• 핵의학기술
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.55-62
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• 2015

PET/CT 검사 시 피폭 선량 감소를 위한 방법들이 지속적으로 개발되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 사용자에 의해 parameter 변경이 가능한 3가지 방법인 automatic exposure control(AEC), automated dose-optimized selection of X-ray tube voltage(CAREkV), sinogram affirmed iterative reconstruction(SAFIRE) 적용 시 각 방법의 적용 시와 3가지 방법의 조합에 따른 피폭선량 감소효과와 영상의 질 그리고 SUV 변화 유무를 평가하였다. Bograph mCT64 (Siemens, Germany)장비를 사용하여 anthropomorphic head, chest, pelvis phantom을 torso 모형으로 접합하여 스캔하였다. 120 kV, 40 mAs 조건으로 AEC의 적용 유무와 120 kV, 40 mAs AEC 조건으로 CAREkV의 적용 유무에 따른 피폭 선량 감소 효과를 평가 하였다. 120 kV, 25 mAs SAFIRE 조건에서 영상을 획득하여 120 kV, 40 mAs SAFIRE 미적용 시 대비 노이즈와 피폭선량 감소효과가 평가되었다. 120 kV, 40 mAs AEC 적용, 120 kV, 25 mAs 3가지 방법의 조합 조건으로 AAPM perfomance, anthropomorphic, IEC body phantom을 스캔하여 노이즈, 공간 분해능, 피폭선량 감소효과 그리고 PET SUV의 변화 유무를 평가하였다. AEC 적용 시, 미적용 대비 CTDIvol 50.52%, DLP 50.62% 감소하였다. CAREkV 적용 시 100 kV가 적용됨에 따라 mAs가 61.5% 증가하였으나 CTDI 6.2%, DLP 5.5% 감소하였다. Reference mAs를 낮게 지정할수록, strength값을 높게 지정할수록 피폭선량 감소 효과는 증가하였다. SAFIRE의 경우 40 mAs에서 25 mAs로 tube current를 37.5% 감소시켰음에도 불구하고 mean SD 2.2%, DLP 38% 감소하였다. AAPM phantom에서는 3가지 방법의 조합 시 AEC 대비 SD는 5.17% 감소하였으며 공간 분해능의 경우 유의한 차이가 없었다. Torso phantom의 경우 3가지 조합에서 AEC 대비 mean SD 6.7% 증가, DLP 36.9% 감소하였으며 IEC phantom 실험에서 PET SUV는 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 없었다(P>0.05). 본 논문에서 CT선량 감소를 위한 각 방법들 모두 피폭 선량 감소 효과를 보였으며 3가지 방법의 조합을 통하여 화질 저하와 PET SUV 변화 없이 AEC만 적용 시 대비 36.9%의 선량감소 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 선량 감소 방법들의 최적화를 통하여 환자 피폭선량 저감화를 위한 지속적인 노력이 필요하며 특히 방사선 감수성이 높은 소아 환자에 적극적으로 적용되어야 할 것으로 사료된다.

• 벤처창업연구
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.67-80
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• 2015

최근 우리나라는 창업과 관련된 육성정책이 다른 정책에 비해 우선시 되고 있지만 이를 뒷받침할 수 있는 국내 창업연구는 극히 부족하며 제한적인 실정이다. 연구 내용도 창업자의 개인적인 역량이나 기업가정신에 관한 연구가 주를 이루고 있으며, 연구결과도 명확히 검증되지 않고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 기존 연구주제와 다르게 창업자의 노력에 따라 달라질 수 있는 창업 준비 수준의 변수를 중심으로 창업 준비성과 경영성과 사이의 관계에 정부지원 정책의 효율성을 검증하기 위한 목적으로 첫째, 창업 준비성과 재무적성과 사이의 관계, 둘째, 창업 준비성과 비재무적성과 사이의 관계, 셋째, 창업 준비성과 경영성과 사이의 창업 준비 기간의 상호작용 효과를 분석하고 체계적인 창업지원 정책제언을 통해 창업실패의 사회적 비용을 줄이고자 한다. 연구를 위해 창업진흥원의 실태조사 자료 중 업력이 5년 미만의 창업초기 기업 400개를 선정하였으며 통계프로그램 SPSS 18.0을 이용하여 통계처리를 하였다. 자료의 특성 정리를 위해 빈도분석, 기술통계를 시행하였고 가설 검증을 위하여 창업 준비성을 측정하는 하위요인으로는 창업교육시간, 창업수혜금액, 배태조직경력을 독립변수로 경영성과를 측정하는 하위요인으로는 재무적 성과와 비재무적성과를 종속변수로 사용하였다, 상호작용 효과를 검증하기 위하여 창업 준비기간을 조절변수로 선정하여 위계적 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 분석결과 독립변수인 창업수혜금액은 재무적 성과와 비재무적성과에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 검증되었다. 창업교육시간과 배태조직경력이 비재무적성과에 미치는 영향이 창업교육시간은 정(+)의 영향을 배태조직경력은 부(-)의 영향을 미치는 것을 알 수 있었으며, 재무적 성과에는 유의하지 않은 것을 검증하였다. 또한 창업 준비기간의 상호작용은 창업수혜금액과 비재무적성과 사이에서만 정(+)의 영향이 있고, 창업교육시간, 배태조직경력과 비재무적성과와 재무적 성과 사이에 상호작용은 유의하지 않은 것을 검증하였다. 연구결과를 통해 취업난 해소를 위한 창업정책 입안자들에게는 창업초기기업의 경영성과 향상을 위한 지원방안을 창업 준비성 수준에 따라 맞춤형 지원정책을 수립하고, 창업지원사업의 실효성을 위해서는 정책의 수립과 운용에 있어 양적인 증가보다는 개별 지원 사업들에 대한 구조적인 문제를 점검하고 질적 수준 향상을 위한 개선방안 마련 및 청년 예비 CEO들에게는 창업이 우선인지 아니면 창업을 위한 철저한 준비가 우선인지 방향을 제시할 수 있다는 점에서 연구의 의미가 있다.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.43-57
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• 2012

제조업에 있어서 판매 후 서비스 건수와 내용 등은 향후 서비스 제공을 위한 자원배분의 효율성 증진과 서비스 품질 향상을 위해서도 매우 중요한 정보이다. 따라서 기업들은 향후 발생하는 판매 후 서비스에 대해 정확히 예측하고 그에 따라 적절히 대처하는 능력을 확보할 필요성이 제조업을 중심으로 증가하고 있다. 그러나 실제로 이들 기업들이 활용하고 있는 서비스 수요예측 방법들은 전통적인 통계적인 예측기법이거나, 시뮬레이션을 기반한 기법들이다. 예를 들면, 전통적인 통계적인 예측기법으로는 회귀분석(regression analysis)의 경우, 다양한 제품모델에 대한 판매 후 서비스 발생 패턴이 선형적인 관계가 매우 적음에도 불구하고 선형으로 가정하여 추정한다는 점과 적정한 회귀식을 가정하여야 되며, 이러한 가정이 실제 경영환경에서는 매우 어렵다는 점 등이 기존의 예측기법들의 한계점으로 지적되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 디지털 TV 모델을 생산 판매 하는 A사의 사례연구를 통하여 최근 인공지능연구에서 각광을 받고 있는 사례기반추론(case-based reasoning; CBR) 기법을 활용한 서비스 수요예측 프레임워크를 제안하고자 한다. 또한, 사례기반추론에서 핵심적인 역할 중 하나인 유사 사례추출 방법에 있어서 가장 일반적인 nearest-neighbor 방법 이외의 유사 사례추출 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 특히, 본 연구에서 제안하는 유사 사례추출 방법은 인공신경망(artificial neural network)을 활용한 자기조직화지도(Self-Organizing Maps : SOM) 군집화 기법을 활용한 유사 사례추출 방식으로 이를 활용한 서비스 수요예측 프레임워크에 구현하고, 실제 기업의 판매 후 서비스 데이터를 활용하여 본 연구에서 제안하는 서비스 수요 예측 프레임워크의 유효성을 실증적으로 검증하고자 한다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.165-203
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• 1987

