PURPOSE: The purpose of this research is to provide basic informations for the encouragements of premature infants' breast feeding. METHOD: From August 10 to October 9, 2002, we have carried out a statical research which surveyed 148 mothers of premature infants registered in NICU. The sample had generated cluster-randomly from 25 General Hospitals, all over the Korea peninsula and being surveyed with 74 questionnaires. RESULT: Mean hospitalized day of premature infants was 27.9 days. The mean total feeding period was 19.1 days and continuous breast feeding period 12.4days. They were interested in breast feeding education-they answered that they would join the breast feeding education if they were given the chance 87.8%. There was significant relation between babies fed only breast milk and the body weight of birth(p < .05). The reasons why mother gave the baby her breast milk include 'for her baby's health' and 'people said breast milk is good for babies' with a portion of 99%. The main reason why mothers could not execute breast feeding was 'the deficit of breast milk volume' 50.0% and other reason were 'because of start to support more nutritions '18.2%, 'difficulty to carry out the breast milk to hospital'13.6%. The reasen why mothers could not try breast feeding at first were 'deficit of breast milk volume'37.0%, 'not to be prepared for breast feeding because of unexpected delivery'32.6%. CONCLUSION: We need a program to inform importance and excellent of the breast feeding and a plan to increase the premature infants' breast feeding through the importation of fortifier.
Body Weight ; Breast Feeding* ; Breast* ; Education ; Hospitals, General ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Infant, Premature* ; Korea ; Milk, Human ; Mothers ; Child Health ; Surveys and Questionnaires

PURPOSE: This study was performed to identify the effect of admission type on college adaptation and academic achievement in one nursing school in order to refine the entrance selection system. METHODS: Subjects were 405 nursing students (female : male = 385 : 20, first grade = 155, second grade = 138, third grade = 112). They were given the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (SACQ) purchased from Western Psychological Service. SACQ is composed of 67 questions and subdivided into 4 subcategories: academic adjustment, social adjustment, personal-emotional adjustment, and attachment. Student college adaptation scores and academic achievements were analyzed with reference to the entrance selection system (rolling admission vs. regular admission) by SPSS 22.0. The rolling admission system recruited students based on high school records only while the regular admission system was based on both high school records and the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT). RESULTS: Total College adaptation score, personal-emotional adjustment score, and academic achievement were higher in regular-admission students than in those admitted through rolling admission. Academic achievement for first-grade students was higher in regular-admission students than for those admitted through rolling admission, But the difference in academic achievement became null as students were promoted to the second and third grades. CONCLUSION: Students recruited using both high school records and the CSAT showed better college adaptation and higher academic achievement.
Humans ; Male ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Schools, Nursing* ; Social Adjustment ; Students, Nursing

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to identify and compare social capital measurement tools for the convenient use in public health studies. METHOD AND RESULT: This study examined and compared social capital tools developed individually by the World Bank, the OECD, the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and Korea. A comprehensive framework was constructed with six conceptual dimensions and sixteen indices. The six dimensions included Membership, Network, Trust, Information and communication, Social and civic participation, and Social cohesion and exclusion, which connoted the structural, cognitive, bonding, bridging, operative, and output elements. The indices of each tool were respectively matched to the indices of the comprehensive framework. The comprehensive tools were Integrated Questionnaire for the Measurement of Social Capital (SC-IQ) of the World Bank with 27 questions and the European Social Survey (ESS) of the OECD with 80 questions. CONCLUSION: The SC-IQ should be utilized in public health studies due to its simplicity yet comprehensiveness as a social capital tool. The ESS should also be considered as a comprehensive tool.
Academies and Institutes ; Australia ; Canada ; Great Britain ; Ireland ; Korea ; Public Health ; United Nations ; United States ; Surveys and Questionnaires

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Cicatrix* ; Cleft Lip* ; Congenital Abnormalities* ; Nose*

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Cell Line, Tumor* ; Humans* ; Interferon-gamma*

