• 모자간호학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.70-86
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• 1992

What is the meaning of menopause experienced by urban Korean women? Nurses need an under standing of menopause as it is experienced by women themselves. Nursing needs to build knowledge of womens' health experiences. This phenomenological study examined what menopause means to modern Korean woman to build a structure of knowledge useful for practice to enhance the quality of life of women throughout this experience. Traditional definition of menopause according to physiological changes, as illness and more recently as psychosociocultural phenomena were examined along with the folk lore information generally available in the society A review of the research and scientific literature was done from the perspectives of four models including the medical model of menopause as disease, the psychosocial model as positive and negative behavioral responses to menopause, a feminist model of menopause as a time of rebirth and a nursing model of the changing patterns of meaning, rythms and transformation women experience through menopause. Van Kaam's method was used to analyse data audio-recorded during interviews by the investigator with 65 women, 40 to 60 years of agey whose confidentility was assured. Interpretation of the data was enhanced luther by consultation with professional colleugues and with informants. Four rhythmical patterns of process emerged : from suffering to comfort, from oppression to freedom from being a good wife and wise mother to becoming a woman and from a hard life to an abundant life. The detailed common elements making up each of the four patterns and definitions of each pattern were presented. Each pattern was discussed critically from the point of view of medical, psychosociocultural, womens' and nursing models. The structural definition of the synthesis of the four process patterns was stated as : in spite of suffering the middle-aged urban Korean woman find she is able to help herself to feel comfortable and to realize release as she moves from oppression to liberation and freedom from being a good wife and wise mother she experiences rebirth as a woman : she begins to live a profitable and valuable life : her life becomes one of transformed abundant living. The definition transcends the medical and phychosociocultural model to embody a nursing model. The analysis was critiqued by using Parse' Human Becomming theory of nursing because the emerging themes were process patterns. Parse' theory provides and explanation of the experience of menopause consistant with the data which enhances nursing understanding of womens' experience of menopause. Parse' practice methodology provide guidance for promoting womens' quality of life throughout the experience of menopause. Feminist analysis contributes valuable critique to nursing research, richly expanding the perspective from traditional approaches to promote understanding of the meaning of womens' health experiences.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.1798-1813
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• 2021

This paper proposes a positive experience design approach for Internet of Things (IoT) intelligent products to improve users' subjective well-being in the fields of artificial intelligence and big data. First, the authors selected six target users and taking the Xiaomi IoT intelligent products for the research objects and conducted a thorough observation on how the target users used IoT intelligent products in their own homes over two weeks via a home-visiting interview, group diary, and focus group. Second, they constructed an individual activities table for the participants' IoT intelligent product experience using a hierarchical task analysis (HTA). Third, two researchers sorted out the sub-tasks of happiness in the HTA table. Finally, the authors found the positive experience design approach of IoT intelligent products. The positive experience design approach of IoT intelligent products is proposed from focusing on the personal pleasure experience to individual life meaningful design and group social relationship design, including individual pleasure experience, personal goal realization, group needs satisfaction and the harmony of group relations. The paper uses the two design examples of an interactive kettle and a harmonious chair to further discuss the feasibility of the design approach. In the era of big data, it is helpful for designers to use this design approach to improve the users' sense of sustainable pleasure, achievement perception of their future goal realization, and the well-being of the group's social relationships.

• 산업융합연구
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.47-59
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• 2021

본 연구는 성인대학생의 평생교육 현장실습 경험을 탐색하였다. 이를 위해 성인대학생 5명을 대상으로 2020년 11월 17일부터 2021년 05월 14일까지 실습일지 및 과제물 분석과 심층면담을 통해 질적 사례연구를 수행하였다. 연구결과, 첫째, 평생교육 현장실습 경험은 '넘어야 할 산! 평생교육 현장실습', '평생교육에 대한 인식의 확장', '자신감을 유발하는 현장실습', '백문불여일견의 살아있는 현장경험'으로 나타났다. 둘째, 평생교육 현장실습 경험의 의미는 '동료들과 팀워크로 학습공동체 형성', '평생교육의 핵심은 사람이라는 깨달음', '평생교육사의 직업적 정체성에 변화', '도전하고 싶은 평생학습 실천가의 삶'으로 나타났다. 이러한 연구결과는 평생교육 현장실습 참여자의 질적 성장을 견인하고, 직업적 전문성 확보 및 양질의 현장실습 제공을 위한 기초자료로 활용할 수 있을 것이다. 추후 타 대학의 성인대학생을 대상으로 후속연구를 제안하였다.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2015