This project was a service-cum-research effort with a quasi-experimental study design to examine the health benefits of an integrated Family Planning (FP)/Maternal & Child health (MCH) Service approach that provides crucial factors missing in the present on-going programs. The specific objectives were: 1) To test the effectiveness of trained nurse/midwives (MW) assigned as change agents in the Health Sub-Center (HSC) to bring about the changes in the eight FP/MCH indicators, namely; (i)FP/MCH contacts between field workers and their clients (ii) the use of effective FP methods, (iii) the inter-birth interval and/or open interval, (iv) prenatal care by medically qualified personnel, (v) medically supervised deliveries, (vi) the rate of induced abortion, (vii) maternal and infant morbidity, and (viii) preinatal & infant mortality. 2) To measure the integrative linkage (contacts) between MW & HSC workers and between HSC and clients. 3) To examine the organizational or administrative factors influencing integrative linkage between health workers. Study design; The above objectives called for quasi-experimental design setting up a study and control area with and without a midwife. An active intervention program (FP/MCH minimum 'package' program) was conducted for a 2 year period from June 1982-July 1984 in Seosan County and 'before and after' surveys were conducted to measure the change. Service input; This study was undertaken by the Soonchunhyang University in collaboration with WHO. After a baseline survery in 1981, trained nurses/midwives were introduced into two health sub-centers in a rural setting (Seosan county) for a 2 year period from 1982 to 1984. A major service input was the establishment of midwifery services in the existing health delivery system with emphasis on nurse/midwife's role as the link between health workers (nurse aids) and village health workers, and the referral of risk patients to the private physician (OBGY specialist). An evaluation survey was made in August 1984 to assess the effectiveness of this alternative integrated approach in the study areas in comparison with the control area which had normal government services. Method of evaluation; a. In this study, the primary objective was first to examine to what extent the FP/MCH package program brought about changes in the pre-determined eight indicators (outcome and impact measures) and the following relationship was first analyzed; b. Nevertheless, this project did not automatically accept the assumption that if two or more activities were integrated, the results would automatically be better than a non-integrated or categorical program. There is a need to assess the 'integration process' itself within the package program. The process of integration was measured in terms of interactive linkages, or the quantity & quality of contacts between workers & clients and among workers. Intergrative linkages were hypothesized to be influenced by organizational factors at the HSC clinic level including HSC goals, sltrurture, authority, leadership style, resources, and personal characteristics of HSC staff. The extent or degree of integration, as measured by the intensity of integrative linkages, was in turn presumed to influence programme performance. Thus as indicated diagrammatically below, organizational factors constituted the independent variables, integration as the intervening variable and programme performance with respect to family planning and health services as the dependent variable: Concerning organizational factors, however, due to the limited number of HSCs (2 in the study area and 3 in the control area), they were studied by participatory observation of an anthropologist who was independent of the project. In this observation, we examined whether the assumed integration process actually occurred or not. If not, what were the constraints in producing an effective integration process. Summary of Findings; A) Program effects and impact 1. Effects on FP use: During this 2 year action period, FP acceptance increased from 58% in 1981 to 78% in 1984 in both the study and control areas. This increase in both areas was mainly due to the new family planning campaign driven by the Government for the same study period. Therefore, there was no increment of FP acceptance rate due to additional input of MW to the on-going FP program. But in the study area, quality aspects of FP were somewhat improved, having a better continuation rate of IUDs & pills and more use of effective Contraceptive methods in comparison with the control area. 2. Effects of use of MCH services: Between the study and control areas, however, there was a significant difference in maternal and child health care. For