bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Effect of the Hypertension-Management Educational Program on Hypertension Awareness of the Life Planner in Korea
Authors: Lee SookJa , Park EunSook , Park Young-Joo , Han KuemSun , Im Ji Young
Published: September 2024

Purpose: This study was to identify the effects of hypertension-management educational program on the awareness of hypertension of life-planner using quasi-experimental control group pre-post test design. Methods: The subjects consists of a convenience sample of 270 life planner, who employed a life insurance company. Hypertension-management education was conducted for the experimental group(n=124) twice for 1 hour for 1 week. The control group(n=146) did not received educational session. For both group the level of hypertension awareness was measured before and after experiment. Results: The experimental group reported a significan: higher level of hypertension awareness than control group(t=7.37, p<.001). The level of hypertension awareness of life planner was below than average(m= 12.07, range=0-27). Conclusion: This study showed that hypertension-management educational program has positive effect on increasing the level of hypertension awareness of the life planner. From the results, it is suggested that the life planner can mediating role for screening the patients with hypertension at community setting in Korea.
The Effects of Dynamic Imagery Therapy(DIT) on “Anger-Expression” in Patients with Mastectomy women
Authors: Kim Eunshim , Pai Hangja , Ahn Hwangran
Published: September 2024

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of dynamic imagery therapy (DIT) on Anger expression anger-in, anger-out and anger-control in women with mastectomy. Methods: DIT was given 12 sessions for 6 weeks (2 times /week). Data collection was from June, 24th to August, 12th, 2002. The participants were experimental group 15, control group 15.This study was designed using a quasi-experimental approach with non-equivalent Pre test-Post test Design. The instrument used in this study was the anger scale developed by Spielberg (1972) and modified by Chon (1996), the data were analyzed with x 2 -test t-test. Results: 1) ‘The level of Anger expression in mastectomy women with therapy will be significantly lower than that of the control group’ was supported (t=-l.878, P<.036). 2) 'The level of Anger-in in mastectomy women with therapy will be significantly lower than that of the control group’was supported (t=-2.798, P<.005). 3) 'The level of Anger-out in mastectomy women with therapy will be significantly lower than that of the control group’ was not supported. 4) ‘The level of Anger-control in mastectomy women with therapy will be significantly higher than that of the control group was not supported. Conclusion: The DIT is suggested as an effective nursing intervention to reduce Anger expression and anger-in level for patients with mastectomy but not effective to decrease Anger-out and to increase Anger-control. Therefore we suggest to lengthen duration of DIT to change patients frame of negative cognition into positive cognition.
Discriminating Power of Suicidal Ideation by Life Stress, Coping Strategy, and Depression in College Students
Authors: Sohn Jung Nam
Published: September 2024

Purpose: This study was conducted to examine the risk factors of suicidal ideation and to identify the discriminating power of their suicidal ideation by total life stress, stress coping, and depression in college students.Methods: The data was collected by self - reported questionnaires from 363 in college students. Data analysis was done with the SPSS 10.0 pc program for descriptive statistics. Results: The subjects were distributed in two groups of suicidal ideation: 326 subjects(90.1%) in non-risk group, 36 subjects(9.9%) in high risk group. Total life stress, Avoidance coping strategy, and depression were significant discriminating factors of suicidal ideation. Total life stress, Avoidance coping strategy, and depression correctly discriminated 73.8% of the sample. Conclusion: Organization of our knowledge of risk factors for suicidal ideation provides opportunities to develop life - saving preventive strategies. Life - saving preventive program in young adult will be needed lo include stress management skill, stress coping skill and education in depression recognition.
Process of Change by Smoking Stage of Change among Korean Female Adolescents
Authors: Hyun Myung Sun , Kang Hee Sun , Lee Young Ja
Published: September 2024

