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Relationship among Sexual Consciousness, Reproductive Health Knowledge and Sexual Experience in High School Students.

Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing.2004;10(1):59-65.

PURPOSE: This study was conducted to look at the relationship among sexual consciousness, reproductive health knowledge and sexual experience. METHOD: the subjects were 276 high school students in 4 high schools in Gyonggi Province and Chungnam Province. The data was collected from August 1 to September 10, 2003. RESULT: The average age of the subjects is 16.5 years old, composed of male students, 154 persons (55.8%), and female students, 122 persons (44.2%). The mean scores of sexual consciousness, reproductive health knowledge and the mean level of sexual experience are 28.9, 10.5, and 1.7 respectively. There is a significant difference in sexual consciousness and sexual experience by sex (t=-3.22, p< .001; t=8.17, p< .001), the male students have more sexual experience than the female students, while the girls have a higher sexual consciousness than boys. Sexual consciousness has a negative relationship with reproductive health knowledge and sexual experiences (r=-0.13, p=0.04; r=-0.17, p=0.01). Sexual experience has a positive relationship to reproductive health knowledge (r=0.21, p< .001). CONCLUSION: We can conclude that sexual consciousness and reproductive health knowledge are weakly related to sexual experience. In addition we suggest developing an educational program to enhance sexual consciousness for high school students considering sexual differences.
Chungcheongnam-do ; Consciousness* ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Reproductive Health*

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A Study on Primiparous Husband's State Anxiety, Perceived Support and the Perception of Childbirth Experience.

Myung Hwa JEON ; Eun Kwang YOO

Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing.2004;10(1):51-58.

PURPOSE: To compare the difference of state anxiety, perceived support, and childbirth experience perception, between the primiparous's husband who participated in actual labor and delivery process with her wife after finishing Lamaze childbirth class education and the husband who did not finished Lamaze childbirth class, for providing the basic data for effective nursing intervention and pre-childbirth educational program development for husbands. METHOD: At one general hospital located in Kyunggi-do and one clinic in Seoul, from April 6th to May 12th, 2003, the subjects were 146 including 67 primipara's husbands who participated in the 5-week Lamaze educational program and 79 primipara's husbands who didn't, using structuralized questionnaire. Analysis: Mean, frequency, percentage, chi2-test, and t-test were used by SPSS 10.0 program. RESULT: The sub-hypothesis 1, 'there are significant differences between anxiety of the group who participated in Lamaze and who didn't' was not accepted (t=-1.043, p=.299). The sub-hypothesis 2, 'there are significant differences between anxiety by cervical dilatation the group who participated in Lamaze program and who didn't' was not accepted (t=-1.123, P=.263, t=-.356, P=.722, t=-1.879, P=.062). The hypothesis 3, 'there are significant differences between perceived support of the group who participated in Lamaze program and who didn't' was accepted (t=4.860, P=.000). Especially, the obstetrical support of the group who participated in Lamaze program, which could reduce delivering pain, was higher. The hypothesis 4, 'there are significant differences between the perception of childbirth-labor experience of the group who participated in Lamaze program and who didn't' was accepted (t=2.816, P=.006). CONCLUSION: The Lamaze program was a effective nursing intervention for husband's affirmative perception of childbirth-labor experience as well as husband's role as active supporters during labor process. The change of present woman-centered pre-childbirth education into both partner-centered education stressing on husband's needs, viewpoint and role as a supporter should be considered. Therefore, hospital administrators should pay more attention on enhancing the opportunities of husband for pre-birth education and participating in the process of labor as a family-centered nursing intervention.
Anxiety* ; Education ; Family Nursing ; Female ; Gyeonggi-do ; Hospital Administrators ; Hospitals, General ; Humans ; Labor Stage, First ; Nursing ; Parturition* ; Pregnancy ; Program Development ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Seoul ; Spouses

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A Study on Sexual Behavior, Pregnancy and Contraception Knowledge in Female Adolescent.

So Young CHOI ; Young Hae KIM ; Hyun Sook OH

Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing.2004;10(1):42-50.

