• 치위생과학회지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.624-633
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• 2012

본 연구는 중년층 성인의 삶의 질 결정에 있어 건강상태의 중요성을 분석함으로써 삶의 질 향상을 위한 프로그램 기획이나 보건정책수립에 필요한 기초자료를 제공하고자 하였다. 본 연구목적을 달성하기 위해 2011년 1월 14일부터 2월 22일까지 경기 인천 지역에 거주하는 만 40세 이상의 중년층 성인에게 설문조사를 시행하였으며, t-test와 One way ANOVA 분석 및 다중선형회귀분석을 시행한 결과 다음과 같은 결론을 얻었다. 1. 일반적 특성에 따라 삶의 질 수준을 분석한 결과 일반적 삶의 질 수준은 40~50세 연령층과 고졸 이상, 가정 월평균 수입이 201만원 이상, 가족 등과 동거자 및 기혼자에서 높았다(p<0.05). 또한 구강건강관련 삶의 질은 40~50세와 고졸 이상, 가정 월 평균 수입이 201만원 이상 및 기혼자에서 높게 나타났다(p<0.05). 2. 건강상태에 따른 삶의 질 수준을 분석한 결과 일반적 삶의 질 수준은 전반적으로 건강하다고 인식하고 있고, 위장질환이 없으며, 이환된 전신질환이 없고, 매일 복용하는 약물이 없으며, 월경이 있고 우울증 증상이 9점 이하인 집단에서 높게 나타났다(p<0.05). 또한 구강건강관련 삶의 질 수준은 전반적으로 건강하다고 인식하고 있고, 당뇨병이 없으며, 이환된 전신질환이 없고, 매일 복용하는 약물이 없으며, 월경이 있고 우울증 증상이 9점 이하인 집단에서 높게 나타났다(p<0.05). 3. 구강건강상태에 따른 삶의 질 수준을 분석한 결과 일반적 삶의 질은 전반적으로 구강상태가 건강하다고 인식하고 있고, 밤시간에 입마름 등 구강건조증 증상을 전혀 인식하지 않는 집단에서 높게 나타났다(p<0.05). 또한 구강건강 관련 삶의 질은 치주질환 증상이 3개 이하이고 밤시간에 입마름 등 구강건조증 증상을 전혀 인식하지 않는 집단에서 높게 나타났다(p<0.05). 4. 일반적 삶의 질, 구강건강관련 삶의 질과 관련된 요인들의 연관성 강도를 분석한 결과 일반적 삶의 질은 우울증 증상($\beta$=-0.561)과, 구강건강관련 삶의 질은 구강건조증 증상($\beta$=-0.566)과 가장 높은 연관성을 보였다(p<0.001). 이상의 연구결과를 바탕으로 우울증과 구강건조증 인식도에 따라 일반적 삶의 질 또는 구강건강관련 삶의 질 수준이 다르게 나타남을 알 수 있었다. 따라서, 중년층에서 우울증과 구강건조증의 예방 및 조기관리는 삶의 질을 향상시키는데 크게 기여할 것으로 생각한다.

• Journal of Korean Medical Science
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• 제33권52호
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• pp.347.1-347.11
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• 2018

Background: Smartphone addiction has recently been highlighted as a major health issue among adolescents. In this study, we assessed the degree of agreement between adolescents' and parents' ratings of adolescents' smartphone addiction. Additionally, we evaluated the psychosocial factors associated with adolescents' and parents' ratings of adolescents' smartphone addiction. Methods: In total, 158 adolescents aged 12-19 years and their parents participated in this study. The adolescents completed the Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS) and the Isolated Peer Relationship Inventory (IPRI). Their parents also completed the SAS (about their adolescents), SAS-Short Version (SAS-SV; about themselves), Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7), and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9). We used the paired t-test, McNemar test, and Pearson's correlation analyses. Results: Percentage of risk users was higher in parents' ratings of adolescents' smartphone addiction than ratings of adolescents themselves. There was disagreement between the SAS and SAS-parent report total scores and subscale scores on positive anticipation, withdrawal, and cyberspace-oriented relationship. SAS scores were positively associated with average minutes of weekday/holiday smartphone use and scores on the IPRI and father's GAD-7 and PHQ-9 scores. Additionally, SAS-parent report scores showed positive associations with average minutes of weekday/holiday smartphone use and each parent's SAS-SV, GAD-7, and PHQ-9 scores. Conclusion: The results suggest that clinicians need to consider both adolescents' and parents' reports when assessing adolescents' smartphone addiction, and be aware of the possibility of under- or overestimation. Our results cannot only be a reference in assessing adolescents' smartphone addiction, but also provide inspiration for future studies.

