• 동의신경정신과학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.359-370
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• 2014

Objectives: To describe the progress and influencing factors of Hwa-byung. Methods: Data were collected from semi-structured interviews. The progress of and recovery from Hwa-byung were examined using the collected experiences of eight middle-aged women who suffered from Hwa-byung. For analysis of the data collected, a Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR) methodology was used. Results: Of the eight participants who thought they had Hwa-byung, six were actually Hwa-byung patients and two were non-Hwa-byung patients. Four years later, four of the six Hwa-byung patients recovered, while the Hwa-byung of one patient persisted, and the remaining patient had circular Hwa-byung. Over time, the symptoms of Hwa-byung declined substantially. However, the patients recognized that their disease continuously persisted. Moreover, they thought their symptoms had worsened. Many types of changes were observed during the recovery period, including environmental, physical, cognitive, and emotional changes, as well as changes in attitudes toward others. Recovery factors included the reduction of stimuli, social support, exercise, treatment, control of rumination, and some cognitive changes. Conclusions: To recover from Hwa-byung, it is necessary for patients to experience changes in environment, cognition, and emotion, and to employ self-management in everyday life.

• 생물정신의학
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2014

Normal aging causes changes in the brain volume, connection, function and cognition. The brain changes with increases in age and difference of gender varies at all levels. Studies about normal brain aging using various brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) variables such as gray and white matter structural imaging, proton spectroscopy, apparent diffusion coefficient, diffusion tensor imaging and functional MRI are reviewed. Total volume of brain increases after birth but decreases after 9 years old. During adulthood, total volume of brain is relatively stable. After 35 years old, brain shrinks gradually. The changes of gray and white matters by aging show different features. N-acetylaspartate decreases or remains unchanged but choline, creatine and myo-inositol increase with aging. Apparent diffusion coefficient decreases till 20 years old and then becomes stable during adulthood and increase after 60 years old. Diffusion tensor properties in white matter tissue are variable during aging. Resting-state functional connectivity decreases after middle age. Structural and functional brain changes with normal aging are important for studying various psychiatric diseases such as dementia, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Our review may be helpful for studying longitudinal changes of these diseases and successful aging.

• 대한치위생과학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.31-39
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• 2019

This study focused on the change of environment and cognition of dental hygienists about dental calculus removal after the national health insurance. We conducted online and offline surveys for 290 dental hygienists working in dental clinics in Seoul, Gyeonggi and Incheon areas. Differences in perceptions were assessed by independent t-test and ANOVA. 62.1% answered that the health insurance coverage of dental calculus removal was appropriate, and 49.6% said that the desired number of health insurance coverage about the dental calculus removal should be applied twice a year. 54.3% said that the age after 20 years-old was not appropriate in national health insurance coverage of dental calculus removal, and 49.3% said that the appropriate starting age of dental calculus removal should be applied from high school students. 26.3% said that the number of national health insurance applications should be increased yearly, 20.5% said that oral care education should be added. Most of the dental hygienists said that the number of scaling patients increased, but that the quality of the scaling did not deteriorate. According to general characteristics, in the recognition of the removal of calculus, the dental hygienists having a career for 7~8 years felt less change. The dental hygienist wanted to expand the scope of national health insurance about scaling removal so that more subjects could remove dental calculus removal. Dental hygienists wanted that national health insurance should be systematically supplemented in order to contribute to the promotion of oral health of the people.

• 대한한방내과학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.838-849
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• 2007

Backgrounds & Objectives : The aim of study was to evaluate post stroke cognitive deficit. We applied CERAD-K for post-stroke cognitive deficit, and revalued after treatment for 4 weeks. Methods : We applied CERAD-K test to 25 patients with post stroke cognitive deficit and compared with previous literature. After acupuncture treatment, moxa treatment, herb medicines, physical and occupational therapy for 4 weeks, we revalued changes by CERAD-K to 13 people that received treatment. Results : The stroke group's points were lower than the normal group in general cognition. Verbal fluency, MMSE-KC, and constructional praxis scores was lower than the AD group. Boston Naming Test, word list immediate recall, word list delayed recall, wordlist recognition, and praxis delayed recall scores were higher than the AD group. Verbal fluency (p=0.017), MMSE-KC (p=0.026), and word list immediate recall (p=0.005) scores of 13 patients participating in this study showed a statistically significant increase after treatment. Conculsions : Acupuncture treatment, moxa treatment, herb medicines, physical and occupational therapy are effective for improvement of post-stroke cognitive deficit, but this study could not demonstrate whether some treatments influenced cognition and there was a limitation in lacking a control group.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제67권4호
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• pp.79-101
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• 2015

