• 보건행정학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.157-166
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• 2017

Background: Women with family history of breast cancer are more likely to be worried about having cancer and participate in breast cancer screening. However, few studies have examined relationship between family history, cancer worries, and participating in breast cancer screening in Korea. This study is to identify relationship between family history, cancer worries, and participating in breast cancer screening among women with and without family history of cancer. Methods: Respondents were 2,364 women who based on the 2013 Korean National Cancer Screening Survey which is done by National Cancer Center in Korea. Chi-square tests were performed to determine differences of cancer worries, undergoing of breast cancer screening and methods such as mammogram and ultrasonogram with and without cancer family history. Univariate and multiple logistic regression were performed to identify if family history and cancer worries are related factors on participating in breast cancer screening and methods. Stratified analysis was performed to confirm the effect of ultrasonogram on the dense breast by age. Results: Women with cancer family history frequently checked condition for conscious of having cancer (p=0.0299) and had highly perception of risk about having cancer in the future ($p{\leq}0.0001$). Women aged 30-49 did not perform significantly more ultrasonogram than women aged over 50 years old. Checking condition (moderate odds ratio [OR], 1.38; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.20-2.08; frequently OR, 1.58; 95% CI, 1.08-1.76) and perception of risk (moderate OR, 3.12; 95% CI, 1.06-7.06; high OR, 2.74; 95% CI, 1.20-8.08) were related to participate in mammogram and ultrasonogram. A positive family history was related to 1.35 higher odds of performing only breast ultrasonogram (95% CI, 1.04-1.75). Conclusion: This study requires national education and publicity to reduce the unnecessary cost of screening, to be possible cost effective screening and to encourage women to receive more mammogram, especially women aged over 50 years old and with socioeconomic factors related to opportunistic screening.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.559-564
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• 2024

Incidental pancreatic cystic lesions are a common challenge encountered by diagnostic radiologists. Specifically, given the prevalence of benign pancreatic cystic lesions, determining when to recommend aggressive actions such as surgical resection or endoscopic ultrasound with sampling is difficult. In this article, we review the common types of cystic pancreatic lesions including serous cystadenoma, intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm, and mucinous cystic neoplasm with imaging examples of each. We also discuss high-risk or worrisome imaging features that warrant a referral to a surgeon or endoscopist and provid several examples of these features. These imaging features adhere to the latest guidelines from the International Consensus Guidelines, American Gastroenterological Association (2015), American College of Gastroenterology (2018), American College of Radiology (2010, 2017), and European Guidelines (2013, 2018). Our focused article addresses the imaging dilemma of managing incidental cystic pancreatic lesions, weighing the options between imaging follow-up and aggressive interventions.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.740-750
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• 1998

The methods for the early diagnosis of breast cancer are mammography, physical examination, breast self-examination(BSE). This study was conducted to investigate the knowledge and practice of BSE by structured questionnaire which included questions on general characteristics, performance of mammography, physical examination of breast, knowledge and practice of BSE. The subjects in this study were 412 females between 20 and 69 year old who visit to the Health Care Center of College of medicine of Inje University from December 1997 to February 1998. The results were as follows. 1. Women who have Soften the regular mammography are 8.19% of these subjects and women who have gotten the regular physical examination by doctors are 4.19% of these subjects. 2. Regarding BSE, 77.4% of these subjects said that they knew BSE and 3.88% of these subjects said that they practiced BSE regularly. It was that women who knew BSE were more younger, better-educated and higher economic status(p=0.001) and lived a normal life with he. husband(p=0.033). And women who practiced BSE regularly were more younger, and married(p=0.001). 3. The most common barrier to doing BSE is 'Do not see the needs/worry unnecessarily', and the most common reasons for doing BSE is 'Early detection of Breast cancer'. 4. The overall frequency and percentage distribution of recommended BSE step in Korea is lower than U.S.A.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.4765-4771
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• 2014