• Kidney Research and Clinical Practice
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.373-383
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• 2018

Background: Several epidemiologic studies have suggested that the urine sodium excretion (USE) can be estimated in lieu of performing 24-hour urine collection. However, this method has not been verified in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) or in an interventional study. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of estimating USE in a prospective low-salt diet education cohort (ESPECIAL). Methods: A new formula was developed on the basis of morning fasting urine samples from 228 CKD patients in the ESPECIAL cohort. This formula was compared to the previous four formulas in the prediction of 24-hour USE after treatment with olmesartan and low-salt diet education. Results: Most previously reported formulas had low predictability of the measured USE based on the ESPECIAL cohort. Only the Tanaka formula showed a small but significant bias (9.8 mEq/day, P < 0.05) with a low correlation (r = 0.34). In contrast, a new formula showed improved bias (-0.1 mEq/day) and correlation (r = 0.569) at baseline. This formula demonstrated no significant bias (-1.2 mEq/day) with the same correlation (r = 0.571) after 8 weeks of treatment with olmesartan. Intensive low-salt diet education elicited a significant decrease in the measured USE. However, none of the formulas predicted this change in the measured urine sodium after diet adjustment. Conclusion: We developed a more reliable formula for estimating the USE in CKD patients. Although estimating USE is applicable in an interventional study, it may be unsuitable for estimating the change of individual sodium intake in a low-salt intervention study.

• Journal of Korean Medical Science
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• 제33권43호
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• pp.277.1-277.10
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• 2018

Background: To examine survival rates and renal function after partial nephrectomy (PN) and radical nephrectomy (RN) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Methods: We studied 4,332 patients who underwent PN or RN for pathological T1a-T2N0M0 renal cell carcinoma from 1988 to 2014. Patients were divided into two subgroups of CKD stage I-II and stage III. Kidney function, and survival outcomes were compared between groups. Results: We included 1,756 patients with CKD I-II and 276 patients with CKD III in the final pair-matched analysis. Kidney function was significantly better preserved in the PN than in the RN group among all patients. However, the beneficial effect of PN on kidney function gradually disappeared over time in CKD III patients. The 5-year overall survival (OS) rates after PN and RN differed in patients with CKD I-II disease (99.4% vs. 96.5%, respectively, P = 0.015). The 5-year OS rates after surgery were not affected by mode of nephrectomy in CKD III patients (97.8% vs. 93.5%, P = 0.103). The 5-year cancer-specific survival rates did not differ between treatment groups in all CKD stage. Cox hazard analysis showed that the operative method was a significant factor for OS in CKD I-II patients (hazard ratio [HR], 0.320; confidence interval [CI], 0.122-0.840; P = 0.021). However, PN was not beneficial in terms of OS in CKD III patients (HR, 0.395; CI, 0.086-1.172; P = 0.117). Conclusion: PN is associated with a higher OS rate and better kidney function in patients with preoperative CKD stage I and II, but not in those with CKD stage III.

• Journal of Korean Medical Science
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• 제33권51호
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• pp.325.1-325.10
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• 2018

Background: To evaluate survival outcomes and prognostic factors for overall survival (OS) in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) who received sunitinib (SU) and pazopanib (PZ) as first-line therapy in real-world Korean clinical practice. Methods: Data of 554 patients with mRCC who received SU or PZ at eight institutions between 2012 and 2016 were retrospectively reviewed. Based on the targeted therapy, the patients were divided into SU (n = 293) or PZ (n = 261) groups, and the clinicopathological variables and survival rates of the two groups were compared. A multivariable Cox proportional hazard model was used to determine the prognostic factors for OS. Results: The median follow-up was 16.4 months (interquartile range, 8.3-31.3). Patients in the PZ group were older, and no significant difference was observed in the performance status (PS) between the two groups. In the SU group, the dose reduction rate was higher and the incidence of grade 3 toxicity was more frequent. The objective response rates were comparable between the two groups (SU, 32.1% vs. PZ, 36.4%). OS did not differ significantly between the two groups (SU, 36.5 months vs. PZ, 40.2 months; log-rank, P = 0.955). Body mass index, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group PS > 2, synchronous metastasis, poor Heng risk criteria, and liver and bone metastases were associated with a shorter OS. Conclusion: Our real-world data of Korean patients with mRCC suggested that SU and PZ had similar efficacies as first-line therapy for mRCC. However, PZ was better tolerated than SU in Korean patients.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제25권
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• pp.391-420
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• 2011

