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Multicenter survey of symptoms, work life, economic status, and quality of life of complex regional pain syndrome patients

  • Lee, Jaemoon;Lim, Yun Hee;Hong, Sung Jun;Jeong, Jae Hun;Choi, Hey Ran;Park, Sun Kyung;Kim, Jung Eun;Park, Eun Hi;Kim, Jae Hun
    • The Korean Journal of Pain
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.288-303
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    • 2021
  • Background: Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is an intractable pain disease with various symptoms. Here, we investigated the disease status, work life, sleep problems, medical insurance, economic status, psychological problems, and quality of life (QOL) of CRPS patients. Methods: CRPS patients from 37 university hospitals in South Korea were surveyed. The survey questionnaire consisted of 24 questions on the following aspects of CRPS patients: sex, age, occupation, cause of injury, activities of daily living (ADL), pain severity, sleep disturbance, level of education, economic status, therapeutic effect, and suicidal ideation. Additionally, the abbreviated World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaire, consisting of 26 questions, was used to identify the status of QOL. Results: A total of 251 patients completed the questionnaire. According to the survey, 54.2% patients could not perform ADL on their own. Over the previous week, the mean pain score was 7.15 ± 1.78 (out of a total of 10 points); 92.1% of patients had sleep disorders and 80.5% had suicidal ideation, with most patients suffering from psychological problems. The average for each domain of WHOQOL-BREF was as follows: 21.74 ± 14.77 for physical, 25.22 ± 17.66 for psychological, 32.02 ± 22.36 for social relationship, and 30.69 ± 15.83 for environmental (out of a total of 100 points each). Occupation, ADL, sleep time, therapeutic effect, and suicidal ideation were statistically correlated with multiple domains. Conclusions: Most patients had moderate to severe pain, economic problems, limitations of their ADL, sleep problems, psychological problems, and a low QOL score.

The Relationships between Mother's Child caring Behavior and Child behavioral Problems (어머니의 자녀양육행동이 아동행동문제에 미치는 영향)

  • Moon, Young-Sook;Han, Jin-Sook
    • Korean Parent-Child Health Journal
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.161-176
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    • 2002
  • Among the causes of childhood behavioral problems - that is, physiological, psychological, and environmental factors -, the common element of non-organic psychological and environmental factors is influences from the parents. Roles of mother who does the biggest emotional exchange with the child after birth may have substantial association with the childhood behavioral problems. In this connection, the present explanatory study was conducted for the purpose of understanding the causal structural relationship in which mother's child caring behaviors affect child behavioral problems. The data collection period was July 2 - 7, 2001. The subject was 4th, 5th, 6th graders' mothers in 4 elementary schools located in Daejoen city and 299 surveys were used in the analysis. As for the tools used in this study to assess the mother's child caring Behavior Scale by Park, Seong-Yeon and Yi, Sook (1990) was used to measure the mother's behaviors. The child behavioral problems were measured with the Korean-Child Behavior Checklist (K-CBCL), standardized into the Korean version by O, Gyung-Ja, Yi, Hye-Ryon, Hong, Gang-Eui, and Ha, Eun-Hye. For the data processing, the frequency and the percentage were calculated, and the analyses of variance, correlation were carried out. The result of this study is summarized as follows: First, the examination of the effect of mother's general characteristics on the mother's caring behavior shows that significant differences are made by the active participation (p=0.020) in the occupation, affection(p=0.000), authority control(p=0.013), achievement(p=0.030), active participation(p=0.032) in the education level, consistency regulation(p=0.007) in the religion. Second, the examination of the effect of mother's caring behaviors on the child behavioral problems shows that significant differences are made by some child behavioral problems in the affection, achievement, consistency regulation, authority control, over protection caring behaviors. Third, as for the correlation between mother's child caring behavior and child behavioral problems, a significant correlation is revealed between the negative child caring behavior and child behavioral problems.

