1.A Study on Satisfaction with Mental Health Services and Quality of Life among Patients with Schizophrenia in the Community Mental Health Center.
Hyun Mi KIM ; Jin Sook CHOI ; Mi Ok LEE
Korean Journal of Schizophrenia Research 2014;17(1):27-35
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to investigate client satisfaction with mental health services across sociodemographical and service utilization characteristics and to identify the predictors for quality of life for schizophrenic patients who registered in community mental health center. METHODS: One hundred five schizophrenic patients who had received intensive or continuing care completed questionnaires, which included Consumer Satisfaction Scale and the Korean version of World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment Instrument-Brief (WHOQOL-BREF). Subject's sociodemographic and service utilization characteristics were compared using t-test or one-way analysis of variance. To examine the influence of these variables on quality of life, stepwise multiple regression was conducted. RESULTS: Consumer satisfaction scores differed significantly depending on the length of contact with a current mental health staff. In a stepwise multiple regression model, service relevance and occupation together explained 20.5% of variance in quality of life. CONCLUSION: The results suggest that continuity in contact with a current mental health staff was important in consumer satisfaction. Service relevance and occupation had an impact on quality of life.
Consumer Satisfaction
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Humans
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Mental Health Services*
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Mental Health*
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Occupations
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Quality of Life*
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Schizophrenia*
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World Health Organization
2.Effects of Postpartum Exercise on Mental Health.
Sun Ok LEE ; Mi Ok KIM ; Suk Hee AHN ; Young Ran CHO
Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing 2004;10(1):15-22
PURPOSE: This study was to examine the effect of postpartum exercise on mental health. Mental health comprises a 9 symptom dimension of Somatization, Obsessive-Compulsive, Interpersonal Sensitivity, Depression, Anxiety, Hostility, Phobic anxiety, Paranoid Ideation, and Psychoticism. METHOD: A non-equivalent pre-test, post-test control group study was conducted. Fifty-two puerperal women who were admitted to a postpartum ward of a mother-baby clinic in Pusan were recruited; 26 women were assigned to the experimental group and 26 women to the control group. Postpartum exercise was applied to the experimental group from postpartum day 3 for a period of 8 weeks while no exercise program was applied to the control group. Mental health with SCL-90-R was measured before and after exercise. Data was analyzed using mean, x2-test, t-test, and ANOVA by SPSS 10.0. RESULT: The mental health status in the exercise group did not show a statistically significant decrease when compared to that of the control group. CONCLUSION: There is no effect of postpartum exercise on women's mental health during the first 8 weeks of the postpartum period. Further studies are needed for randomized clinical trials with a larger sample size.
Anxiety
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Busan
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Depression
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Female
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Hostility
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Humans
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Mental Health*
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Postpartum Period*
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Sample Size
3.A Study on Nursing Students' Self-leadership and Their Perception of Learning.
Mi Ok LEE ; Mi Young LEE ; Se Young KIM
Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education 2015;21(3):417-425
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between self-leadership and the perception of learning in nursing students. METHODS: A descriptive research design was used in this study. The participants were 378 nursing students in M city and C city who were surveyed between June 1 and June 30, 2014 using self-report questionnaires. The data was analyzed using SPSS WIN 21.0 Program, which determined frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation; a One-way ANOVA; a Scheffe test; a Pearson correlation coefficient; and a Stepwise multiple regression analysis. RESULTS: There were significant positive correlations between nursing students' self-leadership and their perception of learning. In the multiple regression analysis, self-leadership was the most significant predictor in explaining nursing students' perception of learning. CONCLUSION: Study findings suggest that nursing students' self-leadership is defined as having an important influence on nursing students' perception of learning. In order to strengthen nursing students' self-leadership, there is a need to develop education programs that increase nursing students' self-leadership.
Education
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Humans
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Learning*
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Nursing*
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Research Design
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Students, Nursing
4.The Clinical Study on 100 Cases of Congenital Syphillis.
