• 제목/요약/키워드: Mixed Methods

검색결과 2,851건 처리시간 0.028초

간호대학생의 건강증진 생활양식: 혼합연구설계 (Health-promoting Lifestyle of Nursing Students: Using Mixed Methods Research)

  • 이현주
    • 지역사회간호학회지
    • /
    • 제30권4호
    • /
    • pp.414-425
    • /
    • 2019
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of psychosocial wellbeing status and self efficacy on health-promoting behavior of nursing students, and to explore the experiences related to health-promoting behavior. Methods: For this study, an explanatory sequential mixed method design approach was used with survey data collected from 148 nursing students. In addition, qualitative data for exploration of health-promoting behavior experience were collected from three focus-group interviews of 17 participants. Quantitative data were analyzed with SPSS/WIN 25.0 and qualitative data were analyzed by making contents analysis with Nvivo 12.0. Results: The results showed that psychosocial wellbeing status, self efficacy, grade, and regularity meal explained 43.0% of the variance in health-promoting behavior. And seven themes from the collected significant statements about experience of health-promoting behavior included the daily life going on without delay; changes in body which is felt; recognizing the necessity of health care; making efforts to increase physical activities; revising eating habit; looking for the way to relieve stress; and attempting to divert my thoughts. Conclusion: Based on the results of this study, it is necessary to develop and verify health program in order to improve nursing students' health-promoting behavior. And university authorities and government should make an effort to improve nursing students' health-promoting behavior.

Prevalence and Predictors of Exclusive Breastfeeding in Late Preterm Infants at 12 Weeks

  • Lee, Soo Yeon;Jang, Gun Ja
    • Child Health Nursing Research
    • /
    • 제22권2호
    • /
    • pp.79-86
    • /
    • 2016
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify breastfeeding practice with late preterm infants (LPIs), and to determine predictors of exclusive breastfeeding at the 12th week after discharge. Methods: The participants were 106 mothers of LPIs hospitalized in neonatal intensive care units at two university hospitals. Data were collected between February and October, 2013. Questionnaires included characteristics of LPIs, their mothers, and feeding-related characteristics. Feeding methods were exclusive breastfeeding, mixed feeding, and formula feeding. Results: Exclusive breastfeeding steadily increased from 5.7% at the 1st week to 19.8% at the 12th week, as did formula feeding from 27.3% to 67.9%. Contrarily, mixed feeding decreased from 67.0% at the 1st week to 12.3% at the 12th week. The ratio of formula feeding was higher than that of exclusive breastfeeding over time. Predictors for exclusive breastfeeding were the following: type of delivery (OR=2.96, 95%CI=1.07-8.14), feeding intolerance (OR=3.03, 95%CI=1.26-7.25) and feeding method during hospitalization (OR=7.84, 95%CI=3.15-19.53). Conclusion: In order to increase breastfeeding opportunities for LPIs, educational programs for gestational age-appropriate breastfeeding should be developed. The focus of breastfeeding education needs to be on mothers who delivered their LPIs through Cesarean-section and LPIs who had feeding intolerance or were fed only formula during hospitalization.

시분할-파장분할 방식이 혼합된 라우팅 구조를 가지는 대용량 광 ATM 스위치 (Large capacity Photonic ATM switch with mixed routing structure using TDM and WDM methods)

  • 김광복;박기오;안상호;엄진섭
    • 전자공학회논문지S
    • /
    • 제36S권2호
    • /
    • pp.9-18
    • /
    • 1999
  • 본 논문에서는 시분할-파장분할 방식이 혼합된 라우팅 구조를 가지는 대용량 광ATM 스위치 구조를 제안하였다. 제안된 구조는 셀의 경로배정 과정에서 겪게되는 광 파워의 손실 및 시스템 구성시 요구되는 하드웨어를 줄일 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 수동소자를 사용함으로써 전기적 제어부분의 복합성을 피할 수 있다. 또한 제안된 스위치는 확장이 용이하도록 설계되어졌기 때문에 처리용량에 있어서 미래의 대욜양 광 교환 시스템에 적합한 구조라고 할 수 있다.

