This study was a descriptive research in search of a nursing intervention scheme to improve stroke patients' quality of life by understanding the relationship of stroke patients' ADL. depression, self-efficacy and quality of life with various variables and identifying factors that affect their quality of life. Each subject was interviewed one to one based on a structured questionnaire. With regard to research tools, Modified Barthel Index (MBI: Fortinsky et al., 1981), which was translated by Choi, Hye-sook (996), was used in measuring ADL, Randloff's (1977) tool. which was translated by Choi, Soon-hee, was used in measuring depression, and the tool developed by Sherer et al. (1982), which is to measures self-efficacy under general conditions not limited to specific conditions, and modified by O, Bok-ja (1994) was used in measuring self-efficacy. The quality of life was measured using the scale of satisfaction of life developed by Diener et al.(1985). The results of this study were as follows: 1. The means of ADL of the subjects was 79.5+/-1.9, depression 26.8+/-0.4. self-efficacy 47.1+/-5.7, and the quality of life 12.3+/-.9. 2. The subjects' quality of life showed a statistically significant difference according to gender (t=7.9, p= .006), satisfaction with income (F= 5.8, p = .004), the burden of medical fee (F=3.7, p= .028) and the period of disease (F=2.8. p= .042). 3. With regard to relationship among ADL, depression, self-efficacy and the quality of life, ADL was in a relatively low positive correlation (r= .293, p= .003) with and the quality of life, depression in a high negative correlation (r=- .634. p= .000) with the quality of life. and self-efficacy in a positive correlation with the quality of life (r= .388. p= .000). 4. Factors that made a significant influence on the quality of life were depression (8=- .309. p= .001) and satisfaction with income (8=-2.611. p= .001). Based on these results, this study made following suggestions: 1. It is necessary to run rehabilitation programs to improve stroke patients' ADL, depression and self-efficacy. 2. It is necessary to perform research of monitoring stroke patients' quality of life in various areas using measuring tools.
Activities of Daily Living* ; Depression* ; Fees, Medical ; Nursing ; Quality of Life* ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Rehabilitation ; Stroke*

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PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify the casual relationship between nurses' social capital, job engagement and nursing performance and to verify the goodness of fit between a hypothetical model and actual data in order to suggest the best model. METHODS: This survey was conducted with 250 nurses working in 3 general hospitals in Seoul. Data were collected from June 20 to July 29, 2016 and analyzed using SPSS/WIN 21.0 and AMOS 21.0. RESULTS: Nurses' social capital and job engagement were found to have no direct effect on increasing nursing performance. But, it was found that social capital and job engagement had indirect effects on nursing performance through mediating organizational citizenship behavior. Social capital had direct effects on increasing job engagement and indirect effects on organizational citizenship behavior. CONCLUSION: Results of this study indicate that nurse managers should concentrate efforts on increasing nurses's job engagement and preparing organization to increase social capital in order to improve nursing performance.
Hospitals, General ; Humans ; Negotiating* ; Nurse Administrators ; Nursing* ; Seoul ; Social Capital* ; Work Performance

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PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to find out the quality of life and to identify the related characteristics for nursing care in pneumconiosis elderly patients. METHODS: The subjects for this study were 206 elderly patients who received pneumoconiosis treatment in the two pneumoconiosis specialized hospitals located in Gangwondo, Korea. The instrument used for this study was Quality of Life Index Pulmonary version III. The data was collected from February 17 to March 10, 2003, and analyzed by t-test, ANOVA, Duncan test using SPSS. RESULTS: The results of this study were as follows : 1. The highest frequency in chief complaints was dyspnea, 91 subjects(44.2%), and complications was tuberculosis, 88 subjects (42.7%). 2. The total mean score of the level of quality of life was 14.49+/-2.18. 3. The score of quality of life showed higher in good family relationship group than the other after diagnosed pneumoconisis(F=5.486, P=0.001). 4. The comparison of quality of life was significant according to oxygen use(t=2.674, P=0.008), bronchodilators use(t=2.678, P=0.008), and prospect of future health status concerning pneumoconiosis(F=2.960, P=0.021). CONCLUSIONS: In conclusion, adequate nursing intervention as effective management of respiratory symptoms and improvement of family support will be needed to improve the quality of life in pneumoconiosis elderly patients.
Aged* ; Bronchodilator Agents ; Dyspnea ; Family Relations ; Gangwon-do ; Humans ; Korea ; Nursing ; Nursing Care ; Oxygen ; Pneumoconiosis ; Quality of Life* ; Tuberculosis

The authors evaluated ultlrasonographic findings of surgically or pathologically proven anterior abdominalwall lesion in 17 cases. The results were follows; 1. Ultrasonography is an accurate, convenient and noninvasive method to detect and determine the extent of anterior abdominal wall lesion. 2. Peritoneal fascia interface is animportant landmark in differenciation between intraperitoneal and abdominal wall lesion. 3. Sonographic differenciation of abscess and hematoma from tumor was impossible.
Abdominal Wall ; Abscess ; Fascia ; Hematoma ; Methods ; Ultrasonography

