This is descripitive study conducted to identify educational needs of mothers of nephrotic syndrome patients. The study subjects were composed of 74 mothers of nephrotic syndrome patients whose children were hospitalized in 2 Pediatric wards of University Hospital in Seoul and 1 in Pusan from June to september in 1996. A questionnaire for this study was item Kikert type 5 point scale, developed on the basis of previous literature and researcher's clinical experience and the reliability of the used instruments was alpha=.97. t-test, and ANOVA were used to determine the effect of general characteristics of subjects on their educational needs. Pearson correlation was done to measure relations between general characteristics of subjects and their educational needs and Stepwise Multiple Regression was done to test a variable affecting educational needs. The results were as follows. 1. Mean score of the educational needs of the subjects was 137.06(Maximum 176). The educational needs of home care was the highest score, but the question numbers are smaller than other categories. So, the educational need of the diagnosis and treatment was regarded as the highest in contents. 2. The number of subject's children, except for patient revealed significant negative correlation to educational need. 3. The number of subject's children, except for patient(R2=.215289 P=.0006) and the age of patient(R2=.23770 P=.0001) were emerged as important variables affecting the degree of mothers' educational need. Suggestion are as follows on the basis of these results. 1. It is proposed that nurses use these results of the study activity for the educational program for Nephrotic Syndrome patients and their mothers. 2. It is identified that the educational needs of the mothers of nephrotic syndrome is high, So, it is suggested to identify and analysis the degree of the nurse's educational performance perceived by mother 3. It is suggested to make a comparative study of the degree of nurse's understanding of the importance on educational items with the instruments of this study.
Busan ; Child* ; Diagnosis ; Home Care Services ; Humans ; Mothers* ; Nephrotic Syndrome* ; Seoul ; Child Health

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PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a violence coping program (VCP) based on Polk's middle-range theory of resilience on nursing competency, resilience, burnout, and the ability to cope with violence in nurses working in emergency rooms. METHODS: A quasi-experimental study, with a nonequivalent control group and a pretest-posttest design, was conducted. Participants were 36 nurses who worked in emergency rooms and had experienced violence; 18 nurses from D hospital and 18 nurses from C hospital were assigned to the experimental and control groups, respectively. The experimental group received the VCP twice per week for 8 weeks. RESULTS: Levels of resilience, F=59.41, p<.001, active coping behavior, χ²=33.09, p<.001, and nursing competency, F=59.41 p<.001, increased significantly and levels of passive coping behavior, χ²=22.92, p<.001, and burnout, F=52.74, p<.001, decreased significantly in the experimental group. CONCLUSION: The results suggest that the VCP could be an effective strategy for reducing burnout and improving resilience, active coping behavior, and nursing competency. Therefore, it would be a useful intervention for improving the quality of nursing care provided in emergency rooms.
Adaptation, Psychological ; Burnout, Professional ; Clinical Competence ; Emergencies* ; Emergency Service, Hospital* ; Non-Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic ; Nursing Care ; Nursing* ; Resilience, Psychological ; Violence*

Supernunmerary nipple is a developmental anomaly occuring alon, the course of the embryological milk lines. This entity has receieved little attention in the dermatologic literature and has been confused with a pigmented nevus in some cases. We have experienced two ease of the more unusual form of supern umerary nipple. According to the Kajavas classification, our caes are classified as polithelia pilosa and complete breast with nipple
Breast ; Classification ; LEOPARD Syndrome* ; Milk ; Nevus, Pigmented ; Nipples

