• 대한간호학회지
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.771-780
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• 2004

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore how older adults kept their health good at a doctorless farm village. Method: Data was collected through in-depth interviews with 32 participants who were over 65 years old and analyzed in terms of Strauss and Corbin's (1990) grounded theory methodology. Result: The Core Category of health care of older adults was identified as 'enduring physical changes by themselves'. The process of this could be divided into 4 stages: the stage of bearing, the stage of managing daily living activities, the stage of passively collecting information and the stage of minimally utilizing health care services. Older adults accepted the aging process positively but health sources limitation passively, so they managed daily living activities and used natural food for health. In addition, they collected information related to health care and used health care services minimally. Conclusion: We found that participants managed their health passively because of negative attitudes toward active health behaviors of older adults by themselves and the difficulty of access to health care services. Therefore, various community health services for older adults need to be developed to empower older adults in the community.

• 한국보건간호학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.300-310
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• 2016

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand the role of community health nurse through a nurse practitioner of primary health care post. Methods: An assay, 'Even if we were allowed to look at', written by a nurse practitioner of primary health care post was analyzed with the contents analysis method. Results: In the assay, we checked the following roles: client-oriented, delivery-oriented, and population-oriented roles described and classified by Clark. In particular, direct care such as in-patient care, home visiting nursing care, and drug prescription was frequently performed. Moreover, community health nurse has been listening, counselling, expressing sympathy, and advocating vulnerable elderly people economically and psychologically. Conclusion: The assay gave us a better understanding of the role of community health nurse, and we need more assays delineating the role of community health nurse in others setting as well primary health care post.

• 지역사회간호학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.31-39
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• 2012

Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to compare community health status by region and to investigate related factors using community health and social indicators. Methods: Data were collected from statistics of local districts that were provided by KNSO and KCDC. ANOVA and correlation were analyzed using PASW 18.0. Results: The standardized cancer mortality rate was higher in metropolitan areas than in other areas. On the contrary, the mortality of respiratory disease, traffic accident, and suicide were higher in rural areas. Small cities and county districts showed higher prevalence in obesity prevalence than metropolitan areas. Metropolitan areas presented higher prevalence in alcohol drinking during the previous month, perceived stress, and seat belt use. The age-adjusted standardized mortality rate was correlated with higher prevalence of smoking, obesity, percentage of the elderly, number of beds, number of social welfare facilities, number of registered cars, lower percentage of financial independence, number of doctors, and percentage of water supply service & sewage. Conclusion: Since significant differences in mortality rate and prevalence of health risk behaviors exist between regional areas and the mortality rate was correlated with other social indicators and health indicators, health policies and social policies considering these differences should be develop and implemented to the communities.

• 기본간호학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.195-205
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• 2008

Purpose: This study was conducted to identify drug use by elders. Method: There were 304 participants age 65 or older included in this study. Data were collected using a questionnaire about drug use in the past 4 weeks. The questionnaire, a modification of Uhm's (2005), Lee's (2001), and Ellor and Kurz's (1982) tools, consisted of 17 questions on general and health characteristics, 17 on drug usage and 9 on behaviors related to drug misuse. Results: 85.5% of participants reported laking at least one type of prescription or non-prescription drug. 26.0% of participants reported taking only prescription drugs, 3.9% reported taking only non-prescription drugs, and 55.6% reported taking both prescription and non-prescription drugs. 17.1% of participants reported side effects from the drugs. The mean score for behaviors related to drug misuse was 7.53. Elders taking only non-prescription drugs showed more drug misuse than elders taking only prescription drugs or both. Women used more prescription, non-prescription drugs or both than man. Elders in rural areas used more non-prescription drugs than those in urban areas. Conclusion: Even though pharmacies were separated from medical practices in 2000, most older adults continue to use and misuse prescription and non-prescription drugs.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제26권12호
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• pp.131-137
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• 2009

Recent technological advances made a vehicle more intelligent to increase safety and comfort. An intelligent vehicle provides drivers with safety warning information through audible sounds, visual displays, and tactile devices. However, elderly drivers have been known to decrease the physical and cognitive abilities such as muscular strength, hearing, eyesight, short term memory, and spatial perception. Therefore, possible age-related deficits should be considered to design an effective warning system. This paper aims to evaluate the impact of advancing age on response performance on audible safety warnings which are widely used for alerting driving hazards. In order to understand the effect of age-related hearing loss and movement slowing, three sound characteristics (frequency, intensity, and period) and three age groups (younger, middle, and older) are considered. Data was drawn from 38 drivers who drove a simulated rural road in a driving simulator. Experimental results show that age influences driver's response performance. In conclusion, the appropriate range of a warning sound is suggested.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.136-160
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• 2005

Before introducing the national long-term care insurance in 2008, the want for long term care service has to be estimated and analysed. This study estimates the demand and analyses what determines the want of long term care service. This study investigated data of 3f6 elderlies, that was collected by age stratified random sampling. The elderies resided in Onyang 4 - dong (urban area) and Dogo-myun (rural area) In the city of Asan. The researchers visited the elderlies and their care giver, and assessed their demand for the long term care service and examined physical, mental, socio-economic status by the assessment tools for Korean Long-Term Care System. $64\%$ of the those who are entitled to be served refuse the long term care service. $26.7\%$ of them wants for home care service and $7.9\%$ want facility care service. It is estimated that the want of home care service are three or four times as much as that of facility care service. The demand for long term care service is 5.155 times higher for those who live in rural area (p=0.000), 3.040 times higher for those who do not have spouse(p=0.057), and 3.356 times higher for the people who is in medicaid than medical insurance(p=0.029). However, income(p=0.782), means(p=0.614), living alone(p=0.223), number of family to live with (p=0.341) and age of the elderly(p=0.420) are not related with the demand of long term care service. The assessment tools for Korean Long-Term Care System for need evaluation of the long term care service can reflect the demand well.(p=0.024) If medical care will cover $80\%$ of total cost, the willingness to pay of the out of pocket money of the people with medical insurance is 67,400 Korean Won(66.77 US$) for the home care service and 182,500 Korean Won(180.78 US$) for the facility care service. There is possibility that long term care demand is still small after Introducing the long term care Insurance due to the care given by family members. When developing service delivery system of long term care insurance, rural area has to be given more consideration than urban area because of the higher demand. The people who do not have spouse or are in medicaid have to be given special consideration as well.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.89-99
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• 2020

이 연구는 연령대를 성인, 전기 노인, 후기 노인으로 구분 후 신체활동과 인지된 운동장애요인과의 관련성을 보고자 하였다. 연구 대상자는 두 군데 면 지역에 거주하고 있는 주민들 1500명을 대상으로 실시하였으며 걷기실천율의 정의는 주 5회 이상, 한번 할 때 10분 이상, 하루에 30분 이상 하는 것으로 하였고, 인지된 장애요인은 시간부족, 사회적 지지 부족, 기력 부족, 의지력 부족, 부상에 대한 공포 등 5개의 영역으로 조사하였다. 연령대를 세 개 군(~64세 이하, 65-74세, 75세 이상)으로 구분했을 때 의지력 부족이 모든 연령대에서 유의하였고, 64세 이하의 경우는 시간부족이 관련이 있었으며, 65세 이상은 부상에 대한 공포가 관련 있었다. 결론적으로 의지력 부족과 시간부족에 대한 해결을 위해서 마을 내에서 일정한 시간대에 함께 걷기운동을 실시하여 이를 해결하도록 하고, 노인들에게는 낙상예방을 위하여 걷기운동과 같은 유산소운동을 권장할 때 근력운동을 병행해 실시하여 부상에 대한 공포를 줄여야 할 것이다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.284-290
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• 2001

본 연구는 지역사회 주민을 대상으로 코골이와 고혈압과의 연관성을 파악하고자 하였다. 일부 전남 농촌지역 역학조사에 참여한 1,763명을 연구대상으로 성별, 연령, 교육수준, 결혼상태, 직업, 흡연 및 음주여부, 고혈압의 유무, 코골이의 유무 등에 대해 직접면접법을 통해 설문조사 하였고 비만은 체질량지수(BMI)로 측정하였다. 고혈압은 측정된 수축기 혈압이 140 mmHg이상이거나 이완기 혈압이 90mmHg이상인 경우와 과거에 고혈압으로 진단 받고 현재 고혈압 치료 중인 경우로 하였다. 코골이 전체 유병률은 41.0%이었고 남자에서 42.7%, 여자에서 39.8%이었다. 연령에 따른 코골이 유병률은 45세-64세 중년층에서 44.3%로 젊은층(33.9%)과 노년층(38.7%)에 비해 높았다. 비만도에 따른 코골이 유병률은 체질량지수가 증가할수록 증가했고 흡연과 음주 여부에 따른 코골이는 유의한 차이가 없었다. 코골이 군에서 코골이가 없는 군보다 고혈압이 많았다(교차비: 1.25, 95% CI=1.01-1.55). 그러나 성별, 연령, 비만, 흡연 및 음주 등의 인자들을 보정한 후 고혈압에 대한 코골이의 유의한 영향은 없었다(교차비: 1.13, 95% CI = 0.90-1.41). 본 연구의 결과는 코골이가 고혈압과 직접적인 연관성이 있기보다는 비만과 같은 교란변수에 의한 효과일 수 있음을 나타낸다.

