| Chul Gyu Kim | 3 Articles |
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This study aims to identify the effects of health literacy and stroke knowledge on adherence to self-care behavior among the elderly with ischemic stroke. METHODS The participants were 92 outpatients aged 65 or older with ischemic stroke, who were visiting the neurology or neurosurgery departments of two general hospitals in Chungcheongbuk-do between November 20, 2018, and April 9, 2019. The SPSS/WIN 23.0 program was used to analyze descriptive statistics, independent t-tests, and one-way ANOVA, and multiple regression. RESULTS The mean age of participants was 73.25±5.72 and the proportion of men was 71.7%. The average score for health literacy, stroke knowledge, and adherence to self-care behavior were 9.26±2.32, 10.34±2.53, and 81.67±14.72, respectively. There were statistically significant differences in adherence to self-care behavior according to living and time since stroke. Adherence to self-care behavior and health literacy showed a statistically significant positive correlation with stroke knowledge. Stroke knowledge, living alone, and time since stroke(less than one year) were significantly related to the adherence to self-care behavior. This regression model explained 24.0% of the variance in the adherence to self-care behavior. CONCLUSION To improve the adherence to self-care behavior in the elderly with ischemic stroke, it is necessary to develop and implement educational program for those who live alone and who have experienced stroke less than one year previously. Citations Citations to this article as recorded by
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The purpose of this study was to identify association between maternal depression and multiple contextual factors in 1,519 mothers in Korea who participated in the 2009 Panel Study of Korean Children (PSKC). METHODS The second wave data which was a comprehensive longitudinal data set with a nationally representative birth cohort was analyzed using SAS 9.3 software. Kessler depression scale was used for this study. RESULTS Of the mothers, 23.0% reported being mild to moderate depression and 4.5% of the mothers reported severe depression. The factors influencing maternal depression include; mother's self-efficacy, mother's marital conflict, mother's social support, infant's and toddler's emotionality, mother's smoking and infant's feeding & eating of daily routine. These variables explained 39.5% of maternal depression. CONCLUSION The results of this study suggest that the identified factors for maternal depression should be included in an intervention program to reduce the risk of depression. Citations Citations to this article as recorded by
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This study was conducted to identify factors influencing depression in the elderly male in Korea. METHODS The initial data were collected from the 5th Korea national health and nutrition examination survey (KNHANES-V). The data of 1,210 adults with the age over 65 years were finally analysed using t or chi2 test, stepwise multiple logistic regression. Research variables utilized in this study were 29 factors including demographic and health-related characteristics, physical and economic activities, and life habits. RESULTS Seven factors were found to be associated with depression in the elderly male including stress level, uncontrolled drinking experience, physical discomfort days in recent two weeks, the level of activities in daily life, diabetes mellitus, economic activity status, and sleeping hours. CONCLUSION These results can be used in developing appropriate depression prevention program considering the characteristics of the elderly male. Citations Citations to this article as recorded by
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