• Toxicological Research
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.201-207
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• 2012

In order to evaluate the physical and psychological health effects from automobile air pollution, 99 employees who worked near a main street were given a general health questionnaire, and the prevalence of their subjective complaints was measured. The collected data were classified according to gender, sleep time, degree of regular exercise, self-consciousness of symptoms, length of employment, work time, rest time, and smoking status. The results obtained were summarized as follows: The scores related to health complaints regarding physical and psychological items were higher in females than in males. THI scores were higher for the < 4 hour sleep time group. The health complaint scores for physical items were higher in the regular exercise group, whereas most scores for mental items were higher in the irregular exercise groups. The health complaints scores for physical and psychological items were higher in the unhealthy symptom group than in other groups. Those employees who had worked for > 4 years showed significantly higher rates of complaints regarding the eyes and skin. THI scores were higher for the < 6 hour working time group. The smoking group showed higher scores regarding health complaints related to physical items. The THI scores of the respiratory organs, mouth, anus, and digestive organs were significantly higher for the smoking group than for the non-smoking group. In summary, this study shows that the health complaint scores regarding physical and psychological symptoms tended to be higher among the unhealthy group, the less sleep time group, the less work time group, smokers, and females. These results can be used to improve the psychosomatic health status and working environments of employees who work near a main street.

• 한국학교ㆍ지역보건교육학회지
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• 제6권
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• pp.17-34
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to examine the sex-consciousness and sexual values of school children by geographic region. It's specifically attempted to make a comparative analysis of sex-consciousness and sexual values between urban and rural elementary schoolers to help provide efficient sex education for them to build the right sexual values. The subjects in this study were 400 elementary schoolers in their sixth year of elementary schools located in Danyang-gun and Chungju city, north Chungcheong province. After a survey was conducted, answer sheets from 387 students that were analyzable were analyzed. For data handling, SPSS program was employed, and t-test was utilized to see if there's any differences between the urban and rural elementary school youngsters in sex consciousness and sexual values. And $x^2$ test was used to make a comparative analysis of their view of sex education. The findings of the study were as follows : First, regarding sex-consciousness, they had general knowledge on sex. Especially, they were highly aware of sexual violence and the generation of baby, but many of them didn't know about where and how egg cells were produced. This indicated that systematic education should be offered in various ways. Concerning geographic gap, there was a significant difference in sexual knowledge between the urban and rural students. As to sexual attitude, they took a relatively positive attitude toward display of affection or sex-related talk on TV or in movies, as they viewed it as natural. This finding implied that the elementary schoolers were recipient toward sex and took an active attitude toward sexual expressions. Concerning geographic gap, there was no difference between the rural and urban students. As for sexual practices, the largest group of the students had a liking for the opposite sex, which showed that their needs for sex were unveiled in the course of having some trouble due to the other sex rather than through firsthand experiences or activities. As to geographic gap, there was a significant difference between the urban and rural students in that regard. Besides, the urban students put their sex-consciousness in practice more often than the rural students did. After they are educated to build the right sexual values, systematic sex-education programs should also be offered for them to be exposed to sustained sex education and to team how to apply their sex-consciousness to real life. Second, as for sexual values, the school children had relatively positive and equalitarian sexual values. Regarding geographic gap, there were significant gaps between the two groups' view of the opposite sex, sexual roles and chastity. Concerning view of the opposite sex, they attached more importance to the inner aspects of the opposite sex than his or her look, and they wanted to date in a natural manner. Regarding sexual roles, they were relatively well cognizant of gender equity and the importance of male and female roles. As to view of chastity, they looked upon sex as natural, not as what's ugly or ashamed of. Third, concerning their outlook on sex education, approximately more than half the students felt the needs for sex education, and there was a significant difference between the urban and rural students. They wanted to receive education about the prevention of sexual violence and physical changes during puberty the most, and there was a significant gap between the urban and rural students in this aspect. As to the time for sex education, they thought that students should start to be exposed to sex education in their fifth or sixth year. This finding signified that fifth or sixth graders who were in the beginning of puberty started to have a lot of interest in their own physical changes. Therefore, sex education would produce better effects when it's provided to fifth or sixth graders. Nearly half them preferred single-gender class when they received sex education, and there's no gap between the urban and rural students in that regard.