PURPOSE: The Pediatric Risk of Mortality(PRISM) III score was developed from the Physiologic Stability Index(PSI) to assess pediatric ICU mortality and Provide an objective data as a severity index. Although the PRISM score has been applied to many comparisions and analyses in previous studies, there are few reports applied to pediatric intensive care patients in Korea. To evaluate the effectiveness of the PRISM III score as a severity index for expecting mortality and find important variables influencing mortality, we applied this scoring scale to pediatric neurologic patients admitted to the ICU and analyzed the data statistically. METHODS: Data collection was done by careful review of medical records and scored each clinical variable. The outcome at discharge was determined as non-survival, survival, and hopeless discharge. Determination of mortality in the hopeless discharge group was done within 48 hours after discharge by telephone interview. The study populations were classified into four groups; CNS infection(26 patients), acute encephalopathy(31 patients), status epilepticus(35 patients) and cerebrovascular disorder(4 patients). The difference of the PRISM III score between the survival group and non-survival group was compared by using the nonparametric Mann~Whitney test in the entire study population and for each diagnostic group. To confirm the degree of fitness between the actual mortality and Predicted mortality, the Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test, a multiple logistic regression model was used. All clinical variables used for scoring were compared for survivals and non-survivals by the Chi-square test. f values <0.05 were considered significant. RESULTS: The PRISM III score was significantly higher in the non-survival groups than in the survival group. Predicted mortality from the PRISM III score has fitted to actual mortality According to the results of analyses in each diagnostic groups, the PRISM III score was higher in non-survivals of the acute encephalopathy and CNS infection groups, but statistically insignificant in the cerebrovascular disorders and status epilepticus groups. The important variables of the PRISM III score associated with mortality were mental state, Pupil reflex, systolic blood pressure, acidosis, blood sodium level blood creatinine level, blood glucose level, and PT/PTT. , CONCLUSION: The PRISM III score is helpful in predicting mortality in pediatric intensive care neurologic patients, especially those in the acute encephalopathy or the CNS infection groups. However, this score was not useful in the status epilepticus group, and insignificant in cerebrovascular group. Due to the smallness of the study group, more massive and comprehensive studies are needed as a follow up to this study.
Acidosis ; Blood Glucose ; Blood Pressure ; Cerebrovascular Disorders ; Creatinine ; Data Collection ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Critical Care* ; Interviews as Topic ; Korea ; Logistic Models ; Medical Records ; Mortality* ; Pupil ; Reflex ; Sodium ; Status Epilepticus

The purpose of this study was to identity the level of burden and quality of life of the subjects. The subjects of this study were 68 mothers of nephrotic syndrome patients who children hospitalized in 2 Pediatric wards of University Hospital in Seoul. The data were collected through a questionnaires and the period of the data collection was from August 1st to September 30th ,1998. The instruments for this study were Burden Measurement Instrument developed by Montgomery et. al (1985) and Quality of life scale designed by Ro, Yoo JA (1988). The statistical analysis was used by SPSS, t-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation coefficient. The results of were as follows : 1. The level of burden showed a mean score 54.47 and the level quality of life, a mean score 140.20. 2. The level of burden differed according to s religion, pt's purpose of admission and perceived patient's condition by mothers. 3. The level of quality of life differed according to perceived pt's condition by mothers. 4. There was a negative correlation between burden and quality of life(r=-3.97, p<.001).
Child* ; Data Collection ; Humans ; Mothers* ; Nephrotic Syndrome* ; Quality of Life* ; Seoul ; Child Health ; Surveys and Questionnaires

OBJECTIVE: To prove that the skin of paralysed limb of spinal injured rat is more susceptible to a thermal injury than control, and to find out that the possible relating factors for explaining the increased susceptibility of skin. METHOD: Of total 69 male Sprague-Dawley rats, 50 were randomly divided into two groups, the spinal injured of which cords were transected at T10-13 level and the control. They were subdivided into 5 subgroups according to the duration of thermal injury. Infrared ray was used for thermal injury. Arterial cannulation was done in the femoral artery for blood gas analysis. Temperature was measured with a digital thermometer. Biopsy samples were stained with HE, and also immunohistochemical staining for heat shock protein 70 (HSP-70) was done. RESULTS: After thermal injury, the spinal injured group showed more severe tissue damage and a higher temperature elevation than the control. There was a tendency of decreased blood pH and pO2, and increased pCO2. Contrary to the control, the immunoreactivity of HSP-70 was very tiny or rarely present in the spinal injured group. CONCLUSION: This study suggest that the increased susceptibility of skin to the thermal injury in spinal injured rats may be related to the vasomotor instability. And, the poor expression of HSP-70 from the skin of spinal injured rat can be a factor for the explanation of the defective cellular protective response in spinal cord injury.
Animals ; Biopsy ; Blood Gas Analysis ; Catheterization ; Extremities ; Femoral Artery ; Heat-Shock Proteins ; HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins ; Humans ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Infrared Rays ; Lower Extremity* ; Male ; Rats* ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Skin* ; Spinal Cord Injuries ; Thermometers

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a self-growing program (SGP) based on the Ecological System Theory on parenting stress and posttraumatic growth of middle-aged women with adolescent children. Methods: A quasi-experimental study with a nonequivalent control group and a pretest-posttest design was used. Participants were 82 middle-aged women, living in two cities, with adolescent children who had experienced parenting stress from July 2019 to October 2019. The experimental group (n=40) received 10 SGP sessions for 5 weeks. Data were analyzed using the SPSS 21.0 program for descriptive statistics, repeated measures ANOVA, Independent t-test, Friedman test, and Mann-Whitney U test. Results: The SGP was effective against parenting stress (F=240.49, p<.001) and posttraumatic growth (x2=70.96, p<.001) of middle-aged women with adolescent children. Conclusion The findings revealed that the SGP can be an effective intervention to reduce parenting stress and increase the self-growth of middle-aged women. Therefore, the SGP could be a nursing intervention to support the self-growth of middle-aged women who experience adolescent parenting stress during a developmental crisis.

