The purpose of this study were to find out the practical way to enlarged child-raising knowledge and to enhance their satisfaction with out-patient care by evaluating how effectively the education is done by nurses for mothers with ill-child and how their satisfaction with out-patient care changed. This study was designed as a Nonequivalent Control Group study. The subjects studied were consisted of the experimental and control group. Each consisted of 50 mothers with ill-child in pediatric department at one university hospital in Seoul. The period of this study is from May 20, 1996 to June 28, 1996. The first data were collected fro both of experimental and control groups in which mothers with ill-child come to the hospital for the first time. After this being done, the experimental group had been educated by the planned program and then the second data were collected from them. On the contrary, as for the control group, there had been no education and the second data were collected on the same method. The data analysis was done by SPSS program. The results of this study are as follow, 1. The child-raising knowledge level of mothers with education was higher than that of with no education.(t=18.84, df=49, p=0.000) 2. The satisfaction with out-patient care level of mothers with education was higher than that of no education.(t=10.51, df=49, p=0.000) Based on these results, I suggest as follow, 1. The research on the patients and their family should be made not only in pediatric department, but in every out-patient department. 2. For more effective education, it is required for all out-patient nurses to research the education demand of patients and their family. 3. To increase the effect of education, there must be the consultation room in out-patient department. 4. The meetings with the mothers with ill-child of the same illness have to be established and periodical education must be executed. 5. Audio-visual education programs like video tapes are needed to make use of waiting time for the medical treatment. 6. On-line consulting program are needed.
Education ; Humans ; Mothers* ; Outpatients* ; Seoul ; Statistics as Topic ; Child Health

This study was performed to evaluate the effect of freeze-dried bone graft on space-making capacity and bone formation in the procedure of guided bone regeneration with titanium reinforced ePTFE membrane. After decortication in the calvaria, GBR procedure was performed on 8 rabbits with titanium reinforced ePTFE membrane filled with human FDBA(Rocky Mountain Tissue Bank, Aurora Co., USA). Decortication was performed to induce the effect of bone forming factor from bone marrow. The animals were sacrificed at 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 8 weeks and 12 weeks after the surgery. Non-decalcified specimens were processed for histologic analysis. The results of this study were as follows: 1. Titanium reinforced-ePTFE membrane was biocompatable and capable of maintaining the space-making. 2. FDBA particle was surrounded with connective tissues but there was no evidence on new bone formation. 3. FDBA particle resorbed continuously but it remained until 12weeks after the surgery. Within the above results, TR-ePTFE membrane could be used effectively for Guided bone regeneration but It was assumed that FDBA does not appear to contribute to bone formation.
Animals ; Bone Marrow ; Bone Regeneration ; Connective Tissue ; Humans ; Membranes ; Osteogenesis ; Rabbits ; Skull ; Tissue Banks ; Titanium ; Transplants*

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Carcinoma, Hepatocellular* ; Diagnosis*

It is a great challenge for dentists to do prosthetic restorations of a patient with reduced occlusal vertical dimension (OVD). Proper determination of the OVD is significant. An 85-year-old male patient came in with missing right maxillary posterior teeth. After diagnostic wax-up, reversible provisional prostheses were used to evaluate the new OVD in the maxilla and mandible. After that, the patient was evaluated clinically based on the criteria of esthetic, phonetic, and OVD. After 8 weeks, teeth with excessive wear were treated with root canal therapy and fiber post and core and irreversible provisional prostheses were done. After 8 weeks of observation period, final restorations with fixed partial dentures and removable partial dentures were made. Throughout the follow-up period of 6 months, no symptoms related with increased OVD and mechanical complications were observed.
Aged, 80 and over ; Dentists ; Denture, Partial, Fixed ; Denture, Partial, Removable ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Male ; Mandible ; Maxilla ; Porphyrins ; Prostheses and Implants ; Root Canal Therapy ; Tooth ; Vertical Dimension

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Flavonoids contained in grapes are potent antioxidants that may protect against oxidative stress and reduce the risk of chronic diseases related with free radical damage. In this study we investigated the effect of daily grape juice supplementation on blood pressure (BP), plasma lipid profiles and the generation of free radicals in 67 healthy volunteers (29 smoker, 38 nonsmokers). The daily 480 ml of grape juice supplementation for 8 weeks resulted in a significant decrease in diastolic BP by 6.5% in smokers and systolic and diastolic BP by 11.2 and 3.7% in non-smokers. Plasma total cholesterol, HDL- and LDL-cholesterol levels in smokers and total cholesterol in non-smokers were significantly increased after the intervention. Plasma triglycerides and conjugated dienes were not affected by grape juice supplementation. Levels of free radical determined by reading the lucigenin-perborate ROS generating sources, decreased significantly by 18% compared to the beginning of the study. The results indicated that the consumption of grape juice may reduce BP and free radical generation in smokers, which was possibly exerted by flavonoids. Our findings suggested that the grape juice has protective effect on chronic disease due to the overproduction of free radical in smokers.
Antioxidants ; Blood Pressure ; Breast* ; Cholesterol ; Chronic Disease ; Flavonoids ; Free Radicals ; Healthy Volunteers ; Milk, Human* ; Minerals* ; Oxidative Stress ; Plasma ; Triglycerides ; Vitis

