• Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.397-405
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate health literacy, diabetic knowledge, and diabetic self-care among foreign diabetic patients at a hospital in South Korea. Methods: Participants was 134 foreign patients diagnosed with diabetes and who understand English. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 20.0. Results: Health literacy significantly differed with HbA1c levels, whereas diabetic knowledge significantly differed with education levels, and time since diagnosed. Diabetic self-care significantly differed with time since the diagnosis. Health literacy significantly differed with diabetic knowledge and diabetic self-care. There was a correlation between health literacy and diabetic knowledge and between diabetic knowledge and diabetic self-care but not between health literacy and diabetic self-care. Conclusion: There are significant results on health literacy, diabetic knowledge and diabetic self-care. Subject with adequate health literacy had high scores on diabetic knowledge and self-care.

• Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.476-485
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• 2001

The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of structured information provided on knowledge and self-care behavior. The subjects of this study were both hospitalized patients and outpatients in K university hospital. The instrument use for this study were the knowledge assessment tool and self-care behavior assessment tool by Eom Soon-Ja(1998) and they were modified for liver cirrhosis patients. The data were analyzed by t-test, Chi-square test, Pearson correlation coefficients using SAS program. The results of this study were as follows. The experimental group which had received structured information provided showed greater increased knowledge of liver cirrhosis(P=.001). The experimental group which had received the structured information provided indicated increased self-care performance rate, especially after information about diet(P=.001), activity and bed rest(P=.001), drug therapy and visiting the hospital(P=.001), prevention of a complication and observation(P=.001). In conclusion, structured information provided showed increased in the degree of knowledge and self-care behavior, so information showing is an effective nursing intervention. It is much needed to employ information showing for chronic patients.

• Journal of East-West Nursing Research
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.9-17
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• 2012

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of an individual educational program on self-care knowledge and self-care behavior in kidney transplantation patients. Methods: The kidney transplantation patients were recruited from a transplantation center, at a university hospital located in Korea. Data were collected from June 1, 2010 to January 31, 2011. The research design was a nonequivalent one group pre-post test. Forty-two subjects were participated two times individually in an educational program given by the researcher. Results: After the intervention, the participants showed a significant increase in self-care knowledge(t=-4.10, p=.000) and self-care behavior (t=-6.07, p=.000) than before the intervention. Conclusion: This results suggest that the program developed in this study can be considered an effective nursing intervention for health promotion, prevention of complication and self-care behavior in kidney transplantation patients.

• The Korean Journal of Rehabilitation Nursing
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.39-46
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• 2011

Purpose: This study was to examine the relationships between knowledge with same sub-areas of education needs and adherence to self-management guidelines, and to investigate the factors that influence adherence. Method: One hundred eleven patients with terminal stage of kidney failure were conveniently selected from a university hospital in Incheon. Results: The level of knowledge was high, with a mean score of 15.25. The level of adherence to self-management guidelines was low, with a mean score of 64.53. The patients' education needs were high. The significant influencing factors on adherence were gender, educational level, and two sub-areas of knowledge, 'exercise and daily life' and 'follow-up care and treatment'. Conclusion: Relationships between knowledge, education needs, and adherence should be further examined before developing and implementing intervention programs for adherence to treatment guideline in hemodialysis patients.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursing
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.189-197
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• 2007

Purpose: Breast cancer is a common cancer in women in Korea. Early detection of breast cancer is very important for the protection of a woman's health. The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to determine the effect of BSE education on knowledge, self efficacy and performance in middle-aged women. Method: The participants were 33 women who agreed to participate in the study. They responded to a questionnaire that included items on knowledge, self-efficacy and performance of BSE. The experimental group was given a 90 minute-session including a lecture and practice with a BSE practice model and their own body. Their knowledge of the BSE was measured using Choi's tool and self-efficacy was measured using the scale by Champion and Scott. Results: Homogeneity for knowledge, self-efficacy and performance of BSE between the experimental and the control groups was confirmed. After 3 months of BSE education, knowledge, self-efficacy and frequency of BSE performance in the experimental group were significantly higher than for the women in the control group. Conclusion: A BSE education program would be helpful to enhance health behavior by early detection of breast cancer in middle-age women.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.157-166
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• 2017

