1.Factors related to Disturbing Behaviors, Premorbid Personality and Depression in the Pre-demented Elderly and the Mild Demented Elderly.
Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 2005;16(4):424-436
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify premorbid personality, depression and disturbing behaviors to provide information for developing nursing interventions for the pre-demented and mild demented elderly living as residents of their community. METHOD: The survey was conducted through direct interviews using a structured questionnaire in J city. Among the subjects contacted, 89 made appropriate replies to the survey. RESULT: The subjects' disturbing behaviors were significantly related to premorbid personality and depression. The predictors to disturbing behaviors of the pre-demented elderly were sex, extroversion, neuroticism and conscientiousness. The predictors to disturbing behaviors of the mild demented elderly were agreeableness, depression, sex, conscientiousness, and extroversion. CONCLUSION: In conclusion, disturbing behaviors of pre-demented elderly and mild demented elderly are affected not only by their premorbid personality but also by their depression. Therefore, it is necessary to encourage and respond to them with understanding their disturbing, behaviors in relation to their premorbid personality. In addition. it is important to maintain positive emotion in order to reduce their disturbing behaviors.
Aged*
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Dementia
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Depression*
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Extraversion (Psychology)
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Humans
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Nursing
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Surveys and Questionnaires
2.Expression and Antigenicity of Replicase Protein from Snow Mountain-like Caliciviruses,Korean Isolates.
Mi Yoon CHANG ; Jai Myung YANG ; Kyung Hee KIM
Journal of the Korean Society of Virology 1997;27(2):151-160
In view of the potential of replicase protein as a diagnostic reagent for human caliciviruses (HuCVs), we have cloned and over-expressed this gene from the Snow Mountain-like Korean strains in Escherichia coli as a fusion protein with glutathione S-transferase (GST, and described the preliminary antigenic characterization of the recombinant products. Each 470bp fragment corresponding to highly conserved region of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase was generated by RT-PCR from stools of two diarrheal children, cloned in pMOSBlue T-vector, and subcloned between the EcoRI and SalI restriction sites of pGEX-47-3, a GST gene fusion vector, yielding pGCVpol. This construct expressed a Snow Mountain-like HuCV replicate under the control of the IPTG-inducible pac promoter. An extract prepared by sonication of the E. coli cell inclusion bodies bearing pGCVpol products was purified and analyzed by SDS-PAGE. After Coomassie blue staining, it was shown that the recombinant replicase migrated on the gels with an approximate molecular mass of 46.5 kDa, that was subsequently cleaved into a 26 kDa GST fragment and a 20.5 kDa replicase protein upon digestion with thrombin protease. The replicase was recognized on immunoblotting with the sera from symptomatic children with the HuCV-associated diarrhea but not by asymptomatic sera from adults. The results presented the first biological activity of individually expressed HuCV replicase subunit and provided important reagents for diagnosis of HuCV infection.
Adult
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Child
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Clone Cells
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Diagnosis
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Diarrhea
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Digestion
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Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
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Escherichia coli
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Gels
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Gene Fusion
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Glutathione Transferase
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Humans
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Immunoblotting
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Inclusion Bodies
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Indicators and Reagents
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RNA Replicase
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Snow*
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Sonication
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Staphylococcal Protein A
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Thrombin
3.Survey of Knowledge and Preventive Measures against Novel Influenza during the National Novel Influenza Pandemic Outbreak.
Og Son KIM ; Mi Yang JEON ; So Youn BANG
Korean Journal of Nosocomial Infection Control 2010;15(2):87-95
BACKGROUND: This study aimed at assessing the knowledge of the general public about novel influenza and the extent of preventive measures undertaken when information on novel influenza and its preventive measures was extensively broadcasted during the novel influenza outbreak. METHODS: Between September 21 and October 31, self-report questionnaires were distributed to 1,200 persons. The completed questionnaires were collected from 1,025 persons. The collected data was used to determine the frequency and percentage as well as to conduct analyses such as t-test, ANOVA, and logistic regression by using SPSS WIN 12.0. RESULTS: The knowledge on novel influenza and the performance of preventive measures were scored at 6.58 and 5.10, respectively, on a scale of 12. This finding suggested that the knowledge on novel influenza and the performance of preventive measures were low. The significant factors influencing the participants' knowledge on novel influenza were age and the experience of watching relevant educational programs on television, whereas the factors influencing the performance of preventive measures were academic career, working status, and the experience of watching relevant educational programs on television. Between knowledge and implementation of preventive measures, there was positive correlation at low level (r=0.112, P<0.001). CONCLUSION: In conclusion, this study demonstrated that factors influencing the knowledge on and the performance of preventive measures against a disease should be considered when developing prevention strategies, such as broadcast of educational programs on television, against influenza or similar infectious diseases during an outbreak.