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.41-56
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• 2013

Objectives: This article reviewed researches on intersectoral partnership of school health programs to suggest importance, current status and development plan of those. Methods: Domestic research papers were screened though Research Information Sharing Service (RISS), Koreanstudies Information Service System (KISS), Medical Library Information System (MEDLIS), Korean Medical Database (KMbase), and digital national assembly library. International papers were searched mainly via Pubmed. Results: Since intersectoral partnership is effective, comprehensive and universal approach for school health programs, many collaborative programs are universally progressing in various domain including smoking, alcohol, mental health and sexual behavior. On the other hand, intersectoral partnership of school health programs in Korea is still in the beginning stage, and there are few intersectoral partnerships. Moreover, there are several limitations including top-down approach, passive participation and lack of studies on the effect of intersectoral partnership. However, intersectoral partnerships in school health program including tuberculosis control system in school or WEE project are in progress, so it is worth looking forward in the future. Conclusions: To achieve successful intersectoral partnership in school health programs, appropriate partnership guideline for Korean society, policy support, active participation and improvement of consciousness in community stakeholders are needed.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.66-73
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• 2020

The change in labor consciousness began to draw social attention to work-life balance (WLB). The WLB is one of the major factors affecting the health and safety problems of workers. Although shiftwork adversely affects WLB, safety, and health problems of workers, WLB of shift workers has received little empirical attention. The purpose of this study was to examine whether WLB mediates the relationship between shiftwork and shift worker's safety and health problems, participation in leisure activities moderates WLB, and finally, whether WLB moderated by participation in leisure activities mediates the relationship between shift work and shift worker's safety and health problems. For the study, the data of the 5^th wave of Korean Working Condition Survey(KWCS) conducted by Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency(KOSHA) of South Korea was used. Conditional process analysis revealed that the relationship between shift work and worker's safety and health problems is mediated by WLB; however, participation in leisure activity showed no moderation effect on WLB. Therefore, the moderated mediation effect has failed to achieve statistical significance. The results indicate that working environment improvement in consideration of the WLB is needed to gain shift worker's long-term safety and health. The implications of this study and suggestions for future research were discussed.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.137-143
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• 2015

Fire fighter are exposed to the situations which are hard to predict due to continuous and accidental changes which hinder their fire fighting activity. As these threats of safety accident act as fear factors, they are doing insecure fire fighting activities. Therefore, as unclear and abnormal risks of working environment such as the riskiness of expansion of disaster, instability, obstacles of activities, abnormality, urgency, etc. increase, safety accidents are caused. This study analyzes the actual condition of safety and health and awareness of fire fighter who are exposed safety accidents during their fire fighting activities and utilize such result as the basis data to secure safety of fire fighter, keep efficient safety control and prevent accidents. The results of analysis are as follows. As rescue works among all fire-fighting works shows the highest emotional stabilization and the highest post-traumatic stress disorder is shown in fire sergeant level positions, and fire fighters whose working period is 10-15 years, reinforcing safety training to long-term workers is necessary. As the result of survey regarding safety awareness, the highest awareness level was shown in fire sergeant level positions, and fire fighters whose working period is over 20 years, and when it comes to operation of fire fighting equipments, fire-fighting workers and workers having 1-4 years of working period showed high safety awareness. The more serious injury in a fire fighter experienced as the first injury after working as a fire-fighter, the more cause-and-effect relationship was shown between personal physical condition and work, and it is shown as obstacles of fire fighting activities and affects to post-traumatic stress disorder. Moreover, as after-work off duty activities also affect to official disaster, systematic improvement of working environment is required. Occupational medical work compatibility evaluation considering the distinct characteristics of works to secure fire-fighter' health care together with fire-fighting capability is shown to be necessary.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.79-89
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• 1986