Purpose: This study examined the processes of change by smoking stage of change among female adolescents.Methods: This study was a cross-sectional survey. The data were collected from December, 2003 to January, 2004.A total of 127 female high school students who ever smoked were included. The nine mechanisms of change among ten suggested by Prochaska et al.(1988) were used. Results: There were significant differences in the process of change by stage of change. Tukey post-hoc analysis showed that helping relationship was greater in contemplation than in maintenance stage. Self-determination was greater in action and maintenance stage compared to prcconteniplation stage. Conclusion: Those change mechanisms that identified in Illis study can provide the framework in developing programs that focuses on the cessation of smoking in female adolescents.
Trend of Psychiatric Nursing Research by Analysis of the Published Paper in Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing: On Papers from 1992 to 2006
Authors: Lee Mi Hyung , Sohn Jung Nam , Won Chung Sook , Chung Myung Sil , Hyun Myung Sun , Han Kuem Sun , Kim Chung Sook
Published: September 2024

Purpose: The aim of this study is to analyze the published paper in Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing from 1992 to 2006 and to suggest the trend of future psychiatric nursing research.Methods: The 473 paper were selected and analyzed by focusing on research design, data collection method, participant type, measurement instrument, sampling method, statistics analyze method, and key word. Key words were compared with MeSH term. Results: A number of the published papers were quantitative research and qualitative research design was increasing. The prevailing research designs were survey(51.6%). As to Quasiexperimental design. Nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design was most frequent used(l 1.8%). Most of the subject were Psychiatric patients(17.2%). The prevailing statistics of analysis were t-test(54.9%). The prevailing key words of MeSH was ‘depression’(14.7%) ‘self conccpt'(12.1%), ‘mental health’(0,5%), and 'students' (9.1%) in order. Conclusion: The quality of academic journal can reflect lhe status of the academic, therefore, researchers should effort for the development of the academic journal. In addition, the psychiatric nursing research protecting the participants should be conducted.
The Factors Influencing Depression of Applicants Preparing for Civil Service and Bar Exams
Authors: Kim Hee Young , Choe Kwi Soon , Kwon Hye Jin , Yang Bok Sun
Published: September 2024

Purpose: The objectives of this study are to examine the rates of depression, self esteem and social support experienced by civil service and bar exam applicants and to identify factors influencing depression of applicants preparing for civil service and bar exams. Methods: Data were collected from the 269 subjects preparing for the bar examination and civil service exam using the Beck Depression Inventory- II(BDI- II), the Rosenberg self esteem Scale (SES) and the perceived social support scale. The data were analyzed, using SPSS/PC Will I0.0. Results: In depression, statistically significant differences were found for age, the type of examination and the period of preparation for examinations. Depression and self esteem were found to have a negative correlation. The same tendency was identified in the correlation between social support and depression. In contrast, self esteem and social support were found to be positively correlated. Conclusion: The findings of this study indicate that there is a positive relationship between self esteem and social support and a negative relationship between self esteem, social support and depression. However, contrary to widespread belief, the subjects feel only minimally depressed and their self esteem is not excessively low. In addition, the subjects perceive that they are receiving reasonably sufficient social support. The results of the study will be useful for community menial health nurses to take care of applicants preparing for civil service and bar exams in the community.
A Study on the Death-related Attitude in Undergraduate Students
Authors: Lee Ok Ja , Yang Nam Young
Published: September 2024

Purpose: This study was to identify the death-related attitude in undergraduate students. Methods: The subjected were 932 one university students. This study was conducted to March 2005. The data was collected by questionnaires and were analyzed using descriptive statistics, /-test. Results: Death-related attitude in undergraduate students was negative in acceptance and meaning, displeasure in emotional response and pursuit comfort in situation of death confront. Death-related attitude(experience of thinking about death, death is punishment of guilt, death is fearful, tell an another about your death) in undergraduate students was significant differences in sex, religion, majoring-related health among general characteristic. Experience of thinking about death was differences in sex and religion. Death is punishment of guilt was differences in majoring-related health and death is fearful was differences in sex, majoring-related health. Tell an another about your death was differences in majoring-related health. Conclusion: These findings indicated that the death education program to convert positive mind from negative mind death-related attitude in undergraduate students.
The Lived Experiences of the Middle-aged Women’s Anger
Authors: Lee Yongmi
Published: September 2024