• 성인간호학회지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.639-651
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• 2009

Purpose: This study examined relationships among stress, stress coping strategies, and somatization in mothers-in-law from multi-cultural families in a rural area. Methods: Elderly mothers-in-law (n=227) living with foreign daughters-in-law completed a self-reporting questionnaire. Data were collected from April to August 2009. Questions related to stress (Visual Analog Scale, VAS), coping strategies (Coping Strategy Scale) for stress, and somatization (Symptom Check List 90, Revised). SPSS/WIN 12.0 program was used for descriptive analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation, and multiple regression analyses. Results: Subjects had a moderate level of stress (5.03). There were significant differences in stress level according to age, educational level, religion, chronic disease, health status, number of children, agreement of an international marriage of her sons, satisfaction in living with a foreign daughter-in-law, and family conflict. Stress showed a significant positive correlation with offensive coping strategy, passive strategy, and somatization. Stress, offensive coping strategy, and passive coping strategy affected the level of somatization. Conclusion: In a family situation involving co-habitation of mother- and foreign daughter-in-law, increased stress experienced by the mother-in-law can lead to increased offensive and passive coping strategies, and increased somatization. More effective means of stress reduction are needed for mothers-in-law from multi-cultural families.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.74-90
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• 2001

한국의 과소농촌지역에서의 휴경화는 지난 30년간의 급격한 산업화 도시화로 인한 격심한 인구 유출에 따른 사회변화에 농촌지역사회와 농민의 토지이용방식 및 이농민의 농지처리가 미처 대응하지 못해 나타난 결과이다. 과소지역인 경북 상주시 사벌면 덕가리를 연구한 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 인구의 급격한 감소로 인한 농촌 노동력의 질적 저하 양적 부족은 만성적인 농지 공급과잉이 초래되었다. 촌락 내 노동력의 절대적 부족 상태에서 경작조건 불리 농지의 우선적 휴경화가 진행되고 있다. 둘째, 노동력의 상대적 부족 상태, 즉 집약적 노동 투입 또는 노동력 배분 우선 순위에 따라서 자기 소유의 땅이라도 경작 조건이 나쁠 경우는 휴경하고, 조건이 좋은 땅을 임차하여 경영 규모를 확대한다. 셋째, 이농민의 토지 보유 성향과 상속, 매매 부진으로 인한 부재지주 소유농지의 증가는 휴경화를 촉진하는 주요한 요인이다. 노령자의 질병 사망으로 인한 농가 소멸이나 비농가화(非農家化), 촌락 내 노동력의 부족은 부재지주 소유 농지의 우선적 휴경화를 촉진시킨다. 경사도가 높거나 경작조건이 불리한 경지는 부재지주 소유농지를 중심으로 휴경화가 광범위하게 이루어지고 있다. 덕가리 부재지주의 휴경지는 이촌 이농형 문중답 위토형의 2가지 유형으로 구분된다. 한국농촌의 휴경화는 압축적 산업화에 따른 인구유출로 인한 노동력의 양 질적 부족, 경작불리 지의 방치, 농업의 수지조건 악화 등의 사회경제적 요인과 부재지주 농지의 온존 증가와 같은 문화적 요인이 주 요인으로 작용하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 인구유출로 인한 과소화가 광범위하게 일어나고 있는 원격지 과소농촌지역에서의 휴경화에 대한 분석을 하였다. 따라서 또 하나의 한국적 현상인 대도시주변지역에서 나타나는 일시적, 투기적 휴경현상에 대한 분석이 이루어져야 설명력이 증가되고 전체적인 휴경화 현상을 설명할 수 있을 것이다.