  • PDF

Effect of Proximate Composition Ratios for Biogas Production

  • Kim, Min-Jee;Kim, Soo-Ah;Kim, Sang-Hun
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
    • /
    • 제42권3호
    • /
    • pp.155-162
    • /
    • 2017
  • Purpose: The objective of this study was to evaluate the biogas productivity of agricultural by-products (ABPs) based on their proximate composition. Specifically, the effects of proximate composition were investigated, and a new mixing method was developed using various ABPs that are difficult to digest for biogas production. Methods: Experiments were conducted to compare the biogas productivity between a single ABP and a mixture of ABPs that had the same proximate composition as the single ABP. To match the proximate compositions of radish waste and corn distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS), mixed ABPs were made from various ABPs. Biogas potential tests (BMP tests) were performed at an organic loading rate (OLR) of 2.5 g VS/L and a feed to microorganism ratio (F/M) of 0.5 under the mesophilic condition. Results: The individual ABPs (radish and corn DDGS) and the mixed ABPs (cabbage waste with skim milk waste, bean-curd waste with skim milk waste, and some others) produced similar amounts of biogas. Conclusions: The new mixing method based on proximate composition can be applied to other ABPs and organic wastes from factories and municipal waste treatment plants to develop renewable energy and effective waste treatment methods.

Small Base Station Association and Cooperative Receiver Design for HetNets via Distributed SOCP

  • Lu, Li;Wang, Desheng;Zhao, Hongyi;Liu, Yingzhuang
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
    • /
    • 제10권12호
    • /
    • pp.5212-5230
    • /
    • 2016
  • How to determine the right number of small base stations to activate in multi-cell uplinks to match traffic from a fixed quantity of K users is an open question. This paper analyses the uplink cooperative that jointly receives base stations activation to explore this question. This paper is different from existing works only consider transmitting power as optimization objective function. The global objective function is formulated as a summation of two terms: transmitting power for data and coordinated overhead for control. Then, the joint base stations activation and beamforming problem is formulated as a mixed integer second order cone optimization. To solve this problem, we develop two polynomial-time distributed methods. Method one is a two-stage solution which activates no more than K small base stations (SBSs). Method two is a heuristic algorithm by dual decomposition to MI-SOCP that activates more SBSs to obtain multiple-antennae diversity gains. Thanks to the parallel computation for each node, our methods are more computationally efficient. The strengths and weaknesses of these two proposed two algorithms are also compared using numerical results.

협대역 통신시스템을 위한 전처리기-등화기 구조의 FIR 여파기 설계 (Design of FIR filters with Prefilter-Equalizer Structure for Narrowband Communication Systems)

  • 오혁준;안희준
    • 한국통신학회논문지
    • /
    • 제30권6C호
    • /
    • pp.577-584
    • /
    • 2005
  • 본 연구는 협대역 통신시스템을 위한 전처리기-등화기 구조의 여파기에서, 곱셈기를 사용하지 않는 최소 복잡도의 디지털 FIR 여파기를 설계하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 여파기는 순환 다항식(cyclotomic polynomial, CP) 여파기와 2차 내삽 다항식(interpolated second order polynomial, ISOP) 등화기로 구성되며, 이 두 여파기가 동시에 혼합 정수 선형 계획법(mixed integer linear programming (MILP))으로 최적 설계되어 최소의 복잡도를 갖는 특성을 갖게 된다. 제안된 방식으로 설계된 여파기들은, 설계 규격을 만족하면서도 기존의 여파기에 비하여 복잡도면에서 월등히 간단함을 확인하였다.

재난발생 지역주민의 재난대비행위 영향요인: 혼합연구방법 (The Factors Affecting Disaster Preparedness Behaviors of People Residing in Disaster Area: A Mixed Methods Study)

  • 이지혜;한숙정
    • 한국보건간호학회지
    • /
    • 제34권3호
    • /
    • pp.391-404
    • /
    • 2020
  • Purpose: This study investigates the disaster preparedness behaviors of people residing in disaster areas and the factors affecting such behaviors, by examining the application of a Health Belief Model. Methods: A mixed-method approach was used for this study. Local residents were surveyed in Gyeongju and Pohang, which had experienced earthquakes one to two years earlier. Quantitative data (N=233) were collected through a questionnaire and analyzed using t-test, one-way ANOVA, Scheffe test and multiple regression. Qualitative data (N=11) were collected through focus group and individual interviews, and evaluated through content analysis. Results: Disaster preparedness behaviors scored 7.04 out of 18 points, and factors that significantly affected disaster preparedness included cut to action, marriage status, experience of education and training related to disaster, benefit-barriers factors of disaster preparedness behaviors, and gender. The focus group and individual interviews confirmed the contents corresponding to each variable of the disaster preparedness behaviors and heal belief model. Conclusion: The findings of this study indicate that in order to induce disaster preparedness behaviors as well as education and training opportunities related to disaster relief, we need to examine cue to action of disaster preparedness behaviors, benefits, and barriers for motivating interventions.

