• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.250-257
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• 2011

Objectives: This study was aimed at re-assessing the environmental burden of disease attributable to waterrelated diseases using available local data from Korea. Methods: The general methods and the operational definitions for water, sanitation and hygiene applied to the study were based on an environmental burden of disease study conducted by WHO. Eleven water-related diseases were selected. The attributable fraction for diarrhea was calculated by assessing local exposure levels to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene according the scenario-based approach. The attributable fractions for the other ten diseases were derived from the results of the environmental burden of diseases study. The attributable DALYs were measured by using the attributable fractions and local health statistics. Results: The total environmental burden of disease attributable to water, sanitation and hygiene for Korea was 0.9210 DALY per 1000 capitals. Of the total burden of disease, the attributable burden of diarrhea was 0.8863 (96.1%), the attributable burden of malaria and malnutrition was 0.0236 and 0.0063 DALY per 1000 capitals, respectively. There was little burden of disease measured for other diseases. Conclusions: This study is meaningful in re-assessing the environmental burden of disease using available local exposure data and health statistics. Quantitative analysis of the environmental risk factors and a health impact assessment would be helpful to prioritize health policies or interventions in the future.

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.85-96
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• 2015

Objectives: This study aims to identify the influencing factors of using postnatal care among illiteracy women who live in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Methods: Household survey was done from February 1 to 8, 2013 in the Kwango district of Democratic Republic of Congo, and 400 childbearing women who has under 5 years old children and pregnant women was randomly selected and answered through the interview with a questionnaire. For analysis the data, ${\chi}^2$ test and logistic regression analysis were used. Results: Woman who can read, write and mathematical calculation was 195 (47.4%) of total 411 answers and 161 (39.2%) used postnatal care for their latest pregnancy. Age at first marriage (${\chi}^2=18.481$, p<.001), religions (${\chi}^2=11.165$, p=.011), languages (${\chi}^2=35.586$, p<.001), the experience of children death (${\chi}^2=16.507$, p<.001), antenatal care over 4 times (${\chi}^2=15.315$, p<.001), postnatal care (${\chi}^2=15.558$, p<.001) is significantly different from literacy level. Among illiterate women group, who are protestant (OR=.330), using Lingala (OR=.128), took elementary education (OR=.223) and farmer (OR=.040), used less postnatal care. Conclusions: For increasing usage of postnatal care among illiterate women, new approach method should be considered such as a visual communication method and a community health workers' training program for giving an outreach service to pregnant women care.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권24호
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• pp.10565-10571
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• 2015

Gastric cancer incidence rates vary dramatically by world region with East Asia having the highest rate. The Asian population of the United States (US) is growing rapidly and over 17 million Americans are of Asian descent. A majority of Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese Americans are immigrants. Americans of East and Southeast Asian descent experience marked gastric cancer disparities and the incidence rate among Korean men in the US is over five times higher than the incidence rate among non-Hispanic white men. Randomized controlled trials have provided evidence for the effectiveness of helicobacter pylori identification and eradication in preventing gastric cancer. Additionally, Japan and South Korea have both experienced improvements in gastric cancer mortality following the implementation of programs to detect early stage gastric cancers. There are currently no clear US guidelines regarding the primary and secondary prevention of gastric cancer in high-risk immigrant populations. However, it is likely that a proportion of US physicians are already recommending gastric cancer screening for Asian patients and some Asian immigrants to the US may be completing screening for gastric cancer in their native countries. Surveys of US primary care physicians and Asian American communities should be conducted to assess current provider practices and patient uptake with respect to gastric cancer prevention and control. In the absence of clinical guidelines, US health care providers who serve high-risk Asian groups could consider a shared decision-making approach to helicobacter pylori identification and eradication, as well as gastric endoscopy.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제16권10호
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• pp.6495-6503
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• 2015

본 연구는 혈액투석환자의 이행 수준을 파악하고 이행과 생리적 지표, 건강관련 삶의 질 간의 관계를 조사하였다. 지역 투석의원 27곳에서 220명의 혈액투석환자로부터 자료를 수집하였다. 이행은 투석 간 체중증가, 혈중 칼륨과 인과 함께 환자역할행위이행 도구로 측정하였고 건강관련 삶의 질은 MOS-SF 12로 측정하였다. 자료는 서술통계, t-test, ANOVA, 피어슨 상관계수로 분석하였다. 이행의 평균 점수는 4점을 기준으로 2.92점이었고, 전체 15개 이행 항목 중 투석스케줄 지키기에서 가장 높은 점수를 보였다. 이행 수준은 연령, 결혼상태, 투석기간에 따라 유의한 차이가 있었으며, 이행 항목 중에서 복약, 감염관리, 수면, 야채와 과일섭취가 건강관련 삶의 질과 유의한 상관관계를 보였다. 본 연구결과는 혈액투석환자의 삶의 질을 향상시키기 위해 환자중심 접근이 도움이 될 것임을 시사한다. 건강돌봄제공자들은 환자에게 중요한 이행을 확인하고 환자의 가치와 우선순위를 고려함으로써 환자들의 입장을 이해할 필요가 있다.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.91-98
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• 2015

