• Journal of East-West Nursing Research
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.31-40
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• 2022

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify factors affecting burnout of nurses caring for people with mental illness in general hospital wards. Methods: This study conducted a survey targeting 186 nurses in general wards with more than one year of clinical experience working at three general hospitals in Seoul, Korea. The collected data were analyzed using t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and multiple linear regression analysis with SPSS 21.0. Results: The factors influencing burnout were nursing work stress (β=.30, p<.001), attitude towards people with mental illness (β=-.25, p<.001), religion (β=-.21, p=.001), psychiatric nursing competency (β=-.16, p=.016), experience of nursing for people with mental illness (β=.14, p=.023), and gender (β=.14, p=.026), explaining 33.5% of the total variance (F=16.53, p<.001). Conclusion: The findings suggest that it is necessary to develop and apply an education program to lower nurses' work stress, to create positive attitude towards people with mental illness, and to enhance psychiatric nursing competency for prevention and mitigation of burnout of nurses caring for people with mental illness.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.293-299
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of psychosocial rehabilitation services on the independent living of the mentally ill people. The study was conducted using mentally ill people who were using services offered by psychosocial rehabilitation service center during the study period, have lived independently, and used the service center for three months or longer. The data analysis included 231 surveys collected from 42 agencies and then perform hierarchical regression analysis. As a study result, the number of types of psychosocial rehabilitation service used by the mentally ill people and the greater the satisfaction with the psychosocial rehabilitation service, the more independent living competency of the mentally ill people was received. This means that community-based integrated psychosocial rehabilitation service have the effect of contributing to strengthening the competency of independent living with the mentally ill people. Based on the research results, this study proposed the development of integrated mental rehabilitation service to improve the independence competency of the mentally ill people.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.61-70
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• 2022

The study developed a psychiatric and mental health nursing practice program based on blended learning as nursing students' field practice in psychiatric and mental nursing practice was limited due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. This is a study to evaluate the effect on communication competency, self-efficacy for group work, and learning transfer motivation through a psychiatric and mental health nursing practice program based on blended learning. From October 18, 2021 to December 11, 2021, 64 nursing students participated in the study using a structured Google questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed by descriptive statistics and paired t-test using the SPSS 25.0 program. As a result of the study, based on blended learning, the subjects' communication competency, self-efficacy for group work, and learning transfer motivation were significantly increased after compared to before psychiatric and mental health nursing practice education. Through the results of this study, it was possible to confirm the effect of the psychiatric and mental health nursing practice program based on blended learning.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.60 no.2
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• pp.77-98
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• 2008

For women living with mental illness, motherhood may be a normalizing life experiences and offers the opportunity to develop competencies in a major life roles. So, the main premise of this study that social contexts, social support of spouse and extended family, is very important for successful parenting of mothers with mental illness. Thus this study analyzes the impact of marital relationship and social support of networks on three dimensions of parenting competency(expression of love, encouragement of independence, rational discipline) when the socioeconomic(age, number of offsprings, subjective economic level) and disability variables(diagnosis, severity of symptoms, chronicity, frequencies of psychiatric admission) are controlled. This study conducted the survey with 145 mothers with schizophrenia and mood disorder. The major finding of the study are : i) Using step-wise multiple regression, marital relationship, social supports and economic level affect significantly on the expression of love. ii) Using step-wise multiple regression, the most powerful influenced factor on encouragement of independence is marital relationship. iii) Using step-wise multiple regression, diagnosis, severity of symptoms, chronicity and economic level affect significantly on the rational discipline. That is two dimensions of parenting competency, expression of love and encouragement of independence, can be explained well by social contexts variables(marital relationship, social support, economic level). But only rational discipline can be explain well by disability factors. In conclusion, this study recommends service providers to use family based comprehensive case management for the mothers with mental illness.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.349-359
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• 2012

There is growing recognition that individuals with mental retardation are particularly vulnerable to sexual abuse due to multiple factors including life-long dependence on adults for care, trained compliance, social isolation, lack of education about sexuality and sexual abuse, and a societal view that devalues people with disabilities. Teaching about sexual abuse only may raise an individual's anxiety without promoting a healthy sexual identity. For many individuals with mental retardation, the provision of formal sexual health education and sexual abuse prevention training has been shown to be protective against exploitation as well as increase appropriate sexual behavior. To maximize the reach of formal sexual health education and abuse prevention promotion effort, this article suggest exploiting the internet and digital contents as delivery vehicles that have uniquely suitable communication characteristics and outstanding ability to reach large numbers of persons with mental retardation. We review the sexual health education programs, utilizing the internet and digital contents, for individuals with mental retardation. We also suggest the revised version of the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IMB) model of health behaviour change (Fisher & Fisher, 1992), and give a brief discussion of how useful this model is for constructing a life-long sex education program for persons with mental retardation.

