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PURPOSE: This study was conducted to identify the pain characteristics, family support and physical functioning and to determine predictors of the quality of life in aged women with chronic pain. METHOD: The questionnaires were collected through direct interview by a trained research assistant from July 2 to August 24, 2001. Subjects were 108 women clients with chronic pain over 65 years of age. Data analyzed frequency, percentage, mean, Pearson's correlation, ANOVA and stepwise multiple regression by SAS. RESULT: Care providers were mostly spouses and daughters in law. Care providers who took care of elderly for a few hours a day had the highest percentile. Aged women had persistently had chronic pain of moderate intensity and was moderately satisfied with pain management. The mean score of disability due to pain was 3 on a 10 point scale. The mean scores of physical function and quality of life were moderate and there were negative correlations between pain characteristics, physical functioning, and quality of life at the range from r=-.46 to r=-.83. Satisfaction with care, duration of pain, disability due to pain, and physical functioning accounted for 56% of the variance in perceived quality of life for aged women with chronic pain. Disability due to pain was the most predictable variable of quality of life and physical function was the second . CONCLUSION: The results suggest that care by family, education in pain control, prevention of disability, and maintenance of physical function are important to improve and maintain quality of life in aged women with chronic pain. Therefore, there is a need for program development that enhance family support and nursing intervention that focuses on active pain control.
Aged ; Chronic Pain* ; Education ; Family Characteristics ; Female ; Humans ; Jurisprudence ; Nuclear Family ; Nursing ; Pain Management ; Program Development ; Quality of Life* ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Spouses

With the increasing incidence of AIDS, it is probably inevitable that nurses working in hospital and community settings will come in contact with patients with AIDS. Nurses, more than any other health care profession, are on the front line of AIDS patient care. The purposes of this descriptive study were to gather information about registered nurses'knowledge and attitude regarding AIDS, and to provide a basis for the development of continuining education programs for the nurse. Data was gathered in 1988 using self-administered questionnaires given to a convinience sample of two hundred seventy registered nurses from two university hospitals, school nurses and postgraduate students of nursing. Data was analyzed with SAS. The results were as follows. Above 90% of the nurse knew well about definition of AIDS and routes of transmission but nurses relatively lacked knowledge about transmission of HIV in breast milk(69.3%). Less than half knew that drug abuser(44.1%) and sexual partner with IV drug abuser(39.6%) are at high risk for contracting AIDS. Above 70% of the nurse showed reluctance to provide care for surgery, delivery of child birth and hemodialysis of patients with AIDS. The results showed that, given a choice, 41.7% of the nurse would refuse to care for AIDS patients and 48.3% claimed that they should have a right refuse to care for AIDS patients. Reluctance of nursing patient with AIDS appeared to be principally associated with general fear of becoming infected with HIV. 41.8% exhibited a sympathetic attitude toward individual AIDS patient. The study findings suggest that it is necessary to examine the correlations between knowledge and attitude and to develop continuing education programs that alleviate the fear of contagion of the nurse.
Breast ; Child ; Delivery of Health Care ; Education ; Education, Continuing ; Ethynodiol Diacetate ; HIV ; Hospitals, University ; Humans ; Incidence ; Nursing ; Parturition ; Patient Care ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Renal Dialysis ; Sexual Partners

OBJECTIVE: Hospital and health care professionals in worldwide strive to deliver the safest care as possible. Nevertheless, medical errors that are preventable are common. Minimizing and eliminating medical errors that are preventable is vital to improve patient safety. Therefore the purpose of study is developing the electronic incident reporting system focused on nursing related task as a way to make easy to report incidents METHOD: First, we identified the types and contents of nursing errors and then developed the system under the Widow XP environment. The system was connected to the hospital information system by TCP/IP protocol and used Oracle Sybase as DBMS and Power Builder 8.0 as a program language. RESULTS: The system developed was accessible by any qualified employer who works in the hospital and easily convertible to excel file for the purposes of analyzing the data stored. The number of incident reported using the electronic incident reporting system was 85. CONCLUSION: Hospital should cultivate no blaming culture to the staffs involved in the incidents and provide a standardized education to all frontline staffs to encourage error reporting. By doing this, voluntary error reporting system can be used for system wide improvements by analyzing data stored in the system.
Delivery of Health Care ; Electronics ; Electrons ; Hospital Information Systems ; Information Systems ; Medical Errors ; Patient Safety ; Risk Management ; Widowhood

PURPOSE: The purposes of this study were to identify the prevalence of postprandial hypotension (PPH) and risk factors for PPH in Korean elderly people. METHODS: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted with community dwelling and nursing home residents. The blood pressure of 162 adults aged 65 yr or older was measured before meal as a baseline and then at 15 min intervals from immediately after the meal through 90 min after the meal. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression with the SPSS WIN 14.0 program were used to analyze the data. RESULTS: The prevalence of PPH was 29% and the PPH occurred immediately after the meal continuously through 90 min after the meal. The biggest drop in systolic blood pressure occurred at 45 min after the meal. Risk factors for PPH were age, base line systolic blood pressure, and presence of cardiovascular disease. CONCLUSION: To prevent side effects of PPH such as falls and syncope, nurses should provide careful management of PPH and prohibit activities until at least 90 min after a meal. We also recommend that risk of PPH should be included in fall prevention guidelines for elderly people.
Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Blood Pressure ; Cardiovascular Diseases/complications ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Demography ; Female ; Humans ; Hypotension/*epidemiology/etiology ; Korea ; Male ; Nursing Homes ; Postprandial Period ; Prevalence ; Risk Factors ; Time Factors

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of music therapy on state anxiety and pain among patients undergoing burn dressing changes. METHOD: A convenience sample of 32 adult burn patients who were eligible and provided consent were included in the study which was a quasi-experimental study of a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. Fifteen patients in the control group received the routine burn dressing changes but 17 patients in the experimental group listened to self-selected music through headphones connected to a CD player during burn dressing changes for three days. All subjects of the music group chose the type of music that would relax them. Before and after burn dressing changes, subjects completed the State Anxiety Inventory and self-report of pain scores. RESULT: There was a significant reduction in state anxiety before and after burn dressing changes in those who received music therapy in contrast to those who did not receive music therapy. The music group reported lower pain scores before and after burn dressing changes than did the non-music group. CONCLUSION: These findings indicate that music therapy composed of self-selected music is a valuable intervention for the treatment of pain and anxiety in patients undergoing burn dressing changes.
Pain Measurement ; Pain/etiology/*prevention & control ; *Music Therapy ; Middle Aged ; Male ; Humans ; Female ; Burns/*nursing ; *Bandages ; Anxiety/*etiology/prevention & control ; Adult

PURPOSE: The purposes of this study were to compare the motivation for health behavior, health behaviors practices, and ADL of institutionalized elderly women with those of non-institutionalized elderly women. METHODS: A cross-sectional descriptive survey was conducted in convenience samples of 144 aged women(80 institutionalized and 64 non-institutionalized) using structured questionnaires. Descriptive statistics, chi-square-test, and ANCOVA were used for data analysis with SPSS program. RESULTS: The institutionalized elderly reported significantly higher motivation than the non-institutionalized elderly. In subcategories of motivation, self-efficacy of the institutionalized elderly was significantly lower than that of the non-institutionalized elderly. The non-institutionalized elderly reported significantly lower perceived benefits and significantly higher perceived barriers than institutionalized elderly. The institutionalized elderly reported significantly lower health behaviors in exercise and nutrition than the non-institutionalized elderly. Among health behaviors of the non-institutionalized elderly women, stress management marked the lowest score. CONCLUSION: To enhance motivation of institutionalized elderly women, interventions for building self-efficacy are needed. To promote the health behavior of the non-institutionalized elderly, stress management programs are needed. All elderly women need exercise.
Activities of Daily Living* ; Aged* ; Female ; Health Behavior* ; Humans ; Motivation* ; Statistics as Topic ; Surveys and Questionnaires

PURPOSE: In order to identify the usability of inguinal temperature in a neonatal unit, this study was done to compare inguinal temperature of newborns with rectal, axillary, and tympanic temperatures. METHOD: Fifty-one normal newborns admitted to the nursery of a university affiliated hospital participated in the study. Tympanic temperatures were taken with a tympanic thermometer. Inguinal, rectal, and axillary temperatures were taken with glass mercury thermometers, and were recorded every 1 minute until the reading remained constant for 2 times. The data were analyzed using the SPSS program. RESULT: The measurement time for inguinal temperatures in newborns was significantly longer than that for rectal temperatures, but was shorter than that for axillary temperatures. The mean temperature for the newborn's inguinal site was lower than for rectal, axillary, and tympanic temperatures (the lower side), but wasn't different from tympanic temperature (the upper side). The inguinal temperature was significantly correlated with rectal, axillary, and tympanic temperature. The inguinal temperature was not different according to general characteristics of the newborn. CONCLUSION: These findings indicate that measurement of inguinal temperature is a useful alternative to rectal temperature.
Glass ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn* ; Nurseries ; Thermometers ; Child Health

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify the factors influencing intention of migration by Korean hospital nurses. METHODS: Using cross sectional correlational design, data were collected from 512 nurses working in 7 hospitals ranging in size from 300 to 900 beds in D city and K province of Korea. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, chi-square, and multiple hierarchical regression using the SPSS program. RESULTS: There were significant differences in intention of migration by age, educational background, marital status, work experience, and yearly incomes. Although there was high intention of migration of the subjects, the level of preparation for migration was relatively low. The variables that were independently associated with intention of migration were graduates of RN-BSN program, personal factors of subjects, and environmental factors. Those who had lower perception on nursing images and work condition had significantly higher intention of migration than those who had higher perception. Full model accounted for 37.3% of the variance in intention of migration. CONCLUSION: To prevent brain drain of competent nurses in Korea, appropriate strategies to enhance work condition should be developed and the effect of migration of nurses should be investigated in further studies.
Brain ; Humans ; Intention ; Korea ; Marital Status

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Germ Cells* ; Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal*