• Child Health Nursing Research
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.177-186
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• 2013

목적 본 연구는 소아암 청소년 복원력과 가족 복원력의 관계를 파악하고, 청소년 연령에 따른 복원력 영향 요인을 확인하여 이를 증진하기 위한 간호중재 개발의 기초자료를 제공하고자 수행된 서술적 조사 연구이다. 방법 상급종합병원 2곳에서 소아암으로 진단받은 지 최소 6개월 이상 경과된 외래 치료 중이거나 치료 종료 후 추후 관리 중인 만 10-18세 청소년 107명과 그 부모 107명을 대상으로 설문 조사를 하였다. 결과 가족 강인성, 사회적 지지는 가족의 월평균 수입에 따라 유의한 차이가 있었고, 종교 유무에 따라 소아암 청소년의 복원력은 유의한 차이가 있었다. 병행 치료 수가 3가지 이상인 경우 가족 문제해결 의사소통과 소아암 청소년의 복원력이 높았다. 사회적 지지가 높을수록 가족 강인성, 가족 문제해결 의사소통이 높게 나타났고, 가족 강인성은 가족 문제해결 의사소통, 소아암 청소년의 복원력과 양의 상관관계가 있으며, 가족 문제해결 의사소통은 소아암 청소년의 복원력과 양의 상관관계가 있었다. 소아암 청소년의 복원력에 영향을 미치는 요인은 만 10-12세 소아암 청소년의 경우 종교 유무, 가족 문제해결 의사소통이었고, 만 13-15세 소아암 청소년의 경우 가족 강인성, 가족 문제해결 의사소통으로 나타났다. 결론 본 연구의 결과는 소아암 청소년의 복원력과 가족 복원력을 증진하기 위하여 소아암 청소년의 연령에 따른 복원력 중심의 간호 중재 프로그램 개발의 필요성을 시사한다.

• 한국아동복지학
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• 제26호
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• pp.7-30
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• 2008

의학기술의 발전으로 소아암 환아의 생존율이 1960년대 30%미만에서 최근 75%이상으로 향상되었다. 이에 따라 소아암은 더 이상 불치병이 아닌 만성질환으로 분류되고 있으나, 장기간의 투병생활로 인해 소아암 환아들은 신체적, 심리사회적 문제를 겪고 있다. 특히 외모에 관심이 많고, 또래관계가 중요한 10대 소아암 환아들에게 있어 신체적, 심리사회적 변화는 이들의 신체상과 질병적응에 영향을 미칠 것으로 예상된다. 이에 본 연구에서는 소아암 환아의 신체상(신체왜곡도) 및 질병적응 수준을 알아보고, 인구사회학적 특성, 질병관련 특성 및 신체상이 소아암 환아의 질병적응에 미치는 영향에 대해 알아보았다. 본 연구는 2007년 10월 22일부터 11월 16일까지 자기기입식 설문조사로 이루어졌으며, 조사대상자는 암진단 후 3년 이내의 10세에서 18세 환아 82명이었다. 수집된 자료는 기술통계, t-검정, 상관관계, 위계적 다중회귀방법으로 분석하였다. 분석결과, 연령, 학교생활여부, 신체상이 소아암 환아의 질병적응에 영향을 미치는 요인으로 나타났다. 즉, 연령이 높을수록, 학교생활을 하고 있는 환아가 그렇지 않은 환아보다, 신체왜곡도가 낮을수록 질병적응에 긍정적 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 소아암 환아의 질병적응을 돕기 위해서는 소아암 환아가 학교생활을 지속할 수 있도록 돕는 정책적 제도 구축, 긍정적 신체상 형성을 위한 프로그램 개발, 소아암 환아의 연령을 고려한 심리사회적 접근 등이 필요하며, 이를 위해 사회복지사의 적극적인 개입이 이루어져야 할 것이다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제13권12호
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• pp.6491-6496
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• 2012