담론의 역할은 무엇일까? 미셸 푸코(Michel Foucault)는 특정 사회와 시기의 권력(power)은 담론을 통해 인식과 규범 체계 형성에 영향을 미치는 지식(knowledge)을 생성하여 사회와 구성원을 통제한다는 권력지식관계(power and knowledge relations)를 제시한다. 본 연구는 권력지식관계론의 근간을 이루는 배제의 형성(인식의 통제), 그리고 물질성 및 실천성(규범체계)을 분석 틀로 삼아, 4명의 전임 한국대통령의 복지관련 연설문에 대한 담론해석을 시도하였다. 분석결과로 복지와 성장의 균형 그리고 최고의 복지는 일자리(복지-성장-고용의 연계), 개인의 경제적 자립과 자활, 선별적 복지의 지향, 의존적이고 시혜적인 복지를 배제하는 지배적인 인식체계를 형성하고 있음을 발견하였다. 하지만 권력이 항상 체계적이고 정립된 지식을 형성하는 것은 아니며 인식과 규범의 괴리 문제가 동시에 관찰되었다. 푸코의 담론해석은 한국의 낮은 복지지출에 대한 인과적 추론을 제시하는 반면, 지식의 생산자와 주입자로서의 권력의 역할에 대한 과도한 초점은 어떻게 현대적 변화들을 지식체계에 수용할 것인가에 대한 질문을 남긴다.

• 대한지역사회작업치료학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.75-84
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• 2012

목적 : 본 연구는 원예치료를 포함한 작업치료적 중재프로그램이 치매노인의 인지기능과 일상생활수행능력에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위한 것이다. 연구방법 : 노인요양시설에 거주하고 있는 치매노인 16명을 대상으로 대조군과 실험군으로 확률 할당하여 실험전과 후에 측정하였다. 인지기능은 한국형 간이치매 사정도구(MMSE-K)을 사용하였고 한국판 수정 바델지수(K-MBI)를 이용하여 일상생활수행능력을 평가하였다. 작업치료적 중재프로그램 전과 후에 측정하였으며, 수집된 자료는 SPSS 12.0 통계프로그램을 사용하여 분석하였다. 작업치료적 원예치료의 적용 전 후의 인지기능, 일상생활수행능력 차이를 비교하기 위해를 Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test 실시하였고, 실험 전, 후의 군간 차이를 알아보고자 Mann-Whitney test를 사용하였다. 통계학적 유의수준 ${\alpha}=0.05$로 하였다. 연구결과 : 1. 대조군과 실험군의 실험 전과 실험 후의 인지기능의 변화를 알아보기 위해 Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test를 실시한 결과 대조군은 실험전 $16.25{\pm}1.38$점에서 실험후 $16.00{\pm}.92$점으로 유의한 차이가 없었으나, 실험군은 실험전 $16.00{\pm}1.51$점에서 실험후 $17.87{\pm}1.35$점으로 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 있었다(p<.05). 각 측정 시기별 군간의 차이를 알아보기 위해 Mann-Whitney test를 실시한 결과 실험 전에는 두 군간 유의한 차이가 없었으나, 실험 후 두 군간 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 있었다(p<.05). 2. 대조군과 실험군의 실험 전과 실험 후의 일상생활수행능력의 변화를 알아보기 위해 Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test를 실시한 결과 대조군은 실험전 $74.00{\pm}1.30$점에서 실험후 $74.25{\pm}1.16$점으로 유의한 차이가 없었으나, 실험군은 실험 전 $73.75{\pm}1.28$점에서 실험후 $76.37{\pm}1.30$점으로 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 있었다(p<.05). 각 측정 시기별 군간의 차이를 알아보기 위해 Mann-Whitney test를 실시한 결과 실험전에는 두 군간 유의한 차이가 없었으나, 실험 후 두 군간 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 있었다(p<.05). 결론 : 이상의 결과를 통해 원예치료를 포함한 작업치료적 중재프로그램은 치매노인의 인지기능과 일상생활수행능력에 긍정적인 영향이 있음을 확인할 수 있었으며, 이는 향후 임상에서 치매노인 중재의 기초자료로 활용할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.190-194
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• 2023