본 연구의 목적은 상징적 상호작용론적 견해에 바탕을 둔 근거이론 방법을 이용하여 간호대학생의 전공 융합한 해외 단기연수 경험에 대한 실체이론을 도출하고, 해외 단기연수가 나아가야 할 방향을 조명하는데 있다. 연구결과를 보면 참여자들은 연수 후 경험으로 내 안의 또 다른 '나'를 발견하고 더 넓은 세상으로 나가고자 하는 열망이 강하게 생기면서 삶에 대한 태도를 변화하기 시작하였고 이는 자아성숙으로 나타났다. 그러나 일부 참여자는 현실에 짓눌려 열망을 내려놓고 예전 삶으로의 회귀를 나타내기도 하였다. 본 연구결과를 토대로 볼 때, 전공 융합한 해외 단기연수 후에는 반드시 추후 프로그램을 운영하여 긍정적으로 변화된 열망, 동기, 자신감 등을 강화 유지시켜 주는 것이 필요하고, 개인 성향에 따른 맞춤형 추후 프로그램을 운영하는 것이 요구된다. 또한 추후 프로그램 운영 시 연수에 참여한 학생들에 대한 주기적인 평가를 통해 추후 시점마다 심리적 또는 교육적 지지자원을 분배 투입하는 것이 필요하다.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.98-109
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• 2017

Purpose: This aim of this phenomenological study was to describe and understand the experience of spiritual conflict in hospice nurses by identifying the meanings and structures of the experience. Methods: Participants were 12 nurses working for one year or more at hospice units of general hospitals in a metropolitan city and experiencing of spiritual conflict as hospice nurses. Over six months data were collected using individual in-depth interviews and analyzed with the method suggested by Colaizzi. Results: The experience of spiritual conflict in participants was organized into three categories, six theme-clusters, and 13 themes. The participants felt existential anxiety on death and a fear of death which is out of human control and skepticism for real facts of human beings facing death. They also experienced agitation of fundamental beliefs about life with agitation of the philosophy of life guiding themselves and mental distress due to fundamental questions that are difficult to answer. Also they had distress about poor spiritual care with guilty feelings from neglecting patients' spiritual needs and difficulties in spiritual care due to lack of practical competencies. Conclusion: Findings indicate the experience of spiritual conflict in hospice nurses is mainly associated with frequent experience of death in hospice patients. The experience of spiritual conflict consisted of existential anxiety, agitation of fundamental beliefs and distress over poor spiritual care. So, programs to help relieve anxiety, agitation and distress are necessary to prevent spiritual conflict and then spiritual burnout in hospice nurses.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.781-790
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• 2013

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to further understanding of the experience in acceptance of hospice by patients with terminal cancer and to explore the structure of this experience. Methods: A phenomenological methodology was used for the study. Participants were nine patients who were admitted to the hospice unit of a university hospital. In-depth interviews were done for data collection and the data were analyzed using Colaizzi's method. Results: Four categories, eight theme clusters and 18 themes were identified for the experience in acceptance of hospice by patients with terminal cancer. The three categories were 'Hope for a comfortable death', 'Overcoming barrier of prejudice about hospice', 'Incessant craving for life', 'The last consideration for self and family' Conclusion: While accepting the hospice care, participants experienced inner conflict between giving up medical treatments that prolong life and choosing a comfortable death, and also experienced an incessant craving for life. By accepting hospice care, they showed a human dignity that entails careful concerns for both self and family members.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.110-120
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• 2017