Christina Rossetti's novella Maude displays Tractarian influences in terms of Holy Eucharist, Puseyism, and the doctrine of Reserve. Tractarianism is High Church revival movement of nineteenth century. In the story a teenage girl, Maude went through hard time receiving Holy Eucharist due to self-consciousness and internal guilt according to Puseyism. She felt guilty when she enjoyed worldly things and outward beauty. Due to guilt Maude refused to receive Holy Communion, which is complete connection to God. Her cousin, Agnes suggested that in refusing Holy Communion Maude is following her own will not God's will. Later Maude overcame Puseyite thought of self-hatred and reconciled with her identity as a poet and a woman. Maude oscillates between concealing and revealing, secrecy and truth, sincerity and affectation, and modesty and display. Her marvelous poetic talent makes people praise her but she withholds private feelings and attempts to divert attention from herself. Like Maude herself, the meaning of her poems is at times reserved and withheld. This tendency goes with the doctrine of Reserve in Tractarianism. The doctrine of Reserve utilizes indirect methods to reveal divine attributes because finite human being can not accept infinite God. The doctrine of Reserve sees to it that the expression will be veiled, indirect, subdued and self-effacing. Rossetti adapts a poetic method of Reserve when Maude has anxiety over 'display and poetry' and generates the reticence, secrecy, mystery, renunciation, modesty and detachment. According to Mary Arseneau, by veiling and expressing herself through symbols she can rise above the self and employ the phenomenal to suggest a noumenal reality. Thus the poetry becomes an expression of longing for the divine. The poem "Three Nuns" exemplifies Maude's maturity and gradual progress in the relationship with God. Rossetti suggests the vision full of hopes and promises of reuniting with God. In conclusion, in some sense, authoritative and conservative Tractarianism affects Rossetti both ways. On the one hand, it makes Rossetti abnegate herself and leads her to asceticism, on the other hand, it makes Rossetti express her faith in God and write amazing devotional poems such as "Three Nuns". A poem within the poem has three voices that are in perfect harmony. In the poem the first and second nun show hesitation to fully commit to God's will and the desire for the world prevents them from having heavenly joy. Third nun reveals spiritual maturity and sings new life in God where their hopes and joys begin. Rossetti expresses the procedure of spiritual growth through the poem "Three Nuns". For Rossetti, self-abnegation and self-expression both are involved in the doctrine of Reserve, Puseyism and Holy Communion.

• 대한소아신경학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.263-268
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• 2018

목적: 두통과 비만은 모두 소아청소년에서 유병률이 높은 만성 질환이다. 최근 성인뿐만 아니라 소아청소년에서도 두통과 비만의 관련성이 연구되고 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 우리나라 소아청소년 두통 환자에서 비만 유병률을 제시하고 두통 환자의 연령과 성별 및 두통의 형태, 빈도, 강도, 장애 정도에 따른 비만 유병률의 차이를 알아보고자 하였다. 방법: 2015년 1월부터 2018년 3월까지 가톨릭대학교 부천성모병원 소아청소년과 두통 클리닉을 방문한 6세 이상, 18세 이하의 일차두통환자 340명의 의무기록을 후향적으로 조사하였다. 처음 두통클리닉 내원 시 측정한 키와 체중으로 체질량지수를 계산하여 2017년 대한민국 소아청소년 표준성장도표를 이용하여 체질량지수 백분위수를 구하여 비만도를 평가하였으며, 나이, 성별, 키와 체중, 두통의 형태, 빈도, 강도 및 장애 정도에 대한 정보를 수집하였다. 결과: 대상 환자 중 17.6%가 비만이었고 여아에 비하여 남아의 비만 유병률이 높았고 소아 연령과 청소년 연령의 비만 유병률은 차이가 없었다. 두통의 형태, 빈도, 강도, 장애 정도에 따른 비만 유병률의 차이는 없었다. 결론: 본 연구에서 소아청소년 두통 환자의 비만 유병률은 17.6%로 일반 인구(KNHANES, 2013)의 소아청소년 비만 유병률 10%와 비교하여 높았다. 남아의 비만 유병률이 높은 것은 일반 인구와 같았으나 소아 연령의 비만 유병률이 청소년 연령의 비만 유병률이 유사한 것은 일반 인구와는 다른 결과였다. 소아청소년에서 두통과 비만의 관련성에 대한 추가적인 연구가 필요할 것이다.