최근 국내 대학은 융합형 교육의 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 학기 중 많은 시험을 감당해야 하는 보건계열 학생들에게 시험불안은 생리적 정신적 문제의 원인이 될 수 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서는 시험불안과 자아존중감 간의 관계 규명이 필요하다. 본 연구는 간호과, 치위생과 대학생 301명을 대상으로 시험불안과 자아존중감의 관계를 설문조사한 결과이다. 일반적 특성에 따른 자아존중감의 전체적인 평균은 2.98이며 남학생, 나이가 많은 경우, 고학년일수록 자아존중감이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 일반적인 특성에 따른 시험 불안은 학년이 높아질수록 적은 것으로 나타났다. 시험불안은 자아존중감이 높을수록 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 일반적인 특성 및 시험불안감이 자아존중감에 미치는 영향에서는 남학생인 경우, 고학년인 경우, 본인이 선택한 경우 자아존중감이 높았으며, 시험 불안감은 높을수록 자아존중감은 낮은것으로 분석되었다. 따라서 보다 나은 학문적 환경을 통해 시험불안을 낮춤과 동시에 자아존중감을 향상시킬 수 있는 체계적인 접근 방법이 필요할 것으로 생각된다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.1-17
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• 2008

The measurement and management of patient satisfaction has become one of the key issues in the last two decades. Hospitals must thoroughly understand the needs of their customers and design products and health services that meet and exceed their expectations. The importance-performance analysis(IPA) is a widely used analytical technique that yields strategies for managing customer satisfaction in a variety of applications. IP A is a two-dimensional grid based on customer-perceived importance of quality attributes and attribute performance. Depending on the interplay of these two dimensions, four strategies can be derived. The aim of this study is to develop the management strategies for improving patient satisfaction in university hospitals using the I-P analysis. The attributes on inpatient service quality in 4 university hospitals was investigated using the Martilla and James(l977)' s a mean adjusted I-P grid where the axes of the grid cross at the average rating point of all items. The patient satisfaction questionnaires were completed by 600 hospital inpatients. The main statistical methods are path analysis and IPA with SPSS 12.0 and AMOS 4.0 statistical softwares. The two attributes, physician and medical service, administrative staff kindness attributes position in first quadrant(Keep Up the Good domain). The nurse and nursing service attributes position in second quadrant(Possible Overkill domain). The two attributes, convenience of check-in service, facilities and physical environment position in third quadrant(Low Priority domain). Finally the quality of inpatient service(food etc.) attributes position in fourth quadrant(Concentrate Here domain). These findings show various implications on the development of strategies in university hospitals in the future. It was determined that quality of inpatient service(food etc.) need to concentrate more on investments. These investments include a taste, price, proper provision of food service and quick response of pain management. A low priority was given to investment in streamlining the check-in process of inpatient and hospital facilities and physical environment in the long run.

• 한국병원경영학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.86-114
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• 2001

As the environment related to hospital operation has changed very competitively in recent years, a need to reform the hospital management is ever growing. For that reason, it has become more urgent and strategically important for us to diagnose the organizational culture of the hospitals and to make efforts to change them towards more performance- and customers-oriented one. So far, there have been many studies done on the hospital organizations. However, this research distinctively attempts to base itself on the competing values approach in studying the organizational culture and empirically examine how different profiles of the organizational culture may have an impact on the organizational performances in hospital organizations. The results of this study has showed several interesting findings and posed the discussions to be dealt with. First, most hospitals selected for this research are characterized by the inner-oriented culture with more focused on 'hierarchy' and 'relationship-oriented' culture rather than on 'reform' and 'work-oriented' one. And the strong 'hierarchy-oriented' culture is a very general phenomenon in the sample hospitals. From these findings, we can inference that despite the recent efforts of most Korean hospitals for organizational change and innovation they still have long distance way to go. In addition, another important implications of this research has come from the analysis of the relationships between the cultural profiles and organizational performances. For this purpose, this research has conducted a series of cluster analysis and identified four distinct cultural profiles from the sample organizations. Several major findings are as follows. First, with respect to the dependent variable of 'job satisfaction' perceived by the nurses working in the sample hospitals, we found that the balance of competing organizational values had more positive impact on the job satisfaction. This result confirms the hypothesis of competing values model on the organizational performances. However, such result was not replicated on the other dependent variable, 'patients' satisfaction'. The reasons for these results and other discussions including the limitations of this study are suggested.