In the case of edentulous patients, the total amount of occlusal force is dispersed by the keratinized gingiva during mastication, in result, causing lower masticatory and chewing efficiency. In particular, the mandibular area has more side effects such as pain than the maxilla has. It gets worse when the patient has more absorption of alveolar bone, but the implant treatment is often interrupted due to the existence of the inferior alveolar nerve. In this case, a patient treated with the all-on-4 method by placing the implant in the anterior part of mandible and with the conventional complete denture for the maxilla has maintained without complications and was satisfied with the restoration both functionally and esthetically.
Absorption ; Bite Force ; Denture, Complete ; Gingiva ; Humans ; Mandible ; Mandibular Nerve ; Mastication ; Maxilla ; Methods

BACKGROUND: Transfusion-associated bacterial contamination (TABC) have become one of the major hazards of transfusion and the donors' normal skin flora is considered to be the most important source of contamination. We therefore evaluated the effectiveness of single-use blood donor arm antiseptic kits available on the Korean market. METHODS: Forty-eight antiseptic kits of two manufacturers consisting of 70% isopropyl alcohol swab stick and 10% povidone iodine swab stick were evaluated for their performance in reducing the bacterial load of the skin before and after disinfection. Staff response about ease of use was also evaluated. RESULTS: Whereas before disinfection the mean bacterial count was 5 CFU/plate or less, after disinfection bacterial growth was hardly observed. Overall both antiseptic kits showed a percent reduction of more than 98% compared to predisinfection. The amount of antiseptic solution of one manufacturers' kit was excessive and leakage of the antiseptic solution was also observed. CONCLUSION: The effectiveness of both antiseptic kits evaluated in this study was satisfactory to be used for blood donors, but an improvement to the packaging of one manufacturers' kit is required before it can be used in the field.
2-Propanol ; Arm* ; Bacterial Load ; Blood Donors* ; Disinfection ; Humans ; Povidone-Iodine ; Product Packaging ; Skin

OBJECTIVE: The identifying schizotypal trait in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients is important to predict clinical course, since those patients are hardly overcome through conventional intervention methods. This paper presents the trial of classification method of obsessive-compulsive disorder with schizotypal trait using Frontal Lobe Function Test (FLFT). METHODS: 110 OCD patients are divided into two groups:27 pure OCD patients, and 83 non-pure OCD patients. After training artificial neural network (ANN) using frontal-lobe function test data of train data (schizophrenia, pure OCD, and normal group), we classify test data (non-pure OCD patients) into one of the three groups. RESULTS: Among the total 83 test data (non-pure OCD patients), 44 patients were classified as schizophrenia, 32 patients as normal, and 7 patients as pure OCD. With respect to the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) data of those classified patients, ordering score in compulsion was significantly different between three groups. Moreover, cluster A socre (Schizoid, Schizotypal) of Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire (PDQ) data showed significant difference between them. CONCLUSION: The results presented that those OCD patients who are classified as schizophrenia using generated model with machine learning technique is tend to have compulsive symptom of arrangement and schizotypal personality disorder.
Machine Learning ; Classification* ; Frontal Lobe* ; Humans ; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder* ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Schizophrenia ; Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Breastfeeding is widely recommended to reduce risk of sensitization, eczema and asthma. However, the role of breastfeeding in prevention of allergic diseases is uncertain. We aimed to investigate whether the relationship between breastfeeding and sensitization to aeroallergens is modified by cluster of differentiation 14 (CD14) genotype. This study included 1,828 school children aged 9-12. We administered a detailed questionnaire and genotyped the CD14C-159T polymorphism. Skin prick tests for 12 aeroallergens were performed. School children who had been breastfed were less likely sensitized to aeroallergens (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 0.712, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.555-0.914). There was no significant association between CD14C-159T genotype and atopy. Breastfeeding was associated with a decreased risk of atopic sensitization in children with CT/CC genotype (aOR 0.667, 95% CI: 0.463-0.960). Our data might identify the gene-environment interaction between the CD14C-159T polymorphism and breastfeeding in relation to aeroallergen sensitization.
Aged ; Asthma ; Breast Feeding ; Child ; Eczema ; Gene-Environment Interaction ; Genotype ; Humans ; Odds Ratio ; Skin ; Surveys and Questionnaires