PURPOSE: This study was to investigate sexual behavior, pregnancy and contraception knowledge among teenage. METHOD: The subjects were 627 of teenaged girls from 14 to 19 years old who lived in a capital city. Data was collected by questionnaire surveys used the convenience sampling. The instrument used for this study was contraception knowledge tool. The collected data was analysed by using descriptive statics, chi-square, t-test, ANOVA, Duncan test for post hoc with SPSS program. RESULT: The finding of Sex experience was kiss and petting experience 196 (32%), sex intercourse 44 (7.2%) and pregnancy 6 (1%). Average of contraception knowledge was 3.8 score (total 15). Statically significant general characteristics variable related to sex experience were age, school type, smoking and alcohol use. Statically significant general characteristics variable related to contraception knowledge were age, school type, previous sex education and contraception education. CONCLUSION: These results of this study provided health professional informations to develop intervention programs to reduce teenage pregnancy.
Adolescent* ; Contraception* ; Education ; Female* ; Health Occupations ; Humans ; Pregnancy in Adolescence ; Pregnancy* ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Sex Education ; Sexual Behavior* ; Smoke ; Smoking ; Young Adult

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A Grounded-theory Approach to the Process of Life Adaptation in Women with Cervical Cancer*.

Sook Hee LEE ; Jeung Im KIM ; Hae Kyung LEE ; Nam Mi KANG ; Hae Won KIM ; Eun Hee LEE ; Myung Haeng HUR ; Young Sook PARK

Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing.2004;10(1):32-41.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the process of life adaptation in women with cervical cancer. METHOD: A grounded theory method with guided data collection and analysis was used. Fifteen women with cervical cancer who had some kind of treatment at the hospital were asked open-ended and descriptive questions with a guideline. All interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed verbatim. RESULT: The core category that emerged from the comparative analysis was "overcoming cancer" named as a process of life adaptation in the participants. The process of overcoming cancer evolved three stages - "admitting reality", "attempting health-care" and "continuing health-care". Depending on the paradigm model, the central phenomena of the experiences was "powerlessness". The internal factors motivating women to overcome cancer were "denial of cancer" and "desire for life". Strategies of overcoming cancer included "living as a cancer patient, " "selective food eating, " "steady exercising, " "getting rid of stress, " and "preparing for death". The intervening conditions, "supportive system, " "forms of life, " and "burden on family, " influenced overcoming cancer. CONCLUSION: The results of this study could help clinical nurses to understand life adaptation in cervical cancer patients and establish efficient coping strategies in dealing with the problems they face.
Data Collection ; Eating ; Female ; Humans ; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms

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Physical Health and Depression in Women by Employment Status and Role Satisfaction*.

Suk Hee AHN

Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing.2004;10(1):23-31.

PURPOSE: The purposes of this study were to examine physical health and depression by women's employment status and role satisfaction, and to identify significant predictors for women's health status. METHOD: With a cross-sectional, correlational study design, a sample of study was consisted of 181 women who were employed or not employed whose child was attending an elementary school through convenience sampling. Data were collected with a structured self-administered questionnaire and analyzed by 2-test, t-test, 2-way ANCOVA and hierarchical multiple regression analysis using SPSS program. RESULT: Employed women had poorer physical health than that of nonemployed women and women who had greater satisfaction as a parent reported better physical health and lower level of depression than who had lower satisfaction with covariates. Predictor for better physical health after controlling for covariates was being not employed, greater satisfaction with worker's role if employed, and greater satisfaction with parent's role. Women who had lower level of depression reported greater satisfaction with their social roles, but occupancy of multiple roles and role satisfaction as worker were not related to depression. CONCLUSION: Role quantity and role quality seem to be very important factors to maintain better physical and psychological well-being in women.
Child ; Depression* ; Employment* ; Female ; Humans ; Parents ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Women's Health

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Effects of Postpartum Exercise on Mental Health.

Sun Ok LEE ; Mi Ok KIM ; Suk Hee AHN ; Young Ran CHO

Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing.2004;10(1):15-22.

PURPOSE: This study was to examine the effect of postpartum exercise on mental health. Mental health comprises a 9 symptom dimension of Somatization, Obsessive-Compulsive, Interpersonal Sensitivity, Depression, Anxiety, Hostility, Phobic anxiety, Paranoid Ideation, and Psychoticism. METHOD: A non-equivalent pre-test, post-test control group study was conducted. Fifty-two puerperal women who were admitted to a postpartum ward of a mother-baby clinic in Pusan were recruited; 26 women were assigned to the experimental group and 26 women to the control group. Postpartum exercise was applied to the experimental group from postpartum day 3 for a period of 8 weeks while no exercise program was applied to the control group. Mental health with SCL-90-R was measured before and after exercise. Data was analyzed using mean, x2-test, t-test, and ANOVA by SPSS 10.0. RESULT: The mental health status in the exercise group did not show a statistically significant decrease when compared to that of the control group. CONCLUSION: There is no effect of postpartum exercise on women's mental health during the first 8 weeks of the postpartum period. Further studies are needed for randomized clinical trials with a larger sample size.
Anxiety ; Busan ; Depression ; Female ; Hostility ; Humans ; Mental Health* ; Postpartum Period* ; Sample Size

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A Study on Back Pain, Pain Disability, and Labour Pain of Postpartum Women.

