• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.55 no.3
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• pp.376-389
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• 2022

Purpose: Obesity can lead to several chronic diseases. With a continuous increase in the obesity rates, sustainable healthy weight management among growing adolescents has become essential. This study was conducted to examine the relationship between obesity-related factors and creative convergence ability. This could form the basis for convergence education for the sustainable healthy weight management of adolescents. Methods: Data were collected from 430 adolescents in Daegu, Gyeongbuk, and Gyeonggi regions using a self-administered 5-Likert questionnaire from November to December 2020. Results: The average score of the male students was higher than that of the female students in terms of healthy weight management convergence awareness, creativity, convergence thinking ability, self-efficacy, exercise, and dietary diversity. On the other hand, the dietary restraint score and the number of weight loss attempts were higher in the female students. Dietary restraint, disinhibition scores and weight loss attempts were higher in obese adolescents compared to underweight adolescents. It was found that dietary restraint, convergence thinking ability, problem-solving ability, exercise, and dietary diversity factors had a positive effect on healthy weight management convergence awareness. Healthy weight management convergence awareness, exercise, meal amount management, junk food management, weight loss belief, and weight loss trial experience had a positive effect on dietary restraint. Convergence thinking ability, weight loss experience, and obesity factors had a positive effect on dietary disinhibition. Conclusion: The sustainable healthy weight management education of adolescents is based on weight management knowledge and awareness of convergence, and must include gender differences. Thus, the problem-solving ability for healthy weight management can be creatively cultivated to enhance self-efficacy.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.54 no.3
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• pp.277-291
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• 2021

Purpose: This study was undertaken to identify the alcohol drinking status of industrial workers, their health care practice, and dietary behavior, as well as their nutrient intake. Methods: In July 2019, 220 male subjects working in the Chungnam area were enrolled in the study. Their alcohol drinking status was evaluated by applying the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification-K (AUDIT-K) system. Demographic characteristics, status of health care practice, and dietary behaviors were assessed using a self-administered questionnaire; nutrient intakes were analyzed using 24-hour recalls. Data were analyzed by applying χ²-test, ANOVA, Duncan test, and Pearson's correlation analysis with SPSS v. 25.0. Results: Workers were classified by their alcohol drinking status as 'normal' (84, 38.2%), 'problem drinker' (45, 20.5%), 'alcohol dependence I' (60, 27.3%), and 'alcohol dependence II' (31, 16.0%). The alcohol drinking status showed significant differences with age (p < 0.05), monthly income (p < 0.05), smoking status (p < 0.05), and need for weight control (p < 0.05). Moreover, increased alcohol intake resulted in significantly decreased levels of health care practice and dietary behaviors (p < 0.05, p < 0.01, respectively). The energy intake was highest in the 'alcohol dependence I' group, followed by 'alcohol dependence II', 'problem drinker', and 'normal drinker' (p < 0.05). Intakes of vitamin E, vitamin C, and niacin in the 'alcohol dependence I' group were found to be higher than the other groups (p < 0.05). A negative correlation was obtained between alcohol drinking status, health care practice, and dietary behaviors, whereas a positive correlation was determined between alcohol drinking status, energy and water intakes. Conclusion: Considering these results, we conclude the necessity to consider nutritional and alcoholic education programs for improving the quality of work life of industrial workers, based on their alcohol drinking status.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.367-378
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to explore the factors related to internet addiction in college student of Korea. Methods: From November 19, 2012 until December 14, 2012, 300 college students from one of the universities located at K city were surveyed. This study is a cross-sectional survey of college students in K city, and data was collected through self-report questionnaires. Data was analyzed by Fisher's exact test, independent t-test to identify different according to addiction group, and logistic regression analysis in order to factors related to on health behavior, sexual behavior and mental health of among college students. According to results, factors related to risk of addiction were lower frequency of exercise (p<0.05), no eat breakfast for 2 day (p<0.05), porno magazine/porno video contact pornography (p<0.05), subjective happiness index (p<0.05), and suicidal Ideation (p<0.05). This study suggest that exercise, regular diet, important of reproductive health, subjective happiness index and Suicidal Ideation are associated with internet addiction in College student. It is necessary to develop some preventive programs for those of internet addiction.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• v.49 no.10
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• pp.1042-1049
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• 2006

Purpose : This study was conducted to survey the preliminary data on risk behaviors and to identify the factors that prevent risk-behaviors in late adolescence. Methods : Freshmen(n=1,297) beginning the first semester in Korea University, Seoul, Korea completed self-administered risk behavior questionnaires, comprising 5 domains : demographics, smoking, drinking, drug abuse and sexual behavior. Results : The rate of smoking experience was higher in people having friends who smoke and the predictors of transition to current smoking were male gender, urban residence, friends' smoking, and nicotine dependence. The rate of high risk drinking was higher among students who are male and who had experience of heavy episodic drinking. The study group showed a low prevalence of narcotic users, but two-thirds of students could get medicine easily without prescriptions. The prevalence of sexual experience was 6.5 percent, and the sexual education was not a predictor of contraceptive behavior. The prevalence of homosexuality was 1.6 percent, and the rate of mostly heterosexuality was higher in female students. Conclusion : The main targets of youth health education should be campaigns aimed at atcessation of reinforcing risk behaviors and the development of a surveillance system for the prevention of chronic disease. These results can be used to find risk factors of health-risk behaviors among late adolescents.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.57-65
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• 2020

This study aimed to clarify relationships between nursing college students' grit and health promotion behavior through examining differences in those variables by general characteristics and health behavior. Participants were 3rd-year students of nursing science at 2 colleges in Gyeongnam. Data collected from them or 180 questionnaire sheets were analyzing using SPSS 21 Program. The study found differences in grit and health promotion behavior were statistically significant, respectively, depending on gender, health interest, eating habit or smoking and on perceived health state, health interest, eating habit, alcohol or exercise. This study also found that there were significantly positive correlations between grit and health promotion behavior and significantly positive effect of grit, eating habit or exercise on the promotion behavior. These findings suggest that various education programs or strategies should be created to improve nursing college students' regular eating habits, accurate exercise and grit that influence their health promotion behavior.

• Proceedings of The Korean Society of Health Promotion Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.163-164
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• 2010

• Proceedings of The Korean Society of Health Promotion Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.145-145
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• 2010

• Proceedings of the KSCN Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.98-98
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• 2000

• 한국생활과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.171-172
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• 2008

• 건강소식
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• v.29 no.7 s.320
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• pp.6-9
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• 2005

모유 수유는 인간이 태어난 후 다른 인간과 갖는 최초의 의사 소통 방법으로 아기에게 단순히 음식의 욕구를 채워주는 것 이상의 엄마의 감정과 느낌을 전하는 행동이다. 따라서 모유 수유를 하는 것은 아기 성장 발육에 꼭 필요한 중요한 영양소를 제공해 주고 질병으로부터 아기를 보호해 주는 것 분만 아니라, 아기에게 근원적인 엄마의 사랑을 제공해 주어 원만한 인격을 형성하게 하며 불필요한 자원낭비도 막아주는 중요성을 가지고 있다.