• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.335-343
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• 2020

Objectives: The Korean Ministry of Environment has identified cases of people suspected of suffering lung disease potentially caused by polyhexamethylene guanidine (PHMG) used in humidifier disinfectants (HDs). Exposure assessment for the HDs was conducted using a questionnaire during face-to-face interview. The main purposes of this study were to develop a methodology to effectively classify levels of exposure to HDs based on a questionnaire. Methods: We first identified the overall participants' exposure characteristics by HD exposure levels; Second, we selected misclassified subjects and investigated characteristics of overestimated and underestimated subjects, focusing on exposure cases to PHMG-containing HDs. An inhalation reference concentration (RfC) for PHMG was produced on the basis of inhalation toxicity values. We made a cross-tabulation of the exposure classes (Exposure classes 1-to-4) by clinical classes based on the RfC. When the value of the exposure class minus the clinical class was 0 or 1, we assumed these were true values. When the value was ≥2 and ≤ -2, we assigned these cases to the overestimation group and underestimation group, respectively. Results: The overestimated group may have already recovered and responded excessively due to psychological anxiety or in order to receive compensation. On the other hand, relatively high mortality rates and surrogate responses for those under 10 years of age may have resulted in inaccurate exposure assessment for underestimated groups. For the characteristics of exposure, it was shown that for the underestimated group, the exposure was relatively weaker than the overestimated group, even though a high overall clinical rating was determined. Conclusions: This study may suggest ways to reduce bias and overcome the limitations of current HD exposure assessment.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.809-844
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• 1995

산업보건관리영역의 범위를 정하고 이를 분류하기 위해 우선적으로 저자들이 정의한 산업보건관리영역의 범위에 따라 분류하고 이에 대하여 설문조사를 실시한 후 의견수렴과정을 거쳐 재분류하였다. 이를 토대로 해방 이후 우리나라의 산업보건관리문헌을 분류하여 연구동향을 파악하고자 정기간행물기사색인에 수록된 21종의 문헌을 분석하였으며 산업보건관리내용에 대한 우선순위 및 향후 산업보건관리 연구 방향을 조명함으로써 앞으로 산업보건관리의 방향설정에 대한 기초자료를 제공하고자 하였으며 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1 대부분의 응답자들이 산업보건을 전공하고(71.6%) 있었고, 대학에서 근무하고 있었으며(68.3%), 남자가 많았고 연령은 40세 이상이었다. 산업보건관리영역의 분류에 대찬 의견으로는 분류가 필요하다는 찬성의견이 70.0%였고 반대의견은 100.0%였다. 2. 응답자들의 의견수렴을 거쳐 재분류한 산업보건 관리영역을 크게 산업보건사법과 산업보건사업을 지지해 주는 산업보건관리체계 및 이를 평가하는데 도움을 주는 여러 가지 방법론들로 구분하였다. 3. 산업보건관리 문헌 총 510편을 연도별로 살펴본 결과 연도별로 서서히 증가하다가 1986년 이후에 급격 히 증가하고 있었으며, 학술지별 분포는 대한산업의학회지(18.2%), 한국의 산업의학(15.1%), 예방의학회지(15.1%) 순으로 나타났다. 연구 내용별로는 산업보건관리체계에 대한 연구는 33편(6.5%)에 지나지 않았으며 산업보건사업에 대한 연구가 477편(93.5%)으로 주를 이루고 있었다. 산업보건관리체계에 대한 연구는 산업보건자원체계에 대한 연구가 15편(45.5%), 산업보건재원조달체계 8편(24.2%), 산업보건관리운영체계 6편(18.2%), 산업보건조직체계 3편(9.1%), 산업보건서비스전달체계 1편 (3.0%)의 순이었으며 산업보건사업에 대한 연구는 질병관리 269편(57.2%),보건관리 116편(24.7%),작업환경관리 85편(18.1%)으로 질병관리에 관한 연구가 가장 많았다. 연구대상별로는 일반근로자 대상이 185편(71.1%)으로 가장 많았으며 여성근로자, 전문직, 서비스근로자 순이었다. 4. 산업보건관리내용의 우선순위에 대한 의견으로는 산업장근로자들에 대한 건강관리, 작업환경관리, 보건교육 등의 산업보건사업이 가장 필요하다고 하였고 다음으로는 산업보건인력에 대한 교육훈련 및 직무내용, 성인병 및 직업병 의뢰체계, 산업보건조직 등에 관한 산업보건의료체계에 관한 분석 등을 순위로 제시하였다. 5. 산업보건관리영역의 향후 연구방향에 대하여 병의 응답자가 48건의 의견을 제시하였으며 산업보건사업에 관한 실제적인 연구가 31.3%로 가장 많았으나 조직, 체계에 대한 연구(27.1%), 정보망구축에 관한 연구(8.3%) 등 산업보건체계에 관한 연구도 필요하다고 하였다. 건강진단에 대한 비용-편익분석 (10.4%), 산업보건사업평가(4.2%), 유해물질폭로평가(2.1%), 노동조건에 관한 연구(6.2%)등 다양한 새로운 분야의 연구에 대한 의견을 제시하였다. 본 연구에서 해방 이후 우리나라의 산업보건관리에 관한 연구는 1945년부터 서서히 증가하다가 1986년 이후부터 활발히 진행되어졌고, 대부분의 연구가 산업보건사업에 치중되어 있으며 산업보건관리체계에 대한 연구는 미약함을 알 수 있었다 산업보건사업에 관한 연구의 대부분도 직업병 실태와 건강관련행태 및 실태를 파악하는 수준에 머무르고 있으며 산업보건관리체계의 경우도 대부분 인력의 실태 파악에 그치고 있어 산업장에서 실제로 활용할 수 있는 연구가 절실히 필요하다고 여겨진다. 따라서 우리나라의 현실에 비추어볼 때 산업보건사업에 관한 연구는 계속적으로 활발히 이루어져야 하며, 이와 더불어 산업보건관리체계 및 근로자참여, 경제성분석, 보건사업 후 평가, 연구방법론(역학연구)등의 연구들도 산업보건관리의 중요한 부분으로서 향후 보다 더 적극적으로 연구되어져야 할 것이다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권6호
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• pp.2050-2056
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• 2024

