• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.51-61
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• 1978

Important object of this survey is for promoting of maternal health and popularizing a right recognition which analyzed and study about knowledge, Attituded and Practice about women who experienced induced abortion. This surveyed materials obtained from total 300 wome (each 150 cases) who experienced induced abortion at Obstetrics and Gynecological Department in K university hospital and D health center in Seoul for 1 month. (1978. 9. 1.-1978. 9. 30) Their Results are as follows: A. General characteristics of surveyed cases, The highest age distribution was between 30-34 (29.3%) in health center, upper than 40 (32.7%) in University hospital. B. Knowledge 1. Knowledge about the induced abortion obtained mainly from their friends in 36.4% and Hospital in 20.7%. 2. The rate of Women who have dangerous thinking about induced abortion was 63.3%. C. Attitude 1. The rate of women who gained guilt feeling after induced abortion was 52.7%, out of total 41.4% was responsed careless thinking if they have a proper reason. 2. Attitude about induced abortion when they have unwanted baby was absolutely necessary in 57.3%, relatively necessary in 30.6%, that is, most of women showed to want induced abortion if necessary. D. Practice 1. The women who have experienced induced abortion was only one times in 44.7%, two times in 22.0%, three times in 17.7%, total average times were 2.3. 2. The reason for induced abortion was highest due to limitation of family (38.0%), next failure of Contraception (15.8%). 3. The operating sites of induced abortion were local clinics in 93.0%, universal hospital in 7.0%. The difference was remakable. 4. The rate of complicated cases after induced abortion was 54.7%, among them, general weakness in 32.3%, vaginal bleeding or spotting in 23.8% and abdominal discomfortness or lumbago in 17.7%. When symptom appeared, the rate of treated Cases was 74.4%, their sites were general hospitals in 54.1%, local clincis in 18.0%, Herb medications in 15.6% and pharmaceutics in 12.3 in that order. 5. The average times of induced abortion follows by educational level were 2.6 in graduated elimentary school group, each 2.4 in graduated middle school and College group, 2.2 in graduated high school in that order. 6. The average times of induced abortion follows by ages were most with 3.3% in upper than 40 years old. The average times of all surveyed cases were 2.3.

• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.12-40
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• 1992

The study is designed to grasp school adminstrators' attitudes toward school health education and practices of school health education and to analyse relationships between characteristics of school administators and their attitudes to school health education and between their attitudes and practices of school health education in elementary and secondary schools, so that it may offer the basic materials for improving the school health education. This study was obtained from 740 school administrators all over the country, who have attended Certification Training of Elementary and Secondary Principal opened at Korea National University of Education from July, 1, 1991 to August 9, 1991. The results are summarized as follows: 1. School administrators' attitudes toward school health education 1) As for view of health education, those who believed that health is the means of education was 36.2%. 2) In methods of school health, those who want regular health education was 75% ; irregular health education 25%. 3) As for attitudes of those chose irregular health education as teaching methods : (1) In teaching hours, the morning and afternoon class meetings was highest 50.8% of whole. (2) In teaching staffs, home room teacher was 51.9% ; school nurse 34.8%. (3) In frequency of irregular health education, 1-2 times a week was 38%, 1-2 times a month 32.6%, 1-2 times a semester 11.8%. (4) As for teaching methods of irregular health education, practice through the health function showed higher frequency than other methods 4) As for attitudes of those chose regular health education as teaching methods : (1) Most of respondents had opinion that regular health education should be carried out by the subject of physical education in both elemetary and secondary schools. (2) Opinion that school nurse should be in charge of regular health education was a little higher than other ones. (3) More than a half of the whole thought that 1-2 hours a month was suitable for carrying out regular health education. (4) Therr-fourth of those who wanted regular health education chose the using of audiovisual material as a teching method. (5) Curriculum recommended first by respondents for the school health education were personal habits and health, prevention and control of disease, mental and emotional health etc. (6) As for impedimental factors in the development of school health education, it was shown as following order : the lack of professional health education instructors, the lack of budget and administrative support, the lack of instructional materials and instruments etc.

• Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.139-145
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• 1993

The purpose of this study was to identify the degree and the relationship of the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of industrial health care services of workers. This information will provide useful data for an effective industrial health care service. The was collected from 600 data employees in Kwang-ju city & Chonnam province. The data was gathered by questionnaire from Dec 20, 1992 to Jan 20, 1993. The questionnaire was developed by the Academic Affairs of Community Health Nursing Academy. Data was analyzed by using the statistical computer package, SPSS to manipulate the data along with percentages, means, standard deviations, modes, t-test and ANOVA. The results in this study were summarized as follows: 1. General characteristics of workers: Distributions of workers was laborer(76.2%). in the 25-34 age group(50.2%), married(63.3%), males comprised(77.5%), the educational level with the highest percentage was high school graduates (71.1%), with a monthly income of 300-700 thousand won(43.8%), and has been working in the present career over seven years (31.5%). 2. The Knowledge, Attitude and Practice levels of employees about industrial health care services The levels were measured according to a five point scale. The total mean score of knowledge was 2.92 points out of 4. The following are the scores of Knowledge of special medical examination and location of industrial clinic(3.48), periodic medical examination (3.18), occupational disease(3.08), personal protective equipment (2.92), and health education(1.37). The total mean score of Attitude was 2.77 point out of 4. The following are the scores of Attitude in order of working environment (3.35), necessity of periodic medical examination and health education(3.15), the worker's perception influence on the working environment to health was high(3.11). But, the level of satisfaction in the content of periodic medical examination was low(2.19). The total mean score of Practice was 2.70 points out of 4. The scores of Practice in order were, practice of periodic medical examination(3.70), utilization of industrial clinic(2.92), and to participate in health education(1.47). 3. The relationship of general characteristics to Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of workers: Knowledge had a significant difference by sex (P<.01), marital status(P<.01), education level (P<.05) and monthly income(P<.01). Attitude was significantly different with sex(P<.05) and Practice was significantly related to monthly income (P<.01).

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.1063-1074
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• 2015

In this study, we developed an analogy-generating strategy and applied this to a 7th grade science-gifted class. The types of analogies they generated, verbal interactions and analogy-generating patterns, and perceptions of five groups on the analogy-generating strategy were examined. The analyses of the results revealed that there was a higher proportion of the elaborated analogies in terms of quality generated by science-gifted students individually in the analogy-generating strategy than in general analogy-generating activity. After having small group activities, most small groups generated the elaborated analogies. The frequencies and percentages of verbal interactions of each sub-stage were found to be slightly different. Analogy-generating patterns in small groups were categorized into three types; selecting in-depth source, selecting inclusive source, and selecting surficial source. The elaborating patterns of mapping between a target concept and analogies were different among the types. Science-gifted students positively perceived in terms of its values and attitudes toward the analogy-generating strategy, and they responded that the analogy-generating strategy was helpful in generating more elaborated analogies and fostering creative thinking. Therefore the analogy-generating strategy is expected to generate positive impact on the creativity of science-gifted students.

• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.455-462
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to examine the curriculum components affecting the professionalism of dental hygienists and to explore what improvements should be done for each of the influential curriculum components to boost the belief and attitude of dental hygienists. The subjects in this study were 934 dental hygiene students, 76 dental hygiene professors, and 285 dental hygienists, on whom a survey was conducted in person, by mail and by e-mail from April 10 to June 12, 2009. The collected data from 1,295 respondents were analyzed. First, overall dental hygiene professionalism was predicted by intellectual development, vocational education, socio-culturalization, ethics and creativity, which were educational objectives of curriculum, and that didn't have a close relationship to interpersonal understanding and selfactualization. Second, overall dental hygienist professionalism was predicted by learning interest, learning possibility and the significance of subjects, which were selection criteria of teaching content, and that wasn't closely linked to the validity of subjects and social significance. Third, overall dental hygienist professionalism was predicted by continuity and integrity, which were organizing principles of teaching content, and that didn't have a strong relationship to sequence. Fourth, overall dental hygienist professionalism was predicted by the content of school evaluation and school evaluation criteria, which were evaluation elements of curriculum, and that wasn't closely linked to the method of school evaluation, the content of the national exam, the criteria of the national exam and the method of the national exam.

• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.423-430
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• 2011

This study aims to provide basic information for conducting reducing children's dental caries, and proper eating habits and ineffective oral health education activities by survey of children's oral examination and their mothers based on 9 elementary school at a local area in Gyeonggi Province from May, 4 until July, 20 2009, and the results were as follows: 1. The children's DMF rate by gender was higher in men than women, the children's dental caries by grades was higher in higher grades than lower grades, so there were statistically significant differences between children's dental caries experiences in gender and grades(p<0.05). 2. Mother's socio-economic characteristics, mother's detergent food intake frequency, the mother's protective food intake frequency and the snack consumption etc. had not great effects on the children's dental caries(p>0.05). In the dental caries experience in children according to the maternal eating behavior, there were the significant differences(p<0.05) between the degree of unbalanced diet in mother and dental caries experience df index in children. Proper eating behavior of balanced diet in mother must take precedence for children's oral health, and required for their children to have interests about proper eating habits and oral health.

• Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.85-100
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• 1990

This study is an attempt to give basic information for sex maleducation, which is the integration of emotional, moral and social aspects as well as generative and physiological ones. It is concerned with both students and parents' sexual knowledge, attitude and need for sex education. The participants for this study are consisted of 193 parents, and 492 boys and girls high school students in Seoul. The main results of this study are as follows: 1. General Characteristics 66.5 percent of students is the girl and 38.8 percent of students is christian. Regarding parents age, 73.6 percent of them is 40~49 year old and 30.6 percent of them is Buddhist. 50.5 percent of them is graduated from high school, almost of them are keeping on being married(90.9%). 2. Sexual Knowledge: The boys score higher grade(average 8.98) than the girls. (average 7.51) (p<0.001) The Parents appear to record average 11.5, higher than the students' 8.01(p<0.01). However, there is no difference between them depending on their age, educational level or marital condition. 3. Sexual Attitude: The boys have more affirmative and positive feelings on the generative and physiological sides than girls. They also have a positive attitude to usual sides such as marriage, sexual intercourse and pregnancy, compared with girls. The girls have negative and irrecipient attitude to unusual sides like divorce, premarital sex or extramarital sex, while the boys are recipient(p<0.01). The parents' sexual attitude is positive feelings on the generative and physiological sides, and they also have a positive attitude to usual sides but they have a negative attitude to unusual sides. 4. Correlation between sexual knowledge and attitude Both the students and parents have positive correlation between sexual knowledge and attitude to generative and physiological sines and usual sides. The higher scores. of the sexual knowledge are, The more positive attitude they have. But parents only have positive carrelation between sexual knowledge and attitude to unusual sides. The lower scores of the sexual knowledge are, The more negative attitude they have. 5. More than half of the parents educate their high school children in sex: menstruation(75.0%), sexual hygiene (59.1%). intersexual fellowship(69.7%). marriage(62.0%) and chastity(51.9%) 6. Need for sexual education The students and the parents have almost the same opinions on this subject. Regarding pregnancy. delivery, family planning, dilatation and currettage and divorce, however, the students want to learn in high school. while the parents expect sex education later in high school.

• Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.41-50
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• 1997

The purpose of this study is to provide fundamental data supporting facilitation of a formal health education performed by school nurses as health educators. To evaluate the teacher expertise of school nurses as health educators, this study analyzed the present status of health education and the recognition of self-confidence in teaching ability of school nurses. Self addressing questionnaire were mailed out to 340 secondary school nurses in Seoul and out of them 244 nurses (71.8%) responded to the survey. Analysis of the data was made using t-test and ANOVA in SAS program. The major results are as follows : 1. The total health instruction performance rate was 84.6% (204). Regular health instruction was carried out by 66 nurses and the rest of the 155 subjects gave irregular instruction on health education. 2. Regular health education classes was offered as a part of physical education class hour by 89.4% of the respondents whereas only 10.6% of them had formal health education classes. The survey showed that irregular health education classes were mainly held in physical education class hours (70.3%) and 14.8% had opportunities for additional classes on health education. 3. The average class for regular health education was 5 hours per week but for irregular health education classes were only one hour per semester (32.9%). 4. Among the 11 categories of health education, education on drug abuse and body structure and function and physical development occupied 95.6%, 69.6% respectably while physical training, family health, social health occupied 10.8%, 12.7%. 5. Health education was given much more at public schools (88.2%) than at private schools. 6. 232 (95.0%) school nurses agreed with the necessity of formalizing health education classes and 227 (93.1%) wanted to change their status from school nurses to formal health teachers. 7. There is a tendency to change the status from school nurse to formal health teacher, and the necessity of having a formal curriculum on health education while less recognized by the older and longer-careered nurses was more recognized by those nurses with higher education. 8. The lack of administrative support (79.5%), work burden (77.9%), and lack of teaching competency (22.1%) were the greatest problems. 9. Education on drug abuse was stressed the most whereas physical training was most neglected. 10. There is a tendency that older and longer-careered school nurses thought less positively of their status, and then 98 (81.1%) school nurses acknowledged themselves as professional teachers. 11. 176 (72.5%) school nurses agreed with the necessity of continuing education : health knowledge and teaching skills for formal health teachers. 12. 179 (73.8%) school nurses had a positive attitude and undergraduate preparation and the practice of professional health teachers. 13. The school nurses had self-confidence in their teaching competence, teaching strategies and knowledge in all 11 health education areas.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• v.65 no.5
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• pp.369-378
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• 2008

