No abstract available.
Child* ; Humans

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of job stress and social support on the organizational effectiveness of hospital employees and to examine the role of social support in the experience of job stress among the employees. Previous studies have yielded mixed results regarding the role of social support. Some studies provide supporting evidence for the buffering effect of social support, while others do not. Still others report findings about reverse buffering effects. These inconsistent findings are, in part, accounted for by methodological problems such as poor measurement, small sample size, and the existence of high multicollinearity. To examine more rigorously the role of social support in relation to the negative effects of job stress, this study was carefully designed to overcome methodolgical shortcomings found in the past research. In addition, unlike the previous studies, which were concerned mostly with health-related variables as consequences of job stress, in this study, three work-related variables (job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and intent to stay) which had close relationships with organizational effectiveness were examined as output variables. The sample used in this study consisted of 353 employees from a university hospital in the suburbs of seoul. Data were collected with self-administered questionnaires and analyzed using canonical analysis and hierarchical regression analysis. The results of this study indicate that; (l) job stress has negative main effects on job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and intent to stay; (2) social support has positive main effects on the same three output variables, (3) social support does not moderate the harmful effects of job stress on the three outcome variables, and (4) the three-way interaction effects of (social support * job stress * gender) and of (social support * job stress * education) are not supported The implications of these findings for the management of human resources are discussed.
Humans ; Job Satisfaction ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Sample Size ; Seoul

No abstract available.
Child ; Child, Hospitalized* ; Humans ; Hypertension*

No abstract available.
Child* ; Humans ; Nephritis* ; Purpura, Schoenlein-Henoch*

No abstract available.
Caroli Disease*

No abstract available.
Child* ; Humans ; Nephrotic Syndrome* ; Peritonitis*

No abstract available.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of social support in the experience of job stress among hospital nurses. METHOD: This study was carefully designed to overcome methodological shortcomings found in past research, and examined two organizational effectiveness variables(job satisfaction and organizational commitment) as outcome variables. The sample used in this study consisted of 602 nurses from 5 general hospitals. Data were collected with self-administered questionnaires and analyzed using hierarchical regression and LISREL technique. RESULT: It was found that: (a) three job stress variables(workload, role conflict and conflict with other medical staff) have negative effects on job satisfaction and organizational commitment; (b) social support have positive main effects on the two output variables; (c) the negative effects of job stress variables on job satisfaction and organizational commitment are not buffered by social support, and (d) social support mediates the effects of job stress on job satisfaction and organizational commitment, and the size of the mediating effects is small. CONCLUSION: Further research needs to be done to further refine this study.

Methylprednisolone pulse therapy was performed for 8 patients of childhood nephrotic syndrome who showed resistance to conventional prednisolone therapy of 4 to 8 weeks. The pathological diagnosis of the patients were: 1 case of membranous nephropathy, membrano-proliferative glomerulonephritis, Menbranoproliferative glomerulonephritis with epithelial crescent (70%), sclerosing glomerulonephritis, mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis, focal and global glomerulonephritis, and 2 cases of focal and segmental glonerulosclerosis. Creatinine clearance was above 50% of the normal in 7 cases, and less than 20% in crescentic glomerulonephritis. 20% in crescentic glomerulonephritis. 30gm/kg/D. of methylprednisolone was administered intravenously over 1~2hours, which was repeated 2 to 9 times on every other day. Thereafter, alternate day prednisolone therapy was continued. The results were as follows: Remission was attained in membranous nephropathy and MPGN, within 9 weeks and 13 weeks respectively. Marked improvement was noted in crescentic glomerulonephritis. Ccr increased from 18.5ml/min/1.73mm(2) to 59.1ml/min/1.73mm(2) 10 days later after pulse? Sclerosing glomerulonephritis showed significant improvement in clinical finding and serum albumin. There was no improvement in mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis, focal and global glomerulonephritis, and 2 cases of focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis. These findings suggest that methylprednisolone pulse?therapy may benefit the childhood nephrotic syndrome with resistance to conventional prednisolone therapy.
Creatinine ; Diagnosis ; Glomerulonephritis ; Glomerulonephritis, Membranoproliferative ; Glomerulonephritis, Membranous ; Humans ; Methylprednisolone ; Nephrotic Syndrome* ; Prednisolone* ; Serum Albumin

No abstract available.
Nephrotic Syndrome*