Purpose: This study was done to understand the essences and the meanings of anger experiences in middle-aged women. Methods: Van Manen's hermeneutical phenomenological method was used. Data were collected by in-dept interviews with eight middle-aged women who were from forties to sixties, fictions, essays and a TV drama script.Results: Surges surfaced by lost meaning of one's otherwise elaborated life: Situational context of breaking the balance of one's stable life. Self-internalization to subside conflict: A part of middle-aged women's efforts to suppress and swallow anger. The writhe of expressing desperation to be recognized: The expressed anger experience by actually letting their anger surface and expressing to others. Unmanageable weight of one's hurt:This part indicates how they conceive their anger experiences. When the anger lump continue to accumulate in their mind, it can cause excessive and irrational responses. Conclusion: Four essential themes move not in one dimension, but in more dynamic and circulating characteristics. Also, the middle-aged women's anger experiences, which are formed under unique Korean socio-cultural contexts and moral values, imply their efforts to maintain harmonious relations with others, with an exclusion of self-centered thoughts, and more towards relationship with others.
The Effect of Social Skills Training with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Authors: Kim In-Hong
Published: September 2024

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of social skills training on the social skill, behavior problems and peer acceptance of children with ADHD. Methods: A randomized controlled pre-post test design was used. The participants were 13 children who were ADHD attending community mental health center and elementary School in Pohang city. Six were assigned to the experimental group and 7 to the control group.The program consisted of 8 sessions of 60 minutes per session, 2days a week, for 4weeks. Instruments used for this study were the Social Skills Rating System(SSRS), Children's Behavior Check List-Korean version (K-CBCL) and peer acceptance. Results: The scores for co-operation and self-control increased significantly in the experimental group as compared to the control group. Total behavior problems and attention problems decreased significantly in the experimental group as compared to the control group. Conclusions: This study provides evidence for the potential and beneficial effects of social skills training in children who were ADHD. The program could be adequately used to improve social skills and problem behavior in ADHD.
Drinking Experience, Abstinence Intention and Related Factors of Female Middle School Students
Authors: Kim Soo Ok
Published: September 2024

Purpose: This study was done to test the theory of planned behavior in the prediction of abstinence intention of female middle school students. Methods: The subjects were 296 female middle school students in U area. Data was collected using structured questionnaires in December, 2006 and was analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, pearson correlation coefficient, and multiple regression with the SPSS(ver. 12.0) program. Results: 50.7% of the subjects had drinking experience. There were significant positive correlations among three variables(attitude toward abstinence, subjective norm, and perceived behavior control). These variables significantly predicted abstinence intention of female middle school students(44.5%, F=78.040, p=.000). The most powerful predictor of abstinence intention was perceived behavior control(39.3%).However, attitude toward abstinence wasn't a significant predictor. Conclusion: The findings of this study show that perceived behavior control is the most powerful predictor of abstinence intention of female middle school students. Education programs which improve perceived behavior control are needed to promote abstinence intention of female middle school students.
The Effect of Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy for the Offenders of Family Violence
Authors: Hyun Mi-Yeul
Published: September 2024

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the contribution of cognitive behavioral group therapy to the improvement of self-esteem, depression, gender role attitude and tendency for violence of those who have experienced family violence.Methods: The research design was a one group-pretest-posttest design in quasi-experimental research, and the period of this study was from May to November, 2006.Participants were 12 offenders who were ordered to be counselled according to "the Special exemption law for punishing domestic violences". The group therapy was applied once a week for 8 weeks. Data was collected by using a questionnaire for self-esteem, depression, gender role attitude and violent tendencies. In data analysis, Wilcoxon signed rank test with SPSS/WIN 12.0 program was used. Results: The scores of self-esteem and gender role attitude were statistically significantly improved from pre to post-test. However, the scores of depression and violent tendencies were not significantly changed from pre to post-test. Conclusion: This cognitive behavioral group therapy was effective in improving self-esteem and gender role attitude in offenders of family violence.
The Effect of Insight-Oriented Intervention Program on the Insight of Alcohol Dependence Patients
Authors: Park Jeong Soon , Won Jeong Sook
Published: September 2024