Jheog Hee HAHN ; Ok Sung CHUNG ; Mi Seon LEE ; Young Shin KWARK ; Mi Seon KIM
Journal of the Korean Pediatric Society 1981;24(4):329-335
No abstract available.
5.A Study on Women's Fatigue and Sleeping Disturbance.
Sun Ok LEE ; Sook Hee AHN ; Mi Ok KIM
Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing 2005;11(2):163-168
PURPOSE: This study was to identify the relationship between fatigue and sleep disturbance in adult women so as to provide basic data for developing a women's health promotion program and nursing intervention. METHOD: A convenience sample of 184 women who visited a Well-baby clinic at P city Maternal child center during October in 2004 was obtained. Data was collected by self-administered questionnaires. RESULTS: The Subjects' mean age was 36.87 years and 70% were employed and had more education than high school. The mean level of fatigue was 56.65, mean sleeping hours were 6.54, and time until falling asleep was 17.58 minutes. Scores of fatigue differed by subject's age, level of education, and menstruation status. In addition, sleeping hours differed by age, occupation status, and income level. There were significant low levels of correlation between fatigue and sleeping hours (r=-.16) and getting up too early (r=-.15). CONCLUSION: This study concludes that fatigue and sleeping patterns have a significant relationship.
Adult
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Child
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Education
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Fatigue*
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Female
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Humans
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Menstruation
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Nursing
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Occupations
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Women's Health
6.Comparative Analysis between Natural Evacuation and Irrigation Technique in Patients with Colostomy.
Kang Hong LEE ; Hae Ok LEE ; Mi Suk KIM ; Chang Sik YU ; Jin Cheon KIM
Journal of the Korean Society of Coloproctology 1998;14(3):453-458
Sixty-three patients with permanent sigmoid colostomy were surveyed to evaluate their satisfaction and complications with the "irrigation technique" and the "atural evacuation" of the colostomy management (irrigation technique; 32 patients, natural evacuation; 31 patients). All patients had colostomy for at least 12 months without disease recurrence. Each patient was interviewed in addition to standard questionnaire. The irrigation was not associated with any major complication including colonic perforation. The irrigation was used younger age group than the natural evacuation (53+/-10 vs. 62+/-12, P=0.01). The frequency of bowel movement was lower in the irrigation than in the natural evacuation (5.1+/-2.5/wk vs. 10.8+/-9.0/wk, P=0.04). Five patients (16%) of the irrigation experienced spontaneous bowel action but only one patient suffered from it. The time spent for managing irrigation was 59+/-13 minutes. Twenty-three patients (74%) of the natural evacuation suffered from one or moreproblems such as expensive apparatus, leakage, skin irritation or odor. Sixteen patients (52%) of the natural evacuation and 2 patients (6%) of the irrigation were restricted in social activity (P=0.0001). Thirteen patients (42%) of the natural evacuation and 1 patient (3%) of the irrigation were dissatisfied with colostomy management (P=0.002). Thus, the irrigation technique seems to be more effective and satisfactory method for managing colostomy without compromising patient's social activity when it is performed in appropriately selected patients.
Colon
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Colon, Sigmoid
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Colostomy*
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Humans
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Odors
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Rectal Neoplasms
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Recurrence
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Skin
7.Effect of Diabetes Education Program on Glucose Metabolism and Lipid Metabolism, Self-efficacy in NIDDM Patients.
Hyoung Sook PARK ; Yun Mi LEE ; Youn Ok CHOI ; Eun Suk BAE ; Jung Hyun NA ; Mi Sook KIM
Korean Journal of Rehabilitation Nursing 2001;4(2):165-178
The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of diabetes education program on Glucose Metabolism(blood sugar. HbAlc) and Lipid Metabolism(total cholesterol. triglyceride. low density lipoprotein. high density lipoprotein). Self-efficacy in non-insulin independent diabetes mellitus. The study design was a non equivalent control group pre-test post-test design. Data for the study were collected from March 12 to June 19, 2001. Sixty-two research subjects were assigned to experimental (36) and control (26) groups. The collected data was analyzed using the Chi-Square test. t-test by spsswin program The results are as follows: 1. Experimental group had higher level of glucose metabolism than control group(FBS: t=-3.317. p=.002. HbAlc: t=-4.956. p=.000). 2. Level of lipid metabolism were partly a significant different between experimental group and control group(Triglyceride: t=-2.108. p=.039). 3. Experimental group had higher efficacy score than control group(t=4.651. p=.000). In conclusion. the study supported the effects of diabetes education program to increase metabolism and self-efficacy. Further study with a longitudinal design is suggested to verify the effect of diabetes education program in NIDDM and standardized diabetes education program.
