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The Effects of Internet Addiction on Mental Health Among Adolescents (인터넷 중독이 청소년의 정신 건강에 미치는 영향)

  • Byeon, Young-Soon;Lee, Hea-Shoon
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.460-468
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    • 2007
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between adolescents' internet addiction and mental health. Methods: The Internet addiction level was measured with K-Scale developed for Korean adolescents by Korea Agency Digital Opportunity & Promotion (2006) and the mental health level was measured with SCL-90-R developed by Derogatis (1977) and adapted for Korean adolescents by Kim, Kim. & Won (1984). Collected data was analyzed by the mean${\pm}$SD, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe and Pearson correlation coefficient (SPSS 12.0) Results: 1. The Internet addiction level appeared to be 'Addiction' in 19%, 'Latency addiction' in 27% and 'Normal' in 54%. 2. The Internet addiction level was different according to sex, use, frequency and using time per day. The mental health level was different according to grade, sex, the father's education, the mother's education, frequency and using time per day. 3. The correlation between Internet addiction and mental health was found significant. Conclusion: The Internet addiction level was confirmed to have an influence on mental health. We offered basis data for preventing and treating Internet addiction in adolescents.

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Effects of Social Support on Mental Health and Career Preparation Behavior of High School Students: Mediating Effects of Self-Efficacy (고등학생의 사회적지지가 정신건강과 진로준비행동에 미치는 영향: 자기효능감의 매개효과)

  • Lee, Hyun-Ju
    • The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.93-104
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    • 2021
  • Objectives: This study aims to understand the mediating effects of self-efficacy on the effects of social support on mental health and career preparation behavior of academic high school students. Methods: A survey was conducted targeting total 297 respondents from May 27 to May 30th 2019. The collected data was analyzed by using the PASW Statistics Ver. 18.0. Results: When the school life satisfaction was lower, and when the personality was more introverted, the students with lower school grade showed significantly low scores of mental health and career preparation behavior. In the effects of social support on mental health, the self-efficacy showed mediating roles. In the effects of social support on career preparation behavior, the self-efficacy showed mediating roles. Conclusion: If the education for strengthening social support is preferentially performed, the self-efficacy could be increased, which would have more positive effects on mental health and career preparation behavior. Regarding the subjects of education, t would be more effective to provide selective and concentrative education to the group with significantly low scores of mental health and career preparation behavior.

Survey on Quality of Life, Mental Health and Subjective Health Status of Community Dwelling Cancer Patients (일 지역에 거주하는 암환자의 삶의 질, 정신건강 및 주관적 건강상태 조사)

  • Lee, Bo-Young;Jo, Heui-Sug;Kwon, Myung-Soon
    • Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.49-60
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    • 2010
  • Purpose: This study investigated the quality of life, mental health and subjective health status of community dwelling cancer patients. Methods: Subjects were 212 out-patients with cancer at Kangwon University Hospital. The study was conducted from July 10 to August 14, 2008. Quality of life as determined by the Euro Quality of life-5 Dimensions (EQ-5D) was measured using Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(KCDC). Mental health and subjective health status were measured using KCDC. Results: EQ-5D determined degrees of difficulty were 25.5%(mobility), 25.2%(anxiety or depression), 23.6%(pain or discomfort), 20.3%(activities of daily living), and 13.7%(self care). An analysis of the association between several factors and mental health showed that the statistically significant factors were age, gender, medical coverage, and private insurance. An analysis of the association between several factors and subjective health status showed that the statistically significant factor was occupation. Conclusion: Cancer patients suffer from significant psychological distress. Programs that address mental and physical health would be beneficial.

A qualitative study on the experiences of community child center workers to deal with the mental health of children and adolescents (지역아동센터 종사자의 아동청소년정신건강 문제 대처경험에 관한 질적 연구)

  • Bae, Eun Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Child Welfare
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    • no.56
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    • pp.33-68
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    • 2016
  • This study aimed to explore the experiences of community child center workers about how they have dealt with the mental health of children and adolescents who use such centers. For this study, we used a sample of ten community child center workers, who were divided into two groups and who participated in four focus group interviews. The results revealed four themes and twelve sub-themes: "the reality of facing children's mental health issues," "dealing with children's mental health issues and limitations," "know-hows accumulated from experiences and visible changes," and "remaining tasks--the workers who cannot give all." Based on the results the implications of promoting the mental health of children at community child centers were discussed.

Relationship between mental health and chewing discomfort in older adults (노인의 정신건강과 저작불편감의 관련성)

  • Min-Young Kim;Yun-Jung Jang
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.243-251
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    • 2024
  • Objectives: This study used secondary data from the 2021 Community Health Survey to identify the impact of dysphagia on mental health-related characteristics among older adults, selecting 73,970 individuals aged 65 years and older. Methods: Frequency analysis, χ2-test, and multiple logistic regression were conducted to identify risk factors affecting mental health-related characteristics among older adults. Results: Dysphagia was most common among individuals with the following demographic characteristics: female, aged 85 years and older, three-generation household and household income in the 1st quintile. Chewing discomfort according to mental health-related characteristics was higher in older adults with cognitive impairment and depression. Sex, age, education level, household income, and chewing discomfort were significant for cognitive impairment, whereas sex, age, household type, education level, household income, and chewing discomfort were significant for depression. Conclusions: The above results confirmed that chewing discomfort contributes to mental health issues such as cognitive impairment and depression. It is therefore necessary to recognize chewing discomfort as an important health problem affecting the mental health of older adults, and to develop a multifaceted dental hygiene approach to target community-dwelling older adults who suffer from chewing discomfort.