Communicable Diseases
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Humans
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Influenza, Human
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Logistic Models
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Pandemics
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Television
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Surveys and Questionnaires
4.Clinical significance of brain SPECT in zipeprol abusers.
Dai Ok CHO ; Jae Phil KIM ; Deog Yoon KIM ; Hyung In YANG ; Eun Mi KOH ; Kwang Mi KIM ; Young Kil CHOI
Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine 1993;27(1):22-27
No abstract available.
Brain*
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Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon*
5.The immunological characteristics of adhesin in escherichia coli.
Yang Hyo OH ; Yung Bu KIM ; Gui Jeon CHOI ; Mi Gyeong KIM ; Min Jung KIM
Korean Journal of Immunology 1993;15(1):1-9
No abstract available.
Escherichia coli*
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Escherichia*
6.Identification and characterization of the fimbrial adhesin and gene product that regulates the expression of fimbriae in escherichia coli.
Yang Hyo OH ; Yung Bu KIM ; Gui Jeon CHOI ; Mi Gyeong KIM ; Min Jung KIM
Journal of the Korean Society for Microbiology 1992;27(5):391-405
No abstract available.
Escherichia coli*
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Escherichia*
7.A study for acoustic parameters in unilateral vocal cord palsy.
Ki Hwan HONG ; Kil Yang CHUNG ; Mi Chung KIM ; Nam Kyun KIM ; Boo Kil KIM
Korean Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery 1992;35(2):334-345
No abstract available.
Acoustics*
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Vocal Cord Paralysis*
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Vocal Cords*
8.The Lived Experience of Japanese Marriage-Immigrants' Caring for Parents-in-law with Chronic Illness.
Mi Suk CHOI ; Mi Young KIM ; Bok Sun YANG
Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education 2014;20(2):255-265
PURPOSE: The study was done to explore lived experience of Japanese women taking care of chronically ill parents-in-law at home under the Korean family culture emphasizing filial piety. METHOD: van Manen's Hermeneutic Phenomenology research method was applied to conduct in-depth analysis on the meaning and nature of those experiences. This method derives the universal and fundamental aspect of human being. RESULTS: There were 8 essential themes derived from the Japanese marriage-immigrants' experiences taking care of parents-in-law with chronic diseases as followings: 'stuck in a situation in which I am obligated to take care of the parent-in-law', 'hard to be the only person responsible to take care of the parent-in-law', 'unaccustomed to the Korean filial duty culture', 'the adverse effect of Korean-Japan history on taking care of the parent-in-law', 'refusing to let the taking care of the parent-in-law to be a shackle of my life', 'starting to be willing to take care of the parent-in-law', 'following through with my own way of taking care of the parent-in-law without being swayed by what others say', 'growing in the process of taking care of the parent-in-law'. CONCLUSION: The study results broadened ground to understand the experiences taking care of chronically ill parent-in-law from Japanese marriage-immigrants' social and cultural perspectives.
Asian Continental Ancestry Group*
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Chronic Disease*
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Female
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Humans
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Linear Energy Transfer
9.The role of age and relative body weight on serum cholesterol.
Se Jung YANG ; Kang Sook LEE ; Kyoung Mi KIM ; Yoon Mi WON ; Ho Cheol SHIN ; Eun Sook PARK
Journal of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine 1991;12(4):26-32
No abstract available.
Body Weight*
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Cholesterol*
10.A Depth of the Tuohy Needle in Thoracic Epidural Anesthesia.
Mi Kyung YANG ; Dong Hee KIM ; Kwang Woo KIM
Korean Journal of Anesthesiology 1994;27(7):778-781
A depth of the Tuohy needle in thoracic epidural anesthesia was measured in 101 patients undergoing thoracotomy. The patients were divided into two groups, which were received epidural anesthesia in T5-6 and T6-7 levels. The patient's age, sex, height and most recent antenatal or preoperative weight were obtained before measuring the needle depth. The PI (ponderal index) was calculated by dividing weight (Kg) by height (m). In patients of T5-6 group, the mean depth was found to be 6.14 cm which had no correlation with any other measurements. In patients of T6-7 group, the mean depth was found to be 6.16 cm which had no correlation with any other measurements.
Anesthesia, Epidural*
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Humans
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Needles*
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Thoracotomy