The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of an rehabilitation educational program on anxiety, health compliance and quality of life of the patient with cardiac valve replacement. The 80 Subjects for the study were surveyed at the outpatient clinic in S medical center in Buchon City in Korea. Among them. 40 patients had been taught about the cardiac rehabilitation education program and 40 patients had not been taught while they were in the hospital. Those 2 groups of patients were surveyed with the instruments of Spilberger's anxiety scale. and the questionnaire of health compliance and quality of life. The data were analyzed by using chi-test, t-test, Pearson's correlation. The results of this study were as follows: 1. Anxiety in educated group was significantly decreased(t=-2.60, p=.011) comparing to uneducated group. 2. The health compliance in educated significantly increased (t = 2.09, p=.040) comparing to uneducated group. 3. The quality of life of the' two groups of patients was not different significantly group was (t=1.83. p=.072). 4. The correlation between anxiety and health compliance was significantly reversed (r=-.461, p= .000). The correlation between anxiety and quality of life was significantly reversed(r=-.654, p= .000). The relationship between health compliance and quality of life revealed significant (r=.438. p=.000) Considering above results. the cardiac rehabilitation educational program for the patients with the cardiac valve replacement was strongly recommended to be used.
Ambulatory Care Facilities ; Anxiety* ; Compliance* ; Education ; Heart Valves* ; Humans ; Korea ; Quality of Life* ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Rehabilitation*

The spine is the most common site of skeletal tuberculosis. It is still common disease in our country althoughrecet advanced theraphy developed with the many preventive medicine. 49 cases of tuberculous spondylitis, provedat the Chosum University Hospital, during period of Aug. 1973 to Aug. 1979, were reviewed. 1. The sex ratiobetween male and female was 1:1.4. Age distrubution showed that the group below 10 years was 12%. 2. The ratiobetween urban and rural was 1:5. 3. The most frequent site of the involvement was lumbar spine(40.8%). The nextwas thoracic(28.6%), thoracolumbar(10.2%), lumbosacral(8.2%), sacroiliac(8.2%), cervical (2.0%), and sacral(2.0%).4. 51.0% was associated with pulmonary tuberculosis and 56.0% of them reveal active pulmonary tuberculosis. 5. Themajor roentgenographic finding were remarkable with destruction of the intervertebral body (91.1%), narrowing ofhte intervertebral space(81.6%), kyphosis(75.5%), collapse of the vertebral body(77.6%), cold abscess (65.3%),calcification of the adjacent area(18.4%), formation of the osteophyte(18.4%). 6. There was no relationshipbetween the duration of the disease and the degree of the involvement of the vertebral body.
Abscess ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Preventive Medicine ; Spine ; Spondylitis ; Tuberculosis ; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary

PURPOSE: This study is a correlative study to assess the relationships of fatigue, stress, and burnout among the pregnant nurses in hospital. METHODS: The subjects in this study were 103 nurses aged between 22 and 40 who were confirmed as pregnant by the OBGY (Obstetrics and Gynecology) hospital and working at medical facilities located in J-province of G city during the period of July 15 through September 15, 2010. RESULTS: The level of fatigue of pregnant nurses showed an average of 5.60 out of 10 points, and the level of stress showed an average of 25.91. In terms of burnout, the average was 2.72 out of 5 points. The results of the correlative study to assess relationships among fatigue, stress and burnout showed significant positive correlation between burnout and fatigue (r=.47, p<.001) and stress (r=.53, p<.001) and between stress and fatigue (r=.58, p<.001). Therefore, the results show that increased level of fatigue and stress leads to increased level of burnout. CONCLUSION: The results of the study showed that higher level of fatigue and stress led to higher level of burnout. Therefore, to minimize the burnout of pregnant nurses, many efforts are required in the hospital policy and for the strategies to reduce burnout.
Aged ; Fatigue ; Humans

