1.Change of bronchial permeability in patients with bronchial asthma.
Jeongsil HWANG ; Sinae KIM ; Jungu KWANCK ; Myungjae PARK ; Sootaek UH ; Yeontae CHUNG ; Yonghun KIM ; Choonsik PARK
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1991;38(2):164-171
No abstract available.
Asthma*
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Humans
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Permeability*
2.Psychosocial Pre-Transplant Assessment of Living Kidney Donors
Ah Rah LEE ; Myungjae BAIK ; Sang Min LEE ; Won Sub KANG ; Jin Kyung PARK
Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine 2023;31(2):43-49
In Korea, the dependence on living donations is high due to the shortage of organs available for donation compared to the number of people waiting for transplants and the number of living organ donations continues to increase. In particular, the number of living-donor transplantations is high worldwide, highlighting the importance of pre-transplant psychosocial evaluation of living kidney donors. According to previous studies, when evaluating living organ donors before transplantation, it is crucial to determine whether the donor can give informed consent and be aware of the risks after surgery. Pre-transplant evaluation tests such as ELPAT living organ donor Psychological Assessment Tool (EPAT), Live Donor Assessment Tool (LDAT), Living Donation Expectancies Questionnaire (LDEQ), Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 questionnaire (MMPI-2) and Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) are conducted for donors. After reviewing the literature on these pre-transplant psychosocial assessment tools, we will also look at legal considerations for living kidney donors in Korea and suggest an effective and essential pre-transplant screening evaluation method for living kidney transplant donors.
3.Contents of the Standardized Suicide Prevention Program for Gatekeeper Intervention in Korea, Version 2.0
Kyoung-Sae NA ; Seon-Cheol PARK ; Sun-Jung KWON ; Minjae KIM ; Hyoung-Jun KIM ; Myungjae BAIK ; Jinmi SEOL ; Eun Ji AN ; Sang Min LEE ; Eun-Jin LEE ; Meerae LIM ; Sung Joon CHO ; Gwang Hun KIM ; Nari KIM ; Hong Jin JEON ; Jong-Woo PAIK ; Kang Seob OH ; Hwa-Young LEE
Psychiatry Investigation 2020;17(11):1149-1157
Objective:
Suicide is a huge nationwide problem that incurs a lot of socio-economic costs. Suicide also inflicts severe distress on the people left behind. The government of the Republic of Korea has been making many policy efforts to reduce suicide rate. The gatekeeper program, ‘Suicide CARE’, is one of the meaningful modalities for preventing suicide.
Methods:
Multidisciplinary research team collaborated to update the ‘Suicide CARE’ to version 2.0.
Results:
In the ‘Introductory part’, the authors have the time to think about the necessity and significance of the program before conducting full-scale gatekeeper training. In the ‘Careful observation’ part, trainees learn how to understand and recognize the various linguistic, behavioral, and situational signals that a person shows before committing suicide. In the ‘Active listening’ part, trainees learn how to ask suicide with a value-neutral attitude as well listening empathetically. In the ‘Risk evaluation and Expert referral’ part, trainees learn intervening strategies to identify a person’s suicidal intention, plan, and past suicide attempts, and connect the person to appropriate institutes or services.
Conclusion
Subsequent studies should be conducted to verify the efficacy of the gatekeeper program.
4.“Suicide CARE” (Standardized Suicide Prevention Program for Gatekeeper Intervention in Korea): An Update
Seon-Cheol PARK ; Kyoung-Sae NA ; Sun-Jung KWON ; Minjae KIM ; Hyoung-Jun KIM ; Myungjae BAIK ; Jinmi SEOL ; Eun Ji AN ; Sang Min LEE ; Eun-Jin LEE ; Meerae LIM ; Sung Joon CHO ; Gwang Hun KIM ; Nari KIM ; Hong Jin JEON ; Jong-Woo PAIK ; Kang Seob OH ; Hwa-Young LEE
Psychiatry Investigation 2020;17(9):911-924
Objective:
In 2011, “Suicide CARE” (Standardized Suicide Prevention Program for Gatekeeper Intervention in Korea) was originally developed for the early detection of warning signs of suicide completion, since there is a tendency to regard emotional suppression as a virtue of Korean traditional culture. A total of 1.2 million individuals completed the training program of “Suicide CARE” in Korea.
Methods:
More sophisticated suicide prevention approaches according to age, sex, and occupation have been proposed, demanding for a more detailed revision of “Suicide CARE.” Thus, during the period from August 2019 to February 2020, “Suicide CARE” has been updated to version 2.0. The assessments on domestic gatekeeper training programs for suicide prevention, international gatekeeper training programs for suicide prevention, psychological autopsy interview reports between 2015 and 2018, and the evaluation of feedback from people who completed “Suicide CARE” version 1.6 training were performed.
Results:
We describe the revision process of “Suicide CARE,” revealing that “Suicide CARE” version 2.0 has been developed using an evidence-based methodology.
Conclusion
It is expected that “Suicide CARE” version 2.0 be positioned as the basic framework for many developing gatekeeper training programs for suicide prevention in Korea in the near future.