• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.374-379
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• 2005

The intake of health foods with physiological effects may cause adverse effects due to their intrinsic compounds, external contamination or consumers' eating patterns. To keep pace with the increasing interest on the safety assurance, Health Functional Food Act has been enacted and standards and specifications for 32 products have been proclaimed by Korea Food and Drug Administration in 2004. To reduce the safety problems related with the intake of non regulated health intended food, we classified the health intended foods materials into two groups, as proclaimed health functional food materials and others, and examined the difference of intake patterns on both categories. Among 16,474 health intended foods responded by 5,175 respondents and their household members, 49.2% were categorized as health functional food materials. The average number of total health intended foods intake and health functional foods intake per person were 3.19 and 1.58 respectively. The proportion of health functional foods in total health intended foods per person was higher in the group with less than 20 years old, therefore this age group needs relatively low concern. On the other hand, 40-59 years old females who have taken the highest number of health food items, 30-59 years old males who had the lowest proportion of health functional foods to total health intended food, and their consumed foods such as medicinal plant and animal protein based restoratives need relatively high concern about intake safety of health foods.

• Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.241-253
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• 2013

Purpose: We performed an ethnographic analysis on health-related behavioral patterns of male college students enrolled in a weight-control program. Methods: The participants in this study were 12 obese male college students and one member of the health program staff. Data, collected through interviews and participatory observations during fieldwork, were analyzed using text analysis and taxonomic methods. Results: Patterns of health behavior were categorized into one of two types: the type with a willingness and motivation toward improving health (including a positive management of diseases and lifestyle) or the type concerned with social development and competence (including the application of strategic relationships and a self-conscious inclination toward appearance). Conclusion: The concepts of body and health in sociocultural contexts lead to weight-control practices. These results strongly indicate that providers of dieting programs for young adults need to understand the physical and psychological concerns of their students. Moreover, another implication from our results is that health-related interventions should be designed according to specific aspects of its participants.

• Women's Health Nursing
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.53-60
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• 2006

Purpose: This study aimed to explore changes in symptom distress and functional status in gynecologic cancer patients during the entire treatment cycles of chemotherapy. Methods: A prospective and longitudinal study with repeated measures was designed. Symptom Distress Scale and Karnofsky Performance Status Index were included in a daily log developed for self-administration. A total of 39 patients with a mean age of 48.4 years participated. Results: The levels of symptom distress and functional status changed significantly over the six cycles. Symptom distress kept increasing until its peak at the fourth cycle, while the functional status scored lowest at the first cycle, then it improved as the cycle repeated. In each cycle, symptom distress was marked higher during the first 6 days accompanying poor functional status. However, both changes did not recover completely until the end of each cycle. Conclusion: Nursing assessment and intervention need to be provided based on these changing patterns to help cancer patients cope and adjust successfully during the long treatment period. Further studies are needed to examine the impact of the major symptoms on psychological responses, quality of life, and outcomes of the cancer treatments.

• 건강소식
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• v.26 no.11 s.288
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• pp.6-13
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• 2002