example, the coverage of prenatal care was increased from 53% for 1981 birth cohort to 75% for 1984 birth cohort in the study area. In the control area, the same increased from 41% (1981) to 65% (1984). It is noteworthy that almost two thirds of the recent birth cohort received prenatal care even in the control area, indicating that there is a growing demand of MCH care as the size of family norm becomes smaller 3. There has been a substantive increase in delivery care by medical professions in the study area, with an annual increase rate of 10% due to midwives input in the study areas. The project had about two times greater effect on postnatal care (68% vs. 33%) at delivery care(45.2% vs. 26.1%). 4. The study area had better reproductive efficiency (wanted pregancies with FP practice & healthy live births survived by one year old) than the control area, especially among women under 30 (14.1% vs. 9.6%). The proportion of women who preferred the 1st trimester for their first prenatal care rose significantly in the study area as compared to the control area (24% vs 13%). B) Effects on Interactive Linkage 1. This project made a contribution in making several useful steps in the direction of service integration, namely; i) The health workers have become familiar with procedures on how to work together with each other (especially with a midwife) in carrying out their work in FP/MCH and, ii) The health workers have gotten a feeling of the usefulness of family health records (statistical integration) in identifying targets in their own work and their usefulness in caring for family health. 2. On the other hand, because of a lack of required organizational factors, complete linkage was not obtained as the project intended. i) In regards to the government health worker's activities in terms of home visiting there was not much difference between the study & control areas though the MW did more home visiting than Government health workers. ii) In assessing the service performance of MW & health workers, the midwives balanced their workload between 40% FP, 40% MCH & 20% other activities (mainly immunization). However, $85{\sim}90%$ of the services provided by the health workers were other than FP/MCH, mainly for immunizations such as the encephalitis campaign. In the control area, a similar pattern was observed. Over 75% of their service was other than FP/MCH. Therefore, the pattern shows the health workers are a long way from becoming multipurpose workers even though the government is pushing in this direction. 3. Villagers were much more likely to visit the health sub-center clinic in the study area than in the control area (58% vs.31%) and for more combined care (45% vs.23%). C) Organization factors (admistrative integrative issues) 1. When MW (new workers with higher qualification) were introduced to HSC, it was noted that there were conflicts between the existing HSC workers (Nurse aids with less qualification than MW) and the MW for the beginning period of the project. The cause of the conflict was studied by an anthropologist and it was pointed out that these functional integration problems stemmed from the structural inadequacies of the health subcenter organization as indicated below; i) There is still no general consensus about the objectives and goals of the project between the project staff and the existing health workers. ii) There is no formal linkage between the responsibility of each member's job in the health sub-center. iii) There is still little chance for midwives to play a catalytic role or to establish communicative networks between workers in order to link various knowledge and skills to provide better FP/MCH services in the health sub-center. 2. Based on the above findings the project recommended to the County Chief (who has power to control the administrative staff and the technical staff in his county) the following ; i) In order to solve the conflicts between the individual roles and functions in performing health care activities, there must be goals agreed upon by both. ii) The health sub·center must function as an autonomous organization to undertake the integration health project. In order to do that, it is necessary to support administrative considerations, and to establish a communication system for supervision and to control of the health sub-centers. iii) The administrative organization, tentatively, must be organized to bind the health worker's midwive's and director's jobs by an organic relationship in order to achieve the integrative system under the leadership of health