The purpose of this study is to provide the basic data in solving the environmental problem and in environmental education to University-students by searching the consciousness of Universitystudents' attitude toward and general views on the environmental protection. Out of total of 34 universities located in Seoul I randomly selected 11 universities and I again selected 700 university-students to answer my questionnaires. After that the questionnaires were added up by using computer. The major findings of this study are as follows 1. Regarding the overall conditions of the environmental pollution in our country, 91.1% of respondents marked "serious". 2. In suffering from Air pollution, 38.9% of respondents frequently suffered and 36.1% of them always suffered. Only 25.0% of total respondents represented their dislike about so-called "pollution-giving industries", which they do not wish to introduce for the sake of environmental protection. 3. In the source of information concerning the environment, 48.3% of them from the Television, 34.9% them from the newspaper. 4. In the attitude toward the participation for environmental protection, 28.0% of respondents expressed spontaneous attitude. 79.1% of total respondents have the basic desire to establish anti-pollution facilities and only 9.1% of total respondents have replied the ultimate responsibilities of enviironmental pollution. 5. Finally, only 13.3% of total respondents expressed their opinion that hte government officials willingly comply with students' request for better environmental protection and reflect them on their basic policies, and 32.1% of them said that the concerned government officials' attitude were positove and friendly toward the civilians, and 30.6% of them expressed their opinion that those concerned government officals ate holding professional and technicals know-which are necessaty and enough to the concerned field.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.899-910
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to determine factors related to the consumption of energy drinks among male and female high school students in Daejeon. The research data, derived from the self-administered questionnaire method, was collected from 664 students in fifteen high schools during the spring of 2016. A total of 542 complete questionnaires were analyzed (response rate: 79.8%). Approximately 73% of the students self-reported having consumed energy drinks, with a greater percentage of male (as opposed to female) students self-reporting as having done so. The most common reasons given for the consumption of energy drinks were to stay awake (54.8%), the good taste of the drink (28.0%), to concentrate during studying (17.2%), and to relieve fatigue (16.9%). The adverse effects were palpitation (59.3%), insomnia (35.6%), and experiencing difficulty in waking up (30.5%). More than two in three (67.8%) students who experienced adverse effects still consumed energy drinks. The average level of health consciousness was lower than 3 out of 5 points. The results of the logistic regression analyses indicated a positive relationship between monthly allowance (OR=1.01 for male and female students) and the consumption of energy drinks by both male and female students. Among the male students, freshmen (OR=0.23) were less likely to have consumed energy drinks than juniors. Male students' sleeping hours (OR=0.65) and perceived school life satisfaction scores (OR=0.63) were negatively associated with the consumption of energy drinks. In the case of female students, study hours (OR=0.83) and energy drinks consumption were negatively related. These factors affecting energy drinks consumption could be considered in the development of dietary education programs aimed at protecting high school students from the adverse health impacts of energy drinks.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제9권10호
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• pp.227-233
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• 2019

본 연구는 치위생(학)과와 보건계열 학생들을 대상으로 2018년 6월에서 7월까지 생명윤리의식을 파악하여 생명윤리 교육과정 개발에 필요한 기초자료를 제공하고자 설문조사하였다. 생명권과 인공수정 인식도의 관한 상관관계는 성별(r=0.241), 종교(r=-0.176), 학과(r=-0.160)에서 유의하였고, 장기기증 및 장기이식에 관한 인식도에 관한 상관관계는 학년(r=0.129), 종교(r=-0.098), 생명윤리 교육여부(r=0.235)에서 유의하였다. 안락사의 인식도에 관한 상관관계는 종교(r=0.139), 생명윤리교육 여부(r=-0.157)에서 유의하였다. 결과적으로 보건계열 대학생들에게 바람직한 윤리관을 확립하기 위해서는 교육과정을 개발하고 생명의료 윤리의식에 영향을 미치는 요인을 다각적으로 분석하여 체계적으로 교육 프로그램을 운영해야 할 것이다.

