Purpose: This study explored the counseling experience of infertility nurses using in depth interview. Methods: The study participants included nurses of infertility centers located “Seoul” city, Korea. The data collection involved fieldwork in nursing at the infertility center of 2 hospitals. Data were analyzed using text analysis and qualitative research was conducted to analyzed the data. Results: The analysis yielded four essential themes: (1) therapeutic communication, (2) identifying the problem of infertile patients and proceeding consultation, (3) professional image and polite attitude, and (4) counseling relaxed comfortably. Conclusion Infertility nurses’ counseling experience is directed toward the development of an infertility counseling model.

PURPOSE: The objective of this study was to investigate the patients' needs on integrated supportive service programs for the abortion women. METHODS: The 49 participants in this study were abortion experienced women in 2 infertility hospitals. Data were collected using a structure self-report questionnaire including medical treatment and nursing after abortion, symptom recognition and sexual problems after abortion, management in daily care after abortion and supportive system after abortion. RESULTS: Participants had an average score 3.54 for the need of medical treatment and nursing after abortion, 3.50 for the need of symptom recognition and sexual problems after abortion, 3.27 for the need of management in daily care after abortion and 3.28 for the need of supportive system after abortion. CONCLUSION: In order to effectively conduct integrated supportive service programs for the abortion women, it is necessary to understand appropriate nursing care for women after abortion.
Comprehensive Health Care ; Female ; Health Services Needs and Demand ; Humans ; Infertility ; Needs Assessment ; Nursing Care ; Nursing ; Pregnancy Complications

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify attributes of the concept of healing. METHODS: Using Walker & Avant's concept analysis framework, medical & nursing text books and, research articles about healing published between 2000 and 2014 were reviewed. RESULTS: There were four aspects of the concept of healing: natural process through spiritual and mental purification; resilience of emotions and feeling in human nature; holistic cure as well as physical and mental treatment of disease; and harmonious balance and overall well-being of mind and body. Antecedents of healing that helped to purify the mind were illness recovery and injury perception. Empirical referents of healing were purifying the mind, quality of life and health-related spirituality. The consequences of healing were effective on the physical, psychosocial, spiritual and overall well-being of the patients. CONCLUSION: This concept analysis of healing help us to understand more clearly overall health and the health of patients in the clinical field. The concept of healing could be useful to promote health and well-being.
Human Characteristics ; Humans ; Mental Healing ; Nursing ; Nursing Theory ; Quality of Life ; Spiritual Therapies ; Spirituality

PURPOSE: The purposes of this study were to identify the relationships among perceived parental bonding, illness perception, and anxiety and to determine the influences of perceived parental bonding and illness perception on anxiety in adult patients with congenital heart diseases. METHODS: In this study a descriptive correlational design with survey method was utilized. The participants were 143 adult patients with congenital heart disease being cared for in the cardiology out-patient clinic of A medical center. Data were collected using the Parental Bonding Instrument, Illness Perception Questionnaire Revised Scale, and Cardiac Anxiety Questionnaire Scale. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation analysis, and hierarchial regression analyses. RESULTS: There showed significant positive relationships of anxiety with maternal overprotection, consequences, and personal control respectively. Among predictors, maternal overprotection (β=.45), consequence (β=.26), and personal control (β=-.03) had statistically significant influence on anxiety. CONCLUSION: Nursing interventions to decrease maternal overprotection and negative consequence, and to enhance personal control are essential to decrease the anxiety of adult patients with congenital heart diseases.
Adult* ; Anxiety* ; Cardiology ; Family Relations ; Heart Defects, Congenital ; Heart Diseases* ; Heart* ; Humans ; Nursing ; Outpatients ; Parents* ; Surveys and Questionnaires

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify the experiences of patients with ovarian cancer undergoing chemotherapy METHODS: A phenomenological method was used in this study. Data were collected by individual in-depth interviews with six participants with ovarian cancer undergoing chemotherapy during 2016. Colaizzi's phenomenology has been adopted as a research method in this qualitative study. RESULTS: Seven theme clusters were derived from the data as follows: ‘Recognizing cancer diagnosis and treatment as braking in life,’‘Effect on being a housewife as a cancer patient,’‘Ambivalence about treatment,’‘Fear with physical side effects,’‘Losing sexuality as a woman,’‘Affected by other ovarian cancer patients,’‘Practice hope after treatment.’ CONCLUSION: Patients with ovarian cancer experienced tremendous physical and psychosocial problems. This finding demonstrates the need to develop appropriate nursing interventions for issues related to the experience of patients with ovarian cancer receiving chemotherapy.
Diagnosis ; Drug Therapy* ; Hope ; Humans ; Methods ; Nursing ; Ovarian Neoplasms* ; Qualitative Research ; Sexuality