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This study was undertaken to obtain the incidence of dysmenorrhea and differance of dysmenorrhea according to the general characteristics, lifestyle, and menstrual pattern in women community college students. For the data collection, self-administered questionnaire survey was made from April 7, 1999 to April 14, 1999 among the 204 women community college students. The resultant data were processed by SAS program for frequency, proportion, and Chi-square test. The results of this study are as follows ; 1) Prevalence rate of dysmenorrhea was 81.9%. Among women who had dysmenorrhea, 42.6% of them had family history on dysmenorrhea, 47% of them experienced the dysmenorrhea 'monthly', 89.2% of them had experienced dysmenorrhea on the first-second day, 38.5% of them responded that the most painful region was 'low abdomen', 61.5% of them responded that they used 'analgesics' to soothe dysmenorrhea, 92.3% of them responded that they had analgesics without doctor's prescription, and 42.6% of them responded that they experienced digestive system related symptoms during menstrual period. 2) The incidence of dysmenorrhea was significantly different by ordering of sisters, blood type, and body shape. 3) The incidence of dysmenorrhea was no significantly different by life style. 4) The incidence of dysmenorrhea was no significantly different by menstrual pattern.
Analgesics ; Digestive System ; Dysmenorrhea* ; Female ; Female* ; Humans ; Incidence ; Life Style ; Prescriptions ; Prevalence ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Siblings

This study was carried out to demonstrate the mode of ADR-induced cell death(apoptosis) on the light and electron microscopic features, to measure the apoptotic index dependent on various doses of ADR, to investigate the possible mechanism of apoptosis induced by ADR, and to evaluate ISNT method for the detection of DNA strand break. HeLa cells were treated with various doses of ADR 0.1~100.0 microgram/ml and observed under the light and transmission electron microscopes at 6 hours, 1 day and 3 days after ADR treatment. In addition, DNA strand breaks induced by ADR were detected in HeLa cells using the in situ nick translation(ISNT) method. The results were as follows: 1) The cell viability of HeLa cells decreased and the apoptotic index increased following exposure to ADR in a dose-dependent manner, resulting in about 44% of apoptotic index at 100.0 microgram/ml of ADR treatment. 2) Light microscopically, HeLa cells treated with ADR showed shrinkage or condensation of nucleus and cytoplasm. There were various unclear changes showing irregular, large, delineated masses of condensed chromatin abutting on the nuclear envelopes. Later stage of apoptosis revealed contracted and condensed cytoplasm with irregular cell membrane. Electron microscopically, margination of condensed chromatin, dilatation of endoplasmic reticulum under the plasma membrane, aggregation of cytoplasmic organelles with morphologically intact mitochondria, and irregular cell surface with blebbing were observed. 3) ISNT using biotinylated dUTP exhibited strong positive nuclear staining in HeLa cells treated with ADR. There was a marked response at 10.0~20.0 microgram/ml of ADR treatment. It is concluded from the above results that the death of HeLa cells induced by ADR was apoptotic in type based on light and electron microscopic appearance. The apoptotic index correlated with the increasing dose of ADR. ISNT with biotinylated dUTP led to visible evidence of DNA strand breaks following ADR treatment of HeLa cells. ISNT can be used for detection of DNA degradation, caused by activation of endogenous endonuclease, which is an early and specific characteristic of apoptosis.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of proportional thickness of various reline materials on the transverse strength of denture base. The denture base resin used in this study was Vertex RS (Dentimex Zeist., Holland). The reline resins used were Tokuso rebase normal set (Tokuyama Corp., Japan), Rebaron (GC Corp., Japan), KoolinerTM(GC INC., U.S.A). New trulinerTM(Harry J. Bosworth Co., U.S.A). The bulk specimens with 2.5mm thickness of denture base were prepared as the control group. Group 1 was fabricated with 2.0mm thickness of denture base and 0.5mm reline material, group 2 with 1.5:1.0mm. group 3 with 1.0:1.5mm, group 4 with 0.5:2.0mm composition. Measurements of transverse strength were taken for each specimens. The results were as follows: 1. Regardless of the reline resin type, the transverse strength of denture base was decreased after reline procedure. 2. The transverse strength according to the reline resin type was decreased in the following order : Rebaron, Tokuso rebase, Kooliner, and then New truliner and there was a significant difference among the reline materials (P<0.05). 3. The strength of the relined denture base generally decreased as the proportional thickness of the denture reline material increased. These results suggest that increasing the proportional thickness of the reline material progressively decreased the strength of the relined denture base. Thus, the denture base should not be unnecessarily altered during the reline procedure.
Denture Bases* ; Dentures*

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Child* ; Humans ; Hypertension, Portal*

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Creatinine*

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Breast Neoplasms* ; Breast* ; Lymph Nodes* ; Neoplasm Metastasis*