1.Effects of a Newborn Care Education Program on Newborn Care Confidence and Behavioral Accuracy of Primiparas in a Postpartum Care Center.
Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2007;37(1):125-134
PURPOSE: The study aimed to identify the effects of a newborn care education program on newborn care confidence and behavioral accuracy of primiparas in a postpartum care center. METHOD: This was a quasi-experimental study with a non-equivalent control group non-synchronized design. Subjects were 29 primiparas selected from a postpartum care center in D and P hospitals in Ulsan. The intervention was a newborn care education program which was composed of education with a booklet, demonstration, watching a video, and verbal encouragement. The outcome variables were newborn care confidence and behavioral accuracy. Data was collected from Feb. 1 to Mar 22 in 2005 with self-administered questionnaires and observation by researchers. Data was analyzed using the chi-square-test, Fisher's exact test, t-test and ANCOVA. RESULT: The experimental group showed significantly higher score changes between the pre-test and post-test in confidence and behavioral accuracy than the control group. CONCLUSION: The newborn care education program showed positive effects on newborn care confidence and behavioral accuracy of primiparas in a postpartum care center. Therefore, we recommend that this program should be applied in postpartum care centers.
Adult
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Female
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Hospitals
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Humans
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*Infant Care
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Infant, Newborn
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*Maternal Behavior
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Mothers/*education
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Multivariate Analysis
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*Postpartum Period
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Program Evaluation
2.Genetic Polymorphism of PAI-1 Gene and Cardiovascular Disease: eta-analysis of Case-Control Studies.
Sun Ha JEE ; Young Sup YOON ; HyunKyung KIM ; Eunna GO ; Won Heum SHIM ; Kyung Soon SONG
Korean Circulation Journal 1999;29(4):366-373
BACKGROUND: Previous reports have suggested that alleles at the plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) gene are associated with increased risk of developing coronary artery disease, including myocardial infarction and stroke through their effect on PAI-1 levels. Method: We attempted to search English literatures for all reports of possible effects of PAI-1 gene on cardiovascular disease in human published prior to November 1998. We used a Mantel-Haenszel method (fixed effect model) and random effect model, respectively, to perform a meta-analysis of 7 case-control studies that provided information related to the effects of PAI-1 gene on risk of cardiovascular disease. RESULTS: From 7 studies for diagnosed cardiovascular disease, the relative frequencies of the three genotypes among controls was (5G/5G) (homozygous normal), 24.5%; (4G/5G) (heterozygous), 48.2%, and (4G/4G) (homozygous for the mutant, 675 GGGG), 27.3%. These relative frequencies in cases were 21.7% for 5G/5G, 48.0% for 4G/5G, and 30.3% for 4G/4G. In fixed effect model, compared with those with genotype (5G/5G), the overall odds ratio (OR) for cardiovascular disease among those with (4G/5G) was 1.12 (95% CI, 0.93 to 1.34), and it was 1.20 (1.01 to 1.44) for the (4G/4G) genotype. For five studies with myocardial infarction as the outcome, the overall OR of myocardial infarction was 1.20 (0.99 to 1.47) for those with (4G/5G) and 1.24 (1.00, 1.54) for those with (4G/4G) genotypes, respectively. CONCLUSION: Our findings provide support for the weak association between PAI-1 gene and cardiovascular disease, in particular, myocardial infarction.
Alleles
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Cardiovascular Diseases*
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Case-Control Studies*
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Coronary Artery Disease
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Genotype
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Humans
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Myocardial Infarction
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Odds Ratio
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Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1*
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Plasminogen Activators
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Polymorphism, Genetic*
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Stroke
3.A Case of Widespread Scleredema Treated with Cyclosporine and Steroid.
Hye Won KIM ; Min Wha CHOI ; Sook Ja SON ; June Hyunkyung LEE ; Tae Young HAN
Korean Journal of Dermatology 2017;55(8):537-538
No abstract available.
Cyclosporine*
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Scleredema Adultorum*
4.The Mediating Effect of Resilience on the Relationship between Emotional Labor and Happiness of Clinical Nurses.
Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing 2017;26(1):40-46
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating effect of resilience on the relationship between emotional labor and happiness of clinical nurses. METHODS: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted with 224 clinical nurses who had one or more years of clinical experiences from four general hospitals in D city in Korea. Data collected from the survey using self-reported questionnaires were analyzed by t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and multiple regression analysis using IBM SPSS statistics 21.0 program. RESULTS: There were statistically significant correlations among variables; a negative correlation between happiness and emotional labor, a positive correlation between happiness and resilience, and a negative correlation between emotional labor and resilience. Meanwhile, resilience had a partial mediating effect on the relationship between emotional labor and happiness. That is, resilience can play an important role between emotional labor and happiness of clinical nurses as a mediator. CONCLUSION: Considering the findings of this study, developing programs that can improve resilience of clinical nurses who experience emotional labor are needed to increase their level of happiness.