sub-center director. After submitting this observation report, there has been better understanding from frequent meetings & communication between HW/MW in FP/MCH work as the program developed. Lessons learned from the Seosan Project (on issues of FP/MCH integration in Korea); 1) A majority or about 80% of the couples are now practicing FP. As indicated by the study, there is a growing demand from clients for the health system to provide more MCH services than FP in order to maintain the achieved small size of family through FP practice. It is fortunate to see that the government is now formulating a MCH policy for the year 2,000 and revising MCH laws and regulations to emphasize more MCH care for achieving a small size family through family planning practice. 2) Goal consensus in FP/MCH shouBd be made among the health workers It administrators, especially to emphasize the need of care of 'wanted' child. But there is a long way to go to realize the 'real' integration of FP into MCH in Korea, unless there is a structural integration FP/MCH because a categorical FP is still first priority to reduce the rate of population growth for economic reasons but not yet for health/welfare reasons in practice. 3) There should be more financial allocation: (i) a midwife should be made available to help to promote the MCH program and coordinate services, (in) there should be a health sub·center director who can provide leadership training for managing the integrated program. There is a need for 'organizational support', if the decision of integration is made to obtain benefit from both FP & MCH. In other words, costs should be paid equally to both FP/MCH. The integration slogan itself, without the commitment of paying such costs, is powerless to advocate it. 4) Need of management training for middle level health personnel is more acute as the Government has already constructed 90 MCH centers attached to the County Health Center but without adequate manpower, facilities, and guidelines for integrating the work of both FP and MCH. 5) The local government still considers these MCH centers only as delivery centers to take care only of those visiting maternity cases. The MCH center should be a center for the managment of all pregnancies occurring in the community and the promotion of FP with a systematic and effective linkage of resources available in the county such as i.e. Village Health Worker, Community Health Practitioner, Health Sub-center Physicians & Health workers, Doctors and Midwives in MCH center, OBGY Specialists in clinics & hospitals as practiced by the Seosan project at primary health care level.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.157-178
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• 2009

Corporate credit rating is a very important factor in the market for corporate debt. Information concerning corporate operations is often disseminated to market participants through the changes in credit ratings that are published by professional rating agencies, such as Standard and Poor's (S&P) and Moody's Investor Service. Since these agencies generally require a large fee for the service, and the periodically provided ratings sometimes do not reflect the default risk of the company at the time, it may be advantageous for bond-market participants to be able to classify credit ratings before the agencies actually publish them. As a result, it is very important for companies (especially, financial companies) to develop a proper model of credit rating. From a technical perspective, the credit rating constitutes a typical, multiclass, classification problem because rating agencies generally have ten or more categories of ratings. For example, S&P's ratings range from AAA for the highest-quality bonds to D for the lowest-quality bonds. The professional rating agencies emphasize the importance of analysts' subjective judgments in the determination of credit ratings. However, in practice, a mathematical model that uses the financial variables of companies plays an important role in determining credit ratings, since it is convenient to apply and cost efficient. These financial variables include the ratios that represent a company's leverage status, liquidity status, and profitability status. Several statistical and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have been applied as tools for predicting credit ratings. Among them, artificial neural networks are most prevalent in the area of finance because of their broad applicability to many business problems and their preeminent ability