| So Sun Kim | 5 Articles |
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To examine the relationships between self-care, social support, and biological markers in liver transplant recipients. METHODS The participants included 118 liver transplant recipients who visited outpatient clinic at Y University Hospital in Seoul from April to May, 2013. Questionnaires consisted of self-care and social support scales. The biological markers were collected by reviewing electronic medical records. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA with Scheffe post-hoc test, and Pearson's correlation. RESULTS The self-care score was significantly higher in a patient group within 6 months post-transplant when compared to a patient group post-transplant 3 to 5 years (F=3.10, p=.018). The self-care showed positive correlation with social support with statistical significance (r=.36, p<.001). CONCLUSION As the self-care in liver transplant recipients had a positive correlation with social support from family and healthcare providers, the development of comprehensive long-term nursing intervention systems including counseling, education, and support in consideration of progress of time period after transplantation is necessary to enhance self-care behaviors among this population. Citations Citations to this article as recorded by
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The aim of this study was to examine patients with Chronic Hepatitis B (CHB) and their level of knowledge of their disease, uncertainty, stress and health behaviors and to identify factors influencing their health behavior. METHODS A cross-sectional, descriptive design was used. The sample included 136 patients in a gastroenterology outpatient department at one hospital located in Seoul. The mean age of the subjects was 41 and 77.2% were male. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire from April to June 2009. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS/WIN 15.0. RESULTS The reported scores for knowledge of the disease, uncertainty, stress, and health behaviors were 14.43, 81.50, 26.50, 52.11, respectively. There were statistically difference between health behaviors and gender, age, marital status and antivirus treatment. A positive correlation existed between knowledge of disease and health behaviors (r=.199, p=.020). In contrast, there was a negative correlation between uncertainty and health behaviors (r=-.250, p=.003). The factors influencing health behaviors were knowledge of disease, gender, age, uncertainty, antivirus treatment, and marital status (R2=.267, p<.001). CONCLUSION These findings support that strategies for enhancing knowledge of disease and reducing uncertainty are needed to promote health behavior in patients with CHB.
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The purpose of this study were to: (1) describe the individual characteristics, perceived health status, body image, and health promoting behaviors of staff nurses working in a metropolitan hospital and (2) determine the relationship of perceived health status, body image, and health promoting behaviors. METHODS: Data were collected from 311 staff nurses working at one of university affiliated hospitals using a self-administered questionnaire for perceived health status(SF 36 V2), body image(BAQ), and health promoting behaviors (HPLP-II) and using the report of year 2002 employee physical check-up results for health related characteristics. RESULTS: Most of nurses were within the normal range of BMI, total cholesterol, and liver enzymes but 42.2% had systolic BP above 120mmHg and 37.3% hemoglobin below 12g/dL. Although 96.4% of BMI score indicated 'underweight' or 'normal', 'feeling fat' showed the highest. Among health promoting behaviors the most frequently reported one was spiritual growth and the least one was engagement in physical activity. In the correlational analysis, health promoting behaviors had the positive relationships with perceived health status, vitality, mental health, attractiveness, strength and fitness (p=.000 - .004). CONCLUSION: These findings provide information that is relevant in designing interventions to enhance health promoting behaviors among nurses working in a hospital.
"Journal of Korean Academy of Adult Nursing" has been published since 1989 and more than 330 articles have been published up 2000. We reviewed all the articles published in this journal to analyze the contents and trend of published articles and to find out the way of improvement both in quantity and quality of studies in this area. The results are as follows; 1) Ninety percent of articles were quantitative studies. Experimental design was used in 16.1% and quasi-experimental design was adapted in 73.6% of articles. Qualitative research were 10.3% of total articles reviewed. 2) Only 5.1% of articles described theoretical framework and 73.6% of experimentally designed articles included research hypotheses. 3) Among experimental studies, only one was true experimental studie design. Eighty nine point three persent had descriptive survey method among non-experimental studies. Amog the thirty four qualitative studies, phenomenologic(73.5%), grounded theory(14.7%), and ethnographic (11.8%) design were used. 4) Most of research subject were patients and few healthy people, healthcare worker, and patient family. 5) Psychosocial data collection method which used questionnaire were 53.7% and interview, physical measurement, observation were used in 22.8%, 8.2%, 5.4% of articles respectively. 6) Total number of keywords were 692, and average number of key words per article was 2.2. Health-related keyword was the most frequently used according to four metaparadigm of nursing (human, health, nursing, and environment). Environment related keyword was rarely appeared. The number and quality of nursing research in "Journal of Korean Academy of Adult Nursing" have been improved continuously. It is difficult to find out special trend or characteristics which is unique in this journal because of relatively short history of adult nursing studies. This review study was performed to analyze adult nursing studies only in the view of quantitative aspect, but it is needed to analyse qualitatively to find philosophical or theoretical trend in nursing.
The purpose of this study was to develop a critical pathway for the patients following lumbar laminectomy. Development of this critical pathway was the fundamental phase to implement case management, which is a new health care delivery system. For this study, a preliminary critical pathway was developed first through a literature review and analysis of the medical records and seven critical pathways being used currently in Korea and the USA. In order to identify the health care services provided for the patients, who had lumbar laminectomiess and to draw up the conceptual framework, 30 medical records were analyzed from January, 1997 to December, 1997 at the Spinal Center in the Yonsei University Medical Center. The results of this study are as follows: 1. The vertical axis of the critical pathway included the following 7 items: test, assessment, treatment, activity, medication, diet, teaching and discharge planning; and the horizontal axis included the time frame from the pre-operative day to the third post-operative day. 2. Analysis of the 30 medical records indicated that the average length of stay was 13.7 days, including 4.8 days from admission to operation, and 8.9 days from operation to discharge. 3. According to the validity study using seven experts, 54 items, among the total of 86 items, reached over 86% agreement, while 32 items showed less than 86%. These 32 items were reviewed for deletion or modification before inclusion. A final critical pathway then was developed. On the basis of this research, it is anticipated that this critical pathway can be uesd in clinical situations to provide care for the patients following lumbar laminectomy in the most effective and efficient manner.
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