Background: Patients with chronic liver diseases (CLD) may have compromised health related quality of life (HRQoL). Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection has long been the leading cause of CLD including liver cancer and cirrhosis. Knowledge on different symptom profiles of CLD should help in development of comprehensive treatment and patient care plans. Objective: To access the facets of HRQoL in chronic liver diseases throughout their spectrum of severity. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University in Yunnan Province of China. Both out- and inpatients undergoing treatment protocols for different HBV related liver disease states were consecutively collected from December 2012 to June 2013. ANOVA was used to compare the mean scores of EQ-5D and chronic liver disease questionnaire (CLDQ) among 5 disease groups. The relationship between demographic variables predicting global CLDQ scores and the domains of CLDQ was analysed. Results: A total of 1040 patients including 520 without complications, 91 with compensated cirrhosis, 198 with decompensated cirrhosis, 131 with HCC and 100 with liver failure were recruited. All domains of CLDQ, the means of EQ-5D value and EQ VAS exhibited significant decline with worsening of disease severity from uncomplicated HBV to liver failure. The multivariate regression demonstrated the reduction of mean scores of CLDQ domain at advanced stage. Patients with liver failure and HCC had more HRQoL impairment than other disease states. No effect of patient gender was found. Patient age was associated with 'fatigue' and 'worry' domains (p=0.006; p=0.004) but not with other domains and global scores of CLDQ and ED-5D. Conclusions: The HRQoL in chronic hepatitis B patients is greatly affected by disease states. Care for HBV-related diseases should consider not only the outcomes of treatment strategies but also improvement in patient wellbeing.

• 재활간호학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.43-58
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• 2000

Pain management is a major issue in caring of cancer patients. Patients' concerns for reporting pain and taking analgesics are patient-related barriers to the management of cancer pain. Since such study has not been done at all in Korea, it is clearly needed to study on these problems. The purpose of this study is to attain basic data in order to improve cancer pain management in Korea. This is done by: 1) examining the extent of patients' concerns that might be barriers to the optimal pain management, and the extent of related factors (pain management hesitancy, adequacy of using analgesics, pain severity and pain interference); 2) identifying the relationship between patients' concerns and the related factors. The data has been collected from 180 cancer patients who were hospitalized in medical wards of one university hospital in Seoul, Korea during the period from November 1, 1997 to February 28, 1998. The data has been collected through interviews with (1) Barriers Questionnaire - Korean Version (BQ-K); (2) Hesitancy Experience Questionnaires (HQ); (3) Pain Management Index (PMI); (4) Brief Pain Inventory (BPI); and (5) Demographic Data. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and by t-test, One-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation using SPSSWIN program. The Results are as following: 1) The mean scores of Pain Management Concerns (PMC) by BQ-K were toward the moderate with a little high points(2.59). Most of the patients (99.4%) had some extent of concerns (over lout of maximum 5 points). Among the eight subscales of BQ-K, the Pain Management Concerns (PMC) about 'Fear of tolerance' was the highest (3.80) and 'Worry about side effects' was the least (1.40). 2) The extent of Pain Management Hesitancy (PMH) by HQ of wnom had pain on the day of the interview was a little higher than moderate score(5.53 out of maximum 10 points). 6.7% of the patients with experiencing pain used less adequate analgesics for the severity of pain than they were expected. 27.8% of them never used any analgesics at all. The mean score of pain severity by BPI was 16.59 (maximum: 40), and that of the interference with daily life by BPI was 32.03 (maximum: 70). 3) The patients who were older, less educated, and in low socio-economic status were likely to have more concerns. Pain Management Concerns (PMC) was positively correlated with Pain Management Hesitancy (PMH) (r=.75), pain severity (r=.44) and pain interference (r=.50). Those who were not using adequate analgesics had higher Pain Management Concerns (PMC) than did those who were using adequate analgesics (t=-5.42). The patients who had more Pain Management Concerns (PMC) tended to hesitate more to report pain and to use analgesics. They used more inadequate analgesics for the severity of pain and also had experienced more pain severity and interference with daily life. In conclusion, the patients' concerns for reporting pain and for using analgesics are major patient-related barriers to cancer pain management in Korea. The patients' concerns were correlated significantly with the level of the hesitancy experience, inadequate use of analgesics, the pain severity and the interference with daily life. Considering this, an educational program for cancer patients under the treatment with analgesics should be developed in order to solve these problems.

• 대한간호
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.73-88
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• 1990