• Journal of Korean Academic Society of Home Health Care Nursing
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.153-164
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• 2022

Purpose: This is a concept analysis study to evaluate family caregivers' competence in caring for individuals with mental illness. Method: A hybrid model was used to analyze through three phases scoping literature review. with family caregivers of individuals with mental illness. In the final analysis stage, the concept of caregiving competence was defined. These attributes were derived by integrating stages. Results: The characteristics of caregiving competence were identified as requesting help from the surroundings, minimizing negative effects related to diseases, skilled care, and ability to utilize community resources. The results indicate a need to promote the integration of individuals with mental illness and their families into the community by maintaining productive care. Conclusion: This study improves the accuracy and validity of caregiving competence's concept measurements.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.479-487
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• 2016

This study aimed to investigate the difference of the disabilities type of caring competency, caring appraisal(caring burden, caring satisfaction), self-help group support for parents who have children with disabilities. The data were collected by a self-reported questionnaire from 301 parents who have disabled children(180 mental disabilities & 121 physical disabilities). Given the three types of invariance satisfied, latent means analysis(LMA) is performed to test mean differences on the four factors across the two groups. According to LMA where the parents who have children with physical disabilities are used as the reference group, the parents who have children with mental disabilities showed higher latent mean values on the self-help group support and caring burden. However, the parents who have children with physical disabilities showed higher latent mean values on the caring satisfaction and caring competency.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.426-432
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• 2016

This is a methodological study that verifies the validity and reliability by translating and modifying the Korean version of Behavior Health Care Competency (BHCC) tool. This study verified the content validity, construct validity, and reliability of 230 nurses working in general hospitals. The BHCC tool was analyzed using a total of 4 factors and 16 items. The tool had a high level of reliability and validity. The BHCC is a measurement tool considering the mental health care of non-psychiatric nurses, and it has meaning in that it establishes basic material so non-psychiatric nurses can manage the patient's physical and potential psychiatric problems effectively.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.67 no.4
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• pp.127-152
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• 2015

This study aimed to implement the enhancement program for the social work practice competency for children of community child center workers and to evaluate the program's effects. For this purpose, the program was implemented for ten community child center workers five times for five weeks(once a week, 120 minutes per session). For the quantitative evaluation, a non-equivalent control group design among quasi-experimental designs was used, and for the qualitative evaluation, the written materials related with the program were collected and analyzed. The results of the quantitative evaluation revealed that the social work practice skills and worker-client relationship empowerment of the community child center workers who participated in the competency enhancement program were significantly improved. In the qualitative evaluation, the subjective experiences were presented, including the improvement of the worker's practice competency and the worker's awareness of the changes in the child, the recognition of the strong points and the points to be improved in the program. This study is expected to raise the expertise and effectiveness of community child center workers, and ultimately, to contribute to the healthy development and the improvement of the mental health of children by improving the social work practice competency of the workers in community child centers, which comprise the representative service delivery system for children in South Korea.

• Perspectives in Nursing Science
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.97-104
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• 2011

Purpose: This study seeks to assess the educational needs pertaining to staff competency for alcohol prevention services in the workplace. Methods: The subjects were staff in charge of alcohol prevention services in four organizations. A questionnaire was modified pursuant to the IC & RC (International Certification & Reciprocity Consortium) Certified Prevention Specialist role delineation. The questionnaire consisted of five domains with 27 items. Data were collected via the self-administered questionnaire from October to November of 2009. 400 questionnaires were mailed and 144(36.0%) were returned. The collected data were analyzed using the Borich's needs assessment model and with SPSS/WIN 15.0. Results: Overall mean scores for the importance levels of competency ratings were 3.79, while the performance levels of the competency were 2.13 and Borich's need results were 6.32. Public Health and Mental Health Center showed the highest degree of educational needs in terms of education & program development (p=.022). Conclusion: The perceived importance levels pertaining to staff competency for alcohol prevention services in the workplace were higher than those of the current performance levels. Staff working for alcohol prevention services in the workplace showed a different level of educational need as regards these competency levels according to service providers. To promote the effectiveness of alcohol prevention services in the workplace, the development of an educational program to meet the needs of the service providers is necessary.