지난 30여년 동안 급속한 경제 성장과 생활 양식의 변화는 우리 사회에 많은 변화를 초래하였고 한국인의 질병 양상에도 많은 영향을 주었다. 동물성 식품과 지방질 섭취의 증가, 신체활동 감소,노령인구 증가, 생활양식의 서구화 및 도시화 등은 한국인에서 만성질환의 발생과 이환을 증가시키고 있다. 통계청의 2001년 사망원인통계를 보면 1위가 암, 2위가 뇌혈관 질환, 3위가 심장질환, 4위가 당뇨병, 5위가 간질환으로 모두 잘못된 생활습관으로 인한 만성질환이다. 이중에서도 당뇨병은 지난 1991년 이후 암 다음으로 많이 증가한 질병으로 인구 10만명 당 23.8명이 당뇨병으로 사망했으며 하루 평균 당뇨병으로 31명이 사망한다. 2002년 4월, 대한당뇨병학회의 "한국인의 당뇨병 발생 현황 보고"에 따르면 우리나라 성인의 당뇨병 유병률은 10%선으로 최소 3백만명에서 최대 5백만명 정도가 당뇨병을 앓고있다. 우리나라는 식생활의 서구화, 고령화 등으로 당뇨병 환자가 급증하고 있어 생활 양식의 개선이 이루어지지 않을 경우 앞으로 10년 안에 전체 국민의 1/4정도인 1천2백만명 가량이 당뇨병으로 고통을 받게 될 것이라 한다. 당뇨병은 당뇨뿐만 아니라 그에 따른 만성 합병증이 매우 무서운 병으로 일단 발병하면 적극적인 치료에도 불구하고 정상으로 회복되기 어렵다. 따라서 합병증의 효과적인 예방을 위해서는 특별한 임상 증상이 없더라도 당뇨병을 처음 진단 받은 날부터 주기적인 검진을 통하여 조기에 발견해 낼수 있도록 노력하여야 한다. 이와 더불어 주기적인 혈액 검사와 주치의 면담을 통하여 정상 혈당을 유지할 수 있는 혈당 조절 방법과 함께 만성 합병증을 예방할 수 있는 생활 습관 개선(금연, 금주,표준체중 유지,규칙적 운동,정상 혈압 유지,정상 혈중 지질 유지등)을 반드시 실천하여야 한다.

• Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.214-223
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• 2015

Purpose: This study was conducted to provide basic data for development of health care programs for cleaners working in hospitals by analyzing job-related injuries among them and related factors. Methods: The study surveyed cleaners working in 6 general hospitals in D metropolitan city. The questionnaire was structurally designed to include items about job-related injuries, working conditions, health related characteristics. For the analysis of the collected data, the SPSS/WIN 21.0 software was used, and t-test, ANOVA, correlation analysis, and regression analysis were conducted. Results: Factors that affect health damages were gender and income levels. Inadequate safety facilities and equipment, noise, and income levels were found to be the factors affecting accident injuries. Conclusion: In order to reduce the job-related injuries, efforts need to be made to improve working conditions to deal with inadequate safety facilities and equipment and control noise. To fulfill this need, not only employers of cleaners but also hospitals in which they work should make efforts to educate those cleaners who have little knowledge of health and medical care, and improve their working conditions.

• 한국노년학
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.371-392
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• 2007

Marital status has drawn much attention as previous studies have been pointed it out as a key factor of health. Nonetheless, systematic studies on elderly marital status and health have been quite limited, for most researches have neglected the varying effects of marital status on health over the lifespan and mainly focused on midlife. This study, using nationwide survey on elderly population, attempts to discover the health differentials between widowed and married elderly and explain the differences though the structure and function of their social network. The results reveal that the magnitudes of marital status effects were differed by dimensions of health. The widowed were more likely to be unhappy than married, even after controlling the socio-demographic characteristics. In physical health, however, the health differences between widowed and married were less noticeable or disappeared, as sex, age and other structure factors were considered. Furthermore, the strength of social network factors affecting the physical and mental health of elderly turned out to be different between married and widowed: widowed were more likely than married to be affected by the contact with children and less likely to be affected by contact with friends/relatives. Such results had both positive and negative impact on physical and mental health of widowed. This may imply the difference in pathways of regulating health among the married and widowed elderly.