This study was done in order to identify symptoms of grief and patterns of coping in mothers of chronically ill children. Nurses, as health professionals, must understand helpful coping methods for mothers who have chronically ill children. Based on this knowledge, nurses can develop appropriate nursing intervention strategies, and so help the mothers to develop effective ways of coping and give support to mothers with chronically ill children in process of coping with this grief. The research questions guiding this research were: 1. what type of grief does the mother have at the time of child's diagnosis and at present\ulcorner 2. what are the problems confronting the mother 3. what are the coping patterns of the mother\ulcorner 4. is there a difference according to child's diagnosis in the mother's grief and coping pattern\ulcorner The subject for this study were obtained by taking a convenience sample of 120 mothers with a chronically ill child. Interviews took place in four medical school hospitals and one medical center in Seoul from March 19th to May 16th 1990. The tools used in this study were Mcfarlan's(1983), Grief contents, Folkman & Lazarus(1983), Ways of Coping and Hymovich's (1983) the Chronicity Impact and Coping Instrument. The findings were as follows; 1. Grief items had a maximum score of three points. The highest item scrores at the time of diagnosis, were in order, heart broken, talkative, and could not do anything, at the present, 'talkative', 'heart broken' and 'busy myself with other things'. 2. The problems confronting the mothers were 'worry about ill child's future', 'her responsibilities in taking care of the ill child.' 3. Most of the mothers used similar ways of coping, that is 'problem focused coping', 'detachment', 'wishful thinking', 'seeking social support" and 'focusing on the positive and hardly any of them used 'tension reduction'. 4. There was a sinificant difference in coping methods according to the childs diagnosis, leukemia, cancer hemophillia and nephrotic syndrome. The most frequently used coping method was detachment, especially for the mother of the child with. 5. At the time of diagnosis there was a positive correlation between the level of grief and the coping method of detachment and seeking social support.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.871-877
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• 1995

국내에서 소비되고 있는 농약 중 종양유발지수가 알려진 12개 성분의 식품군별 식이섭취량과 그들의 위해성을 평가하였다. 한국인에 대한 종양유발성(70년 평생을 통한 부가적 종양발생율)은 농약잔류 허용기준에 의한 경우 $2.17{\times}10^{-3}$, 실제잔류량 최대치에 의한 경우 $4.33{\times}10^{-5}$, 실제잔류량 평균치에 의한 경우 $5.10{\times}10^{-6}$으로서 미국 EPA의 무시될 수 있는 위험기준인 $1{\times}10^{-6}$을 초과하였다. 발암성 농약의 남용에 대한 국민들의 불안을 해소하기 위해서는 종양유발성 농약에 대한 체계적인 후속연구가 추진되어야 할 것이다.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.565-570
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• 2016

방사성 요오드($^{131}I$) 치료는 분화성 갑상선암 환자에서 재발을 감소시키고 생존률을 증가시키나, 환자에서 방출되는 방사능으로 인하여 피폭을 야기시킬 수 있으므로 환자로부터 발생되는 방사선량률을 측정하는 것이 방사선안전관리 측면에서 중요하다. 방사성 요오드($^{131}I$) 치료시 널리 사용되는 측정기 중 전리함과 GM계수관으로 측정된 방사선량률의 감도와 측정효율을 구하였다. 방사성 요오드($^{131}I$)를 150mCi 경구투여 받은 분화성 갑상선암 환자의 상복부로부터 1 m거리에서 경과 시간에 따라 방사선량률을 측정하였다. 시간에 따른 변화를 직접적으로 비교한 결과, 고선량률에서의 감도와 측정효율은 GM계수관보다 전리함이 높게 나타났고, 통계적으로 유의하였다(p<0.05). 저선량률에서의 감도와 측정효율은 GM계수관보다 전리함이 낮게 나타났지만 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 나타내지 않았다(p>0.05). 방사성 요오드($^{131}I$) 치료시에 검 교정이 완료된 전리함과 GM계수관으로 정확하고 신속한 방사선량률을 측정하여 환자에게 설명함으로써 방사성 요오드 치료 후 퇴원하는 환자에게 환자가족 또는 주변 사람들에게 미칠 수 있는 방사선피폭을 예측하고, 불필요한 예단을 줄여줄 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.101-117
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• 1973

Socio-medical survey was carried out on six hundred and thirty Korean households in the cities of Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Nagoya in Japan from Nov. 1972 to Dec. 1972, and following results were obtained. 1. Age distribution of households showed the highest occurence in the group of 40 to 49 years of age in the both sexes. Families with five members showed highest occurence, and the average number of familial members was 5.7 persons per one household. 2. More than half of the householders were some independent enterprisers rather than to be the employees and most of the household had one familial member engaged in more or less liberal profession. 3. 19.4% of households moved into these cities from 1941 to 1945. 4. 40.5% of all the households had their own houses. The possession rate of one's own house was higher in the households which had long period of residence in Japan. 5. 83.5% of all households had various medical insurances. And the 6.2% of the household which had no insurance stated that the reason for not being affiliated was 'because to be the foreigner'. Household of shorter dwelling period had less tendency to be affiliated to the various insurances. 6. In 41.3% of all the households, average medical expenditure amounted to 1000-5000 Yen per month. And only 25.6% of household stated that they do not worry about the medical expenditure for the futures. 7. 66.3% of households were consulting to medical doctors for their sickness, such as toothache, severe coughing, profuse sputum, children's fever and stomach pain etc. 8. 59.4% of households were using the facilities of health center services. The health center service was used mainly for individual health service rather than the environmental aspect. And 19.8% of households were not aware of health center activities. 9. It was found that 23.5% of households received the screening test of the tuberculosis and adult diseases. Especially, the rate of screening test of the adult diseases showed as following ; stomach cancer, 8.9% ; hypertension, 7.9% ; diabetes mellitus, 2.1% ; and uterus cancer, 1.6%. 10. Birth control was carried out in 17.3% of households but not in 52.5%. The chief reason of birth control was 'because of poor maternal health' (40.0%) or 'should not be done' (5.4%). 11. Most of them are obtaining the knowledges and informations on family plannings. public nuisance problems and nutritions etc. by means of the mass communications, while those no preventing diseases and the environmental hygiene through the administrative organizations.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.47-55
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• 1998