• 한국병원경영학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.23-32
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• 2023

Purposes: Caregivers are placed in a poor working environment because there is no special legal basis or definition in the current medical system, and they have difficulty in supplying manpower due to frequent job change and retirement. Therefore, this study aimed to find out the effect on job consciousness, job stress, job satisfaction, and turnover intention of caregivers in nursing hospitals for the elderly. Methodology: In this study, a survey was conducted from May 2nd to 16th, 2022, targeting caregivers with more than 6 months of work experience working at 10 nursing hospitals in D City. Data were collected through convenience sampling, and a self-administered questionnaire method was used, in which subjects filled out a questionnaire. A total of 240 questionnaires were distributed, and 220 copies were considered for the final analysis after excluding non-response or inappropriate questionnaires for data use. Data analysis used t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and multiple linear regression analysis, and the main results are as follows. Findings: Job stress and job satisfaction showed a significant correlation with the level of turnover intention, and were also found to be major determinants. On the other hand, among the occupational characteristics of the study subjects, employment type, job motivation, service period, number of patients, injury experience, and license status showed a significant difference from turnover intention. Conclusion: As a result of the above research, in order to prevent job turnover and retirement by improving job stress and job satisfaction of caregivers engaged in nursing hospitals, it is necessary not only to legalize caregivers, but also to secure an appropriate level of caregivers for nursing hospitals and improve specific treatment for caregivers. Ultimately, a policy alternative that can provide quality nursing service is required.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제53권4호
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• pp.431-444
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• 2020

본 연구의 목적은 미국과 일본을 타깃시장으로 선정하여 건강관심도에 따른 인구 통계학적 분석과 식품선택 동기를 파악함으로써 소비자 니즈를 반영하여 마케팅 전략 구축의 기초자료로 활용될 수 있으며 향후 해당 국가의 소비자들의 건강하고 올바른 식품 선택에 도움이 되고자 하였다. 미국 115명, 일본 120명의 현지 소비자들을 대상으로 수집된 자료를 SPSS (ver. 25.0) 통계 프로그램을 이용하여 분석을 진행하였다. 전체 소비자의 군집별 미국과 일본 소비자를 대상으로 진행한 건강관심도에 따른 인구 통계학적 분석과 식품선택 동기에 관한 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 건강관심도에 따라 '건강한 식습관 지향 집단', '영양 균형 지향 집단', '건강 무관심 집단'으로 군집을 나누었으며, 건강관심도에 따른 인구통계학적 분석은 국가, 성별, 연령, 교육 수준의 항목에서 유의적인 차이를 나타냈다. 건강관심도 집단별 식품선택 동기의 결과로는 건강 무관심 집단은 다른 집단과 비교했을 때 건강, 효율성, 가치, 기분 4가지 요인 모두 상대적으로 낮게 조사되었으며, 군집에 따라 점수의 차이는 있지만 세 집단 모두 자신이 투자한 시간에 대비하여 맛이나 조리시간 등의 효율성을 중요하게 생각하는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 전 세계적으로 생활양식이 변화하면서 식품선택 동기가 변화하고 있음을 반영하는 것으로 소비자들이 식품 소비에 있어 투자한 시간이나 자산대비 더 높은 만족감을 얻고자 함을 알 수 있다. 본 연구 결과는 미국과 일본 소비자의 건강하고 올바른 식품 선택을 기반으로 하는 해당 국가의 외식시장 진입전략의 기초 자료로 활용할 수 있을 것이며, 소비자의 니즈가 반영된 제품개발 방향을 제시하여 미국과 일본 소비자의 건강하고 올바른 식품 선택에 기여할 수 있으리라 판단된다.