• Journal of agricultural medicine and community health
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.1-17
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• 2001

This study was conducted to investigate the role of drinking pattern in the relationship of alcohol consumption by face-to-face interview in rural elderly(n=994) aged 60~64 in Dalsung County, April to September in 1996. Pattern of alcohol drinking included drinking status, alcohol drinking at the morning without breakfast, average drinks per day, frequency of drinks per month, quantity of alcohol drinking, kind of preferred alcoholic beverage and duration of alcohol drinking. Blood pressure was measured once in each subject using a portable automatic sphygmomanometer. Difference in means of systolic blood pressure, alcohol drinking status, alcohol drinking at the morning without breakfast, and kind of alcoholic beverage were statistically significant before adjusting covariates, but alcohol drinking status and alcohol drinking at the morning without breakfast were statistically significant after adjusting covariates. And difference in means of diastolic blood pressure, kinds of alcoholic beverage was statistically significant before adjusting covariates, but no variables was significant after adjusting covariates. Model I multiple regression for systolic blood pressure that included average drinks per day as the variable of drink pattern, age, educational attainment and, previous history of cardiovascular disease were statistically significant, and multiple regression for diastolic blood pressure, educational attainment, BMI, and previous history of cardiovascular disease were statistically significant. Model II multiple regression for systolic blood pressure that included drinking patterns variables except average drinks per day, previous history of cardiovascular disease were statistically significant. However, multiple regression for diastolic blood pressure, no variables were significant. So, inconsistent with prior research, a positive relationship was not found between average drinks per day and diastolic and systolic blood pressure. The effect of alcohol drinking patterns on blood pressure has public health as well as clinical relevance. The study should be replicated to determine the reliability of our findings.

• 한국노년학
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.211-222
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to assess pain, life satisfaction, sleep pattern, and depression and the relations between these in elderly women with ostearthritis. Methods: The subjects were 124 elderly women with osteoarthritis at senior center in C city. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and multiple regression with SPSS/WIN 14.0. Results: The major findings of this study were as follows. 1) The mean score of variables were pain 2.58, life satisfaction 65.4, sleep pattern 37.6 and depression 13.58. 2) 43.5% of the subjects belonged to depression group. 3) There were significant relationships between depression and pain, life satisfaction, sleep pattern. 4) Significant factors influencing depression were life satisfaction, pain and sleep pattern. These factors explained 48% of depression in elderly women with ostearthritis. Among them, life satisfaction was the most significant factor. Conclusion: These finding give useful information for constructing an intervention and preventive program depression in the elderly women with osteoarthrtitis.

• Applied Microscopy
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.251-257
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• 2008

Human hair experience tensile forces during combing, bleaching and permanent dyeing processes. We have used rheometer to characterize bleached hair tensile response. Also, we investigated to morphological changes after tensile test of virgin hair and bleached hair using scanning electron microscopy. In tensile test, the tensile strength of virgin hair was $14.66g/cm^2$. They were measured as $12.95g/cm^2$, $12.61g/cm^2$ and $11.43g/cm^2$ for after the first, the second and the third trials of bleaching were done, respectively. Virgin hair had a higher tensile force than bleached hair. Tensile strength got lowered as more bleaching trials were done. In the observation of scanning electron microscopy, the fracture and lift-off of the cuticle outer layer were shown in virgin hair and bleached hair. The bleached hair were more lifted off at the outer cuticle layer than virgin hair. Consequently, chemical damage of bleaching agent caused weakening of the outer cuticle in the hair.

• Journal of muscle and joint health
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.83-92
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• 2023

Purpose: This study aims to compare and analyze the changes in the physical and mental health status of middle-aged women before and after menopause and their quality of life over the past 10 years. Methods: A descriptive study was conducted by using secondary data from the 4th and 7th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) involving middle-aged women in menopause (N=8,363). Data were analyzed using the complex sample x² test. Results: Compared to 10 years ago, notable changes were observed in general characteristics. These included increase in age, education level, economic activity, and urban residency. In addition, there was an increase in alcohol consumption, a decrease in smoking, and a decline in regular exercise. The study also observed changes in obesity rates and an increase in dyslipidemia and stress levels, along with positive changes across all aspects of quality of life. Conclusion: The results indicate temporal changes in general characteristics, major physical and mental health factors, and the quality of life of middle-aged women in menopause. Thus, it is essential to consider these changes when designing health interventions such as health promotions and education initiatives for middle-aged women experiencing menopause. Further research is necessary for identifying factors influencing the quality of life of middle-aged women in menopause.