Mi Jung SHIM

Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing.2004;10(1):8-14.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to look into back pain, pain disability, labour pain, and related areas of pain experienced by postpartum women. METHOD: A survey about pain including a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), Oswestry pain disability, and pain drawing was used in a descriptive research method on 98 women 2-3 days after delivery. RESULT: 57.1% of those surveyed reported experiencing back pain before pregnancy. 75.5% reported experiencing back pain during pregnancy. The average starting time of back pain for pregnant women was 2.9 months into pregnancy. 48.8% reported the most severe back pain in the last trimester of pregnancy, while most women complained of left and right pubic pain and lumbar area pain during pregnancy. Statistical relations were calculated and menstrual symptoms (F=5.938, p=0.004), back pain prior to pregnancy (F=4.714, p=0.000), back pain during pregnancy (F=-3.429, p=0.001), and back pain disability prior to pregnancy (F=-1.994). CONCLUSION: There is a relation in postpartum women's back pain between back pain prior to pregnancy and back pain during pregnancy. Pelvic examinations early in pregnancy can determine if back pain will change for the worse or relapse. Therefore, the application of a pain relieving nursing intervention is needed.
Back Pain* ; Female ; Gynecological Examination ; Humans ; Nursing ; Postpartum Period* ; Pregnancy ; Pregnancy Trimester, Third ; Pregnant Women ; Recurrence

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Women's Health Nurse Practicioners in the USA.

Connie W LEE

Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing.2004;10(1):5-7.

No abstract available.
Women's Health*

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Impact of Cognitive Function and Cancer Coping on Quality of Life among Women with Post-chemotherapy Breast Cancer.

Yoon Jung KIM ; Sook Jung KANG

Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing.2016;22(3):182-190. doi:10.4069/kjwhn.2016.22.3.182

PURPOSE: This study was done to identify effects of cognitive function and cancer coping on quality of life among women with breast cancer treated with antineoplastic agents. METHODS: The study was correlational research and participants were 145 women with breast cancer who had received antineoplastic agents. Data were collected from October to November, 2015 via online replies. Cognitive function was measured with the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Cognitive Function Version-3 (FACT-Cog), cancer coping, with the Korean Cancer Coping Questionnaire (K-CCQ), and quality of life with the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast Version-4 (FACT-B). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffé test, ANCOVA, Bonferroni test, partial correlation coefficient, and hierarchical multiple regression with SPSS 21. RESULTS: Cognitive functions, total individual coping, and interpersonal coping explained 42% of quality of life. Cognitive function (β=.35, p<.001) was the best predictor of quality of life, followed by total individual coping (β=.34, p<.001), and interpersonal coping (β=.26, p<.001). CONCLUSION: Results indicate that cognitive function and cancer coping are meaningful factors for quality of life among breast cancer survivors. Therefore when developing intervention programs for these women, content on cognitive function and coping skills as well as coping resources should be included.
Adaptation, Psychological ; Antineoplastic Agents ; Breast Neoplasms* ; Breast* ; Cognition* ; Female ; Humans ; Quality of Life* ; Survivors

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Identification of Nursing Diagnosis-Outcome-Intervention Linkages for Inpatients in Gynecology Department Nursing Units.

Min Ji YANG ; Hye Young KIM

Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing.2016;22(3):170-181. doi:10.4069/kjwhn.2016.22.3.170

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to identify the nursing diagnosis-outcome-intervention (NANDA-NOC-NIC) linkages for gynecology inpatients shown in their electronic nursing records. METHODS: This retrospective and descriptive research was conducted in two steps and based on the 287 electronic nursing records for 253 patients. First, nursing diagnoses, outcomes and interventions were collected. To identify major nursing diagnoses, a comparison was done with the top 10 nursing diagnoses from this research and with previous research selected using a content validity index developed by a team of professionals. Second, nursing outcomes and interventions that were associated with major nursing diagnoses were identified. RESULTS: Nineteen nursing diagnoses, 12 nursing outcomes, and 40 nursing interventions were collected. The top 5 major nursing diagnoses were identified and 7 nursing outcomes and 18 nursing interventions associated with these diagnoses were checked. CONCLUSION: The identified NANDA-NOC-NIC linkages can contribute to improving nursing practice and will help in the establishment of standardized nursing care.
Diagnosis ; Gynecology* ; Humans ; Inpatients* ; Nursing Care ; Nursing Diagnosis ; Nursing Process ; Nursing Records ; Nursing* ; Retrospective Studies

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