Handling of radioisotopes may cause external and internal contamination to occupational workers while using radiation for medical purposes. This research aims to monitor the internal hazard of occupational workers who handle ¹³¹I. Two methods are used: in vivo or direct method and in vitro or indirect method. The in vivo or direct method was performed by assessing thyroid intake with a thyroid uptake monitoring machine. The in vitro or indirect method was performed by assessing urine samples with the help of a gamma-ray spectroscopy practice using a High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) Detector. In this study, fifty-nine thyroid counts and fifty-nine urine samples were collected from seven occupational workers who were in charge of ¹³¹I at the National Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (NINMAS), Dhaka. The result showed that the average annual effective dose of seven workforces from thyroid counts were 0.0208 mSv/y, 0.0180 mSv/y, 0.0135 mSv/y, 0.0169 m Sv/y, 0.0072 mSv/y, 0.0181 mSv/y, 0.0164 mSv/y and in urine samples 0.0832 mSv/y, 0.0770 mSv/y, 0.0732 mSv/y, 0.0693 mSv/y, 0.0715 mSv/y, 0.0662 mSv/y, 0.0708 mSv/y.The total annual effective dose (in vivo and in vitro method) was found among seven workers in average 0.1039 mSv/y, 0.0950 mSv/y, 0.0868 mSv/y, 0.0862 mSv/y, 0.0787 mSv/y, 0.0843 mSv/y, 0.0872 mSv/y. Following the rules of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), the annual limit of effective dose for occupational exposure is 20 mSv per year and the finding values from this research work are lesser than this safety boundary.