Background: The influence of parental socio-economic status on childhood cancer treatment outcome in low-income countries has not been sufficiently investigated. Our study examined this influence and explored parental experiences during cancer treatment of their children in an Indonesian academic hospital. Materials and Methods: Medical charts of 145 children diagnosed with cancer between 1999 and 2009 were reviewed retrospectively. From October 2011 until January 2012, 40 caretakers were interviewed using semi-structured questionnaires. Results: Of all patients, 48% abandoned treatment, 34% experienced death, 9% had progressive/relapsed disease, and 9% overall event-free survival. Prosperous patients had better treatment outcome than poor patients (P<0.0001). Odds-ratio for treatment abandonment was 3.3 (95%CI: 1.4-8.1, p=0.006) for poor versus prosperous patients. Parents often believed that their child's health was beyond doctor control and determined by luck, fate or God (55%). Causes of cancer were thought to be destiny (35%) or God's punishment (23%). Alternative treatment could (18%) or might (50%) cure cancer. Most parents (95%) would like more information about cancer and treatment. More contact with doctors was desired (98%). Income decreased during treatment (55%). Parents lost employment (48% fathers, 10% mothers), most of whom stated this loss was caused by their child's cancer (84% fathers, 100% mothers). Loss of income led to financial difficulties (63%) and debts (55%). Conclusions: Treatment abandonment was most important reason for treatment failure. Treatment outcome was determined by parental socio-economic status. Childhood cancer survival could improve if financial constraints and provision of information and guidance are better addressed.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.409-412
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• 2013

Curcumin (Cum) has been reported to have potential chemo-preventive and chemotherapeutic activity through influencing various processes, inducing cell cycle arrest, differentiation and apoptosis in a series of cancers. However, the poor solubility of Cum limits its further applications in the treatment of cancer. We have previously reported Cum-loaded nanoparticles (Cum-NPs) prepared with amphilic methoxy poly(ethylene glycol)-polycaprolactone (mPEG-PCL) block copolymers. The current study demonstrated superior antitumor efficacy of Cum-NPs over free Cum in the treatment of lung cancer. In vivo evaluation further demonstrated superior anticancer effects of Cum-NPs by delaying tumor growth compared to free Cum in an established A549 transplanted mice model. Moreover, Cum-NPs showed little toxicity to normal tissues including bone marrow, liver and kidney at a therapeutic dose. These results suggest that Cum-NPs are effective to inhibit the growth of human lung cancer with little toxicity to normal tissues, and could provide a clinically useful therapeutic regimen. They thus merit more research to evaluate the feasibility of clinical application.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.1767-1769
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• 2014

Purpose: Lung cancer, one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers in the world, is characterized by relatively high morbidity and mortality. Berbamine (BER) has been initially reported to exert anti-proliferative effects against a series of cancers. Methods: In this study the in vitro cytotoxicity of BER was measured by MTT assay. In vivo anti-cancer efficacy of BER was assessed in A549 xenografts. Results: Cytotoxicity tests showed dose-dependent cell growth inhibition effects of BER against A549 cells. Moreover, BER significantly reduced the growth of lung cancer in a dose-dependent manner in nude mice with prolonged survival time. Conclusion: Therefore, BER might be in herbal medicine for cancer therapy and further efforts are needed to explore therapeutic strategies.

• 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.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.2959-2964
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• 2016

The present study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of HPV infection in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) in Hunan province. DNA samples were collected from paraffin embedded ovarian tissue from 322 patients with EOC, 99 with ovarian benign tumors and 199 normal persons. The polymerase chain reaction and direct sequencing were used to identify the HPV types in the samples. The relationship between the infection of human papillomavirus (HPV) and the epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC) was investigated combined with clinical data. The prevalence of HPV18 and HPV33 in EOC group and benign group was higher than in the normal group. HPV18 and HPV33 may play a role in the development of both EOC and ovarian benign tumor and may participate in the development of EOC with traditional risk factors, family history and abortion, possibly exerting synergistic effects.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.78-90
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• 2018

