• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.52-64
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to understand and describe the illness experience of middle-aged women who underwent craniotomy for meningioma. Data were collected through individual in-depth interviews with 7 middle-aged women who underwent craniotomy. Verbatim transcripts were analyzed using Giorgi's phenomenological analysis to uncover the meaning of the illness experience of the participants. As a results, seven themes were identified: serious attack of fear in middle age, strengthening self-confidence in healing, escape from fear of death, care for my own body, two types of conflict for family harmony and disease, nurse as a healing partner, and opening the second life. Based on the results of this study, it will be possible to plan more comprehensive nursing intervention through understanding of participants' experience. Also, the main reason of fear that participants felt was lack of information about craniotomy. Therefore, the development of educational programs to provide information and knowledge about cranial surgery is suggested.

• Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.504-518
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• 2009

Purpose: The purpose is to explore the illness experience of Korean women with breast cancer using feminist phenomenology. Methods: Data were collected by individual in-depth interviews from ten women with total mastectomy. The data were analyzed using Colaizzi's method from feminist perspective to reveal implicit socio-cultural norms that oppress women with breast cancer. Results: Two categories and seven major themes emerged: cancer-related experience (1) unfairness of having breast cancer; (2) being confined to the gaze of the others; patriarchy-related experience (3) hardness of being daughter-in-law; (4) struggling to keep on being good mother; (5) continued housework as duty; (6) recognizing self as precious wife, and (7) awakening of true self. All participants felt it was very unfair to get breast cancer because they had done their best for roles of mother, wife, and daughter-in-law. They struggled to free themselves from the social disgrace like the roles imposed by the patriarchal society. By awakening their true selves, they could manage a balance between other-oriented life and self-oriented life. Conclusion: Oncology nurses need to provide psychosocial support for women with breast cancer in finding their true selves in a traditional patriarchal society where women are oppressed and breast cancer is stigmatized.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.123-134
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• 2019

This study has the purpose of experiencing the presbyopia indirectly through VR games to understand the inconvenience caused by presbyopia to old people and experiencing also common eye diseases(cataract, glaucoma) to accomplish awareness of the eye health. Using VIVE, 3 mini VR games have been developed. Their effects have been analyzed by comparing states of before and after the experiments. By experiencing the developed VR games, most participants have understood sufficiently the symptoms and inconveniences of presbyopia as well as related diseases, especially high on glaucoma. The relative high scores of usabilities of the games on learning of manipulation, satisfiability, pressure and speed showed good possibility to be developed for better serious games.

• 건강소식
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• v.14 no.1 s.134
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• pp.2-7
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• 1990

건강관리 성공사례담을 처음 취재하고 기사화하기 시작한 것은 ‘96년 2월의 일이었다. 그 후 총 47회에 걸쳐 각종 질병을 조기 발견, 치료한 사례나 집단 건강 검사가 행해지는 현장을 찾아다니면서, 기자는 정기 건강 검사를 통한 질병의 조기 발견과 치료의 중요성을 수 없이 체험할 수 있었다. 뿐만 아니라 우리나라 보건 의료의 현황과 국민의 보건 의식 수준 등 많은 부분에서 앞으로 우리가 해야할 일은 무엇인가를 깨닫는 계기가 되기도 했다. 이번 호에서는 4년여의 취재활동을 통해 느꼈던 점을 몇가지 얘기함으로서 건강관리 성공 사례담 취재의 원래의 목적대로 앞으로의 국민 건강관리 정착을 위한 노력에 작으나마 도움이 되기를 바란다.

• Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.515-526
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the illness experience of patients with pressure ulcer. Methods: A phenomenological methodology was used for the study. The data were collected by individual in-depth interview with seven participants with pressure ulcer during 2013~2014. All interviews were audio-taped and verbatim transcripts were made for the analysis. The data were analyzed using Colaizzi's phenomenological method. Results: All participants had underlying disease, such as spinal paralysis and diabetes. Average period of having pressure ulcer was 18 months, ranged from 3 to 36 months. A total of seven theme clusters were derived from the analysis; unexpected wound, inherent vulnerability to infection, reversal of the treatment policy, unpleasant and strange feeling of wound, sweeping fear and helplessness, socioeconomic burden, and healing through specific actions and reflection. The participants faced various contradictory and paradoxical situations in managing their pressure ulcers as well as underlying diseases in their everyday life. However, they slowly overcome these situations by strictly practicing concrete action-oriented strategies that they have learned through suffering and appreciating miraculous wound healing. Conclusion: The results of this study can help developing a patient-specific intervention program with sufficient emotional support by providing insights of the paradoxical illness experience of patients with pressure ulcer.

