• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.5121-5126
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• 2016

Objective: To investigate the impact of chemotherapy on quality of life (QoL) among breast cancer patients and to evaluate the relationship with age, cancer stage and presence of any comorbidity. Methods: A prospective study was conducted among breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy in Hospital Melaka from 1st January 2014 to 31st July 2014. The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30) was given to patients to fill in prior chemotherapy (baseline) and after the third cycle of chemotherapy. Socio-demographic and clinical data were collected and analyzed using SPSS version 20. Result: Respondents were 32 female patients [mean age (SD): 49.7(9.93) years]. They reported a significant lower global health status (P < 0.01) and significant higher symptoms of nausea and vomiting (P < 0.01), loss of appetite (P = 0.028) and diarrhea (P = 0.026) after the third cycle of chemotherapy as compared to baseline. Compare to, this study showed significant better emotional functioning (P < 0.01) and social functioning (P < 0.01) than the EORTC QLQ-C30 Reference Values 2008 for breast cancer cases. Under symptom scales higher scores were noted for appetite loss (P = 0.017), nausea and vomiting (P < 0.01). Age, stage and comorbidity had no clear associations with global health status in our patients (P > 0.05). Conclusion: Chemotherapy did reduce the QoL of breast cancer patients. Management of chemotherapy-induced loss of appetite, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting should be improved for a better outcome.

• 대한보건연구
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.25-34
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• 2018

연구목적: 노인의 주관적 건강 수준과 ADL(Activities of Daily Living), IADL(Instrumental Activities of Daily Living)의 관계를 통해 집단 간 동질성과 이질성을 살펴보고자 한다. 연구방법: 2014년도 노인실태조사를 이용하여 주관적 건강 수준을 독립변수로 ADL과 IADL의 제한을 종속변수로 설정하였다. 로지스틱 회귀분석을 실시하였으며 성별로 비교하였다. 연구결과: 남성 노인에 비해 여성 노인이, 사회경제적 수준이 낮고 연령이 높은 노인일수록 주관적 건강 수준이 낮으며 ADL과 IADL의 제한이 있었다. 주관적 건강 수준이 낮을수록 ADL과 IADL에서 제한을 가질 확률이 높은 것으로 관찰되었다. 특히 그 관계는 여성 노인에 비해 남성 노인에서 뚜렷이 나타난다. 연구 결과를 통해 여성 노인의 취약성을 파악하는 한편, 중증도가 높은 질병에 국한해 본인의 건강 수준을 인지하는 남성 노인의 특성을 이해할 수 있었다. 결론: 노인의 삶을 이해하고 노인 정책을 시행하는데 있어 성인지적 접근과 더불어 주관적 건강 수준을 비롯한 다양한 지표를 활용하는 노력이 필요하다.

• 한국노년학
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.503-518
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• 2007

노인은 자녀로부터 일방적으로 지원을 받는 것이 아니라 자녀에게 지원을 하기도 하는 호혜적인 교환을 한다. 이러한 세대간 지원교환의 호혜성은 건강, 경제력 같은 노인의 역량뿐만 아니라 노인이 자녀들과 맺고 있는 관계적 속성에 의해서 다양하게 구조화된다. 호혜성의 다양성이 어떤 요인들에 의해서 결정되는지를 설명하기 위해서 구조화된 설문지를 이용하여 수집된 서울의 65세 이상 노인 730명을 분석하였다. 분석결과는 노부모-자녀의 관계적 속성이 지원교환의 호혜성에 독립적인 영향을 미치고, 자녀와 동거여부, 자녀수, 접촉빈도의 순으로 중요하다. 자녀와 동거하지 않는 노부모는 신체적 지원에서는 자녀로부터 지원을 받는 경향을 보이지만, 경제적 지원에서는 오히려 자녀를 지원하는 양상을 보인다. 자녀수와 접촉빈도는 노인이 자녀로부터 지원을 받도록 하는 쪽으로 영향을 미친다. 노인이 선호하는 아들유무는 커다란 관련성이 없는 것으로 나타났다. 노인의 역량 중에서 건강상태는 신체적 지원은 물론이고 정서적 및 재정적 지원교환에도 모두 결정적으로 중요하지만, 경제력은 재정적 지원교환에만 관련되어 있다. 세대지원의 호혜성에 가장 결정적인 요인은 노부모의 건강 상태이며, 노부모는 부모로서의 역할과 의무로 받아들여 자녀에 대한 지원을 계속하게 된다.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.133-148
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• 1989

