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An Empirical Study of Elderly Volunteering Commitment and Their Life Satisfaction Based on Activity Theory (노인자원봉사자의 봉사활동 헌신과 생활만족에 관한 연구 - 활동이론을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Mee-Hye;Jung, Jin-Kyung
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.54
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    • pp.221-243
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    • 2003
  • Activity theory explains that the old people participate in social activity as a role-substitute from loss of roles given by work and family. It is possible to enhance their life satisfaction through these activities. Based on this activity theory, this study aims at explore the role substitute of voluntary activities and to analysis whether volunteering commitment has an effect on life satisfaction. Data were collected by using survey questionnaires to the elderly over 55 years old who participated in voluntary activity at 25 Volunteer Centers in Seoul. The Activity theory was operationalized by job or joblessness, family type, achievement type obtained through voluntary activity The results are as follows. (1) Job or joblessness has effect on the activity frequence and activity time. (2) Social achievement after voluntary activity has effect on the duration only (3) And the family type did not have any effect. These three variables of activity theory do not have an effect on life satisfaction. The elderly volunteering commitment was explained by variables other than activity theory such as reward, health, education, sex. And the elderly volunteer's life satisfaction were affected by the family types and their economic status. These results imply that the Korean elderly voluntary activities could be expained partially by Activity theory. Also for these elder volunteers's life satisfaction, qualitative respects such as achievements through voluntary activity, and concerns and support by agencies are more important than the time they imput in voluntary activities.

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Middle-Age' Entrepreneurship & Re-Employment Education Influences Re-Employment Anxiety, Re-Employment Stress, Entrepreneurial Intention (창업 및 재취업 교육이 재취업불안, 재취업스트레스, 창업의도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Seo-ho;Byun, Sang hae
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.71-81
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    • 2016
  • Sothe Korea that entered in to aging society in year 2000 according to the entrance in 2017 as in log-term the young work focrce decrease and skilled elder populatin decrease became important issue of national entrepreneurship & re-employment of middle-age' has become the topic of social problems. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a entrepreneurship & re-employment education to job-seeking anxiety, job-seeking stress and entrepreneurial intention in an effort to prove the effectiveness of entrepreneurship & re-employment education. The subjects in this study were 67 believer who were of G church in the city of K. A entrepreneurship & re-employment education was conducted in fourteen sessions, once a week. The major findings of the study were as follows: First, the experimental group who participated in the entrepreneurship & re-employment education felt less job-seeking anxiety. Second, the experimental group who participated in the entrepreneurship & re-employment education felt less job-seeking stress. Third, the experimental group who participated in the entrepreneurship & re-employment education showed improvement in entrepreneurial intention.

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Effects of Koryo Hand Therapy(KHT) on Woman Elders' Knee Pain (고려수지요법이 여성노인의 무릎통증에 미치는 효과)

  • Koh, Hyo-Jung;Jung, Mi-Kyung;Kwon, Yun-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.12 no.9
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    • pp.4022-4029
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    • 2011
  • The study was done to identify the effects of Koryo Hand Therapy(KHT) of woman elders' knee pain. This is an quasi-experiment with nonequivalent control group pre- & post-test design. The subjects consisted of 105 woman elders were admitted to in elders' hospital in D city. They are randomized 35 for the experimental group A by using ceramic Seo Am pellet therapy, 35 for the experimental group B by using Seo Am moxa therapy and 35 for the control group. The Koryo Hand Therapy(KHT) was conducted 3 times per week for 6 weeks. Data analyzed using ${\chi}^2$-test, One-way ANOVA and repeated measure ANOVA with SPSS Win 17.0 version. The results of this study was knee pain of the experimental group A provided with ceramic Seo Am pellet therapy(p=.000), the experimental group B provided with Seo Am moxa therapy(p=.000) would be lower than that the control group. Knee pain of the experimental group B provided with Seo Am moxa therapy would be lower than that the experimental group A provided with ceramic Seo Am pellet therapy(p=.001). Koryo Hand Therapy(KHT) was to be effective in relieving knee pain woman elders' and it is suggested that the therapy should be used for managing.

