No abstract available.
Aged* ; Ego* ; Humans

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

No abstract available.
Dentures*

PURPOSE: This study was to serve the sexual health education of the hysterectomy patients and to get the basic data of the nursing intervention on sexual health education. Sexual health education for the patients is an independent function as well as a professional responsibility of nurses. METHOD: The subjects were composed of 108 post-op patients who had undergone doing a hysterectomy 5 to 10 days previously and 101 nurses at OBGY hospitals. For data analysis, the study executed a frequency, mean, standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, Duncan Multiple Range test and Spearman's rho correlation coefficient, in accordance with the purpose of the study using SPSS Win 10.0. RESULT: Mean score of the needs degree of sexual health education was 3.30 point. The need for education was highest in the sexual health promotion with education related to sexual interaction the lowest. Mean score of the nurses' teaching performance degree of sexual health education was 1.80 point. The nurses' teaching performance was highest in the sexual health promotion. There exist significant correlations between the degree of patients' educational needs and the degree of nurses' teaching performance on physiosexual (rho=-.667, p< .05), psychosexual (rho=.762, p< .05), sexual interaction (rho=.667, p< .05) respectively. There was no significant difference on sexual health promotion (rho=.359, p> .05). CONCLUSION: The degree of sexual health education needs of hysterectomy patients was very high. Therefore, continuous nursing education program should be developed and provided for the promotion of the performance of sexual health education as the nursing professional role.
Education* ; Education, Nursing ; Humans ; Hysterectomy* ; Nursing ; Professional Role ; Reproductive Health* ; Statistics as Topic

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Hamartoma of the bladder is quite a rare entity which is composed of a disorderly admixture of mature cellular elements normally present in the urinary bladder. There is a great controversy regarding the pathogenesis of this lesion. Whether it is a true hamartomatous lesion or metaplastic lesion developed secondary to the inflammatory process. Similar or identical lesions has often been given by other names such as florid examples of cystitis glandularis. We prefer to cell florid examples of cystitis glandularis rather than hamartoma when it was occurred in an old age higher then 50th decade. Here we report a case of hamartoma of the urinary bladder in 44 years old man. Cystoscopic examination revealed a papillary polypoid mass which was attached to the fundus of bladder by long stalk. The mass measured 1.5 cm in greatest diameter. It was composed of epithelial nests resembling von Brunn's nest, cystitis glandularis or cystitis cystica dispersed in a stroma rich in smooth muscle and fibrous tissue.
Hamartoma

Stress induced by disaster is experienced to varying degrees by all respondents, and is known to evoke psychophysiological reactions. In this study, we investigated the relationships between earthquake-related life events and posttraumatic stress symptoms. A total of 380 adults were surveyed one year after the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji earthquake in Japan. The questionnaire included items concerning earthquake-related life events, emotional support and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. As a result, after controlling for demographic variables, earthquake-related life events were significantly related to the grade of posttraumatic stress and its three components: re-experience, avoidance and arousal, in both male and female subjects. Male subjects who currently had lower emotional support showed higher scores of posttraumatic stress and arousal. In conclusion, a higher experience of earthquake-related life events appears to be an important risk factor for development of poor mental health status following an earthquake disaster.
Earthquakes ; Life events ; seconds ; Stress bismuth subsalicylate ; Stress

Objective: For 1,361 victims of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, to evaluate the usefulness of seismic intensity information for mental health activities, we examined the quantitative relationship between experienced seismic intensity and earthquake-related life events or mental health. Methods: Questionnaires were administered concerning seismic intensity, life events and mental health to the victims. Results: The incidence of serious life events, such as death of a close family member and mental disorders were higher in areas of high seismic intensity than in low-intensity areas. Victims who experienced intensity 7 (Japan Meteorological Agency) scored 11 or more on the Modified Mercalli (MM) scale, perceived more depressive symptoms [odds ratio (OR) 2.11, 95% confidence interval (95% CI), 1.49−2.98)] and lower mental health status (OR 1.87, 95% CI 1.34−2.61) than those who suffered intensity 4 or less, who scored 7 or less on MM scale after controlling for various sociodemographic factors. Conclusions: Higher seismic intensity was associated with each severe life event and ill mental health among earthquake victims.
Mental Health ; Earthquakes ; Life events ; seconds ; Large