• 근관절건강학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.227-240
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• 2000

The purpose of this article was to identify trend in Arthritis research and to provide ba an approach of Arthritis research. The results of analysis of 69 Arthritis articles public year of between 1970-1999 found that most articles(27.6%, n=19) were published since few(10.1%, n=7) were before 1994. Vast majority of articles(79.8%, n=55) were printed in The Journal of Rheumatology Health, and 79.8%(n=55) of those were quantitative research, 8.7%(n=6) were qualitative research, and 14%(n=1) was methodological research. 29.0%(n=20) of quantitative research were carried in experimental design and over half(50.8%, n=35) in nonexperimental design. Having concerned the types of treatment(or intervention) used in experimental study, the most common treatment was 'exercise' (45.0%, n=9), and other less common were 'self-help education(15.0%, n=3), home care(10.0%, n=2) supportive care(10.0%, n=2), flexibility exercise combined with local heat therapy(5.0%, n=1), relaxation training(5.0%, n=1). Of the types of exercise, aquatic exercise was 30.0%(n=6). The effect of exercise on outcome variable was found to be most strong among the other types of treatment. 18 articles of nonexperimental research were correlational research. From the analysis of correlational research, 29 concepts were identified, and the relationship between depression and other variable were strongly reported. In descriptive studies, most commonly physiological variables were examined in 5 articles(29.5%). Only one study(5.9%) explored patient's perception of the causal factors and those causality. In qualitative researches, two study were carried out by the means of grounded theory. Majority of those subjects were RA patients, and the largest number of sample were 23 and the smallest was 1 In two studies, patient's perceived causality of RA was identified as a research problems, and an experience of ADL, fatigue Phenomenon, an experience of having a total knee replacement with osteoarthritis were each found in one study. Methodological research was carried out to test validity and reliability of the RA Fatigue Scale.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제14권9호
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• pp.399-406
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• 2016

본 연구는 요양보호사를 대상으로 요양보호사의 노인에 대한 지식, 태도, 요양업무 능숙도 간의 관계를 파악하고자 장기요양시설에 종사하는 요양보호사 145명을 대상으로 2014년 6월부터 9월까지 구조화된 설문지를 사용하여 요양보호사의 노인에 대한 지식, 태도, 요양업무 능숙도에 대해 조사하였다. 본 연구에서 사용한 통계방법은 서술통계, ANOVA, 독립 t-검정, Pearson correlation coefficient를 사용하였다. 연구 결과 노인에 대한 지식수준, 태도와 요양업무 능숙도는 서로 양의 상관관계가 있음을 확인하였다. 따라서 요양보호사에 대한 교육내용을 개발할 때 요양보호사의 낮은 지식수준을 고려하여 쉬운 교육내용과 다양한 교육방법을 활용하는 것이 필요하다. 그리고 요양보호사의 근무환경 개선을 통해 노인에 대한 긍정적인 태도를 증진시켜 노인 요양서비스의 능숙도를 높이는 것이 필요하다.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제16권10호
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• pp.333-342
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• 2018

본 연구는 학교 밖 청소년을 대상으로 문제행동에 미치는 융복합적 요인을 성별차이를 중심으로 분석하였으며, 부산여성가족개발원에서 실시된 학교 밖 청소년 연구자료를 이용한 이차자료 분석 연구이다. 연구대상자는 총 499명의 학교 밖 청소년이며, 남자는 337명, 여자는 162명이었다. 본 연구에서 조사한 문제행동은 가출, 학업중단, 성매매, 폭력, 인터넷게임중독, 절도, 약물중독 및 흡연이었다. 수집된 자료는 로지스틱 회귀분석으로 분석하였다. 본 연구의 문제행동 중 인터넷게임중독과 절도는 남자 학교 밖 청소년이 여자 학교 밖 청소년보다 높았다. 인터넷게임중독은 남자 학교 밖 청소년이 여자학교 밖 청소년보다 1.90배 높았다(p=.008, 95% CI=1.18-3.06). 절도는 남자 학교 밖 청소년이 여자 학교 밖 청소년보다 1.92배 높았다(p=.006, 95% CI=1.21-3.03). 앞으로 학교 밖 청소년의 문제행동을 예방하고 이에 대한 사회적 대책을 마련할 때, 문제행동의 양상과 성별에 따라 차별화된 접근이 필요하다.