A retrospective analysis of ultrasonograms of 24 patients with acute pancreatitis and 8 patients with chronicpancreatitis was performed. Nine cases were proven by surgery and 23 cases were diagnosed clinically. Generalizedpancreatic enlargement with normal in size and echogenicity was normal or slightly altered in chronicpancreatitis. Ultrasonography is considered a simple and accurate method in the diagnosis of acute pancreatitisand thus it could be an initial test in patients with suspected acute pancreatitis.
Diagnosis ; Humans ; Methods ; Pancreatitis ; Retrospective Studies ; Ultrasonography

PURPOSE: This study was done to compare the effectiveness of web based learning versus traditional education for learning foley-catheterization in Basic Nursing. METHOD: This study was a quasi-experimental research. The participants were 60 students who were taking Basic Nursing at A nursing college (3 years) in G city. Thirty students each were assigned to the experimental or control group. Data were collected between October 20 and November 4, 2003. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test and ANCOVA. RESULTS: The mean score for competence in foley-catheterization practice in the experimental group was 48.63 and in the control group, 44.67. This result was statistically significant (t=7.655, p=.001). The mean score for knowledge in the experimental group was 63.0, while for the control group, 64.0. This result was not statistically significant (t=-.330, p=.743). The mean score for confidence in learning in the experimental group was 26.70 for the pre-test and 30.73 for the post-test, and in the control group 27.93 and 28.37 respectively, but this result was not statistically significant (F=.858, p=.358). CONCLUSION: The Web based learning was found to be effective in nursing practice but not nursing knowledge. It is necessary to continue to develop approaches to teaching nursing and to evaluate these approaches with further research.
Education ; Education, Nursing* ; Humans ; Learning* ; Mental Competency* ; Nursing*

PURPOSE: The smoking rates among teenagers in Korea grow gradually since 1980s despite of the numerous programs for youth smoking prevention and cessation have been developed and implemented. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the processes of habituating to smoking among teenagers using the grounded theory methodology. METHOD: Qualitative data was collected via six focus group interviews. A total of 38 people, twelve teachers and 24 middle school students participated in this study. All focus group interviews were tape-recorded, transcribed, and analyzed according to the grounded theory methodology. RESULTS: The overriding theme of the elicited grounded theory was "stepping into a quagmire by a merest chance". The student participants began smoking by a simple chance. The contingent factors to starting smoking were "discord within the family", "family member's smoking", "schoolwork stresses", or "a rebellious spirit". The conditions of smoking included accessibility, going around in group, and the lack of discipline. "Stigmatizing", "involved in mob violence", and "making a poor academic record" coexisted as the covariance of the smoking habituation. CONCLUSION: The findings of this study illustrated the comprehensive and insightful picture of the phenomena under investigation. Nursing implications and further directions for research were discussed.
Adolescent* ; Focus Groups ; Humans ; Korea ; Nursing ; Smoke* ; Smoking* ; Tobacco Products

Preparation of a pure autoantigen by way of recombinant DNA technology has an important value in an accurate diagnosis or prognosis of an autoimmune disease. BCOADC-E2 subunit, a mitochondrial protein, has been known to be the autoantigen of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), a chronic autoimmune liver disease, as well as idiopathic dilated cardiomypathy (IDCM), a chronic autoimmune heart disease. Recombinant form of this molecule had been expressed in E. coli but with low yield and severe degradation. Furthermore, sera from IDCM patients failed to recognized BCOADC-E2 molecule produced in prokaryotic expression system. In this study, a recombinant bovine BCOADC-E2 fusion protein has been expressed in insect cells using baculovirus expression system and analyzed anti-BCOADC-E2 reactivity in sera from patients with PBC or with IDCM. Optimal production of the recombinant fusion protein has been achieved at 20 multiplicity of infection (MOI), and the protein was affinity-purified using metal-binding resins. The affinity-purified BCOADC-E2 protein was successfully recognized by sera from PBC patients, but not by sera from IDCM patients suggesting that the different auto-immune response against BCOADC-E2 is needed to be elucidated in terms of epitope recognition.
Acetyltransferases/metabolism ; Acetyltransferases/immunology ; Acetyltransferases/genetics* ; Animal ; Baculoviridae/genetics ; Cardiomyopathy, Congestive/immunology ; Cattle ; Human ; Immune Sera ; Insects/cytology* ; Ketone Oxidoreductases/metabolism ; Ketone Oxidoreductases/immunology* ; Ketone Oxidoreductases/genetics* ; Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary/immunology ; Multienzyme Complexes/metabolism ; Multienzyme Complexes/immunology* ; Multienzyme Complexes/genetics* ; Protein Engineering/methods ; Recombinant Proteins/isolation & purification ; Recombinant Proteins/immunology ; Recombinant Proteins/genetics*