• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제86권4호
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• pp.264-271
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• 2023

Chronic cough is a common problem that can be refractory to medical treatment. Nonpharmaceutical management of chronic cough has an important role in well selected patients. This review article outlines the history of chronic cough management, current approaches to speech pathology management of the condition and new modalities of nonpharmaceutical treatment. There is a need for further research into nonpharmaceutical options with well described randomised control trials.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제65권5호
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• pp.250-251
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• 2022

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제65권4호
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• pp.167-171
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• 2022

In the era of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, countries worldwide have implemented several nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to contain its spread before vaccines and treatments were developed. NPIs included social distancing, mask wearing, intensive contact tracing and isolation, and sanitization. In addition to their effectiveness at preventing the rapid spread of COVID-19, NPIs have caused secondary changes in the epidemiology of other infectious diseases. In Korea, various NPI stages have been implemented since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 on January 20, 2020. This review, based on a PubMed database search, shows the impact of NPIs on several infectious diseases other than severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in the COVID-19 pandemic era in Korea.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.282-288
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• 2021

Medication alone is not sufficient to treat insomnia. In addition, the side effects of sleep medications themselves cannot be ignored during treatment. Insomnia begins with poor sleep quality and discomfort, but as it continues, patients fall into a vicious circle of insomnia with negative thoughts and dysfunctional and distorted perceptions related to sleep. Mindfulness-based intervention for insomnia corrects these sequential cognitive and behavioral processes. The mindfulness technique basically recognizes all the thoughts, feelings, and experiences that occur to us as they are, nonjudgmentally, and then trains them to return to the senses of our body. In this way, while noticing all the processes of the sequential vicious cycle and training them to return to our bodies (e.g., breathing), mindfulness determines whether we are really sleepy or just fatigued. This mindfulness-based intervention can be a useful nonpharmaceutical intervention for insomnia, and its stability and efficacy has been proven by many studies.

• Journal of Digestive Cancer Research
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.45-48
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• 2023

One of the most common side effects of chemotherapeutic agents is chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). The occurrence of CIPN is increasing as the survival rate of patients with cancer improves and the cumulative dose or duration of neurotoxic drugs increases. Approximately 30-40% of patients receiving neurologically toxic drugs experience CIPN, which eventually increases the burden of medical expenses. However, preventive measures against CIPN have not yet been established. Clinical trials have tested various drugs for the management of neuropathic pain, but only duloxetine has shown any significant effect. Further studies should evaluate nonpharmaceutical treatments, such as exercise.

• Pediatric Infection and Vaccine
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.144-148
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• 2021

목적: 사회적 거리두기와 같은 비약물적 조치는 아동기 질병 발병률 감소를 포함하여 의도하지 않은 결과를 초래하였다. 이에 대하여 한국의 국가 데이터를 사용하여 열성 경련 발병률과 사회적 거리두기의 영향을 연구하였다. 방법: 이 연구는 한국의 건강보험심사평가원의 청구 데이터를 사용하여 2010년 1월부터 2020년 9월까지 0-5세 사이의 아동에서 열성 경련 진단을 받은 모든 입원 환자가 포함되었으며, 2010-2019년 1월 1일부터 9월 30일까지, 2020년 같은 기간동안 인구 100,000명 당 발병률을 추정하기 위해 월별 사례 수를 집계하였다. 결과: 2010-2019년 열성경련의 발병률은 1월 100,000명 당 116명에서 9월 101명 이었으나, 2020년 2월 사회적 거리두기 이후 열성 경련의 발병률은 1월 100,000명당 113명에서 9월 27명으로 감소하였다. 결론: 2010-2019년에 비해 2020년 열성경련의 발병률 순 감소는 -38% 였으며, 사회적 거리두기가 열성 경련의 발병률 감소에 기여했음을 시사하는 결과를 확인하였다.