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An Analysis on the Research Trends of Social Psychological Aspects of Clothing (복식사회.심리학분야의 연구경향 분석 I)

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    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.30
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    • pp.19-40
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    • 1996
  • The purpose of this study is to make and analyse established studies of clothing pay-chology and marketing, showing the disciplin-ary trends problems and the outlook of social psychological Aspects of clothing. To achieve the purpose 621 articles have been used. -519 for master's and doctor's de-gree and 102 reported in journals -no social psychological Aspects of clothing for the past two decades(1974-1994) in Korea. All of these annual data were classified into making five years a unit. In the statistical analy-sis 'frequency' and 'percentage' were applied. To verify the degree of significance x2-test were used. 1. The trend of the study on the fields of clothing psychology consumer behavior and marketing over the period between 1974 and 1994 showed the continual trend of increase since the 1974 that the article on the field of clothing the continual trend of increase since the 1974 that the article on the field of cloth-ing psychology was first reported. 2. The domain that has the greatest pro-portion in the field of clothing psychology is concerned with the individual psychological factor and the study concerning interpersonal perception and development the measurement tool showed the tendency to continue to in-creas.

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Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Conditions : Cardiovascular System ('의학적 상태에 영향을 미치는 심리적 요인들' 심혈관계 질환의 모형 개발)

  • Han, Chang-Hwan
    • Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.193-209
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    • 1998
  • The author conducted a literature review to better characterize the current state of knowledge regarding the relationship between psychological and behavioral factors and cardiovascular disease. This review focus on several problems : Hypertension, coronary artery disease such as myocardial infarction and angina pectoris. We describe model for understanding the relation-ship of psychological factors to the disease, review the results of relevant research studies and provide recommendation for further research.

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Psychological and Behavioral Factors Associated with Cardiovascular Disease - Stress and Personality - (심혈관 질환과 관련된 심리적인 요인과 행동적 요인 - 스트레스와 성격을 중심으로 -)

  • Han, Chang-Hwan
    • Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.174-184
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    • 1995
  • The author conducted a literature review to better characterize the current state of knowledge regardeding the relationship between psychological and behavioral factors and cardiovascular disease. This review focus on several Problems : hypertension, coronary artery disease such as myocardial infarction and angina pectoris, sudden death, arrhythmia, vasomotor(vasodepressor) syncope, and psychogenic cardiac nondisease. We describe model for understanding the relationship of psychological factors to the disease, review the results of relevant research studies and provide recommendation for further research.

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Dissipation Effect in Causal Maps as a Source of Communication Problem

  • Kim, Dong-Hwan
    • Korean System Dynamics Review
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.5-15
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    • 2005
  • This paper investigates psychological differences between constructors and interpreters of causal maps. This paper argues that dissipation effects and dilution effects applies to those who are to interpret causal maps not to those who construct them. Dissipation effects are psychological tendency that people perceive causal effect as weak as the number of causal links increases. Dilution effects occur when people undervalue the strength of causal relation as the number of causal variables increases. Experimental results show that concentration effects opposite to the dissipation effects and dilution effects explain more correctly the perception of constructors of causal maps. This paper points out that this asymmetric psychological tendencies between constructors and interpreters of causal maps is the psychological source of the communication problems between systems thinkers and their clients.

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Comparison of Psychological Influence on Breast Cancer Patients Between Breast-conserving Surgery and Modified Radical Mastectomy

  • Sun, Meng-Qing;Meng, Ai-Feng;Huang, Xin-En;Wang, Mei-Xiang
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.149-152
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    • 2013
  • Objective: To compare the influence of breast-conserving surgery (BCS) and modified radical mastectomy (MRM) on the psychological state of breast cancer patients. Methods: Patients receiving MRM or BCS, and fulfilling the study criteria, were recruited. Patients were required to complete a self-reporting inventory (SCL-90) on admission and 6 months after surgery and a self-rating depression scale (SDS) when discharged from hospital and 6 months after surgery. Results: A total of 70 patients received MRM and 50 BCS. Compared with the national standard, patients suffered to some extent psychological problems on admission, at discharge from hospital and at 6 months after surgery. Patients received BCS had a higher score of SDS compared with those with MRM when discharged from hospital. However, 6 months after surgery, SDS score increased in MRM and decreased in the BCS group, so the difference was significant. Conclusion: The short-term psychological state of patients receiving BCS is worse than that with MRM but superior to MRM 6 months postoperatively. BCS imposed less influence on long term psychological state of breast cancer patients compared with MRM.