Background: The mortality rate from tuberculosis in Korea is the highest among OECD countries. However, general public's knowledge of tuberculosis is limited. Currently, exposure to tuberculosis in high school students is a big problem. Methods: A written questionnaire was distributed to 78 high school students in Busan. Results: Almost all the students had heard of tuberculosis (95%). However, their knowledge of tuberculosis was very superficial and limited. The attitude about tuberculosis was 'nothing to worry about' and there was no systemic education in the school or home. Conclusion: Although tuberculosis is quite serious in Korea, most people know little about it and have the wrong attitude. In particular, high school students are easily exposed to tuberculosis because they spend most of their time as a group. Therefore, education of high school students on tuberculosis is strongly recommended in schools and the home. In addition, medical practitioners should play a role in education and prevention programs.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 1982

Presently, there is increasing demand for geriatric nursing care due to increasing proportion of elderly population and extended age. And, of particular importance in deforming the effectiveness of nursing care given to the elderly is the attitude of nursing personnel toward the elderly patient. This study was intendent to investigate the attitudes of baccalaureate nursing students toward the elderly, and to investigate any possible correlation between these attitudes and the following variables: the students' levels (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior), their preferences for var-ious fields of specialization in nursing after graduation, their clinical experiences with geriatric-patients, their personal experience with elderly family members, their educational experience of the elderly's health problems and geriatric nursing, and their experience with relatives and acquaintances over 60 years of age. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to compile basic data about the attitudes of nursing students toward the elderly in order to contribute to the improvement of geriatric nursing. The subjects for this study were 259 nursing students: 163 in the College of Nursing at E-womans University., and 96 in the Department of Nursing in K. College. Data was collected from the 11th of Sep., to the 8th of Oct., 1981, using the Tuckman-Lorge Attitude Questionnaire which contained 131 items excepting 6 items. The attitudes toward the elderly was scored by the use of mean and standard deviation. The relations between attitudes toward the elderly and six independent vairables were analysed by T-test. The results which were obtained are as follows : 1. The attitude score of nursing students was M=71.67 S.D= 16.18. Nursing students agreed with 54.8% of the stereotypic statements, and they had stereotypic attitudes toward the elderly relatively. (P<0.01). 2. There was a significant difference between the attitudes of nursing students toward the elderly, and sophomores had a less stereotypic attitudes than juniors and seniors (P<0.01). 3. There was significant difference between the attitudes toward the elderly and the preferences for various fields of specialization in nursing after graduation, and nursing students those who wanted maternity fields had a more stereotypic attitudes than others (P<0.05, p<0.01). 4. There was no significant difference between the attitudes toward the elderly and the clinical experience with the geriatric patients (P>0.05). 5. There was no significant difference between the attitude3 toward the elderly and the personal experience with elderly family members (F>0.05). 6. There was no significant difference between the attitudes toward the elderly and the educational experience of the elderly's health problems and geriatric nursing (P>0.05). 7. There was no significant difference between the attitudes toward the elderly and the experience with relatives and acquaintances over 60 years of age (P>0.05).