• 정신신체의학
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.22-28
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• 2007

임신과 출산은 일부 여성들을 주요우울증 발병에 취약하게 한다. 산모의 10%에서 출산 후 수주 이내에 산후 우울증이 발병하며 이는 장차 아동의 인지적, 정서적 발달에 부정적 영향을 줄 수 있다고 알려졌다. 임신 중 우울증은 상대적으로 간과되어 왔지만 산후 우울증과 마찬가지로 흔하며 임산부의 정신병리가 태아의 생리 발달에 영향을 미친다는 증거가 축적되고 있어 주목을 받고 있다. 임신 및 출산과 관련된 우울증의 원인을 이해하기 위해서는 다양한 정신사회학적, 생물학적 위험 요인을 포괄적으로 고려할 필요가 있다. 임신과 관련된 우울증을 치료하기 위해 정신과 의사는 임신 및 치료 방법과 관련된 여러 가지 상황의 위험 혹은 이득을 포괄적으로 분석해야 하며 치료 방법을 능숙하게 결정할 수 있어야 한다. 임신 중 우울증에는 심리치료, 약물치료, 전기 충격 요법 등이 효과적이라고 알려져 있다. 산후 우울증을 치료하는 데에는 생물학적, 심리학적, 환경적 개입 등의 방법이 있으며, 구체적으로는 세로토닌 재흡수 억제제 등의 항우울제, 지지적 상담 등의 효과가 증명되었고, 증상이 심할 경우에는 Estrogen이 효과적이라고 알려져 있다. 한편, 임신 및 출산과 관련된 우울증의 신경내분비학적, 심리사회학적 병인을 규명하기 위한 연구들이 진행되고 있다. 향후 임산부의 산전 및 산후 관리에 있어서 임상각과 간의 통합적인 접근에 의한 우울증의 조기 진단 및 치료가 필요할 것으로 보인다.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.36-53
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• 1987

It is utmostly important to establish the efficient fitable way of peoples' active participation in primary health care especially in the areas where the public or governmental service input for the basic health care is insufficient like as in rural areas of Korea. In light of above reason, this study focused mainly on the evaluation of roles and activities of village health workers (VHWs) who were selected from grass- root level of village people in order to derive further motivation for active participation. This is believed to be a sort of feedback mechanisms. Actually, the authors collected the activity reports of VHWs who had been devoting themselves in the primary health care services of Jeomdong Area, of Yeoju Gun one of Korea University Community Health Action Programmes and survey record on the VHWs activity from correspondent people. 1 hose data were analyzed through computer programmed package. The activities performed by VHWs were limited to the performance in 1985 for conveniance. The summarized results were as follows; 1) General characteristics of VHWs. Among a total of 28 VHWs in the area, about 39.3g of them have been replaced up to the date since the implementation in 1983, because of moving out, occupational employment and of others. The age of majority (75.0%) lied between the range of 30-50, and educational background of 67.9% belonged to category of primary school graduation, about 50% of them experienced to be or were also entiled "chief of women club" of corresponding villages. 2) Work-load of VHWs. Each VHW was assigned for tasks of health care for average 55 households of 248 persons. They shared approximately 6 days a month for the activity in average and it covered 17 cases of basic health care in a month. A half of the VHWs performed home visits irregularly without solidified schedule. 3) Work performance analysis. Informations collected through VHWs were compared with data from official vital registration at local administration center "Myon Office" in 1985. VHWs collected 100.8 of new born, 116.2 of death, 58.3 of move in and 74.8 of move out in comparison with 100.0 of official registration each. Pregnant women of 79.8% of mothers among the total pregnancy of 94 which were confirmed as normally delivered or aborted cases by all means afterwards had been detected by VHWs as being pregnant and all of them received some of antenatal cares by VHWs. All(100%) of delivered women were detected by VHWs through home visits and they were cared postnatally. Whereas, according to the records of birth registration, the places of delivery were clinic in 33.7%, and mother's home in 66.3%, VHWs reported them to be clinic in 48.9%, midwifery in 20.2%. It was cleared that most of misinformation was caused by uncautious filling of birth registration at notification. Among the total of 717 eligible women under age 44 years, family planning status of 92.6% was reported by VHWs confirming practice of control to be 70.8% of reported fertile women. 4) Attitude of VHW on the roles and functions. Although 92.0% of VHWs expressed VHWs to be worthwhile, only 52.0% of them had dignity and satisfaction in their activity and 44.0% of them had passive attitude of working saying they followed direction regardlessly. Concerning difficulties in performance as a VHW, 60.7% of them pointed out lacking of medical and health related knowledge by themselves. Still, 64.0% of them thought visiting unfamilier house to be awful and 40.0% complained forms of activity to be difficult and hard. It was also revealed that 56.6% confessed lack of interest on community health service itself. Most of VHWs needed more educational training especially on clinical fields such as cares of gynecological diseases, hypertension, diabetes, and other chronic diseaes of the aged. Regular on-the-job basic trainings were said to be needed twice a year.