목적 : 암은 우리나라 사망원인의 첫째이며 말기암환자에서 보이는 신체증상 중 통증은 의료인이 반드시 조절을 해주어야 한다. 암환자의 90%이상에서 통증조절이 가능하며, 말기 암환자의 임종 24시간 전 $33{\sim}60%$에서는 의식이 명료하여 진통제의 경고, 투여가 가능하다. 마지막 24시간 동안의 진통제 사용실태와 내과계와 외과계 의사에따른 통증조절 방법의 차이를 조사함으로서 보다 계획적이고 적극적인 통증 조절 중요성의 중요성을 강조하고자 본 연구를 시행하였다. 방법 : 1994년 7월 1일부터 1995년 6월 30일까지 모대학병원에 입원하여 암으로 사망한 환자 160명을 대상으로 의무기록지, 간호기록지를 조사하는 후향적 코호트 방법을 시행하여 인구통계학적 자료와 사망 24시간전의 의식상태, 통증여부, 암의 종류 등을 조사하였다. 대상자를 내과의사와 외과의사에 의해 치료받은 군으로 나누어 임종전 24시간 동안 투여한 진통제의 용량, 투여방법, 투여종류, 필요시 마타 투여된 진통제의 평균 횟수를 비교 분석하였다. 진통제의 용량은 경구몰핀 등가량으로 환산해서 계산하였다. 결과 : 1) 전체 160명 중 남자가 102명(63.8%)명, 여자는 58명(36.2%) 이었고 평균연령은 56.4세였다. 2) 평균입원 27.8일이었으며 원발부위에 따른 암의 종류는 위암 42명(26.3%), 폐암 29명(18.1%), 간암 29명(18.1%), 췌장암 10명(6.2%), 대장암 9명(5.6%), 자궁경부암 6명(3.7%), 유방암 5명(3.1%)의 순이었다. 3) 160명 중 125명(78.13%)이 통증을 호소했고 진통제를 투여받은 환자는 내과계 103명중 66명(64.08%), 외과계 57명 중 31명(54.39%)이었다. 97명 중 50명(51.55%)에서 경고, 투여가 가능했다. 4) 임종 24시간 전에 86명(53.75%)에서 의식이 명료했다. 5) 규칙적으로 투여된 진통제의 종류는 경구용 모핀이 34명(내과계 24명, 외과계 10명)으로 제일 많았고, 주사용 모르핀이 26명(내과계 20명, 외과계 6명), 경구용 코데인이 8명 (내과 5명, 외과 3명)의 순이었다. 비정기적으로 통증조절을 위해 투여된 약물로는 주사용 모르핀이 16회, 데메롤 근주가 12회, nubain 근주가 9회의 순이었다. 6) 규칙적으로 투여된 진통제의 평균량은 내과계에서 115.41 OME에서 외과계 52.7 OME 보다 많았으나(P<0.05), 환자 요구시마다 투여된(p.r.n.) 진통제의 양은 외과계가 66.64 OME 로서 내과계 23.49 OME 보다 유의하게 많았다(P<0.01). 7) 통증호소시에 투여한 진통제의 횟수에 있어서도 내과계 평균은 0.62회, 외과계는 1.88로 유의한 차이가 있었다(P<0.001). 8) 보조진통제의 사용은 내과계에서 57명(55.34%), 외과계에서 25명(43.86%)이 사용했다. 결론 : 임종 24시간 전에 과반수 이상이 의식이 명료했으며 내과의사가 외과의사보다 적극적으로 통증조절을 하고 있으나 많은 의사들이 규칙적인 통증조절보다는 비정기적인 투약과 진통제의 비경구투여를 선호하였다.