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고등학생의 건강 및 삶의 질에 대한 진단적 연구 - PRECEDE 모형을 근간으로 - (A Diagnostic Study on High School Students' Health and Quality of Life - Based on the PRECEDE model -)

  • 유재순;홍여신
    • 한국간호교육학회지
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    • 제3권
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    • pp.78-98
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    • 1997
  • Health education, as the most fundamental concept for national health promotion, alms for developing the self-care ability of the general public. High school days are regarded as the period when most important physical, mental and social developments occur, and most health-related behaviors are formed. School health education is one of the major learning resources influencing health potential in the home and community as well as for the individual student. High school health education in Korea has a fundamental systemic flaw in that health-related subjects are divided and taught under various subjects areas at school. In order to achieve the goal of school health education, it is essential to make a systematic assessment of the learner's concerns connected with his health and life, and the factors affecting them. So far, most of the research projects that had been carried out for improving high school health education were limited in their concerns to a particular aspect of health. Even though some had been done in view of comprehensive school health education, they failed to Include a health assessment of the learner. Therefore, in this study the high school students' concerns related to health and life were investigated in the first place on the basis of the PRECEDE model, developed by Green and others for the purpose of a comprehensive diagnostic research on high school health education. This study was done in two steps : one was the basic study for developing research instrument and the other was the main one. The former was conducted at five high schools in Seoul and Cheongju for 2 months-beginning in March, 1996. The students were asked to respond to questions related to their health and lives in unstructured open-ended question forms. On the basis of analysis of the basic study, the diagnostic instruments for the quality of life, health problems, health behavior and educational factors were constructed to be used for the collection of data for main study. An expert panel and the pilot study were used to improve content validity and reliability of the instruments. The reliability of the instruments was measured at between .7697 and .9611 by the Cronbach $\alpha$. The data for this study were collected from the sample consisted of the junior and senior classes of twenty general and vocational high schools in Seoul and Cheongju for two months period beginning in July, 1996. In analyzing the data, both t-test and $X^2$-test were done by using SAS-$PC^+$ Program to compare data between the sexes of the high school students and the types of high school. A canonical correlation analysis was carried out to determine the relationships among the diagnostic variables, and a multivariate multiple regression analysis was conducted by using LISREL 8.03 to ascertain the influences of variables on the high school students' health and quality of life. The results were as follows : 1) The findings of the hypothesis tests (1) The canonical correlation between the educational diagnosis variables and behavioral, epidemiological, social diagnosis variables was .7221, which was significant at the level of p<.001. (2) The canonical correlation between the educational diagnosis variables and the behavior variables was .6851, which also was significant (p<.001). (3) The canonical correlation between the behavioral diagnosis variables and the epidemiological variables was 4295, which was significant (p<.001). (4) The canonical correlation between the epidemiological diagnosis variables and the social variables was .6005, which was also significant (p<.001). Therefore, the relationship between each diagnosis variable suggested by the PRECEDE model had been experimentally proven to be valid, supporting the conceptual framework of the study as appropriate for assessing the multi-dimensional factors affecting high school students' health and quality of life. Health behavior self-efficacy, the level of parents' interest and knowledge of health, and the level of the perception of school health education, all of which are the educational diagnostic variables, are the most influential variables in students' health and quality of life. In particular, health behavior self-efficacy, a causative factor, was one of the main influential variables in their health and quality of life. Other diagnostic variables suggested in the steps of the PRECEDE model were found to have reciprocal relations rather than a unidirectional causative relationship. The significance of this research is that it has diagnosed the needs of high school health education by the learner-centered assessment of variety of factors related to the health and the life of the students. This research findings suggest an integrated system of school health education to be contrived to enhance the effectiveness of the education by strengthening the influential factors such as self-efficacy to improve the health and quality of the lives of high school students.

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Virtual Monochromatic Image Quality from Dual-Layer Dual-Energy Computed Tomography for Detecting Brain Tumors

  • Shota Tanoue;Takeshi Nakaura;Yasunori Nagayama;Hiroyuki Uetani;Osamu Ikeda;Yasuyuki Yamashita
    • Korean Journal of Radiology
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    • 제22권6호
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    • pp.951-958
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    • 2021
  • Objective: To evaluate the usefulness of virtual monochromatic images (VMIs) obtained using dual-layer dual-energy CT (DL-DECT) for evaluating brain tumors. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study included 32 patients with brain tumors who had undergone non-contrast head CT using DL-DECT. Among them, 15 had glioblastoma (GBM), 7 had malignant lymphoma, 5 had high-grade glioma other than GBM, 3 had low-grade glioma, and 2 had metastatic tumors. Conventional polychromatic images and VMIs (40-200 keV at 10 keV intervals) were generated. We compared CT attenuation, image noise, contrast, and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) between tumor and white matter (WM) or grey matter (GM) between VMIs showing the highest CNR (optimized VMI) and conventional CT images using the paired t test. Two radiologists subjectively assessed the contrast, margin, noise, artifact, and diagnostic confidence of optimized VMIs and conventional images on a 4-point scale. Results: The image noise of VMIs at all energy levels tested was significantly lower than that of conventional CT images (p < 0.05). The 40-keV VMIs yielded the best CNR. Furthermore, both contrast and CNR between the tumor and WM were significantly higher in the 40 keV images than in the conventional CT images (p < 0.001); however, the contrast and CNR between tumor and GM were not significantly different (p = 0.47 and p = 0.31, respectively). The subjective scores assigned to contrast, margin, and diagnostic confidence were significantly higher for 40 keV images than for conventional CT images (p < 0.01). Conclusion: In head CT for patients with brain tumors, compared with conventional CT images, 40 keV VMIs from DL-DECT yielded superior tumor contrast and diagnostic confidence, especially for brain tumors located in the WM.

진단용엑스선장치 제조품질관리에 관한 국내.외 규격의 동향 (The Recent Trend of the National and International Standard of Manufacturing Quality Control for Diagnostic X-ray Equipment)

  • 최인석;김정민;정회원;민정환;이인수
    • 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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    • 제32권1호
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2009
  • 진단용엑스선장치의 방사선방어 관한 내용을 중심으로 국내 외 규격을 살펴보고 신-구 IEC규격을 비교하여 본 결과는 다음과 같다. 가장 최근에 발표된 IEC 60601-1-3 ; 2008 2nd Edition에 담긴 철학은 크게 두 가지로서, 제조된 진단용 엑스선장치에 의하여 촬영 받게 될 환자를 위하여 어떤 종류의 방사선(선질 : Radiation Quality)을 얼마나 주었는지(선량 : Radiation Dose)를 확실히 해야 한다는 것이며 또 그 장치를 이용하는 작업자를 위하여 누설방사선(Leakage Radiation), 잉여방사선(Residual Radiation), 떠돌이 방사선(Stray Radiation)을 최소화해야 한다는 것이다. 진단용 엑스선장치에 관한 국내규격을 개정하거나 다시 제정할 경우 다음과 같은 내용과과정이 필요하다고 사료된다. 1. 가급적 최신 개념이 담긴 국제규격(IEC Publication)에 맞추되 우리나라의 실정에 맞는 규격을 채택하여야 할 것이다. 즉 IEC 60601-1-3 ; 2008을 근간으로 하고 미국의 CFR, 일본의 JIS도 참고한다면 지금 보다 한층 진보한 규격을 만들 수 있을 것이다. 2. 방사선안전부분을 중점적으로 고시하는 것이 간결하다. 즉 전기 기계적 안전에 관한 사항(IEC 60601-1)은 식품의약품안전청 고시 제 2006-7호 "의료기기의 전기 기계적 안전에 관한 공통기준규격"을 준용해야 한다. 3. 급격한 고시의 변화는 바람직하지 않다. 즉 최근에 개정된 IEC 60601-1-3 ; 2008을 도입하여 바로 적용하지 않고, 일단 현 규격을 일부 개정하여 사용하면서 적응기간을 가질 필요가 있다.