This is a nonequivalent control group pretest- posttest design in quasi experimental basis to assess how the thermal head and feet support influences on early stage weight gain in premature neonates. The clients were selected among the premature infants with the weight under 2000gms and with the gestational period under 37 weeks, admitted over 15 days in K university hospital, Seoul. The control group of 29 were selected from January 1998 to August 1998, who were without head and feet thermal support, and the experimental group of 30 were selected from September 1998 to May 1999, who were with the two thermal interventions. The results of the study follow, 1.The experimental group with thermal interventions showed more weight gain than the control group without thermal interventions, which was statistically significant between the two groups. 2.The physiological weight loss after birth showed less in the experimental group than in the control group. 3.The recovery of the birth weight after the physiologic weight loss showed no statistical difference between the experimental group and the control group. Consequently, the thermal head and feet supportive nursing intervention could be applied as a nursing intervention program to help the premature neonates' development. With the results above we should like to suggest the following: 1) A continuous application in the practice of our thermal supportive intervention for the premature neonates, a development of the content through evaluation, and a comparision of the results through a long time study. 2) A neccessity of deveopment of various study and cross comparision. 3) A neccessity of multi-angular study on the premature infants' characteristics influencing the thermal therapy and the study of the individual differences of the clients.
Birth Weight ; Body Weight ; Foot* ; Head* ; Humans ; Individuality ; Infant, Newborn* ; Infant, Premature ; Nursing ; Parturition ; Seoul ; Time and Motion Studies ; Weight Gain* ; Weight Loss ; Child Health

OBJECTIVE: Methotrexate is the first-line drug in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) exhibiting higher efficacy and better tolerability than most other DMARDs. To have a better understanding of the anti-arthritic mechanism of methotrexate, we investigated the effect of methotrexate on suppressing the autoimmune inflammatory and destructive arthritis in collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) mice. METHODS: The effects of methotrexate on joint inflammation were assessed by clinical scoring and histologic analysis. Levels of cytokines and autoreactive antibodies were analyzed by immunohistochemistry and ELISA. The population of TH17 and Foxp3+ regulatory T (Treg) cells and phosphorylation of their critical transcription activators, STAT3 and STAT5, were examined by fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry, respectively. RESULTS: Treatment with methotrexate significantly alleviated joint inflammation and cartilage destruction in CIA. Serum levels of total immunoglobulins G, G1, G2a specific to type II collagen were also reduced considerably in methotrexate-treated mice. The drug inhibited the expression of proinflammatory cytokines such as IL-1beta, TNF-alpha, IL-6 and IL-17 in arthritic joints ex vivo as well as by splenocytes in vitro. Moreover, methotrexate treatment resulted in reciprocal modulation of TH17 cells and Foxp3+ regulatory T (Treg) cells in spleen tissues, in which TH17 cells were decreased and Treg cells in number were increased. Subsequent analysis of CD4+T cells showed that phosphorylation of STAT3 was decreased whereas phosphorylation of STAT5 was increased in methotrexate-treated mice. CONCLUSION: Methotrexate treatment effectively suppressed autoimmune arthritis and restored homeostasis of the immune system by reciprocal regulation of TH17 and Treg cells in a mouse model of collagen-induced arthritis.
Animals ; Antibodies ; Antirheumatic Agents ; Arthritis ; Arthritis, Experimental ; Arthritis, Rheumatoid ; Cartilage ; Collagen Type II ; Cytokines ; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay ; Flow Cytometry ; Homeostasis ; Immune System ; Immunoglobulins ; Immunohistochemistry ; Inflammation ; Interleukin-17 ; Interleukin-6 ; Joints ; Methotrexate ; Mice ; Microscopy, Fluorescence ; Phosphorylation ; Spleen ; T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory ; Th17 Cells ; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha