No abstract available.
Frustration* ; MMPI*

OBJECTS: The study was designed to find out if there is any socio-psychological factors that could distinguish families with psychiatric patients apart from normal families. METHODS: A total of 235 psychiatric patients' family samples, 467 normal family samples, and total 802 family samples were randomly gathered from May 1995 to July 1995 in Seoul. Family Mental Health Questionnaire developed by the authors along with questions concerning family's way of communication were used as a method of evaluating the socio-psycologicla factor of the families. RESULTS: Compared to normal families, psychiatric patients' families show differences in these sociopsycological factors: emotional stability, open heartedness within family, family bonds, openness towards community, sexual relation of couple, conflict in the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, unconditional parental love towards children, control over the children and patriarchic family orientation. Among the socio-psychological factors, parental attachment toward children and the self-sacrifice devotion toward parents show no significant differences between psychiatric patients' families and normal families. The best factor which distinguishes psychiatric patients' families apart from normal families is the conflict in the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Other factors which also show significant differences are openness towards community and unconditional parental love towards children. Within psychiatric patients' families, mother's opinions act as a main source of decision making throughout the family communication process. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that unstable, closed socio-psychological characteristics of psychiatric patients' families could result in negative effects during the therapeutic process.
Child ; Decision Making ; Family Relations ; Humans ; Love ; Mental Health ; Parents ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Seoul

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Cyberspace be comes one of the most influential media for the formation of sexual identity, knowledge , and attitude of the adolesc ents. Online sex education program may help the adolescents the sexual development processes e fficiently and confidentially. Most of the online sex education programs are not truly interactive nor adaptive. Didactic education materials may not be sufficient to modify adolescents online sexual activities. Computer-patient dialogue programs can help to develop truly intera ctive online contents that adaptively a ccommoda te the persona lized needs of the adolescents. This paper describes the development and implementation technology of a Web-based dialogue system for the interactive online sex education. A threetiered database-backed Web system with browser-based dialogue editor, automatic script-code generator, automatic relationaldatabase schema genera tor, and integrated program development environment was produced and tested on the online sex education program. The Web dialogue system can also be used for online surveys, clinical trials, and electronic medical records. This approa ch can enhance collabor ation betwe en the consumer-or iented and the provider-oriented informa tion systems.
Adolescent ; Male ; Female ; Humans

Liddle's syndrome was described in 1963 by Liddle, et al., as the disease featuring a hypertension and hypokalemia but with negligible secretion of aldosterone. This syndrome, which morphologically belongs to an abnormal intrinsic tubular disorder with normal renal function, is characterized by hypokalemia, metabolic alkalosis, and hypertension due to the abnormal increase in excretion of potassium in distal tubules or collecting duct and the increase in reabsorption of sodium in distal tubules. This syndrome, which is rare disease, is observed with the low level of plasma and urinary aldosterone and suppressed plasma renin level and is known as dominant mode of inheritance with a family background. The authors paid attention to a 79-year-old man who showed a high blood pressure of 210/130mmHg as well as musle weakness, especially lower extremities due to metabolic alkalosis featuring a hypokalemia level of 2.0mEq/L when he was admitted to our hospital, Because his serum potassium were not improved with the medication of intravenous potassium supply, and his blood pressure continued to be high without the improvement of muscle weakness, we prescribed 300mg of spironolactone for two weeks. His symptom, however, was not cured. Then, instead of spironolactone, we prescribed 150mg of triamterene and a low salt diet which finally improved his symptoms. Because there has been no reported case in the Korean medical literature, we report a case of successfully treated Liddle's syndrome due to triamterene administration.
Aged ; Aldosterone ; Alkalosis ; Blood Pressure ; Diet ; Humans ; Hypertension ; Hypokalemia ; Lower Extremity ; Muscle Weakness* ; Plasma ; Potassium ; Rare Diseases ; Renin ; Sodium ; Spironolactone ; Triamterene ; Wills