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CARE (CAse REport) 지침에 의한 한방비만학회지 증례 논문에 대한 보고의 질 평가: 2013년~2018년 증례보고를 중심으로 (Evaluation of the Quality of Case Reports of the Journal of Korean Medicine for Obesity Research from 2013 to 2018 According to the CARE (CAse REport) Guidelines)

  • 박경무;최성열;이주아;송윤경
    • 한방비만학회지
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    • 제18권2호
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    • pp.144-151
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    • 2018
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the quality of case reports of the Journal of Korean Medicine for Obesity Research by the Case Report (CARE) guidelines. Methods: Case reports published in the Journal of Korean Medicine for Obesity Research from January 2013 to July 2018 were searched from Oriental Medicine Advanced Searching Integrated System (OASIS). We assessed the quality of reporting based on CARE guidelines. Results: A total of 8 case reports were finally included for the assessment. There was a deviation in the sub-item reporting rate by a maximum 75% and a minimum 57.14% in case reports. The 10 sub-items mentioned below, such as 'Timeline', 'Diagnostic challenges', 'Diagnostic reasoning including other diagnoses considered', 'Prognostic characteristics', 'Changes in intervention', 'Important follow-up diagnostic evaluations and other test results', 'Intervention adherence and tolerability', 'Adverse and unanticipated events', 'Patient perspective' and 'Informed consent' were reported below 30%. Conclusions: Efforts to diversify the subject of the case study and to apply appropriate reporting guidelines are needed to improve the quality of the case report contributed to the Journal of Korean Medicine for Obesity Research.

정류방식에 따른 진단용 X-선 장치의 출력비교 (A Comparative Study on Output of Four Type Diagnostic X-ray Equipments)

  • 김정민
    • 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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    • 제20권2호
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    • pp.34-43
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    • 1997
  • There are 4 types of equipment in diagnostic radiography. These are single phase, three phase, inverter type and condenser type X-ray generators. It is very confusing to make an adequate exposure factor and to know the usage of different type of X-ray generators. In this experiment, I explored a comparative study of outputs in 4 different type of X-ray units. I expect that this experiment could be helpful for manufacturer to make both the X-ray equipment better, In terms of Ideal exposure factors, thereby reducing the patient dose. Experimental results are as follow : 1) X-ray output The ratio of X-ray output of single, three phase and inverter type of X-ray generator was 1 : 1.6 : 2 without absorber and 1 : 2 : 2.6 with 20 mm aluminium absorber. 2) Beam quality The X-ray beam quality of single phase generator was proved to be softer than three phase and inverter type of generators by 0.4 mmAL and 0.55 mmAl HVL respectively. 3) Reproducibility Linearity of X-ray output Retroducibility of X-ray output met the regulation below CV 0.05 and linearity also met the regulation below 0.1 in 4 types of diagnostic X-ray generators. 4) The comparison of incident dose Three phase X-ray generator was 20% higher than two other X-ray generators in radiation dose to make same film density.

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개선된 뇌하수체 선종 진단을 위한 자기공명영상 노이즈 제거 기법 (A Noise Reduction Technique for Enhancing Pituitary Adenoma Diagnostic on Magnetic Resonance Image)

  • 정영진
    • 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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    • 제42권4호
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    • pp.285-290
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    • 2019
  • Magnetic resonance imaging is a technique specialized in soft tissue imaging with high contrast resolution without in vivo ionization and has been widely used in various clinical settings. In particular, the recent increase in social stress factors has been used in the diagnosis of pituitary adenoma, the incidence increases rapidly. Recently, due to the development of magnetic resonance imaging, it is possible to diagnose micro pituitary adenoma, but despite the use of contrast medium, there has been a difficulty in diagnosing the pituitary adenoma due to its small size and noise. In order to solve this problem, a proposed method of separating signal components image and noise components image from a measured image is applied, and the improvement of diagnostic efficiency is attempted by removing noise. As a result, it was confirmed that the image quality was improved as a whole by applying SNR for 30 subjects data. It is expected that this study will be useful as a pre-processing method for improving the image quality and developing diagnostic indicators of pituitary adenoma.