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Management of endometrial polyps in infertile women: A mini-review

  • Jee, Byung Chul;Jeong, Hye Gyeong
    • Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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    • v.48 no.3
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    • pp.198-202
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    • 2021
  • Considerable disagreement exists regarding whether endometrial polyps should be removed before attempting natural pregnancy and before pregnancy via intrauterine insemination (IUI) or in vitro fertilization (IVF). Through a literature review, we obtained information on the impact of endometrial polyps and polypectomy on fertility outcomes. Several observational studies have suggested that women with unexplained infertility may benefit from endometrial polypectomy for a future natural pregnancy. A few studies reported benefits from endometrial polypectomy in infertile women who plan to undergo IUI. However, no strong evidence supports polypectomy as a way to improve the pregnancy rate in infertile women who plan to undergo IVF or polypectomy during controlled ovarian stimulation for IVF. Although no studies have defined criteria for the polyp size that should be removed in infertile women, clinicians should be aware that small endometrial polyps (<10 mm) sometimes regress spontaneously. Endometrial polypectomy is currently justified in patients with repeated IVF failure, but more studies are needed to verify that endometrial polypectomy itself will eventually increase the pregnancy rate. Although several mechanisms by which endometrial polyps exert a negative effect on fertility have emerged, there is no consensus about the proper management of endometrial polyps in infertile women. Therefore, the management of endometrial polyps should be individualized depending on the patient's situation and clinician's preference.

The effects of health care programs for gestational diabetes mellitus in South Korea: a systematic review

  • Park, Seo Jin;Lee, Jina
    • Women's Health Nursing
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.274-284
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects and characteristics of health care programs for pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in Korea. Methods: This study was conducted according to the Cochrane Collaboration's systematic literature review handbook and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses reporting guideline. We searched eight international and domestic electronic databases for relevant studies. Two reviewers independently selected the studies and extracted data. For each study, information on the research method, participants, characteristics of the program, and results were extracted using a previously established coding table. The National Evidence-based Healthcare Collaborating Agency's risk of bias assessment tool for non-randomized studies was used to assess the risk of bias of the included articles. A qualitative review of the selected studies was performed because the interventions differed considerably and the measured outcomes varied. Results: Out of 128 initially identified papers, seven were included in the final analysis. The risk of bias was evaluated as generally low. Health care programs for pregnant women with GDM showed positive effects on blood glucose control. Anxiety and depression were reduced, and self-management and self-care behavior, self-efficacy, and maternal identity improved. Conclusion: Our study provides clinical evidence for the effectiveness of health care programs for pregnant women with GDM, and its results can be used to support the development of health care programs for GDM. More well-designed research is needed on GDM, especially studies that deal with emotional stress and apply a family-oriented approach.

The Effect of Smoking Scenes in Films on Audiences' Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors on Smoking: A Systematic Review (영화의 흡연 장면이 관객의 흡연 태도, 신념, 행동에 미치는 영향: 체계적 문헌고찰)

  • Choi, Go-Eun;Cho, Hye-Lim;Yoon, Ji-Hye;Jung, Minsoo
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2013
  • Objectives: While many studies have been conducted on whether smoking scenes in films actually affect audience members' smoking, a comprehensive conclusion has yet to be derived. This study systematically reviewed the effect of smoking scenes in films on audience members' attitudes, beliefs, and actions. Methods: We analyzed a total of 146 studies searched on PubMed and PsycINFO (41 qualitative studies, 72 cross-sectional studies, 20 longitudinal studies, and 13 experimental studies). Results: Whereas qualitative studies have only demonstrated that audience members tend to perceive smoking scenes in films not as negative information but as positive information, cross-sectional studies have reported a significant association between smoking scenes and smoking behavior notwithstanding the problems of classifying the groups studied and measuring the degree of exposure. Through follow-up observations, longitudinal studies have reported that such media exposure can serve as a predictor of future smoking. Finally, with exposure and confounding variables under control, experimental studies have confirmed that smoking scenes in films indeed affect audience members' attitudes, beliefs, and actions regarding smoking. Conclusions: Scenes of actors and actresses smoking can be imitated or learned through audience members' immersion and identification and reproduce positive images that may render smoking socially acceptable.

Constructing Women's Voices: Approaching Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and Bảo Ninh's The Sorrow of War from Feminist Criticism

  • Dang, Thi Bich Hong
    • SUVANNABHUMI
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.71-87
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    • 2022
  • This article explores how women's voices are constructed in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and Nỗi buồn chiến tranh (The Sorrow of War) by Bảo Ninh. Specifically, this article approaches presentations of women's personalities and positions in the two novels that do not have obvious historical and geographical connections. The women's voices in the two novels, as this article suggests, are characterized by women's desire for self-determination, where they are able to free themselves from domination, and even influence men's psychology and actions. In comparing the characteristics of women's voices in the two works, the article aims to highlight different ways in which women assert their agency. The article affirms the potential contribution of cultural contexts in examining feminist voices and understanding how female figures are made to overcome default passivity and submission to male domination.

Study on Dietary Habits of North Korean Refugees (북한이탈주민의 식습관 조사)

  • Kim, Myo-Jung;Jeong, Hee-Sun
    • Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2011
  • The number of North Korean refugees residing in the Republic of Korea (South) has reached 17,000, and this number is expected to exceed 20,000 (North Korean Supporter's Association, 2009). Refugees have developed improper dietary habits while hiding and escaping North Korea. They have also developed preferences for exotic food. This thesis attempts determine the changes in Korean food. This study also describes the view on South Korean food by North Korean refugees. According to our survey, women refugees had better dietary habits than men. Moreover, women and those in their 40's showed a tendency to choose food based on quality over quantity. Both men and women refugees responded that they cook food based on North Korean recipes. Those who view their current financial status as average or higher stated that South Korean food is tastier than North Korean food. Those whose financial status among North Koreans was average or higher when they lived in North Korea appreciated the splendor and beauty of South Korean food more. The results of this study are expected to assist in determining the differences in dietary habits between those from the North compared to Koreans living in the Republic of Korea. Therefore, studies between South and North Korean food should continue.

Limitation and Overcoming in New Women Literature: Ella Hepworth Dixon's The Story of a Modern Woman (신여성문학의 한계와 극복: 엘라 헵워스 딕슨의 『모던여성의 이야기』)

  • Kim, Heesun;Kim, Ilgu
    • English & American cultural studies
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.55-79
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    • 2017
  • Ella Hepworth Dixon's The Story of a Modern Woman is a pioneering female writer?s important work which was not deeply studied yet very influential in new women literature and its cultural global impact. Although women had been often praised for their beauties specially by romantic poets but their self-realization and innate values were not widely recognized until new women writers advocated their desires and active roles in the society at the end of the $19^{th}$ century. The new women writers including Ella Dixon gained popularity with their professional skills as the journalists or the contributors to the journals which were suddenly popular and actively circulated among Victorian women. From the 1880s to 1920s, in contrast with the traditional images of wives as ?the angel in the house?, these women new women writers broke the yoke of subjugated womanhood and instead tried to freely express their independent spirits and demanded their roles in the society. Although they were criticized sometimes as "the daughter of a new guise" "a lady of restless sex" or "the wild women," new girls? perky images in new women fiction brought into the new cultural phenomenon which led to the ?flapper? girl in the 1920s. Ella Dixon?s protagonist Mary Erle, strikingly similar to author herself, was a representative new woman who displayed a wide range of new cultural perspectives from a feminist?s viewpoint, but her untimely desire in the capitalized society was not fully accomplished, just promising the potentiality of the female solidarity which might be achieved later by her feminist posterity.

Study on was serialized in The Korea Magazine 「KOREA'S NOTED WOMEN」 (『The Korea Magazine』의 「한국에서 이름난 여성들」 연재물에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, yun-hi
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.37
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    • pp.185-209
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    • 2014
  • This paper is a study on The Korea Magzine. The magazine has a series. One of them is KOREA'S NOTED WOMEN. This is the women who are all Chinese women. They are Yo-WHA-SI(여와씨), A-WHANG, YU-YUNG(아황과 여영), T'AI-IM AND T'AI-SA(태임과 태사), WANG SO-KOON(왕소군), Su Wang Mo(서왕모), Yang Kwi-pi(양귀비), SU-SI(서시), TAK MOON-KOON(탁문군). The story of the women in the magazine were studied in a series of articles of reasons. First, it is because the Chinese women living in the hearts of Koreans. Second, the Koreans because these women want to love passionately, and be like. Third, because the Chinese women was also well-known in Korea as well known in East Asia. Was This series is used in any way. Features shown in the description was investigated. It explains how to understand what they Korea. Deliberately omitted, and were also added. I also used the analogy and comparison. This does not make sense but were accepted. Finally, we fully understand and take advantage of the literature.

Analyzing the Research Fronts of Women's Studies in Korea Using Citation Image Makers Profiling (인용 이미지 구축자 프로파일링을 이용한 국내 여성학 분야 연구 전선 분석)

  • Kim, Jo-Ah;Lee, Jae Yun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.201-225
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    • 2016
  • A new technique for revealing the research fronts of a interdisciplinary discipline has been developed. Citation image makers profiling (CIMP) determines the relationships between research papers with the title words of the citing documents. We adapted this new technique to analyze the research fronts and hot topics in women's studies of Korea. By Korean Citation Index (KCI) data in 2015, we selected 148 papers cited more than 9 times as the core documents of women's studies. Analysis of intellectual structure using citation image makers profiling was performed with the 148 core documents and those citing papers. Document co-citation analysis was hindered by citation data sparsity, while CIMP method successfully revealed the structure of research fronts of Korean women's studies including 2 divisions and 6 subdivisions. The CIMP method suggested in this study has good potential to discover the characteristics of research fronts of interdisciplinary research domains.