, total C19P-S score; Model 2, psychological subscale score; Model 3, psychosomatic subscale score; Model 4, social subscale score; and Model 5, economic subscale score. The fit of these five models was established, and a P-value of less than 0.05 (F test) was considered statistically significant.
Results:
An analysis of the factors affecting the total C19P-S score led to the following findings: women significantly outscored men (difference: 4.826 points, P = 0.003); the group that favored the government’s COVID-19 mitigation policy scored significantly lower than those who did not favor it (difference: 3.161 points, P = 0.037); the group that avoided crowded places scored significantly higher than the group that did not avoid crowded places (difference: 7.200 points, P < 0.001); and those living with family/friends scored significantly higher than those in other living situations (difference: 4.606 points, P = 0.021). Those in favor of the COVID-19 mitigation policy had significantly lower psychological fear than those who were against it (difference: -1.686 points, P = 0.004). Psychological fear was also significantly higher for those who avoided crowded places compared to those who did not difference: 2.641 points, P < 0.001). Fear was significantly higher in people cohabitating than those living alone (difference: 1.543 points, P= 0.043).
Conclusion
The Korean government, in their pursuit of a policy that eases COVID-19-related restrictions, will also have to spare no efforts in providing correct information to prevent the escalation of COVID-19 phobia among people with a high fear of contracting the disease. This should be done through trustworthy information sources, such as the media, public agencies, and COVID-19 professionals.