• 대한소아신경학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.269-271
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• 2018

목적: 항경련제 사용은 골밀도 감소와 같은 부작용을 일으킬 수 있고 지속적으로 성장하는 소아에서 주의가 필요하다. 단일 요법으로 치료하는 뇌전증 환자에서 항경련제가 골밀도에 미치는 영향의 차이를 알아보고자 하였다. 방법: 2013년 1월부터 2017년 12월까지 부천성모병원에서 뇌전증 치료를 하는 소아 환자 60명에 대해 후향적으로 살펴 보았다. Dual photo absorptiometry로 골밀도를 6개월마다 측정하였다. 결과: 전체 60명 중 Oxcarbazepine, Valproate, Levetiracetam으로 치료한 환자는 각각 31, 16, 13명이었다. Oxcarbazepine 치료 환자 31명 중 8명(25.8%, P=0.10), Valproate 치료 환자 16명 중 9명(56.3%, P=0.04), Levetiracetam 치료 환자 13명 중 4명(30.8%, P=0.50)에서 골밀도 감소가 관찰되었다. 결론: Valproate 투여 환자들에서 다른 항경련제 치료 환자보다 골밀도가 유의하게 감소되었다. 항경련제 치료를 하는 소아 뇌전증 환자의 골밀도에 대한 관심이 필요할 것으로 생각된다.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.322-335
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• 2019

Objectives: The goal of this study is to standardize industry, process, and job within work environment measurement information. Methods: We selected 180 work environment measurement reports on 30 industries from a database monitored from 2014 to 2016 by the Korea Industrial Health Association. Ten industrial hygienists, each with over five years of experience in measurement, conducted a primary standardization of 180 reports. Two professional industrial hygienists with more than 20 years of experience each reviewed and revised the results of the primary standardization. We also examined the validity on the usefulness of the standardized database by the two industrial hygienists. Results: The final standardization results were classified into eight major categories, 23 sub-major categories, 39 minor categories, 53 unit categories and 70 sub-unit categories in the Korean Standard Industrial Classification (KSIC) 10th revision. A total of 161 processes were standardized, and there were 148 processes with K2B codes. Standard job was coded into 13 job groups including operator, automobile maintenance, nurse, maintenance, manager, excavating machine operator, forklift driver, radiologist, clinical pathologist, signer, researcher, kitchen assistant, and concrete reinforcement ironworker. Conclusions: Although the standardized information in this study may be only a part of the total information, it can be useful for improvement of the K2B system. Additional research is needed for an ongoing clean-up of data in the K2B and re-calibration and reclassification of standard processes until the future national exposure monitoring system is fully established.

• 대한임상독성학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.63-69
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• 2014

Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate the difference between male and female in some clinically meaningful aspects and to prevent intentional poisoning in children and adolescents. Methods: Retrograde medical records review of patients who visited the emergency department of two secondary hospitals for drug ingestion from March 2010 through March 2013 was performed. Unintentional ingestion or ingestion by others was excluded. Results: A total of 138 cases were reported, male 25.4% (n=35), female 74.6% (n=103). The reason for poisoning was intentional in 132 cases (95.7%) and misuse in six cases (4.3%). In female patients, non-prescription drugs was the most common cause of intentional poisoning (68.9%). Male patients tend to use life substances for intentional poisoning more frequently (20.0%) than female (3.9%). Seven male patients and 12 female patients had previous psychiatric history and 34.3% of male and 41.7% of female were consulted to the psychiatric department. Conclusion: Female adolescents are more likely to ingest drugs intentionally for suicide attempt than males of comparable ages. The drugs they ingested were, in many cases, obtained with ease from the drug store nearby and, remarkably, most of the drugs they obtained in that way were acetaminophen-containing. This suggests that some guidelines or control in the pharmacy that restrict children or adolescents from obtaining potentially or possibly life-threatening drugs might be necessary. In addition, education regarding drugs is thought to be necessary in school for teenagers as they tend to misuse them with incorrect acknowledgement.