to adapt. However, artificial neural networks also have many defects, including the difficulty in determining the values of the control parameters and the number of processing elements in the layer as well as the risk of over-fitting. Of late, because of their robustness and high accuracy, support vector machines (SVMs) have become popular as a solution for problems with generating accurate prediction. An SVM's solution may be globally optimal because SVMs seek to minimize structural risk. On the other hand, artificial neural network models may tend to find locally optimal solutions because they seek to minimize empirical risk. In addition, no parameters need to be tuned in SVMs, barring the upper bound for non-separable cases in linear SVMs. Since SVMs were originally devised for binary classification, however they are not intrinsically geared for multiclass classifications as in credit ratings. Thus, researchers have tried to extend the original SVM to multiclass classification. Hitherto, a variety of techniques to extend standard SVMs to multiclass SVMs (MSVMs) has been proposed in the literature Only a few types of MSVM are, however, tested using prior studies that apply MSVMs to credit ratings studies. In this study, we examined six different techniques of MSVMs: (1) One-Against-One, (2) One-Against-AIL (3) DAGSVM, (4) ECOC, (5) Method of Weston and Watkins, and (6) Method of Crammer and Singer. In addition, we examined the prediction accuracy of some modified version of conventional MSVM techniques. To find the most appropriate technique of MSVMs for corporate bond rating, we applied all the techniques of MSVMs to a real-world case of credit rating in Korea. The best application is in corporate bond rating, which is the most frequently studied area of credit rating for specific debt issues or other financial obligations. For our study the research data were collected from National Information and Credit Evaluation, Inc., a major bond-rating company in Korea. The data set is comprised of the bond-ratings for the year 2002 and various financial variables for 1,295 companies from the manufacturing industry in Korea. We compared the results of these techniques with one another, and with those of traditional methods for credit ratings, such as multiple discriminant analysis (MDA), multinomial logistic regression (MLOGIT), and artificial neural networks (ANNs). As a result, we found that DAGSVM with an ordered list was the best approach for the prediction of bond rating. In addition, we found that the modified version of ECOC approach can yield higher prediction accuracy for the cases showing clear patterns.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.103-121
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• 1995

교대작업이 근로자의 육체적, 정신적 및 사회적 건강에 미치는 영향을 조사하고자 1993년 5월 한 달간 경상남도 울산시 소재 모 자동차 공장 생산직 근로자 659명(교대작업자 : 544, 주간작업자 : 115)을 대상으로 설문조사 및 면접조사를 실시하였다. 조사시점에서 현재 교대작업을 하고 있으며 자신의 근무기간 중 80% 이상을 교대작업에 참여한 근로자를 지속적인 교대작업자로 간주하였으며, 조사 당시 교대작업에 참여하고 있지 않고 과거에도 교대 작업에 참여한 경험이 전혀 없었던 근로자룰 주간작업자로 하였다. 교대작업군과 대조군의 일반적인 특성 및 작업과 관련된 특성은 자기기입식 설문지를 이용하여 조사하였으며, 교대작업에 관련된 내용은 면접을 통한 자기기입식 설문지를 이용하여 조사하였다. 근로자의 수면양상과 식사형태에 관한 설문은 National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health에서 개발된 항목을 이용하여 조사하였으며, 위장관계질환의 자각증상에 관하여서도 자기기입식 설문지를 이용하여 조사하였다. 근로자의 일반적인 안녕 상태와 장해는 미국의 Health and Nutrition Examination Survey에서 개발된 자기기입식 설문인 General Well-Being Schedule(GWB)에 의해 측정되었다. 교대작업자에서 자신이 원하는 수면시간보다 1시간 이상 수면이 모자란다고 호소한 근로자가 56.8%로 주간작업군의 50.0%보다 높았으며, 수면 중 2회 이상 잠을 깨는 근로자의 비율, 잠에서 깨었다 다시 잠들기가 힘들다고 호소한 근로자의 비율, 일주일에 2일 이상 작업 중 피곤하거나 졸리다고 호소한 근로자의 비율, 일주일에 2일 이상 작업이 끝난 후에도 피곤하거나 졸리다고 호소한 근로자의 비율은 주간 작업자보다 교대작업자에서 현저하게 높았으며(p<0.01), 교대작업자에서 자고 일어난 후에도 피로감을 호소하는 율도 교대작업군에서 53.1%로 주간작업자의 40.0%보다 높았다(p<0.05). 수면의 형태를 보면 교대작업자에서는 각 교대작업 때마다 다른 형태의 수면을 취하는 근로자가 35.9%로 가장 많은 비율을 차지하였으며, 잠을 잘 못 잔다고 호소하는 근로자도 12.3%로 주간작업자의 6.1%보다 훨씬 많은 비율을 차지하였다. 잠을 자기 위해 약물을 상습적으로 복용하는 근로자도 주간작업자에서 1.7%, 교대작업자에서 2.8%를 차지하였다. 교대작업자들과 주간작업자는 다른 형태의 식사형태를 보였으나 유의한 차이는 없었으며, 식욕은 주간작업자의 13.0%에서 아주 좋다라고 응답한 반면 교대작업자에서는 6.6%만이 식욕이 아주 좋다라고 응답하였으며, 식욕이 매우 나쁘다라고 응답한 비율도 5.0%로 주간작업자의 2.5%보다 높았다. 교대작업자와 주간작업자의 위장관계 자각증상 호소율은 교대작업군에서 높았으며(p<0.01), 배변습관의 변화와 체중감소 호소율도 교대작업자에서 주간작업자에 비해 유의하게 높았다(p<0.05). 근로자의 일반적인 안녕 상태와 장해는 HANES I에서 개발된 General Well-Being Schedule(GWB)에 의해 측정되었는데 불안척도, 우울척도, positive well-being척도, 활력척도에서는 교대작업군에서 통계적으로 유의하게 낮았으며(p<0.05). 자기제어력척도, 일반건강척도도 교대 작업자에서 낮았으나 유의한 수준은 아니었다. 이상의 결과를 종합해 볼 때, 교대작업자에서 생체리듬의 부조화로 인한 수면, 식사, 위장관계장해 등의 일련의 자각증상에 대한 호소율이 주간작업자에 비해 전반적으로 높았으며, 일반적인 건강 장해 호소율도 교대작업자에서 높았다.