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the lived experience of patients with heart transplantation in Korea. Methods: Individual indepth interviews and a focus group interview were used to collect the data from nine patients who had heart transplantations in 2015. All interviews were audio-taped and verbatim transcripts were made for the analysis. Data were analyzed using Colaizzi's phenomenological method. Results: Among the nine participants, eight were men. Mean age was 57.30 years. Six theme clusters emerged from the analysis. 'Joy of rebirth obtained by good luck' describes the pleasure and expectation of new life after narrow survival. 'Suffering from adverse drug effects' illustrates various psychosocial difficulties, such as low self-esteem, helplessness, alienation, and burnout, arising from the side effects of medications. 'Body and mind of being bewildered' illustrates disintegrated health and haunting fear of death. 'Alienation disconnected with society' describes isolated feeling of existence due to misunderstandings from society. 'Suffering overcome with gratitude and responsibility' includes overcoming experience through various social supports and suitable jobs. Finally, 'acceptance of suffering accompanied with new heart' illustrate changed perspective of life itself. Conclusion: The findings in this study provide deep understanding and insights of the lived experience of heart related illness for these patients and should help in the development of tailored-interventions for patients with heart transplantation.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.233-241
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• 2017

본 연구의 목적은 직장암 남성들이 경험하는 성생활을 파악하는데 있다. 연구 참여자는 직장암으로 치료를 받고 있는 8명의 남성으로, 반 구조화된 질문을 통한 면담내용을 Downe-Wamboldt의 내용분석 방법(8단계)으로 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 3개의 범주와 9개의 하위범주가 도출되었다: 신체적 어려움, 심리적 어려움, 상호역할적 어려움. 이와 같이, 직장암으로 치료를 받는 남성들은 성과 관련된 신체적, 심리적, 상호역할적 어려움을 경험하는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 직장암 남성들이 경험하는 성과 관련된 경험을 드러내 주었다는데 의의가 있으며 추후 성 관련 프로그램 개발에 유용한 자료로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.397-411
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to explore and describe the experience of Korean college students on suicide attempts. Methods: Eight students participated and data were collected through in-depth individual interviews between September, 2011 and April, 2012. Data were analyzed using Strauss and Corbin's grounded theory method. Results: Analysis showed that the central phenomenon of suicide attempt experience of college students was 'inextricable despair'. Causal conditions were 'sense of shame by failure to achieve perfect independence' and 'a big gap between reality and ideals'. Contextual conditions were 'extreme situation of being cornered' and 'excessive changes in emotions'. Intervening conditions were 'important others' and 'perspectives on the world'. Action/interaction strategies were 'temporary efforts' and 'gathering up one's mind'. Consequences were 'trauma as one's own hurt', 'conflict between life and death' and 'becoming mature'. Conclusion: The results of this study provide an in-depth understanding of the experience of college students with attempted suicide. It is necessary to develop programs to prevent suicide attempts by college students and these results can be used as a basis for program development.

• Perspectives in Nursing Science
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.25-34
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• 2019

Purpose: Alcohol use in South Korean women, particularly college students, is increasing. Women are more vulnerable than men to alcohol use, which puts them at greater risk of physical and psychosocial problems. Some studies have reported that on failing to find meaning in life, many South Korean college students experience depression, subsequently using alcohol as a coping mechanism. This study aimed to develop a logotherapeutic program and identify its effects on meaning in life, depression, and problem drinking among female college students. Methods: This study was a quasi-experimental trial. The participants were female college students who scored over 8 in the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). Twenty-four students were assigned to the experimental group and twenty-three to the control group. Three scales were used in this study: the Purpose in Life test, Beck Depression Inventory, and AUDIT. The data were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney test in SPSS/WIN 12.0. Results: After the conclusion of the logotherapeutic program, the level of meaning in life and depression were more greatly improved in the experimental group than the control group. Conclusion: The logotherapeutic program is an effective method to help female college students find meaning in life and reduce depression in this population.