This study attempts of analyze empirically the living status of the elderly in Korea by finding out the problems of it in the family and by clarifying the influences of the family environmental variables and the values on the adjustment of the aged. To carryout the aim of this study, the causes and the patterns of the problems for the aged had been found out through the review of literature. Based on them the questionnaire was prepared including the questions of the values, family environmental vriables as well as the degree of satisfaction of thier liver and the extent of life interchange. The former variables were taken as independent and the latter were taken as dependent variables, so that the relationship between the two variables could be exemplified. The 400 aged over 60 living in Seoul and the other cities were selected through the purposive sampling and interviewed. The answers of the 376 respondents, 94% of the sample, were analyzed for this study. The following results have been found out through the various statistical analysis such as frequency distribution, chi-square test, pearson's correlation, analysis of variance and cluster analysis. At first, the results from the examination of the frequency distribution regarding the living status of the aged are; I) sixteen percent of the respondents living with their married offspring were receiving economical support, though they pointed out the problems of the extended family are the inconveniences with their children (60%) and simpleness (20%) of their livers. It seems that the aged in Korea are poor and have negative opinion on the relationship with their offspring even if they live in the same house. Secondly, it has been found out that the family environmental variables, especially such as sex, occupation, residence, education, level, living ability and the family type, play and important role not only on the degree of satisfaction of their liver but also on the extent of interchange of their lives. However, the variables such as religion and whether the spouse is alive or not do not play and important role. Thirdly, the reported main reasons of their delightness were healthy life (1.87%), the well-being of their offspring (2.08%), the spouse's long life (3.38%), religious activity (5.05%), the hobby activity (4.31%) and the participation in the social activity (5.05%). While, they mainly concern about the illness (1.98%), offspring (2.00%), econmic difficulties (3.39%), inharmonious home (3.81%) and the despicable treatment (3.81%). The respondents wer classified into two groups, they are dependent and independent, using cluster analysis. Health, social activity, offspiring, religion, couple's long life among the factors which lead them to be delighted were turned out to be statistically signhificant at 0.01 significance level between the two groups. As far as their worrisome matters are concerned, health and economic difficulties were significantly different between the two groups. Fourthly, regarding the life interchange, it has been proved that there is a statistically significant differences betwwen the two groups in the economic and the emotional satisfaction, help for ordinary life, status in the family, subjective and objective relationship with offspring, but not in economic dependency and the activity status. Fifthly, it has been noted that there is a high correlation between the degree of life's satisfaction and the extent of life interchange. On the basis of the results mentioned above, it could be concluded taht; i) The majority of the aged in Korea are not economically active, and thus they live with their married offspring even of they have a negative opinion on the subjective relationship with them. This can be pointed out as the main problem of the aged and thus it needs to be studied further. ii) the environmental variables such as age, sex education level, family type and occuption (which can not be changed by their effrot) turned out to give an important effect on the extent of the life interchange among the aged. iii) The respondents who are identified as independent group have a higher degree of life satisfaction and family status than the group identified as defendent. Thus, it can be inferred that it is possible for them to adjust their life by making an effort to modify themselves. iv) The high correlation between the extent of life interchange and the degree of life satisfaction indicates that the elderly themselves can adjust in order to obtain the higher degree of life satisfaction. Therefore, the following suggestions are derived from this study. First of all, the aged should try to be psychologically independent. Second, they need to control themselves in order to achieve self-assurance. Third, the community have to prepare a program of self-development for the aged. Fourth, the social welfare policy that can solve the problem of illness and poverty of the elderly should be introduced, so that their minimum requirements can be satisfied.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.177-192
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• 2011

