• Studies on Life and Culture
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• v.52
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• pp.201-223
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• 2019

This study is about a life history of a male recovered alcohol addict. The purpose of this study was to understand the cause of addiction of alcoholics in the life of male alcoholics, Find out the factors that affect the cause, and aims to understand alcohol-recovery experience. This study included male alcohol addicts recovering for more than 10 years. this study based on life-history analysis framework suggested by Mandelbaum(1973) on life history and divides the study points into 'dimension of life,' 'turning point' and 'adaptation . The results of this study are as follows: first, 'dimension of life' of the study participant was divided into several sectors for the analysis including'the day my father failed', 'a young day like a castle bulit on sand', 'the married life was locked up liquor bottle', 'the dead end, a life left alone . The 'turning point' was revealed as 'attempted suicide, and a desire for desirable life', 'a rope came down from the sky, the basic living security patment', 'open a new door, go into the welfare center . The 'adaptation' was derived from the 'loneliness chosen to escape from addiction', 'fill empty time and space', 'overcoming with fairy godmother . Based on these results, this study presents iscussions on social welfare practices and policies.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.298-307
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• 2014

This study has the purpose to examine trauma of male, female alcoholics and understand the factors influencing the trauma and relative influence of trauma to provide implementing social welfare practice. The survey was conducted with 220 alcoholics. Through this survey, it was revealed that the effect of trauma of male, female alcoholics found to be significant. First, Trauma of sexual abuse, suicide, death, disease, family separation of male on childhood are more than female. While, Trauma of physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse on childhood and physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, fraud, physical neglect, miscarriage of female on adulthood are more than male. Second, The education, age of first drinking effect on the trauma of male alcoholics. The education, religion, family history, relapse and insight effect on the trauma of female alcoholics. Based on these results, the practical implications for the trauma of male, female alcoholics had been discussed.

• Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.272-284
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• 2015

Purpose: This study was conducted in order to identify the needs of sex education for recovering male alcoholics. Methods: The participants were 17 male alcoholics. Data were collected through focus group interviews from August 2010 to February 2011, and the data were analyzed using thematic content analysis. Results: The results of the analysis were 4 categories and 10 sub-categories. The 4 categories were 'Lack of sex knowledge', 'Effects of alcohol on sex life', 'Strategies to cope with sexual dysfunction', and 'Relationship and conflict with women'. Conclusion: The findings of this study described that education for sex knowledge and safe sex life is necessary for preventing the relapse of alcoholism and supporting recovery of male alcoholics.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.222-235
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• 2020

This study examines the poverty progress and its factors which drove the lives of the middle-aged men in Chokbang area. The observed examples are the retired government officials and the self-employed who have been classified as the ones in the economically-middle class but currently as the welfare recipients. According to the results of in-depth interview and observation, the poverty of the observed has undergone the progress of trigger, worsening, breakup, desperation and stabilizing stages. The poverty factors found in this study could be categorized into two factors; circumstantial factors(bankruptcy after IMF, debt guarantee for relatives) and inner factors(the participants' behavior and characteristics). The circumstantial factors worked mainly in the trigger stage and the inner factors contributed to worsening economic crisis and facilitating the progress. According to the result, this study suggests not only individual-scale measures such as encouragement of familial bond or medical treatment of the alcoholism but also social measures including proper regulation of shark loan and opportunity supply to exit from poverty.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.65 no.2
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• pp.313-334
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• 2013

A study aims to assess Korean mental health literacy and analyze the characteristics of vulnerable population. This study presented typical vignettes of schizophrenia, depression and alcoholism to 1,197 adults randomly. All respondents were asked for recognition of mental illness, beliefs about causes, professional help and self-help, stigma for receiving psychiatric treatment for the person described. The results showed that the recognition of mental health problem in a vignette was very poor and that personal causes were seen by public as more important than environmental and bio-genetic causes. When the public were asked about various professional therapies and self-help activities, psychotherapy was favored while other professional help were considered to be less helpful than self-help activities. Among professionals, psychiatrist were viewed as most helpful. We used cluster analysis to compare high mental health literacy group with low mental health literacy group(vulnerable population). Vulnerable population were found to be more aged and to live in county area. We proposed government initiated program for enhancing public mental health literacy.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.109-116
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• 2018

Erectile dysfunction (ED), also known as impotence, is the inability to attain and sustain an erection firm enough to have sexual intercourse. Frequent ED may be a symptom of health problems including heart disease, obesity, alcoholism, stress, smoking, and depression, that need treatment. This study aimed to effect of complex extract (CPL) including Cornus officinalis on sexual function factor in the erectile dysfunction rat model. The erectile dysfuction rat model was induced by cimetidine (500 mg/kg in 5% ethanol, oral injection 2 weeks). Rats were oral administered with different concentration of CPL in rat erectile dysfunction model. As a results, sexual function factors (NO, cGMP) significantly improved in CPL treated groups (CPL-300, 600, 900 mg/kg) compared to CON group. Serum testosterone was increased in a dose-dependent manner after CPL treatment. Furthermore, administrations of CPL restored lumen areas of the prostate in the erectile dysfunction rat model. These results indicated that CPL alleviated erectile dysfunction by increasing sexual function factor and testosterone in rat model. CPL could be used to natural treatement for erectile dysfunction. However, further study is required to identify active ingredient and its mechanism of erectile dysfunction.