Purpose: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) refers to brain damage caused by external forces or trauma. TBIs can vary in severity and result from accidents, falls, sports injuries, assaults, or other forms of physical trauma. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is known have roles in various cognitive functions. We report on a patient with traumatic brain injury who showed prefrontal symptoms after injury of thalamocortical connections between mediodorsal nuclei (MD) of thalamus and PFC. Methods: A 54-year-old, male patient suffered a TBI as a result of a heavy object falling on his head. After onset of TBI, he showed typical symptoms of prefrontal lobe injury, including personality changes, memory impairment, and general cognition problem. The thalamocortical connections between MD and PFC (ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), and obrbitofrontal cortex (OFC)) were reconstructed using diffusion tensor tractography. In terms of fractional anisotropy value, the right thalamocortical connections to the OFC were significantly lower than those of control subjects. Results: The value of mean diffusivity in the right thalamocortical connections to the DLPFC was significantly higher than that of control subjects. By contrast, both VLPFC and left OFC showed significant decrement in the tract volume of thalamocortical connections compared with that of control subjects. Conclusion: We reported on a patient who showed cognitive and neuropsychiatric impairment due to global injury of the thalamocoritcal connections between MD and PFC following TBI.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.286-298
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• 2006

Purpose: This study was to develop an online 'alternative therapy and health promotion' class for university students and to evaluate its changes. Method: The online class was developed based on the Instructional Systems Development(ISD) model and model of Web-Based Instruction(WBI) developmental process. This was a quasi-experimental, one group pretest-posttest design. The subjects of this study were 130 students in 3 universities, and they were provided the cyber class for 16 weeks. Data was analyzed by descriptive and plural answer statistics, and paired t-test. Results: The cyber class was developed in five steps : analysis, design, data collection and reconstruction, programing and publishing, and evaluation. The results of program evaluation were positive, which included learning 3.47. system 3.57, and learning satisfaction 3.64 on the scale of 5. The posttest scores of cognition and reliability of alternative therapy were higher than pretest scores. The posttest score of health promoting lifestyle(t=-5.051, p=.000) and perceived health status(t=2.979, p=.003) were significantly higher than those of the pretest. Conclusion: These results suggest that the cyber class is a positive method in increasing a cognition, reliability of alternative therapy, and is effective to improve a health promotion lifestyle and perceived health status for the university students.

• 한국임상보건과학회지
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2013

Purpose. This research is implemented to identify the status of educations about the pricing standard, status of the cognition of the pricing standard, and the solutions to the questions on the pricing standard of the oral health professionals. it will provide the easier accessibility to the annual changes in Dental Health Insurance Standards to the oral health professionals. Methods. The research subjects are the total 204 oral health professionals in limited area, and it was analyzed with structured questionnaires. The collected data is analyzed by IBM SPSS ver. 19.0, a statistical program (IBM Co., Armonk, NY, USA) for the frequency and percentage, and ANOVA. The result is as following Results. The awareness of dental health insurance standard was statistically significant differences by age (p<0.01), career (p<0.001), the prime task (p<0.01), and dental insurance claimants (p<0.05). The awareness of the standard was statistically significant differences by educational training within last 6 months (p<0.05), the cognition of the standard (p<0.001), and solutions for the questions (p<0.05). Conclusions. As the results of the research, it is necessary to develop the educational program under condition of age, career, main task, and better understanding in Dental Health Insurance Standard for oral health professional.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.715-723
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• 2012

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate haptic perception related researches into three perspectives: cutaneous & proprioceptive sensations, active & passive touch, and cognition & emotion, then to identify issues for implementing haptic interactions. Background: Although haptic technologies had improved and become practical, more research on the method of application is still needed to actualize the multimodal interaction technology. Systematical approached to explore haptic perception is required to understand emotional experience and social message, as well as tactile feedback. Method: Content analysis were conducted to analyze trend in haptic related research. Changes in issues and topics were investigated using sensational dimensions and the different contents delivered via tactile perception. Result: The found research opportunities were haptic perception in various body segments and emotion related proprioceptive sensation. Conclusion: Once the mechanism of how users perceives haptic stimuli would help to develop effective haptic interactrion and this study provide insights of what to focus for the future of haptic interaction. Application: This research is expected to provide presence, and emotional response applied by haptic perception to fields such as human-robot, human-device, and telecommunication interaction.