Self-transcendence, Life Satisfaction and Preference for care near the end of life of the Elderly (재가노인의 자기초월, 삶의 만족도와 임종기 치료 선호도 관련성)

  • Lee, Jeong In;Kim, Soon Yi
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.9
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    • pp.212-220
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine self-transcendence, life satisfaction, and preference for end-of-life care in elderly patients. Method: This was a descriptive survey study. The study period was between August 2013 and October 2013 and included 208 elderly patients. Results: The average scores for self-transcendence, life satisfaction, and preference for end-of-life care were 2.79, 9.97, and 3.24, respectively. Statistically significant positive correlations were observed between self-transcendence and life satisfaction, decision making by health care professionals, spiritual area, family area. A positive correlation was observed between: (1) life satisfaction and spiritual area, (2) decision making by health care professionals and family area, and (3) decision making by health care professionals and pain area. Self-transcendence was a significant predictor of PCEOL. Conclusion: This study will provide basic information for use in the development of a program to encourage self- transcendence and life satisfaction, as well as to consider the elder's autonomy, pain control, and spirituality as important factors at the end-of-life care.

Studies on the Nutritional Value of Elderberry (Sam bucus canadensis) Fruits (Elderberry(Sam bucus canadensis) 과실(果實)의 영양가(營養價)에 대(對)하여)

  • Park, Kyo Soo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.67 no.1
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    • pp.42-49
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    • 1984
  • The elderberry was known to the ancients for its medicinal properties, and in Europe the inner back was formerly administered as a cathartic. The flowers contain a voletile oil, and serve for the distilation of elder-lower water, used in confectionery, perfumes and lotions. The leaves are employed to impart a green colour to fat and oil, and the leaves and bark emit a sickly odour, believed to be repugnant to insect. With its unique flavor and natural food colour, commercial processing companies used the fruit mainly in the making for jam, jelly, pies, juice, and wines. Its vitamin-C content is reported by Andross (1941) as 25-30mg/100g. Harvesting and processing have been mechanized to some extent. However, the cotains with nutritional value has not been reported yet. In the present study the various contains with nutritional value in the fresh elderberry juice is reported by the quantitative analysis. In this study results obtained can be summarized as follows. 1) The fresh elderberry juice contained following mineral elements; calcium 0.012%, magnesium 0.023%, potassium 0.10%, sodium 0.0019%, iron 0.0009%, cobalt 0.0002%, zinc 0.0004%, copper 0.0001%, phosphorus 0.036%, manganese 0.0006%, iodide $1{\mu}g/g$. 2) Five kinds of vitamines were also found ; vitamin-$B_1$ $0.1{\mu}g/g$, vitamin-$B_2$ $0.5{\mu}g/g$, vitamin-C 0.3mg/g, niacin $14{\mu}g/g$, choline chloride 0.3mg/g. 3) Fresh elderberry juice also contains crude protein 1.10%, fat 0.26%, carbohydrate 6.9%, pectin 0.76%, tannin 0.89%, ash 0.80%, water 90.9% and 34.3 cal/100g. 4) The absorption spectrum of the purplishblack color of fresh elderberry juice has a peak between 523-530mm.

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A Study on Health Statue of the Elderly in Rural Community according to Drinking Pattern (일부 농촌지역 노인의 음주양상에 따른 건강상태)

  • Baek, Dal-Hyun;Hwang, Byung-Deog;Moon, Hyo-Jung;Yoon, Hee-Jung;Lee, Sung-Kook
    • Journal of agricultural medicine and community health
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.263-273
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    • 2006
  • Objectives: This study was conducted to investigate the trend of health statue of the elderly living in rural area according to drinking patterns. Methods: This study was conducted with 2,421 elderly people (male 1,273 and female 1,148) residing in the selected 25 villages, with exclusion of a few elderly people who were in hospital, out for a long time or had an unknown address. This study were carried out, face-to-face interviews with the subjects were made from January to March 2002. Results: The investigation of drinking state showed that for male subjects, drinkers accounted for 48.8%, nondrinkers 35.1% and abstainers from drinking 16.1%, whereas for female subjects, drinkers accounted 15.3%, nondrinkers 80.2% and abstainers from drinking 4.5%. The health status was analyzed according to drinking pattern. For elderly men, abstainers from drinking showed worse health state than nondrinkers and drinkers. Elderly women showed the same result. It is widely known that drinking are the important causes of chronic diseases. Therefore, it is needed to provide the elderly with education on control of preventable health risk factors and effect of living state on health, in order to prevent aggravation of health level of the elder population aged 65 and over. This will also help them promote their health. It will be desirable that for the elderly, the objective will focus on health promotion rather than treatment of diseases. Conclusions: Carry out health plan for rural communities and health maintenance programs and health promotion of the elderly in those communities shall be developed. In addition, preventive education and health examination shall be conducted more frequently with the elderly who drink but are still healthy.