Cross-Sectional Studies
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Happiness*
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Hospitals, General
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Korea
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Negotiating*
5.The Time of Return to Play after Surgery for Chronic Lateral Ankle Instability in Athletes: A Systematic Review
Jinsu KIM ; Jungjin YU ; Hyunkyung CHAE
The Korean Journal of Sports Medicine 2020;38(1):12-19
PURPOSE: The study aimed to assess the average time to return to play following surgery for chronic lateral ankle instability in athletes.METHODS: A literature search was conducted (1976 to 2019) by two independent reviewers using the Medline, Embase, and Cochrane library databases. Articles were retrieved by an electronic search using individual keywords (“lateral ankle instability,” “surgery,” “operation,” “return to sport,” “return to play”) and their combinations. Studies that met the inclusion criteria were assessed for pertinent data.RESULTS: Six randomized controlled trials were included in this analysis. The mean follow-up period was 44.8 months (range, 31.8–58.1 months) in 219 patients (male, 126; female, 113). The mean age was 23.2 years (range, 18.2–28.2 years). Different criteria for returning to sports were used in each paper. In the papers included in this study, different methods and definitions were used for the postoperative recovery method for lateral ankle instability injury. The average time until return to play was 16.53 weeks.CONCLUSION: There are limitations to the application of different surgical techniques and data from different athletes for chronic lateral ankle instability. However, these results suggest that sports physicians evaluate the surgical outcome and may be utilized as reference data for informing the athletes about their time until return.
Ankle Injuries
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Ankle
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Athletes
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Female
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Follow-Up Studies
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Humans
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Methods
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Return to Sport
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Sports
6.Social Influencing Factors of Clinical Nurses’ Patient Advocacy
Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration 2023;29(4):363-373
Purpose:
This study’s aim was to understand clinical nurses’ patient advocacy and identify factors influencing this based on the Theory of Patient Advocacy.
Methods:
The subjects of this study were 173 clinical nurses working in two university hospitals in D city, South Korea. Data were collected using a structured self-report questionnaire. Analysis was conducted using IBM SPSS 26.0 and included descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation coefficients, and hierarchical multiple regression analysis.
Results:
Among the general characteristics, gender was found to be an influencing factor for patient advocacy. As a macrosocial antecedent, the ethical climate of the hospital influenced patient advocacy. For the microsocial antecedents, human rights sensitivity and patient vulnerability influenced nurses’ patient advocacy. This final model explained 35.6% of variance of clinical nurses’ patient advocacy.
Conclusion
Considering the findings of this study, the ethical climate of hospitals must be improved. In addition, programs to strengthen nurses’ human rights sensitivity and to help improve communication with patients must be developed. This could further aid nurse and patient relationships.
7.Validation of the Korean Version of the Delirium Motor Subtype Scale
Hyunkyung KIM ; Miji LEE ; In Sun KWON ; Jeong Lan KIM
Psychiatry Investigation 2018;15(1):6-12
OBJECTIVE: The Delirium Motor Subtype Scale (DMSS) is a validated and reliable instrument developed from various methods previously used to assess delirium motor subtypes. It focuses on pure motor disturbances with a relative specificity for delirium. The aim of this study was to investigate the validity and reliability of a Korean version of the DMSS (K-DMSS). METHODS: We recruited 145 patients who were older than 60 years and had been referred for psychiatric consultation for delirium. These patients were evaluated using the K-DMSS, Liptzin & Levkoff criteria, and the Korean version of the Delirium Rating Scale-Revised-98 (K-DRS-R98) to compare delirium motor subtypes. RESULTS: The internal consistency of the K-DMSS in assessing delirium motor subtypes was acceptable (Cronbach's alpha=0.79). Delirium motor subtypes identified with the K-DMSS and K-DRS-R98 showed almost perfect agreement (Cohen's Kappa=0.81), while those identified with the K-DMSS and Liptzin & Levkoff criteria showed substantial agreement (Cohen's Kappa=0.78). CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that the K-DMSS is a valid and reliable tool for identifying delirium subtypes.
Delirium
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Humans
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Reproducibility of Results
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Sensitivity and Specificity
8.Treatment with biological products for chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyp
Seung Cheol HAN ; Hyunkyung CHA ; Dong-Young KIM
Journal of the Korean Medical Association 2023;66(9):532-536
Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is further classified as CRS with nasal polyp and CRS without nasal polyp. It is also divided into type 2 and none-type 2 by immunological endotype. Nowadays, novel biological products targeting type 2 inflammation are developed and used for the treatment of CRS with nasal polyp.Current Concepts: Dupilumab, which inhibits interleukin-4 and interleukin-13, and omalizumab, which targets immunoglobulin E, were recently approved and are currently being used as the treatment regimen for patients with recurrent CRS with nasal polyp in Korea. Many studies demonstrated enough effects of both biological products on nasal symptoms, including smell, quality of life, and polyp size. The indication of biological products is refractory CRS with nasal polyp with severe symptoms even after endoscopic sinus surgery. However, the main drawback of these biological products is a high cost since they are non-reimbursement regimens as defined by Korean national health insurance.Discussion and Conclusion: Further research on the use of dupilumab and omalizumab in Korean patients will be needed because the Korean CRS endotype, which is characterized by less-type-2 CRS, is different from Western CRS endotypes. Additionally, investigations on the comparison of efficacy among various biological products are essential to prescribe the most appropriate biological products depending on the patients’ endotypes.
9.Idiopathic Acquired True Leukonychia Totalis and Partialis.
Seo Wan KIM ; Mi Sun KIM ; Tae Young HAN ; June Hyunkyung LEE ; Sook Ja SON
Annals of Dermatology 2014;26(2):262-263
No abstract available.
10.A Case of Vitiligo Associated with Paraffin Injection.
Seo Wan KIM ; Tae Young HAN ; June Hyunkyung LEE ; Sook Ja SON ; Mi Sun KIM
Annals of Dermatology 2014;26(6):775-776