• KOREAN POULTRY JOURNAL
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• v.38 no.7 s.441
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• pp.184-187
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• 2006

축산연구소-산란계 강제환우 실태 및 효용성 조사 연구발표/ 한국축산경영학회-한·미 FTA 대응전략 심포지엄/ 가금관련단체 친선등반대회 행사/ 가축위생방역지원본부-방역본부, '방역위생' 정보지 고객반응 설문조사 실시/ 한국치킨외식산업협회-월드컵 특수로 치킨소비 증가/ 한국인포데이타-월드컵 치킨이 최고/ 국립수의과학검역원-헝가리산 가금 수입금지 조치/ 국립수의과학검역원-검역시행장 대표자 간담회 개최/ 조류질병과, 도계장 찾아 'HPAI 방역홍보 체험행사' 가져/ (사)한국축산환경시설기계협회-2006 축산환경 및 자원화 교육 심포지움 개최

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.54 no.1
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• pp.93-105
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• 2024

Purpose: The study aimed to understand the semantic structure and nature of the disease experience of kidney transplant recipients with kidney graft failure by applying phenomenological research methods. Methods: Data were collected between February and September 2021 through individual in-depth interviews with 12 kidney transplant recipients with kidney graft failure. Colaizzi's phenomenological analysis was used to analyze the meaning of the participants' illness experiences. Results: 5 theme clusters and 15 themes were derived. The five theme clusters are as follows: (1) First transplant giving me a second life; (2) Body and mind becoming sick again; (3) Waiting for a re-transplant with hope and worry; (4) Life supported by gratefulness; (5) Having control over my own life. Conclusion: This study shows that kidney transplant recipients with kidney graft failure experience physical and psychological difficulties during the long disease period and require help from many people, including family members, friends, colleagues, and health care providers, to overcome their difficulties.

• Philosophy of Medicine
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• v.15
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• pp.3-37
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• 2013

George Canguilhem(1904-1995) is one of the rare French philosophers of the 20th century to develop an approach that was shaped by a medical education. For him, medicine is considered as "a technique or an art at the junction of many different sciences, rather than a proper science." The thesis that medicine is a technique is presented not at a practical level, but on an axiological horizon which reflects the totality of humanity. This character of medicine became a motive that concretized Canguilhem's philosophical thinking. Medical knowledge is not an application of physiology, but is derived from clinical observations which are based on the personal experiences of each patient. If medicine were based on scientific knowledge and its practice the very application of this pure knowledge, the patient might be a passive object. However, the patient doesn't remain passive, but reacts to the menace of disease according to attitude that the patient developed over the course of his or her life. Canguilhem characterizes this point as 'normativity', the core of individual life, which eludes positivist medicine. Here appear the essential contents of his vitalism. Although they emphasized the activity of individual living being, other modern French vitalists didn't consider this dimension of norms. Since the normativity in Canguilhem concerns the subjectivity of the first person, it avoids a mechanical form of explanation. Thus Canguilhem's originality is found in his derivation of the essence of medicine from individuality, values and norms.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.304-306
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• 2018

이 연구는 해양휴양복지 해양치유에 대한 국민인식조사를 통해 실제적이고 효과적인 정책 수립을 뒷받침할 기초자료와 근거를 확보하고자 했다. 2018년 8월 2일부터 9일까지 1주일간 웹과 모바일을 통해 조사한 557명의 응답자 중 82.9%는 해양수산부의 해양휴양복지 서비스 제공이 필요하다고 생각하며, 85.6%가 이용할 의향이 있다고 답했다. 응답자의 91.6%는 해양치유를 체험할 의향이 있으며 특히 바다 경관이 주는 스트레스 완화와 신체건강 증진 효과에 기대가 높았다. 응답자들은 해양휴양복지 서비스 대상은 사회경제적 취약계층과 자살 중독방지, 지역주민을 우선적으로 고려해야 한다고 보았다. 또한 해양치유 공간과 시설, 이용 요금, 안전과 환경 등 해양치유 참여 시 실제적이고 직접적으로 관련된 요소를 중요하게 고려하며, 접근성보다는 주변환경, 질병치료보다는 건강증진에 관심이 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of Christian Education in Korea
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• v.63
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• pp.65-89
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• 2020

Humankind has experienced various changes in the pandemic of the Covid-19 for some months from the winter of 2019. The Church and Christians also have witnessed the changes and results of the pandemic in their Christian life and meetings such as worship, Bible study, prayer meeting, personal spiritual activities, and so on. Humans have encountered different kinds of pandemics throughout history. 1918-Influenza is an example, and the Pest(the Black Death) of the 14th century is another. What did the Christian Church do in the pandemics? This study focuses especially on the spiritual matters of each case and era. This study explores the well-known cases of pandemics in history and reflects on the Christian spiritual responses and its lessons. The three points this study raises are the life and attitude of the spiritual figures, the practice of silence, and the social aspect of the Christian spirituality in this time of the pandemic.