Purpose: This study was done to show the influential changes on oriented insight of alcohol dependent patients. In addition, the study was aimed at providing effective plans of nurse-arbitration. Methods: Data was collected from patients who were diagnosed with alcohol dependence. Subjects were divided into two groups. Nineteen in the experimental group and 13 in the control group. A nonequivalent non-synchronized control group was used for the study. Researchers planned and created a 3 week short-term arbitration treatment program. HAIS(Hanil Alcohol Insight Scale) was used for the measurement of the experimental group. Results: The experimental group in the treatment program showed more of an increase of POI (problem-oriented insight), H/TOI(hospitalization/treatment oriented insight), AOI(abstinence-oriented insight), and total oriented insight than the control group that was not in the treatment program. The experimental group did not show an increase of C/DOI(control/dependence-oriented insight), or SOI (surrounding-oriented insight). Conclusion: The insight-oriented intervention program was proven effective through the increase of HAIS total oriented insight indicating the effectiveness of the insight-oriented intervention program to improve the oriented insight.
The Effects of Perspective-Oriented Social Skills Training on Function and Symptom for Persons with Schizophrenia
Authors: Kim Yi Young , Park Hyun Sook , Bae Sung-Woo
Published: September 2024

Purpose: This study investigated the effects of perspective-oriented social skills training programs on the levels of functioning and symptoms for patients with schizophrenia. Methods: A total of 28 subjects participated in this study and they were recruited from one psychosocial rehabilitation center located in D-city. The experimental group consisted of 14 subjects and they received perspective-oriented social skills training services once every week for 23 weeks. The remaining 14 subjects were assigned to the comparison group and they received standard services except perspective-oriented social skills training program. Results: In terms of functioning level change, the analysis revealed that the experimental group's outcome significantly improved compared to the comparison group in the areas of functioning total score, daily living skill dimension, and social relationship skill dimension. In terms of functioning level change, the simple main effect analysis indicated that the experimental group's outcomes of symptom total score and depression & anxiety dimension significantly improved over time compared to the comparison group.Conclusion: The overall study results indicated that perspective-oriented social skills training had positive impact on the patients with schizophrenia in terms of increasing their functioning level and reducing symptom level.
A Study on Managers' Perception of Vocational Rehabilitation for Mentally Disabled Persons
Authors: Kim So-Ya-Ja , Kwag Youn-Gyung , Gum Lan
Published: September 2024

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate managers' perception and the need of vocational re habilitation for mentally disabled people. Methods: The Jang（1995）'s questionnaire of employers' perception tool on vocational rehabilitation for mentally disabled people to collect data from 64 managers in Goyang City was used. In addition, descriptive statistics and Chi-square test were used in the data analysis.Results: Managers do not know the difference between mental illness and mental retardation, and public acts. They consider that people with mental illness are dangerous and intensive supervision is necessary because they are more likely to cause safety problems. They use the same standards on both mentally ill people and other employees for their performance evaluation and employment criteria. They stated that 2 or 4 times of vocational rehabilitation for the mentally ill is necessary. There is a significant difference in perception of the mentally ! ill depending on education level, religious background, and managerial positions. Conclusions: It is necessary to educate managers about the difference between mental illness and mental retardation, public acts, and aggression in mental illness. Managers need opportunities to meet people with mental illness and get to know them. In addition, there is need for objective vocational capacity evaluation system for local people with mental illness. Job site oriented training that actually leads to pro duction increase should replace conventional "General training first, placement later" process. Lastly, it is important that let business owners share the value of community service by providing opportunities to the mentally ill and make managers informed with how to work with them and where to get help when problems occur.
A Study on Aging Anxiety and Self-Efficacy of Middle Aged Adults
Authors: Kim Shinmi , Kim Soon Yi
Published: September 2024