Cholesterol
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Diabetes Mellitus
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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2*
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Education*
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Glucose*
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Humans
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Lipid Metabolism*
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Lipoproteins
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Metabolism*
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Research Subjects
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Triglycerides
8.Control Mechanisms of Ovarian Follicle Development by Follicle Stimulating Hormone and Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-activating Polypeptide.
Yu Il LEE ; Jin Ok SHIN ; Mi Young KIM ; Sang Young CHUN
Korean Journal of Fertility and Sterility 2006;33(1):15-24
OBJECTIVE: Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP), a novel hypothalamic neuropeptide, has been suggested to play a role in ovarian folliculogenesis. The present study evaluated the effect of PACAP on the growth of preantral follicles. METHODS: Preantral follicles were mechanically isolated from ovaries of 21-day-old rats and cultured in groups for 3 days in serum-free medium in the absence or presence of PACAP-38 (10-6 M). RESULTS: Treatment with PACAP-38 resulted in an increase in follicle diameter by 75% whereas treatment with follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) increased follicle diameter by 65%. PACAP-38 treatment enhanced the granulosa cell proliferation as measured by thymidine incorporation analysis. Furthermore, the production of progesterone by cultured granulosa cells and GFSHR-17 cell line was stimulated by PACAP-38. Interestingly, PACAP enhanced FSH action on stimulation of SF-1 and aromatase gene expression. CONCLUSION: The present results demonstrate that PACAP stimulated preantral follicle growth by potentiating proliferation and by stimulating steroidogenesis.
Animals
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Aromatase
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Cell Line
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Female
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Follicle Stimulating Hormone*
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Gene Expression
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Granulosa Cells
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Neuropeptides
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Ovarian Follicle*
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Ovary
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Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide*
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Progesterone
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Rats
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Thymidine
9.Nevoid Acanthosis Nigricans Localized to the Umbilicus: Successful Treatment with Topical Tretinoin.
Jung Hoon LEE ; Mi Yeon KIM ; Hyung Ok KIM ; Young Min PARK
Annals of Dermatology 2005;17(1):24-26
No abstract available.
Acanthosis Nigricans*
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Tretinoin*
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Umbilicus*
10.Factors Influencing Fatigue in Elderly People with Chronic Pain.
Geun Myun KIM ; Yong Mi LEE ; Sung Ok CHANG
Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2011;20(1):61-70
PURPOSE: This study was done to examine fatigue in elderly people with chronic pain and identify factors influencing fatigue. METHODS: Participants in the study were 296 elders suffering from pain for more than 6 months. The data were collected by personal interviews using questionnaires and were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficients, t-test, ANOVA, and stepwise multiple regression with SPSS/WIN 15.0 version. RESULTS: The mean score for fatigue was 30.5, and fatigue showed a significant positive correlation with depression (r=.57, p<.001), perceived stress (r=.12, p=.035) and pain disability (r=.52, p<.001), but a negative correlation with social support (r=-.21, p<.001) and ADL (r=-.22, p<.001). Depression was found to be a significant predictor of fatigue. CONCLUSION: The results of this study show that psychological factors like depression have more influence on fatigue in elders than physical activities or daily capability. Therefore, it is important to consider psychological factors which influence fatigue as well as the fatigue itself in order to efficiently control fatigue.
Activities of Daily Living
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Aged*
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Analysis of Variance
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Chronic Pain*
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Depression
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Fatigue*
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Humans
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Motor Activity
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Psychology
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Questionnaires