This study was conducted to identify the level of diabetes self-care knowledge, confidence, behavior and quality of life in elderly people with diabetes. The participants were 205 elderly with diabetes who visited a citizen health center located in D city. Korea. The data were collected from April, 20th to August 31th, 2015, and were analyzed by the t-test and ANOVA. The results were as follows; 1) The mean scores for diabetes self-care knowledge, confidence, behavior, and quality of life were 6.99 (2.17), 71.27 (10.21), 62.78 (1.29) and 0.86, respectively. 2) There were significant differences in the self-care behavior according to the education level, duration of diabetes mellitus and subjective health, and the quality of life differeddepending on the level of subjective health(F=35.253, p=0.000). 3) Knowledge of diabetes diet was the lowest among the various aspects of diabetes self-care knowledge. Confidence for exercise was lowest, while confidence for medication and blood sugar check was highest. However, the participants exhibited good medication behavior, whereasthey did not carry out blood glucose checks in their self-care management behavior. The most uncomfortable aspect of the quality of life was found to be pain and discomfort. Based on the results of this study, it is necessary to develop guidelines and methods for dietary education reflecting the dietary habits of Koreans, and to investigatethe reasonsfor thelow performance of theblood glucose check. In addition, customized nursing interventionstaking into consideration the characteristics of elderly with diabetes need to be developed and verified.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.168-175
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• 2014

Purpose: Study purposes were to exam effects of self-care education for children with type 1 diabetes on their diabetes management behaviors and to explore the relationship among diabetes management behaviors, knowledge, self-efficacy and clinical variables. Methods: This study was a one group quasi-experimental study. Study participants were children with type 1 diabetes and attended a four hour self-care education of a diabetes camp. Data were collected using structured questionnaires including Diabetes Management Behavior Scale (DMBS), Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center's Brief Diabetes Knowledge Test and Self-Efficacy for Diabetes Self-Management. Results: The mean age of the participants was 12 (${\pm}2.3$) years. After the education, their DMBS and knowledge improved, but the improvement was not statistically significant (t=1.758, p=.101; t=0.528, p=.606). Two areas of DMBS, daily prevention behaviors and modification of care plan, were associated with study variables. Daily prevention behaviors were associated with duration of diabetes (r=.653, p=.008), HbA1c (r=.563, p=.038) and having a complication (r=-2.788, p=.015). Modification of care plan was associated with age at diagnosis (r=-.552, p=.033). Conclusion: Children with type 1 diabetes could improve some parts of their diabetes management behaviors even after a short diabetes camp.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.357-366
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• 2017

This study was conducted to identify the diabetes self-care (DSM) knowledge, DSM competence, DSM behavior, and quality of life according to HbA1c control in diabetic elderly. The participants were 205 diabetes elderly who visited the citizen health promotion center located in D city, Korea. Data were collected from April, 4 to August 31 2015, and were analyzed by the t-test and chi-squared test using IBM SPSS 23.0. The mean scores of DSM knowledge, DSM competence, DSM behavior and quality of life were $50.61{\pm}16.39$, $71.27{\pm}10.21$, $62.78{\pm}1.29$ and $0.86{\pm}0.11$, respectively. Additionally, DSM behavior (t=2.17, p=0.031), education level (t=11.80, p=0.0019) l, BMI (t=0.001, p=0.012), and number of visits to citizen health center (t=16.497, p=0.001) differed significantly between the controlled HbA1c group and uncontrolled HbA1C group. However, ANCOVA revealed that the level of HbA1c did not affect the DSM behaviors. Therefore, it is necessary to develop and apply a DSM education program that reflects the characteristics knowledge level of the elderly. In addition, healthcare institutions with high accessibility in terms of distance and cost to guide and manage desirable diabetic self-care behaviors should be provided everywhere.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.67-75
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship among dementia knowledge, attitude and care burden of nurses in center for dementia. A total of 101 nurses in center for dementia filled out the structure questionnaires. The data were analyzed using the t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation coefficients. The mean score of dementia knowledge was $18.14{\pm}1.09$ out of 20, and the mean of dementia attitude, care burden were $153.07{\pm}.76$ out of $266, 8.01{\pm}7.09$ out of 64 respectively. There was a significant correlation between care burden and dementia attitude(r=.25, p<.05) and dementia knowledge(r=-.32, p<.001). The results suggest that it is necessary to provide continuos education and support to improve dementia knowledge and change dementia attitude positively of nurses in order to reduce care burden of nurses in center for dementia.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.629-639
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• 2021

This study examined effects of dementia knowledge, ageism and humanism on attitude toward the elderly with dementia in nursing students. The participants were 226 nursing student in S city and C province. Data were collected from September 7 to December 12, 2020 through self reported structured questionnaire. Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, and stepwise regression. Dementia knowledge correlated negatively with ageism and ageism correlated negatively attitude toward the elderly with dementia. Dementia knowledge and humanism were positively correlated with attitude toward the elderly with dementia. Participants' ageism, humanism, experience of dementia education, experience of cohabitation with dementia elderly and experience of volunteer for dementia elderly explained 26.5% of variance in attitude toward the elderly with dementia among nursing students. The findings indicate that nursing students' ageism, humanism, dementia education and volunteer programs for the elderly with dementia are important factors to be considered for the formation of desirable attitude toward the elderly with dementia.