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Effects of N. P. K. and sugar contents of different host-plants on the Biology of the fall web-worm, Hyphantria cunea DRURY (기주식물의 N.P.K. 및 Sugar의 함량이 흰불나방에 미치는 생물학적 영향)

  • Chung K. H.;Choi S. Y.
    • Korean journal of applied entomology
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    • v.5_6
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    • pp.39-46
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    • 1968
  • This experiment was conducted to study the effects of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and sugar contents in the loaves of five different host plants on tile larval period, pupal period, pupal period, number of eggs in the ovary, and the tolerance of fall webworm larvae (Hyphantria cunea DRURY) to gamma-BHC. The results obtained in this study were as follows; 1. The contents of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and sugar in tile leaves tested were varied with the species of the host plants and sampling time. 2. The larval and pupal periods were also varied with the host plants and generation of the fall webworm. The shortest larval and pupal periods were found in the mulberry and the longest ones in the apple tree, and their periods were shortened much more in the second generation. Except the relation between the larval period and tile nitrogen content in the first generation, significant correlation could not be found between their periods and nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and surgar contents. The nitrogen contents among the other chemical factors, however, might be much more influenced on their developing period. 3. The pupal weight and number of eggs in the ovary were also varied with the host plants. sex, and generation. In both generations, the greatest pupal weight and number of eggs per female were found in the mulberry and the least ones in the apple tree. No significant correlation could be found between the pupal weight and number of eggs per female and the chemical factors analyzed. However, only the nitrogen content seemed to be highly related to the pupal weight and number of eggs. 4. The tolerance of the fall webworm larval to gamma-BHC was highly varied with the host plants. The host order o( the larval tolerance level to gamma-BHC was box-elder, popla, platanus, apple tree, and mulberry. There was no significant correlation between the larval tolerance to the BHC and the chemical factors analyzed. However, the larvae fed on the host plant with higher pottassium content were shown a tendency to be higher tolerant.

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Anemia and Serum Iron Status in Adolescent Female (청소년기 여학생에서 빈혈 및 철분 영양 상태)

  • Cho, Ju Rae;Kim, Soon Ki;Park, Sang Kyu;Hah, Jeong Ok
    • Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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    • v.45 no.3
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    • pp.362-369
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    • 2002
  • Background : Anemia is still the most common nutrient deficiency worldwide, especially in adolescence because of an insufficient supply of iron, an increased iron requirement due to accelerated physical growth and blood loss due to menstruation in girls. This study was designed to assess the anemia and serum iron status of middle school girls. Methods : Hematologic examinations, physical examinations and questionnaires were performed for middle school girls in 1990, 1997, 1999 and 2000. Anemia was defined as a serum hemoglobin level of less than 11.5 g/dL. Iron deficiency was defined as a serum ferritin level of less than 10 ng/mL. Iron deficiency anemia was defined as anemia plus one of the following; MCV less than 78 fL, Ferritin level less than 10 ng/mL or Transferrin saturation rate less than 10%. Results : There was no significant difference in mean Hb between urban and rural areas and decreases in mean Hb as with age. The prevalence of anemia decreased by year; 13.5% in 1990, 6.9 % in 1997, 6.0% in 1999, and 5.7% in 2000. It was high in high school girls(10.1% in 1997 and 12.6% in 2000). The prevalence of iron deficiency decreased by year; 36.1% in 1990, 13.9% in 1997, 13.3% in 1999, and 23.2% in 2000. It was 21.3% in 1997 high school girls and 37.8% in 2000. The prevalence of iron deficiency anemia(IDA) decreased by year; 10.0% in 1990, 4.6% in 1997, 8.3% in 1999, and 6.1% in 2000. It was 11.6% in 1997 high school girls and 18.6% in 2000. Conclusion : Although the prevalence of iron deficiency decreased during this period, the prevalence of anemia in the elder adolescence girls was high. Two things are recommended; first, it is necessary to screen for anemia in middle school girls and high risk groups, second, it is important to evaluate the knowledge of nutrition and to enforce effective nutritional education, leading to subjects receiving adequate nutrition.