An Analysis of Relations between Perceived Family Characteristics, Experienced Abuse and Mental Health in Childhood (학령기 아동이 지각한 가족 특성, 경험한 아동 학대와 정신 건강과의 관계)

  • Kim, Hee-Gul
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.289-303
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    • 1997
  • This study analyzes the relations between perceived family characteristics, experienced abuse and mental health in childhood. For this, this study used row data by questionnaire, analysis, and frequency, ANOVA, t - Test, Pearson' correlation analysis. The sample was 118 children 10-12 years old in primary school. The findings are as follows. First, children perceived family cohesion and family adaptability highly, family adaptability showed a significant difference from the relations with a parent's job, a parent's academic level, and type of residence. Second, it appeared that some children experienced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Third, in general the mental health of children was good. Their mental health showed a significant relation to economic level of family, and type of residence, creating problems such as depression, anxiety, phobic anxiety, psychoticism. By family size, their mental health showed a significant relation to somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism, Fourth, family cohesion and mental health perceived by children supported a linear relation to phobic anxiety, and family adaptability and mental health perceived by children supported the reverse -linear relation to somatization, anxiety, paranoid ideation, etc. Fifth, connections with perceived abuse and mental health as well as emotional abuse and mental health were also supported. Further more, on somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, psychoticism, etc, a reverse-linear re lation existed. Physical abuse supported a reverse-linear relation with interpersonal sensitivity, depression, paranoid ideation, etc. and sexual abuse supported a reverse-linear relation with depression. These findings suggest that school and family have to concern themselves with the mental health of children because experienced abuse and family characteristics do indeed affect the mental health of children.

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BTS from "N.O" to "ON" and BEyond: Innovation in Effective Mental Health Messaging and Modelling

  • Blady, Sharon
    • Asia Marketing Journal
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.117-149
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    • 2021
  • Over seven years, BTS have organically embedded consistent mental health messaging and modelling of various mental health modalities, representing innovation within mental health discourse, within and outside the pop and K-pop culture and fandom. Their personal and artistic journeys have resulted in songs, imagery, and relationship dynamics within the group and within and between their fans ARMY, that organically model behaviours associated with mental health therapeutic modalities and normalize the discussion of mental health and well-being. This practice is vitally important in the effort to end stigma and encourage mental health well-being and recovery. BTS's authenticity establishes empathy with their audience ARMY and increases their ability to deliver these messages effectively. This includes fostering the creation of a peer support community within the group that extends to their fanbase ARMY, and from which fan-created mental health programs have emerged. BTS's innovation will be explored by examining content creation throughout their career, illustrating their consistent and organic messaging, culminating in overt and conscious mental health content in their latest album BE, which was released three weeks after the initial paper was presented, and provides proof of concept.

Community Mental Health Issues and Bibliotherapy (지역사회 정신보건 문제와 독서치료)

  • 김정근;송영임
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.19-41
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    • 2003
  • The writers, from librarians' standpoint, look at community mental health issues, including emotional wounds and disorders. They then look into bibliotherapy as a remedial device. They conclude by offering some suggestions as to bibliotherapeutic practices as applied in public library operation.

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A Status and Associated Factors of Mental Health on Girls' High School Students (여고생의 정신건강 실태와 관련요인)

  • Lee, Young-Eun;Choi, Eun-Joung
    • The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.103-114
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    • 2010
  • Purpose: The aim of this study was to describe the status and associated factors of mental health on girls' high school students. Methods: The participants were 446 academic girls' high school students and 240 vocational girls' high school students of the 1st graders in Busan. The data were collected from April 28, 2009 to May 30, 2009. Survey was developed in the form of self-report five-point likert scale(1-5) using Lees Instrument of mental health(1986) that revised from Derogatis et al's Symptom Check List-90(1976). The higher score of this scale means worse status of mental health. Result: The score of mental health of subjects was low and the mean was $1.69{\pm}.50.$ The depression mean was the highest among mental health sub-variables. The mental health of the vocational girls' high school students was worse than the academics. As for subjects in mental health by their various characteristics, there are significant by school type(p<0.001), economic status(p<0.001), father's job(p<0.001), parent's marrital status(p<0.001), cognitive health status(p<0.001), record(p<0.05), character(p<0.001), satisfaction of life(p<0.001), needs for help on mental health(p<0.001). Conclusion: The intervention program needs to improve mental health of vocational high school girls' students as well as academic high school girls' students, and need to establish depression relieving nursing intervention program for girls' high school students.

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Relationship between Smoking Type and Mental Health in Korean Adults (한국 성인들의 흡연유형과 정신건강과의 관계)

  • Bin, Sung-Oh
    • The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2020
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between dual smoking and mental health. Methods: This study was conducted on 5,879 Korean adults, and a logistic regression analysis was conducted to investigate the relationship between smoking type and mental health. Results: The types of smoking were surveyed as 'dual smoking' 6.1%, 'electronic cigarette' 1.7%, 'general smoking' 12.1%, and 'non-smoking' 80.1%.. The risk of diagnosing depression in the dual smoking group was 2.87 times higher than in the non-smoking group, the risk of depression was 1.66 times higher than in the non-smoking group, and the risk of stress was 1.62 times higher. Conclusion: Even in adulthood, health education such as smoking prevention education and smoking cessation education should be conducted.