PURPOSE: This study examined the effects of intentional nursing rounds based on the care model on patients' perceived nursing quality and their satisfaction with nursing services. METHODS: The study design was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The participants were assigned to the intervention group or the control group in two orthopedic wards of a teaching hospital. A total of 9 rounds (at 7 AM, 9 AM, 12 PM, 3 PM, 5 PM, 8 PM, 10 PM, 2 AM, and 5 AM) were performed every 2 or 3 hours to the experimental group. The intentional nursing rounding intervention was developed through a theoretical development program involving six basic principles which are maintaining belief, knowing, being with, doing for, enabling, and patients' wellness. To evaluate the effects of intentional nursing rounds, data were collected through the Perception of Quality Nursing Care Scale and the Patients' Satisfaction with Nursing Care Quality Questionnaire. RESULTS: The participants were 70 patients (experimental group) and 75 patients (control group). Results of difference-in-difference analysis confirmed that the patient-perceived nursing quality level from the experimental group was 0.85 points (out of 5.00) higher (p = .041) and the satisfaction with nursing services level was 8.28 points (out of 110.00) higher (P < .001) than the control group. CONCLUSION: These results proposed that intentional nursing rounds based on the care model were effective in improving perception of quality nursing care and patients' satisfaction with nursing care. Structured patient-oriented intentional nursing rounds based on the care model are expected to expand to a variety of clinical settings further.
Hospitals, Teaching ; Humans ; Nursing Care ; Nursing Service, Hospital ; Nursing Services* ; Nursing* ; Orthopedics ; Patient Satisfaction ; Quality of Health Care

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of oral cryotherapy on oral mucositis, reactive oxygen series, inflammatory cytokines, and oral comfort in patients undergoing chemotherapy for gynecologic cancers. METHODS: Participants were randomly assigned to the experimental group (n=25, receiving oral cryotherapy during chemotherapy) and the control group (n=25, receiving the usual care consisting of 0.9% normal saline gargles three times before meals). Oral mucositis was assessed using the oral assessment guide, while oral comfort was assessed using the oral perception guide. Reactive oxygen series was measured as total oxidant stress, and the level of two inflammatory markers, interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), were examined. The data were analyzed using t-test, chi-square test, Fisher's exact test, Mann-Whitney U-test, and repeated measures analysis of variance. RESULTS: There was a significant difference in the oral mucositis score, reactive oxygen series score, TNF-α level, and oral comfort score between the two groups, and there were significant changes over time and in the group-by-time interactions. There was a significant difference in the IL-6 score between the two groups, but there were no significant changes over time or in the group-by-time interactions. CONCLUSION: The study results revealed that oral cryotherapy was more effective than the usual care regime of normal saline gargles for reducing oral mucositis, reactive oxygen series, and inflammatory cytokines and for improving oral comfort in gynecologic cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.
Cryotherapy ; Cytokines ; Drug Therapy ; Humans ; Interleukin-6 ; Mucositis ; Oxygen ; Stomatitis ; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of oral cryotherapy on oral mucositis, reactive oxygen series, inflammatory cytokines, and oral comfort in patients undergoing chemotherapy for gynecologic cancers. METHODS: Participants were randomly assigned to the experimental group (n=25, receiving oral cryotherapy during chemotherapy) and the control group (n=25, receiving the usual care consisting of 0.9% normal saline gargles three times before meals). Oral mucositis was assessed using the oral assessment guide, while oral comfort was assessed using the oral perception guide. Reactive oxygen series was measured as total oxidant stress, and the level of two inflammatory markers, interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), were examined. The data were analyzed using t-test, chi-square test, Fisher's exact test, Mann-Whitney U-test, and repeated measures analysis of variance. RESULTS: There was a significant difference in the oral mucositis score, reactive oxygen series score, TNF-α level, and oral comfort score between the two groups, and there were significant changes over time and in the group-by-time interactions. There was a significant difference in the IL-6 score between the two groups, but there were no significant changes over time or in the group-by-time interactions. CONCLUSION The study results revealed that oral cryotherapy was more effective than the usual care regime of normal saline gargles for reducing oral mucositis, reactive oxygen series, and inflammatory cytokines and for improving oral comfort in gynecologic cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.

Purpose: This study evaluated the validity and reliability of the Korean version of the Face Mask Use Scale (K-FMUS) among community-dwelling adults. Methods: The participants of the study were community-dwelling adults in Korea using face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. The English FMUS was translated into Korean using forward and backward translation procedures. The construct validity and reliability of the K-FMUS were evaluated using the exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses and the internal consistency reliability test. Results: The K-FMUS comprised 6 items divided into 2 factors. The variance of the factors was approximately 79.1%, which suggested that the scale indicated the effectiveness of face mask usage. The two factors were labeled as face mask use in society (4 items) and face mask use at home (2 items). Cronbach’s α value for the overall scale was .88. Conclusion The K-FMUS is a valid and reliable scale that can be used to measure face mask usage among community-dwelling adults in Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the actual situation of mask wearing by adults in the early stages of the coronavirus epidemic and to identify factors that influence the transition to mask wearing and establish a management plan for more effective infectious disease prevention. Methods: This study was a multinational study conducted in ten countries. Data collected in Korea were analyzed. Adults over the age of 18 in the Seoul and Gyeonggi areas were targeted, and data for 657 adults were analyzed. Results: The average score for mask-wearing compliance was 16.25, ranging from 0 to 24. There was a significant positive correlation between anxiety and depression, as well as anxiety and mask-wearing compliance. There was a significant negative correlation between depression and mask-wearing compliance. Multiple linear regression revealed that mask-wearing compliance was predicted by levels of the anxiety, depression, and education. These explanatory variables explaining the dependent variable mask-wearing compliance was 12%. Conclusion To identify and improve factors influencing mask-wearing compliance, general characteristics including educational background of participants were identified. Psychosocial factors such as anxiety and depression should also be considered. In addition, as the level of anxiety and depression will differ for each person, differentiated interventions according to psychological state should be provided.