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Ossicular Prosthesis*

We investigated the growth inhibitory effects of Atrina pecitinata (AP) on the proliferation in human cancer cell lines in vitro. AP was extracted with methanol which was further fractionated into four diffferent types: methanol (APMM), haxane (APMH), butanol (APMB), and aquous layers (APMA). Among various partition layers, the APMM showed the strongest cytotoxic effects on all cancer cell lines which we used. In the MTT assay of AP fractions, the growth inhibitory effects was increased in proportion to its concentration. We observed quinone reductase (QR) induced effects in all fraction layers of AP on HepG2 cells. The QR induced effects of APMM on HepG2 cell at 80 microgram/mL concentration indicated 2.0 with a control value of 1.0.
Cell Line* ; Hep G2 Cells ; Humans ; Methanol ; NAD(P)H Dehydrogenase (Quinone)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of epidural injections of steroid and local anesthetics with the modified Dallas pain questionnaire in the low back pain patients. METHOD: Before and after epidural injections with triamcinolone and local anesthetics, we examined the patients with modified Dallas pain questionnaire. The efficacy was assessed by paired t test to compare the results of this questionnaire. RESULTS: Four aspects of the patient's life (daily activity, work and leisure activity, anxiety- depression, and social interest) were significantly improved after epidural injection in low back pain patients. And their improvements were more definite in patients diagnosed with herniatied lumbar disc, relatively acute onset of symptom, and more serious findings in MRI. CONCLUSION: Epdiural injections of steroid and local anesthetics are effective for patients with low back pain, espercially for improving life quality of patients such as daily activity and work-leisure activity. It also decreases anxiety and increases social interest in some patients. However, validity of modified Dallas pain questionnaire must be proved in the future.
Anesthetics, Local ; Anxiety ; Depression ; Humans ; Injections, Epidural* ; Leisure Activities ; Low Back Pain* ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Quality of Life ; Surveys and Questionnaires* ; Triamcinolone

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of epidural injections of hypertonic saline, steroid and local anesthetics in patients with low back pain and sciatica. METHOD: Retrospective study of 325 patients with low back pain and sciatica. Group I, 261 patients, were treated with epidural injection of steroid (Depo-medrol ) weekly for 2 weeks and local anesthetics (lidocaine and bupivacaine) daily via epidural catheter. Group II, 64 patients, were treated with epidural injection of hypertonic saline for three successive days and same method of group I via epidural catheter. The efficacy was assessed with Visual Analog Scale (VAS) on the day of pre- and post- (2weeks later) epidural injection. RESULTS: (1) VAS score changes from pre- to post-epidural injections were from 6.1+/-3.6 to 3.6+/-1.8 (p<0.05) in Group I and from 6.2+/-1.6 to 2.6+/-1.4 (p<0.05) in Group II. (2) VAS score decrease of Group II was more than that of Group I (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: Epidural injections of hypertonic saline, steroid and local anesthetics are effective for patients with low back pain and sciatica in the short term, and more effective than that of steroid and local anesthetics, but prospective long-term follow up studies will be necessary in the future.
Anesthetics, Local* ; Catheters ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Injections, Epidural* ; Low Back Pain ; Retrospective Studies ; Sciatica ; Visual Analog Scale

BACKGROUND: Both left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and microalbuminuria (MA) are well described markers or surrogate for cardiovascular outcome. Many factors are known to be related to the two markers which are encountered together in some patients. But the epidemiological backgrounds for the two markers are not clearly demonstrated so far. METHODS: Measurements of echocardiographic left ventricular mass index (LVMI) and MA were introduced to the population survey in Yangpyeong County, Korea in 2005 and 2006 for 1,767 among 2,028 subjects. The criteria for MA were 17-250 mg/g of albumin creatinine ratio (ACR) in male and 25-355 mg/g in female. 1,636 data were analyzed. RESULTS: Age was 60.9 +/- 10.4 years and the proportion of female was 59.4% (972). Body mass index (BMI) was 24.7 +/- 3.21 kg/m2 and blood pressure were 124.1 +/- 17.3 mm Hg/80.0 +/- 10.5 mm Hg. LVMI was 45.3 +/- 11.6 g/m2.7 and ACR was 23.9 +/- 150.9 mg/g. Prevalence of LVH and MA were 23.5% and 12.2%, respectively. In male/female, odds ratios for MA were 1.035 (range, 1.010-1.061)/1.01 (range, 0.988-1.032) for age, 0.962 (range, 0.882-1.049)/0.941 (range, 0.881-1.006) for BMI, 1.754 (range, 1.097-2.804)/2.158 (range, 1.413-3.298) for hypertension (HTN), 4.87 (range, 2.883-8.226)/2.154 (range, 1.311-3.539) for diabetes, 1.005 (range, 0.999-1.012)/1.007 (range, 1.002-1.012) for cholesterol, and 1.011 (range, 0.987-1.035)/1.011 (range, 0.994-1.029) for LVH. CONCLUSIONS: In a population level, even if diabetes was strongest factor for MA, HTN is also independent factor for MA in both genders.
Albuminuria ; Blood Pressure ; Body Mass Index ; Cholesterol ; Creatinine ; Female ; Humans ; Hypertension ; Hypertrophy ; Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular ; Korea ; Male ; Obesity ; Odds Ratio ; Prevalence ; Republic of Korea