A Study on Psychological Symptoms and Nutritional Status of Diabetic Patients (당뇨환자의 심리증상과 영양상태에 관한 연구)

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    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.172-180
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    • 1994
  • This study showed the psychological symptoms, nutritional status and eating behaviors of diabetic patients. General informations on subjects nutritional status were collected by questionnaire, whereas Symptom Check List-90-Revision(SCL-90R) was used for gathering the data related to psychological problem. 34 diabetics in the hospital, aged 49$\pm$10.5 years old, were chosen as the subjects of this study. Their average height was 162.3$\pm$9.4cm and weight was 57.0$\pm$9.5kg. The average period of their suffering from DM was 54.1 weeks. Among, the subjects, 71.0% adapted diet therapy for their disease, whereas 36.7% and 40.7% did diabetic drugs and daily exercise like walking and jogging, respectively, Among 9 psychological symptoms observed, the scores of somatization, depression, anxiety, phobic anxiety and psychoticism were higher than the standard score, however they were not statistically significant. The score of paranoid ideation was lower than standard score. It was statistically significant. As the measure of their clinical status, BMI(body mass index), PIBW(percent ideal body weight) and fasting blood sugar(FBS) were selected 21.6$\pm$2.8, 102.4$\pm$14.8% and 207.8$\pm$19.9mg/이 respectively. The somatization was significantly correlated with subjects duration of DM. Subjects with psychological problems showed wrong eating behaviors. The fasting blood sugar was significantly correlated with the level of depression.

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Children's social relationships, psychological characteristics, and behavior problems (아동의 사회적 관계 및 심리적 특성과 문제 행동의 관계)

  • Choi, Yu-Jung;Choi, Set-Byol
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.75-89
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    • 2007
  • This study investigates the effects of children's social relationships and psychological characteristics on their behavior problems. Behavior problems comprise violations of norms, bullying, and deviant behavior in the cyberspace. A data set of 2949 Korean children in their 4th grade is analyzed to yield three main results. First, variables such as contact with delinquent friends, aggressiveness, stress of appearance complex, gender, and depression have significant effects on violations of norms. Children who have more delinquent friends, higher level of aggressiveness, stress of appearance complex, or depression report more violations of norms. Second, delinquent friends, stress of peer relationship, aggressiveness, stress of appearance complex, gender, parents' violent attitudes toward children, and negative self-image are turned out to be important variables predicting bullying. Children with more delinquent friends, higher level of stress, higher level of aggressiveness, or lower self-image are more likely to experience bullying. Children who perceive their parents to be violent show more bullying experience. Third, each of aggressiveness, delinquent friends, stress of appearance complex, gender, relationship with teacher, and family income has significant effect on deviant behavior in cyberspace. Children with higher level of aggressiveness, more delinquent friends, stress of appearance complex, or negative impression of teacher are more likely to deviate in cyberspace. Children from higher income families report more deviant behavior in cyberspace. Boys show more experiences in every category of behavior problems than girls.

Psychological and Pedagogical Features the Use of Digital Technology in a Blended Learning Environment

  • Volkova Nataliia;Poyasok Tamara;Symonenko Svitlana;Yermak Yuliia;Varina Hanna;Rackovych Anna
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.127-134
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    • 2024
  • The article highlights the problems of the digitalization of the educational process, which affect the pedagogical cluster and are of a psychological nature. The authors investigate the transformational changes in education in general and the individual beliefs of each subject of the educational process, caused by both the change in the format of learning (distance, mixed), and the use of new technologies (digital, communication). The purpose of the article is to identify the strategic trend of the educational process, which is a synergistic combination of pedagogical methodology and psychological practice and avoiding dialectical opposition of these components of the educational space. At the same time, it should be noted that the introduction of digital technologies in the educational process allows for short-term difficulties, which is a usual phenomenon for innovations in the educational sphere. Consequently, there is a need to differentiate the fundamental problems and temporary shortcomings that are inherent in the new format of learning (pedagogical features). Based on the awareness of this classification, it is necessary to develop psychological techniques that will prevent a negative reaction to the new models of learning and contribute to a painless moral and spiritual adaptation to the realities of the present (psychological characteristics). The methods used in the study are divided into two main groups: general-scientific, which investigates the pedagogical component (synergetic, analysis, structural and typological methods), and general-scientific, which are characterized by psychological direction (dialectics, observation, and comparative analysis). With the help of methods disclosed psychological and pedagogical features of the process of digitalization of education in a mixed learning environment. The result of the study is to develop and carry out methodological constants that will contribute to the synergy for the new pedagogical components (digital technology) and the psychological disposition to their proper use (awareness of the effectiveness of new technologies). So, the digitalization of education has demonstrated its relevance and effectiveness in the pedagogical dimension in the organization of blended and distance learning under the constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic. The task of the psychological cluster is to substantiate the positive aspects of the digitalization of the educational process.