• 한국직업건강간호학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.41-54
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• 2016

Purpose: The purposes of this study were to review the research trends and to identify developmental direction of studies on community interventions according to the ecological model for workers with cardiovascular diseases (CVD) risk factors. Methods: Electronic databases including PsycINFO, PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, and Cochrane Library and the reference lists of articles were searched. All articles were assessed in relation to inclusion and exclusion criteria, resulting in 29 researches being reviewed. Each review was critically appraised by two authors using a guideline of PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses). Results: Nowadays, interventions in organizational level, integrated and web-based interventions are increasing to prevent CVD risk factors for workers. Even though the importance of psychosocial aspects to prevent CVD, the only 2 studies included psychosocial factors in the outcome variables. Also, 14% among 29 researches were based on theories. Conclusion: Psychosocial factors such as job stress, depression, and emotional labor could be CVD risk factors. Therefore, interventions including psychosocial aspects are needed to prevent workers' CVD risks more effectively. Theory-based interventions are needed to support interventions' effects and to develop the nursing science.

• 한국직업건강간호학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.79-95
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• 1997

The purposes of this study were to develop a job stress measurement tool and to identify the job stress according to the characteristics of worker and work condition at the small and medium-sized plants. Data were collected through face-to-face survey for April-May, 1997. Subjects were 180 workers at 36 small and medium-sized plants located near Seoul. Data were analyzed by item analysis, factor analysis, and ANOVA. The results were as follow : 1, Number of items of job stress measurement were 33 and Cronbach's $\alpha$ was .9262 except 13 items with low values of Cronbach's coefficient. Factor analysis was done in order for construct validity and 8 factors were extracted and cumulative percent of variance was 65.6%. 2. The job stress scores of male, the younger, 2-shift workers, and over-time workers were significantly higher than those of female, the older, 1-shift workers, and 48 hour workers per week. 3. There were no significant difference between job stress scores and the groups by number of worker, and the types of manufacturing. The stress measurement tool is valid and very reliable to measure worker's stress. Furthermore, the job stress managent program for health promotion of the workers at the vulnerable work condition is needed more and more.

• 한국직업건강간호학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.119-129
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• 2007

Purpose: The purposes of this study were to understand the coping experience that family caregivers undergo during the process of care, to grasp coping behaviors used to solve problems and, finally, to develop a substantive theory by analyzing the coping process. Method: The methodology of collecting and analyzing data used in this study followed the ground theory. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with open-ended and descriptive questions about the subjects' coping experiences. The survey was conducted between May 2006 and August. The subjects of this study were 10 women. Result: The result of the study is as follows. Core category of This Study was "Self-Sacrifice". And The coping process of family caregivers while taking care of the industrial disaster victim was found to have five stages: shocked stage; undertaking stage of new role; skilled stage; exhausted stage; and desiderating stage. Seven coping behaviors were found to reduce the stress of role and anguish resulting from care. Conclusion: The result of this study is helpful for developing effective industrial nursing strategies suitable for each coping stage. It is necessary to practice nursing mediation and to analyze the change about nursing effect and family caregivers' adaptation.

• 한국직업건강간호학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.36-43
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• 2019

Purpose: The purposes of this study were to investigate sleep quality and the related factors among clinical nurses. Methods: Data were collected from 208 nurses in general hospitals through self-report. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Korean Epworth Sleepiness Scale (KESS), Insomnia Severity Index (ISS) were used. The data were analyzed t-test, ANOVA, $Scheff{\acute{e}}$ test, and multiple regression using the SPSS 20.0 program. Results: The mean scores of the subjects were $7.58{\pm}3.61$ on daytime sleepiness, $9.93{\pm}6.22$ on insomnia, and $7.29{\pm}3.05$ on sleep quality. The sleep quality in clinical nurses significantly influenced by insomnia (${\beta}=.55$, t=8.14, p<.001), daytime sleepiness (${\beta}=.16$, t=2.83, p=.005), and work satisfaction (${\beta}=-.15$, t=-2.35, p=.020). The three variables explained 55.9% of variance of sleep quality (F=10.73, p<.001). Conclusion: Sleep quality was influenced by daytime sleepiness, insomnia, and job satisfaction. To improve sleep quality, hospitals managers or leaders need to provide sleep promotion programs for preventing daytime sleepiness and insomnia.