Mulberry leaf yield and optimal amount of silkworms rearing in different mulberry cultivars for mulberry fruit production (오디 생산용 뽕나무 품종별 뽕잎 생산량 및 적정 누에 사육량)

  • Lim, Ju Rak;Moon, Hyung Cheol;Kwon, Suk Ju;Kim, Dong Wan;Kwak, Dong Ok
    • Journal of Sericultural and Entomological Science
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    • v.53 no.2
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    • pp.82-86
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    • 2015
  • This study was carried out to develop the silkworm rearing technique in unused mulberry leaves after harvesting mulberry fruit. The growth of Gwasang No. 2 and Suhyang was very good compared to control cultivar Chungil in leaves size and new branch growth, but new branch and leaves of Daeshim was similar or small to control cultivar Chungil. The number of leaves of Gwasang No. 2 and Suhyang was lower than Chungil, but weight of leaves per tree was heavyer than Chungil. Mulberry leaf yield was Gwasang No. 2 521 kg/10a, Suhyang 189 kg/10a, Daeshim 73 kg/10a, Chungil 1,095 kg/10a. Content of mineral element of all three mulberry cultivars leaf for mulberry fruit production was higher than Chungil in N, P, K, Ca etc. Feeding quantity of silkworm of Gwasang No. 2 and Suhyang was much more than Chungil. Feeding quantity was highest at Suhyang in 96 kg/box. Growth duration of silkworm larvae was not different in all four mulberry culivars but weight of silkworms (5th instar 3rd day) was heavy at Gwasang No. 2 (2.07 g/head) and Suhyang (2.11 g/head) compared to control cultivar Chungil (1.92 g/head). Mortality of silkworms was 14.6% (Gwasang No. 2), 13.3% (Suhyang), 13.9% (Daesim), 12.6% (Chungil) and than higher at elder instar stage. The production amount of silkworm (5th instar 3rd day) was 35.4 kg/box (Gwasang No. 2), 36.6 kg/box (Suhyang), 35.0 kg/box (Daeshim), 33.6 kg/ box (Chungil). Amount of possible rearing silkworms was estimated 3.4box/10 a (Gwasang No. 2), 1.3box/10a (Suhyang), 0.5box/10a (Daeshim), 8.7box/10a (Chungil).

Study of the seroma volume changes in the patients who underwent Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (부분유방방사선치료(Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation) 환자의 장액종(Seroma) 체적 변화에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Dae Ho;Son, Sang Jun;Mun, Jun Ki;Seo, Seok Jin;Lee, Je Hee
    • The Journal of Korean Society for Radiation Therapy
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.65-75
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    • 2016
  • Purpose : By analyzing seroma volume changes in the patients who underwent Partial breast radiation therapy after breast conserving surgery, we try to contribute to the improvement of radiotherapy effect. Materials and Methods : Enrolled 20 patients who underwent partial breast radiation therapy by ViewRay MRIdian System were subject. After seeking for the size of the removed sample in the patients during surgery and obtained seroma volume changes on a weekly basis. On the Basis of acquired volume, it was compared with age, term from start of the first treatment after surgery, BMI (body mass index) and the extracted sample size during surgery. And using the ViewRay MRIdian RTP System, the figure was analyzed by PTV(=seroma volume + margin) to obtain a specific volume of the Partial breast radiation therapy. Results : The changes of seroma volume from MR simulation to the first treatment (a week) is 0~5% in 8, 5~10% in 3, 10 to 15% in 2, and 20% or more in 5 people. Two patients(A, B patient) among subjects showed the biggest change. The A patient's 100% of the prescribed dose volume is 213.08 cc, PTV is 181.93 cc, seroma volume is 15.3 cc in initial plan. However, while seroma volume decreased 65.36% to 5.3 cc, 100% of the prescribed dose volume was reduced to 3.4% to 102.43 cc and PTV also did 43.6% to 102.54 cc. In the case of the B patient, seroma volume decreased 42.57% from 20.2 cc to 11.6 cc. Because of that, 100% of the prescribed dose volume decreased 8.1% and PTV also did to 40%. Conclusion : As the period between the first therapy and surgery is shorter, the patient is elder and the size of sample is smaller than 100 cc, the change grow bigger. It is desirable to establish an adaptive plan according to each patient's changes of seroma volume through continuous observation. Because partial breast patients is more sensitive than WBRT patients about dose conformity in accordance with the volume change.

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