• 간호행정학회지
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.477-500
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• 1999

Korean labor market has showed remarkable change of the increase in the amount of unemployment and contingent employment since IMF bailout agreement. There is a theoretical position to explain this increase in contingent employment at hospitals with the notion of flexibility. The high flexibility of employment due to the increase of contingent employees is becoming very important part in new business strategy of hospitals. The types of contingent employment of the nurse are part-time employment temporary employment, fixed-term employment, and internship which was introduced in early 1999. Recently, Korean health care industry managers have paid attention to the customer oriented service, rationalization of business administration, service quality control so that they can adjust their business to outer environment. Especially their efforts concentrate on the wage reduction through efficient and scientific control of man power because wage shares about 40% of total cost. This dissertation aims at verifying the phenomena of the contingent employment of the nurse and analyzing the related factors and problems. To rephrase these aims in ordinal: First, verifying the phenomena of contingent employment of the nurse. Second, verifying the problems of that phenomena. Third, analyzing the related factors of the contingent employment of the nurse. To accomplish these research goals, a statistical survey was executed. in which 384 questionnaires-66 for manager nurses, 318 for contingent nurses - were given to nurses working at 66 hospitals-which have at least 100 beds-in Seoul. Among them, 187 questionnaires-38 from manager nurses, 149 from contingent nurses'- 'were returned. Then, the data coded and submitted to T-test, $X^2$ -test, variance analysis(ANOVA), correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, Logistic Regression with SAS program. The research results of the contingent nurses are followings: 1. The average career term at the present hospital 8.4 months: duty-on days per month are 24.2 days: working time per day is 7.9 hours. These results showed little difference from regular nurses. 2. Their wage level is about 70% of regular nurses except for internship nurses whose wage level is 41% of regular nurses. To break down the wage composition, part-time nurses and internship nurses get few allowance and bonus. And contingent nurses get very low level of additional pay except for fixed-term nurses who are under similar condition of employment to regular nurses. These results show that hospital managers are trying to reduce the labor cost not only through the direct way of wage reduction but through differential treatment of bonus, retirement allowance, and other additional pay. 3. The problem of contingent employment: low level of pay; high level of turn-over rate: weakening of union; low level of working condition: heavy burden of work; inhuman treatment. The contingent nurses consider these problems more seriously than manager nurses do. What manager nurses regard problematic is the absence of feeling-belonged and responsibility of the contingent nurses. 4. The factors strongly related with the rate of the number of contingent nurses for the number of regular nurses; gross turn-over nurses; average in-patients per day; staring wage of graduate from professional college: the type of hospital ownership; the number of beds; the gap between gross newcomer nurses and gross turn-over nurses. The factors related with their gross wage per month; the number of beds; applying of health insurance; applying of industrial casualty insurance; applying of yearly-paid leave; the type of hospital ownership; average out-patients per day; gross turn-over nurses. The meaningful factors which make difference by employment type: monthly-paid leave; physiological leave. The logistic regression analysis using these two factors shows that monthly-paid leave is related with the type of hospital ownership; the number of beds; average out-patient per day, and physiological leave is related with the gross newcomer nurses; gross turn-over nurses; the number of beds.