• 한국직업건강간호학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.89-97
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• 2007

Purpose: The purposes of this study were to identify the scores of perceived job stress, health perception and health promoting life style in community health nurses and to define the correlations of three variables. Method: The data were collected by 68 subjects, using the self-reported questionnaires. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and pearson correlation coefficient. Result: The mean score of job stress was $3.19({\pm}.60)$, health perception scale was $3.04({\pm}.49)$ and health promoting life style profile was $2.49({\pm}.30)$. The relationship among job stress, health perception and health promoting life style were not statistically significant. The relationships between age, overloading job, knowledge & skill deficit and problem of interpersonal relationship were statistically significant. The relationship between religion and problem of interpersonal relationship was statistically significant. The relationships between single of marital status, knowledge & skill deficit and problem of interpersonal relationship were statistically significant. The relationship between career and stress management was statistically significant. Conclusion: These results suggested that health promotion program for community health nurses to reduce job stress, promoting health promoting life style should be carefully developed so as to provide better quality of health care services to the community people.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.157-171
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• 1996

The purposes of this research were to investigate the general trends and differences of family members' satisfaction and attitudes related to mother's employment condition, to examine the correlations between every members' employment condition, to examine the correlations between every members' interactions, and to analyze the effects of related variables. To study these objectives, three kinds of questionnaire were used and the data were obtained through 780 parents and adolescents. The jmajor findings were as follows: 1) The general trends of family member's interactions showed that the score of relationship satisfaction between mother and adolescent was higher than father and adolescent. Nonemployed mothers and their children were more traditional in attitudes. 2) The correlations of family member's interactions were significant in satisfaction. Husband's occupational attitudes were related with wife's interactions were significant in satisfaction. Husband's occupational attitudes were related with wife's satisfaction, and parentadolescent attitudes were related each other in dual earner family. 3) Mother's marital satisfaction was affected by employment condition, communication satisfaction, husband's aid, support, satisfaction for employment condition, and father's was affected by communication satisfaction and wife's marital satisfaction. Adolescent's satisfaction with father was influenced by satisfaction with mother and mother's employment condition, and sex-role attitudes were influenced by employment condition and father's support.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.112-124
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• 1999

The purposes of this study were to provide the data for composition of ethylene glycol ethers and 2-ethoxyethyl acetate(EEA) exposure assessment of workers in various industrial operations. In this study, 80 thinners were analyzed to identify their composition and the air concentration of 2-ethoxyethyl acetate(EEA) and urinary 2-ethoxyacetic acid(EAA) were measured. In this study the subjects were the total of 183 drawn from 98 workers who were occupationally exposed to EEA and 85 workers who were not. The results were as follows: 1. There were found average 4.2 components in each thinner. 2. There were 90 components(26.9%) in ethylene glycol ethers of total of 334 detected organic solvents 3. Ethoxyethyl acetate, ethoxyethanol, buthoxyethanol, methoxy-ethanol were found in 30(37.5%), 27(33.8%), 19(23.8%), 2thinners(2.5%), respectively and their contents were average 18.5%. 4. Benzene was found 8 thinners(10.0%) of the total 80 surveyed. 5. In the electronic painting workers EEA exposure concentration was the highest, as showed 2.88ppm(0.01~15.1ppm), cases of exceeded threshold limit value(TLV=5ppm) were 7(10.6%) workers among the total of 98 exposed workers. 6. The geometric mean of urinary EEA in exposed workers was 1.61 mg/gcreatinine, and was higher than that of workers who were not exposed. In the electronic painting workers and offset printers, the geometric mean of urinary EAA was the highest showing 2.8 mg/gcreatinine. 7. The correlation coefficient between urinary concentration of EAA and air concentration of EEA was 0.90(P<0.05). The present results suggest that composition of ethylene glycol ethers in thinners must be evaluated when industrial hygiene surveys and biological monitoring are performed.