Supremacy of Realized Variance MIDAS Regression in Volatility Forecasting of Mutual Funds: Empirical Evidence From Malaysia

  • WAN, Cheong Kin;CHOO, Wei Chong;HO, Jen Sim;ZHANG, Yuruixian
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
    • /
    • 제9권7호
    • /
    • pp.1-15
    • /
    • 2022
  • Combining the strength of both Mixed Data Sampling (MIDAS) Regression and realized variance measures, this paper seeks to investigate two objectives: (1) evaluate the post-sample performance of the proposed weekly Realized Variance-MIDAS (RVar-MIDAS) in one-week ahead volatility forecasting against the established Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) model and the less explored but robust STES (Smooth Transition Exponential Smoothing) methods. (2) comparing forecast error performance between realized variance and squared residuals measures as a proxy for actual volatility. Data of seven private equity mutual fund indices (generated from 57 individual funds) from two different time periods (with and without financial crisis) are applied to 21 models. Robustness of the post-sample volatility forecasting of all models is validated by the Model Confidence Set (MCS) Procedures and revealed: (1) The weekly RVar-MIDAS model emerged as the best model, outperformed the robust DAILY-STES methods, and the weekly DAILY-GARCH models, particularly during a volatile period. (2) models with realized variance measured in estimation and as a proxy for actual volatility outperformed those using squared residual. This study contributes an empirical approach to one-week ahead volatility forecasting of mutual funds return, which is less explored in past literature on financial volatility forecasting compared to stocks volatility.

보건의료인의 코로나19에 대한 예방행위 영향 요인: 혼합연구방법 (Factors Influencing the Preventive Behaviors of COVID-19 by Health Care Workers: A Mixed Methods Study)

  • 이지혜;한숙정
    • 한국보건간호학회지
    • /
    • 제36권3호
    • /
    • pp.347-360
    • /
    • 2022
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the risk perception, safety climate and preventive behaviors of COVID-19 infections, and to verify the factors influencing the adoption of preventive behaviors by health care workers. Methods: A mixed-method approach was used based on a survey carried out in a general hospital. Quantitative data (N=181) were collected through a questionnaire and analyzed using multiple regression. Qualitative data (N=8) were collected through individual interviews and analyzed through Colaizzi's phenomological research method. Results: The factors influencing adoption of preventive behaviors by health care workers were safety climate (β=.41, p<.001), education (β=-.20, p=.025), work unit (β=-.16, p=.032), and risk perception (β=.15, p=.020). The explanatory power was 28.3%, and they have shown that these health care workers felt 'the threat of a pandemic like a battlefield', experienced 'struggle with quarantine rules' and realized 'the reality of infection control and the reorganization for change'. Conclusion: The findings of this study indicate that to increase the adoption of infection control preventive behaviors by health care workers when faced with new infectious diseases in the future, it is necessary to establish organizational support and a safe climate. This study confirms the need for preemptive support and education.

Trade in Tourism Service on the Basis of Tourism System: A Mixed-methods Study of South Koreans to the United States

  • Suh-hee Choi;Liping A. Cai;Yunseon Choe
    • Journal of Korea Trade
    • /
    • 제27권4호
    • /
    • pp.101-122
    • /
    • 2023
  • Purpose - Acknowledging the limitations of the widely-used concept of destination image, this study proposes the concept of tourism image using trade in tourism service on the basis of Leiper's (1990) tourism system. This new concept incorporates an image formed from South Koreans focusing on the tourist holistic experience relevant to the United States based on the tourist rather than the tourism destination. Design/methodology - A convergent parallel mixed-methods study design constituted the concept, which emerges from the analysis of narratives and quantitative examinations of South Koreans focusing on tourism experience to the United States. Findings - The study considers the following aspects in addition to destination image: first, images formed outside the destination, e.g., in the tourist generating region and the transit region; second, non-hedonic images, which are a part of the tourist experience despite not directly involving a visit to the tourist attractions; and third, non-service-driven elements, such as co-created destination images formed from interaction with residents and fellow tourists. Originality/value - The tourism image concept allows consideration of aspects that have been overlooked in destination image studies yet may affect the image of the tourism experience.