• 근관절건강학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.122-140
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• 2001

The aims of this study were to understand and to predict the determinent factors affecting the exercise behaviors and physical fitness by testing the Pender's revised health promotion model, and to help the patients with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis perform the continous exercise program, and to help them maximize the physical effect such as muscle strength, endurance, and functional status and mental effects including self efficacy and quality of life, and improve the physical and mental well being, and to provide a basis for the nursing intervention strategies. Of the selected variables in this study, the endogenous variables included the physical fitness, exercise score, exercise participation, perceived benefits of action, perceived barriers of action to exercise, activity-related affect(depression) and perceived self-efficacy, interpersonal influences(family support), situational factors(duration of arthritis, fatigue) and the exogenous variables included personal sociocultural factor(education level), personal biologic factor(body mass index), personal psychologic factor(perceived health status) and prior related behavior factors(previous participation in exercise, life-style). We analyzed the clinical records of 208 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and degenerative arthritis who visited the outpatient clinics at H university hospital in Seoul. Data were composed of self reported qustionnaire and good of fitness score which were obtained by padalling the ergometer of bicycle for 9 minutes. SPSS Win 8.0 and Window LISREL 8.12a were used for statistical analysis. Of 75 hypothetical paths that influence on physical fitness, exercise participation, exercise score, perceived benefits of action, perceived barriers of action to exercise, activity-related affect(depression) and perceived self-efficacy, interpersonal influences(family support), situational factors(duration of arthritis, fatigue), 40 were supported. The physical fitness was directly influenced by life-style, perceived health status, education level, family support, fatigue, which explained 12% of physical fitness. The exercise participation were directly influenced by life-style, education level, past exercise behavior, perceived benefits of action, perceived barriers of action, depression and duration of arthritis, which explained 47% of exercise participation. Exercise score were directly affected by perceived self efficacy. BMI, life-style, past exercise behavior, perceived benefits of action, family support, perceived health status. perceived barriers of action, and fatigue, which explained 70%. Perceived benefits of action was directly influenced by BMI, life-style, which explained 39%. Perceived barriers of action were directly influeced by past exercise behavior, perceived health status, which explained 7%. Perceived self efficacy were directly influeced by level of education, perceived health status, life-style, which explained 57%. Depression were directly influeced by past exercise behavior, BMI, life-style, which explained 27%. Family support were directly influeced by life-style, perceived health status, which explained 29%. Fatigue were directly influeced by BMI, life-style, perceived health status. which explained 41%. Duration of arthritis were directly influeced by life-style, past exercise behavior, BMI, which explained 6%. In conclusion, important variables for physical fitness were life-style, and variable affecting exercise participation were life-style. Perceived self-efficacy of exercise was a significant predictor of exercise score. BMI, Life-style, perceived benefits of action, family support, past exercise behavior showed direct effects on perceived self-efficacy. Therefore, disease related factor should be minimized for physical performance and well being in nursing intervention for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, and