The arguments exist that private health insurance(PHI) policy holders tend to use the health care services more than non-policy holders due to their little out-of-pocket spending, resulting in the adverse effects on the finances of National Health Insurance. This study aims to increase the objective understanding of the issue and to draw a direction of further research, by reviewing the articles, reports and statistics which examined the effects of purchasing PHI policies on health care utilization. Significant differences in healthcare utilization, except for the very partial increase of utilization in outpatient settings, have been not found. The similar trends of the results have existed in a few previous studies which tried to control the endogeneity of medical use and health insurance with latent variables which affect the decision on medical use and health insurance. However, we can not exclude the potential change of healthcare utilization patterns because the portion of the insured of indemnity PHI is becoming rapidly larger in the market. For further research, we should try to obtain the objective information of subjects' past medical history, health status, health related behavior, and income affecting purchase of PHI and utilization of healthcare services. And the efforts of controlling the endogeneity of medical use and health insurance with latent variables which affect the decision on medical use and health insurance, are very considerable.

• 복식
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• 제65권7호
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• pp.75-85
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to examine ways to vitalize cause related marketing (CRM) by proposing character T-shirts The campaign will employ Neo-Pop art, a genre popular with both companies and consumers. Study results are as follows: First, campaign T-shirts on the issue of human alienation resulting from digitalization can be utilized to generate financial profit that can be returned to society. This can lead to the acts of exchange for profit generation, public image improvemen of companies, and enhancement of their external status. As for the non-financial aspect, the campaign could lead to increased awareness of social issues and present opportunities to take actions of improvement. Second, the financial objective of character T-shirts dealing with environmental issue of sustainability involves brand distribution network support and revitalization of promotion such as shopping basket of love and eco-friendly store matching program for eco-friendly campaign. As for the non-financial aspect, it can help raise consumers' awareness of cause related activities such as crowd funding and fundraising and prepare opportunities of direct participation. Third, the financial objective of character T-shirts dealing with natural disaster relief activities on the global level involves brand recognition level increase and enhancement of positive association of companies through emergency relief and articles support as a result of drastic increases in casualties from nature disasters. As for the non-financial aspect, it can induce people's participation in relief activities and lead to the establishment of crisis response procedures. The information on the development of pop-art character T-shirts proposed in this study is expected to be used as basic information on cause marketing of fashion companies in the future, while providing inspiration to related fashion design.

• 한방안이비인후피부과학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.1-15
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• 2020

Objectives : To investigate aggravating and mitigating factors of atopic dermatitis and to utilize the outcome in treatment planning. Methods : The research has a cross-sectional study design. Patients' SCORing Atopic Dermatitis (SCORAD) Index, demographic, physical characteristics, social history, serologic index and skin related instrumental measurements were analyzed with correlation and regression analysis method. Results : 48 patients in total were enrolled in the study. Skin Surface Hydration (SSH) and sex were found to be statistically significant aggravating and mitigating factors. As SSH increased, Total SCORAD (tSCORAD) and Objective SCORAD (oSCORAD) increased as well. As SSH decreased, tSCORAD and oSCORAD decreased as well. Female patient had a higher probability of suffering from severer subjective symptoms than that of male. Age, body mass index (BMI), alcohol consumption and smoking, transepidermal water loss (TEWL), IgE, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IFN-γ were found not to be statistically significant. There was no correlation between Subjective SCORAD (sSCORAD) and oSCORAD neither with Eczema Area and Severity Index (EASI). Conclusions : Increasing cutaneous moisture should be included in the treatment plan of atopic dermatitis. More emphasis should be put on alleviating subjective discomforts of female patients than that of male. Establishing separate strategies of managing objective eczema status and subjective discomforts respectively should be considered.

• Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.90-95
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• 2017

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the physical therapists' perception of the use of gait measures, the frequency of the gait measures used, and also to identify the barriers that limit the use of these assessment tools. Design: Cross-sectional study. Methods: Physical therapists from the Seoul, Gyeonggi area from March to July 2016 were included in the study. Over the course of 18 weeks, a cross-sectional study was conducted with a self-report questionnaire. A total of 700 questionnaires were distributed and 350 questionnaires (50%) were collected, however with the exclusion of 140 questionnaires due to non-consent, a total of 210 questionnaires (30%) were analysed. Results: Out of the 10 standardized assessment tools, the therapists showed the highest perception for the timed up and go test (TUG [n=153, 72.9%]) and they also had high perception for the 10 meters walk test (10MWT [n=149, 71.0%]), and 6-minute walk test (6MWT [n=123, 58.6%]). The respondents answered that the TUG (n=116, 55.2%), 10MWT (n=100, 47.6%), and 6MWT (n=51, 24.3%) was used the most often. On the contrary, only four (1.9%) therapists have used the Chedoke-McMaster stroke assessment and the Rivermead Mobility Index. The lack of time was considered as the most important barrier to the use of assessment tools in clinical practice. Conclusions: Through this study, it has been shown that the domestic physical therapists used the TUG and the 10MWT mainly due to high recognition and evaluation status; however, the lack of time was the greatest impediment to the clinical application of the gait assessment tools.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.99-113
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• 2002