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate measurement properties of self-report questionnaires measuring the social adjustment for youth after treatment of childhood cancer. Methods: Social adjustment measurement tools were identified through a two-stage systematic review. First, we searched for articles using self-report questionnaires to measure the social adjustment of youth after the treatment of childhood cancer. The appropriate tools were listed and categorized. Second, using methodological filters, we searched 5 electronic databases for articles examining the measurement properties of the tools when used with youth after the treatment of childhood cancer. The quality of these papers was then evaluated using the COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN) checklist. Results: Eight tools were frequently used to measure social adjustment. Eight studies investigated the measurement properties of 4 of these tools. The PedsQL 4.0 and MMQL-AF had moderate to strong evidence in some domains, but the rest of the domains had a lack of evidence. The SF-36 and KIDSCREEN-27 were validated for only a few areas. Conclusion: We found a lack of evidence regarding the measurement properties of these tools. More research is required on the measurement properties of tools for use in this population.

• 가정간호학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.135-147
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• 2001

The aim of this descriptive study was to identify the impact of chronic illness on children and their families. Mothers of 177 children with chronic disease were recruited from aged one to 17 years hospitalizing the pediatric nursing unit at one university hospital. 28 questions. a self-complete maternal questionnaire developed by researchers based on literatures and 'The Impact of Childhood Illness Scale' (Hoare & Russell, 1995) assess four aspects of the child's and family's lifestyle with two dimensions for each question. the frequency of the problem and its importance of concern that it cause. In the data analysis. Pearson correlation coefficients and analysis of variance were used to test any association and a statistical comparisons. between individual variables and the impact on child's and family's lifestyle. The results were as follows: 1) There were the higher mean scores on the importance dimension than on the frequency dimension on total impact on child's and family's lifestyle. On the importance dimension. mothers had much higher levels of concern about impact on child's development and adjustment among subscales. On the frequency dimension, mothers had much higher levels of concern about impact on the family daily living on subscales. 2) The impact on child's and family's lifestyle related on individual variables were: (1) On the importance dimension. there was statistically significant low in the impact on child's development and adjustment among subscales in older parent group compared with it of younger parent group. (2) On the frequency dimension. there were statistically significant high in the impact on child's development and adjustment among subscales in the children with leukemia or cancer compared with it of the other children who had another chronic illnesses. And there were statistically significant high in the impact on child's development and adjustment among subscales in less than high school educated mothers compared with it of mothers who was educated college level. (3) On the frequency dimension. There were statistically significant high in the impact on family's daily living among subscales and total impact on child's and family's lifestyle in female children. (4) There was positive correlation between impact on parents daily living and frequency of child's hospitalization on the frequency dimension. but there was negative correlation between the two variables on the importance dimension. (5) There was positive correlation between impact of chronic illness and its treatment and duration of child's hospitalization on the frequency dimension. In conclusion. these results were reflected by the high level of concerns about impact on child's development and adjustment although mothers had frequently responded about the impact on the family daily living. We suggest consistent intervening program that help the family empowering to make children live with and adjust to their chronic illnesses from the point of diagnosis and after discharge from the hospital. We also suggest these results can be utilized as a useful data in the practice of home health nursing for children who have chronic illnesses and their families.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.495-505
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• 2007

Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to develop a CD program of applied logotherapy to improve the quality of life of adolescents with terminal cancer. Method: Keller's ARCS theory and a model for developing internet learning materials(Kang) was applied to develop this program comprised four distinct phases: planning, designing, development, and execution stages. Results: This program was entitled 'Finding treasures in my life' and consisted of 5 sessions and its educational contents were made up as follows: "Treasure One" is 'learning three natures of the human mind', "Treasure Two" is 'learning creative value as first method to find meaning of life', "Treasure Three" is 'learning experiential value as second method to find meaning of life', "Treasure Four" is 'learning attitudinal value as third method to find meaning of life', and "Treasure Five" is 'Becoming the master of my life'. The sub-menu was made up of 'Beginning', 'What is it?', 'Travelling'. 'Laughing Song', 'End'. Conclusions: This CD program applied logotherapy with flash animation technique as an emotional and spiritual nursing intervention program for easier and more scientific application in pediatric oncology and hospice area.