Purpose
Patients with pulmonary disease are more vulnerable to Particulate Matter (PM). It is important to promote health behaviors to minimize negative effects. This study aims to investigate risk perception, knowledge, and PM-related health behaviors in patients with pulmonary disease and identify the factors affecting PM-related health behaviors.
Methods
Participants were 201 patients with pulmonary disease who visited the outpatient clinic in a hospital. Data were collected using self-administered questionnaires and medical records from December 2019 to February 2020. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and multiple regression analysis.
Results
The average score of PM-related health behaviors was 22.79±4.43. In multiple regression analysis, factors affecting PM-related health behaviors were participants with higher risk perception of PM (,p<.001) and with longer pulmonary disease (p=.006). Moreover, participants who smoked previously but not currently (p<.001) and had never smoked (p=.001) had higher level of health behaviors than those who smoke.
Conclusion
Patients with pulmonary disease reported to have high level of overall PM-related health behaviors, but their performance on health behaviors that required knowledge was reported to be insufficient. Therefore, a patient-tailored educational program is needed to improve PM-related health behaviors by emphasizing risk perception related to PM. Special attention should be given to smokers and patients who experience a short disease period to improve PM-related health behaviors.

Citations

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  Soo Hyun Cho, Won‐Oak Oh, Minhyun Suk, Soo Kyung Park
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PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to analyze the trend of nursing theories by Korean Journal of Adult Nursing (KJAN) for the last five years and to provide future directions for improvement.
METHODS
The study analyzed data collected from 323 research papers published in KJAN between 2010~2014. Descriptive analysis was conducted with a focus on frequency and percentage for the quantitative analysis. Qualitative analysis was performed for the analysis of nursing theories.
RESULTS
As for research topics, the analysis results based on the meta-paradigm of nursing show that the most frequent factors of analysis were adult patients in the area of human beings, hospitals in the area of environment, depression, anxiety, and suicide in the area of health, and all the influential factors in the area of nursing. The analysis results of uses of nursing theories in the papers reveal that only 4(1.2%) out of total 323 papers used the nursing theories, which indicates that the linkage and utilization of nursing theories in the published papers for the last five years were poor.
CONCLUSION
We needs to make efforts at the society level to activate nursing theory utilization in research which is beloved to connect nursing practice, education, and research.

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  Soyoung Yu, Ju-Eun Song
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing.2021; 51(4): 391.     CrossRef
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  Asian Oncology Nursing.2019; 19(1): 1.     CrossRef
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  Young Jin Lee, Seo Yun Kim, Saem Yi Kang, Yoo Jeong Kang, Lan Jin, Hee Yoen Jung, Hae Won Kim
  Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing.2018; 24(1): 90.     CrossRef
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  Hyunju Ji, Soyun Hong, Yi-Rang Jeong, Kyung Hee Lee
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2018; 24(2): 130.     CrossRef
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  Yerin Cha, Joeun Kwon, Sunhye Kwon, Kyung Hee Lee, Jiyun An
  Journal of Korean Gerontological Nursing.2017; 19(2): 92.     CrossRef

PURPOSE
This study was aimed to investigate the effects of the nutritional intervention program including DASH diet education and calcium/vitamin D supplements in Korean elderly women.
METHODS
This was a quasi-experimental study employing non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The experimental group (n=26) was given DASH diet education and supplements (calcium 1200mg and vitamin 800 IU) while the control group (n=16) was given only general health consults. After the interventions, differences were analyzed in nutrient intake, bone turnover markers and bone mineral density between the two groups.
RESULTS
After one year, bone mineral density was found reduced in both groups, but showed higher levels (p=.003) in the experimental group than the control group. After research, nutrient intakes of participants improved generally, yet there was no significant difference between the two groups. The experimental group was divided into subgroups after interventions according to the level of calcium intake, and bone density and bone markers were compared between the subgroups. In a subgroup whose calcium intake was in the normal range, bone mineral density was significantly high (p=.002) while CTx and osteocalcin were significantly low (p=.003, p=.006, respectively).
CONCLUSION
This study is significant in that it provided a nutritional intervention program for one year to elderly women who are susceptible to osteoporosis and severely low in dietary calcium intake and it proved to be effective.

Citations

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  Korean Journal of Adult Nursing.2020; 32(5): 515.     CrossRef
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  In Sook Lee, Kwang Ok Lee
  Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing.2016; 27(1): 51.     CrossRef