보건소 인력이 노인의 건강을 유지, 증진시키기 위한 노인건강관리 프로그램을 개발하는데 필요한 기초자료로 활용하기 위해 경로당 이용 노인의 건강상태와 보건소에서 제공하고 있는 노인건강관리 서비스 이용실태를 파악한 조사연구로 S시의 C구에 거주하는 65세 남 녀 노인중 경로당을 이용하고 있는 남자노인 66명과 여자노인 139명 총 205명을 대상으로 하였다. 경로당 이용 노인의 일반적 특성, 신체적 건강상태, 사회적 건강상태, 노인건강관리 서비스 이용실태는 연구자가 제작한 질문지를 이용하였고, 수단적 일상생활 기능은 Lawton이 개발한 도구를 우리 나라 실정에 적합하게 수정보완하여 6개 문항으로 된 도구로 측정하였다. 정신적 건강상태는 Folstein(1975)이 개발한 것을 우리나라 실정에 맞게 수정한 Mini Mental State Examlnation-Korea(MMSE-K) 도구를 사용하였으며, 정서적 건강상태는 Radloff가 개발한 Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale(CES-D)도구를 이용하여 측정하였다. 자료는 SPSS/WIN을 이용하여 남 녀 노인의 일반적 특성, 건강상태, 노인건강 관리서비스 이용실태에 대한 실수와 백분율을 구하고, 각 변수간의 차이에 대한 유의성 검정은 t-test, 카이자승법 및 ANOVA로, 노인겅강관리 서비스 이용관련요인은 카이자승검정 방법을 분석하였으며 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 경로당 이용 노인중 남자노인 40.9%와 여자노인 17.3%만이 자신의 건강상태에 대해 건강하다고 생각하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 흡연비율은 남자노인 46.9%, 여자노인 18.5%였으며, 음주는 남자노인의 57.6%가, 여자노인 16.5%만이 음주하는 것으로 나타났다. 남자노인 13.3%, 여자노인 14.4%가 수면이 불충분하다고 응답하였고, 운동을 규칙적으로 하는 노인은 남자가 47%, 여자 25.9%으로 나타났다. 남자노인 42.4%, 여자노인 43.9%가 지난 1년동안 건강검진을 받지 않았으며, 아침이닦기와 저녁 이닦기 등 구강보건은 94.6%, 83.4%의 노인이 생활속에서 실천하고 있었다. 2. 경로당 이용 노인의 일상생활기능(IADL)은 0-18점에서 평균 7.4점이였으며, 남자노인은 일상생활용품이나 약사러가기, 버스와 전철 혼자타기와 관련된 일상생활기능이 여자노인보다 유의하게 높았다. 정신적인 면에서 우울한 편에 속하는 남자노인은 7.6%, 여자노인은 21.6%로 나타났으며, 인지적인 측면에서는 남자노인의 48.5%, 여자노인의 28.8%가 치매의심군에 속하는 것으로 나타났다. 사회적인 측면에서는 남자노인의 57.6%, 여자노인의 62.6%에서 친밀한 사람이 없었으며, 친밀한 관계를 유지하고 있는 노인의 경우, 남자노인은 가장 친밀한 사람을 친구로 응답한 경우가 52.5%였고 여자노인은 자식이 53.8%로 나타났다. 3. 건강상태에 관련된 요인들 중 연령이 높아질수록 치매율이 유의하게 높았고(p=0.000), 치과방문회수가 유의하게 높았다(p=0.000). 4. 앞으로 더 강화해야 할 노인건강관리서비스 요구도와 관련된 요인들 중 교육 정도가 낮은 노인, 사별한 노인일수록 무료순회진료 및 진료서비스 요구도가 유의하게 높았고,운동을 안하는 노인, 수면만족도가 높은 노인, 구강보건수행 정도가 높은 노인, 사회적 친밀도가 높은 노인일수록 건강검진 서비스 요구도 및 노인건강증진운동 서비스 요구도가 유의하게 높았다. 또한 주관적 건강인식이 건강하지 않다고 응답한 노인은 건강하다고 응답한 노인에 비해, 흡연을 안하는 노인, 음주를 안하는 노인일수록 노인건강증진운동 서비스애 대한 요구도가 유의하게 높았다. 결론적으로 경로당 이용노인을 대상으로 한 건강관리서비스 제공은 노인의 주관적 건강인식, 배우자 유무, 가족동거유형, 용돈과 같은 사회 심리 경제적인 요인과 흡연, 음주 등의 신체적 건강상태를 고려할 필요가 있으며, 노인들의 건강행동을 실천하게 하는 프로그램을 시행함과 동시에 사회 심리 경제적인 문제해결이 병행되어야 할 것이다. 보건소의 노인건강관리서비스는 이러한 특징과 차이를 기초로 수행되어야 하나 향후 반복적인 연구를 통하여 노인에 대한 건강관리 서비스가 개발되어져야 할 것이다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.91-99
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• 2017

Objectives: As in many low-income and middle-income countries, out-of-pocket (OOP) payments by patients or their families are a key healthcare financing mechanism in Bangladesh that leads to economic burdens for households. The objective of this study was to identify whether and to what extent socioeconomic, demographic, and behavioral factors of the population had an impact on OOP expenditures in Bangladesh. Methods: A total of 12 400 patients who had paid to receive any type of healthcare services within the previous 30 days were analyzed from the Bangladesh Household Income and Expenditure Survey data, 2010. We employed regression analysis for identify factors influencing OOP health expenditures using the ordinary least square method. Results: The mean total OOP healthcare expenditures was US dollar (USD) 27.66; while, the cost of medicines (USD 16.98) was the highest cost driver (61% of total OOP healthcare expenditure). In addition, this study identified age, sex, marital status, place of residence, and family wealth as significant factors associated with higher OOP healthcare expenditures. In contrary, unemployment and not receiving financial social benefits were inversely associated with OOP expenditures. Conclusions: The findings of this study can help decision-makers by clarifying the determinants of OOP, discussing the mechanisms driving these determinants, and there by underscoring the need to develop policy options for building stronger financial protection mechanisms. The government should consider devoting more resources to providing free or subsidized care. In parallel with government action, the development of other prudential and sustainable risk-pooling mechanisms may help attract enthusiastic subscribers to community-based health insurance schemes.