plans to promote and continue exercise should be seeked to reduce disability. In addition, Exercise program should be planned and performed by the exact evaluation of exercise according to the ability of the patients and the contents to improve the importance of exercise and self efficacy in self control program, dedicated educational program should be involved. This study suggest that the methods to reduce the disease related factors, the importance of daily life-style, recognition of benefit of exercise, and educational program to promote self efficacy should be considered in the exercise behavior promotion and nursing intervention for continous performance. The significance of this study is also thought to provide patients with chronic arthritis the specific data for maximal physical and mental well being through exercise, chronic therapeutic procedure, daily adaptation and confrontation in nursing intervention.

• 핵의학기술
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.149-155
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• 2012

혈중 Insulin 농도는 췌장 ${\beta}$세포의 인슐린 분비기능을 반영하고 당뇨병의 진단, 병태 파악, 내당능 이상의 원인감별에 유용한 지표이다. 핵의학검사실에서 사용하고 있는 혈중 Insulin 측정용 시약들은 제조회사마다 검사방법 뿐만 아니라 비용효과 측면, 정밀도 등 정도관리 측면에서도 다소 차이를 보이고 있다. 따라서 Insulin 측정용 방사면역측정법 시약들의 제조 회사별 비교를 통해 진단적 성능을 평가하고자 본 연구를 시행하였다. 2009년 8월 59명의 환자 검체를 대상으로 시행된 3개 제조회사(Biosource, Siemens, TFB)의 혈중 Insulin측정치와 2011년 12월 68명의 환자 검체를 대상으로 시행된 4개 제조회사(Immunotech, Izotope, BNIBT, Cisbio)의 혈중 Insulin측정치를 비교 평가하였다. 이들 7개 제조회사별 Insulin측정치에 대하여 정밀도, 회수율, 상관관계를 살펴보았으며 일부 인슐린 고농도 특이검체를 가지고 희석시험을 통해 혈중 Insulin측정치를 상호 비교 평가하였다. 혈중 Insulin 측정은 시약 내 설명서의 권고사항을 준수하여 실시하였으며 결과 검증을 위한 통계 프로그램은 SPSS 12.0을 이용하였다. 측정 내 정밀도는 Biosource, Siemens, TFB, Immunotech, Izotope, BNIBT, Cisbio 7개 제조회사 모두 5.0% 이하의 변이계수를 보였다. 회수율은 저, 중, 고 세가지 농도의 혈청에서 Biosource, Siemens, TFB시약이 각각 94.2~103.7%, 99.0~104.6%, 99.7~107.6% 구간을 보였고 Immunotech, Izotope, BNIBT, Cisbio 시약에서 각각 93.5~99.1%, 91.4~99.1%, 99.2~131.0%, 84.8~102.3% 구간의 회수율을 보였다. Biosource 시약을 기준으로 비교한 상관관계에서 Siemens 시약이 R2=0.96(P<0.01), TFB시약이 R2=0.99(P<0.01)를 보였으며 TFB 시약을 기준으로 비교한 상관관계에서는 BNIBT시약(R2=0.80, P<0.01)을 제외한 대부분의 시약에서 강한 상관관계(R2=0.96 이상, p<0.01)를 보였다. 200 ${\mu}IU/ml$ 이상 고농도 희석시험에서는 당뇨병환자 검체를 대상으로 했을 때 7개 제조회사 시약 모두 고농도값을 정상적으로 측정하였다. 하지만, 인슐린 종양 검체를 대상으로 측정한 검사에서는 TFB, Siemens, Izotope, Cisbio시약들은 고농도값을 정상적으로 측정하였지만 Biosource와 Immunotech 시약에서 각각 47.4 ${\mu}IU/ml$, 72.3 ${\mu}IU/ml$의 측정치를 보였다. 혈중 Insulin 측정용 방사면역측정법 시약들은 전반적으로 성능이 임상 적용 가능한 범위의 측정 정밀도를 보이면서, 우수한 회수율과 양호한 상관관계를 보였지만 일부 시약에서 고농도 특이검체를 대상으로 Insulin을 측정한 검사에서 고농도값을 제대로 측정하지 못했다. 따라서 여러가지 요인을 놓고 볼 때 비용 효과측면과 자동화 장비에 대한 호환성, 검사 반응시간등 각 검사실 환경에 맞는 시약과 진단적 성능이 보다 우수한 시약을 선정하여 사용한다면 정확하고 신속한 결과보고에 있어서 많은 도움이 된다고 사료된다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제26권10호
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• pp.1169-1181
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• 2016

본 연구는 바른체형운동 프로그램이 정신장애인의 폐활량 및 우울감에 미치는 영향을 알아보고자 경북 P시에 거주하고 정신장애 판정을 받았으며 정신재활프로그램에 참여하는 정신장애인을 대상으로 실시하였다. 참여한 피험자에게 연구목적과 내용을 설명하였고, 연구 참가동의서를 받은 19명을 최종 선정하여 10명은 운동군, 9명은 통제군으로 분류하여 12주간 바른체형운동 프로그램을 실시하였고, 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 우선 폐활량의 변화를 살펴본 결과 PEF (최대호기속도)와 FEV1/FVC (1초간 노력성 호기량의 노력성 폐활량에 대한 비)가 바른체형운동 적용 후에 증가하여 호기기능이 유의하게 향상됨을 확인하였다. 또한, 바른체형운동 프로그램 참여에 따른 운동군의 우울감의 변화는 통계적으로 유의한 차이는 나타나지 않았으나 우울정도의 감소폭이 통제군보다 운동군에서 훨씬 크게 나타나 바른체형운동이 정신장애인의 우울감 정도의 감소에 긍정적인 변화를 나타냈다고 할 수 있다. 그리고 본 연구에서는 프로그램 참가자들의 특수성으로 인한 표본 수의 한계로 인해 통계적 검증의 한계가 명확히 존재함을 고려하여 참여자들의 주관적 경험을 심층적으로 이해하는 것을 목적으로 한 질적분석(qualitative research)을 병행하여 실시하였다. 프로그램 참가자 중 동의하는 사람에 한해 심층적 면담을 실시하였으며 이를 통해 참여자들이 표현하는 내용의 의미단위를 검토하여 분류하고 세분화하는 작업을 통해 주제분석(thematic analysis)을 실시한 결과, 전반적으로 바른체형운동 프로그램에 참여한 정신장애인들의 우울감 정도가 줄어든 것을 알 수 있었다. 우울감의 변화과정은 ′변화의 시작′, ′프로그램에 대한 흥미′, ′신체적 건강의 필요성에 대한 인식′, ′신체적 건강증진′, ′신체적 기능의 회복′, ′부정적인 습관(자세)의 변화′, ′우울감의 감소′, ′할 수 있다는 자신감′, ′미래에 대한 희망′과 같은 3개의 주제와 6개의 하위 주제로 나타났다. 따라서 바른체형운동이 정신장애인들의 신체적 건강증진을 위해 심폐지구력을 높여 신체적 건강증진을 도모할 뿐 아니라 더 나아가 정신적 우울감의 감소에도 효과성을 높여 정신적 건강증진에도 도움을 줄 수 있는 프로그램으로 정신장애인의 삶의 질 증진을 위해서는 보급이 반드시 필요할 것으로 사료된다.