Purpose: This study was conducted to identify the level of aging anxiety and self-efficacy and to explore the relationship between aging anxiety and self-efficacy of the middle age adults. Methods: The subjects were 373 adults aged between 40 to 64 years old. Data was collected for 2 months by trained nursing students. Aging anxiety was evaluated using the Anxiety about Aging scale for the elderly modified by Watkins et al., and self-efficacy was measured using tools developed by Sherer and Maddux. Results: The total score of aging anxiety was 49.44 and the item average was 2.56. 'Acceptance of the self as very old' was the factor with the highest anxiety level (3.08). Level of aging anxiety was significantly different by education level, illness, health status and religion. The score of self efficacy was 57.96. and showed a negative correlation with aging anxiety. Conclusion: Some study results are not coherent with previous studies; therefore, any definite conclusion needs to be postponed and repeated studies adopting diverse and larger samples are called for. More reliable and Korean culture oriented tools to measure aging anxiety may need to be developed for better results.
A Comparative Study of the Factors Influencing Quality of Life between Urban and Rural Elderly
Authors: Sok Sohyune R. , Kim Kwuy Bun
Published: September 2024

Purpose: This study was to compare and to examine the factors related to quality of life between urban and rural elderly. Methods: This was a descriptive correlation study. The subjects were 366 elderly(183 urban and 183 rural) over 65 years of age. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistics. Pearson correlation coefficients, and multiple regression with SAS statistics. Results: The degrees of depression, self-esteem, and quality of life in urban elderly were significantly better than in rural elderly. The predictors of quality of life in all urban and rural elderly were depression, self-esteem, and age. Depression was the biggest factor in all urban and rural elderly. These factors explained 61.6% of the total variance in urban elderly, and 64.5% in rural elderly. Conclusion: These findings suggest a need to develop a nursing strategy to improve quality of life for rural elderly especially. To improve the quality of life in all elderly, the above major influencing factors should be considered.
Critical Thinking Contents in Narrative Writing Experiences
Authors: Mun Mi Suk
Published: September 2024

Purpose: Critical thinking has become a focus as one of the ultimate aims of education in several disciplines.Critical thinking is also essential and plays an important part in developing qualified nurses. Narrative writing is one of many strategies to promote critical thinking. The purpose of this study was to discover critical thinking contents in narrative writing experiences. Methods: The participants were asked to write narratives about their thoughts, experiences, and questions in relation to learned content from lectures in psychiatric nursing class. They wrote 10 narratives. In addition, they wrote a final narrative describing their experience of being in the study. The last narrative was interpreted by Van Kaam's phenomenology method which was derived from the philosophical notion of hermeneutics. Results: This study showed that narrative writing affected student's critical thinking dispositions. Eight critical thinking dispositions emerged: self-awareness, self discipline, self improvement-orientation, curiosity and inquisitiveness, confidence, analysis and insight, open mindedness, autonomy and responsibility. Conclusion: Writing narratives afforded opportunities for nursing students to prompt their critical thinking dispositions through an opportunity to reflect on themselves and other's views and to transfer thoughts onto paper. Also, to the educator who gave feedback, students' narratives were a resource to understand how students learn and to assist students in developing critical thinking. Therefore, the process of writing narratives may require more feedback which should be regular and focus on supporting and guiding student's critical thinking.
The Relations of Self-Esteem, Practical Performance, and Practical Satisfection in Nursing Students
Authors: Chung Myung Sill
Published: September 2024

Purpose: This research was conducted to identify the relations among self-esteem, practical performance, and practical satisfaction in nursing students. Methods: Data was collected from a survey conducted between the 4th of December, 2007 and the 7th of March, 2008. Participants were 106 students of one nursing college. Data was analyzed by t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson's correlation coefficients using SPSS/WIN 14.0. Results: Self-esteem positively corre lated to practical performance and practical satisfaction, while practical performance positively correlated to practical satisfaction in nursing students. Self-esteem was significantly different according to grade, age, and grade ranking. Practical performance was significantly different according to age and motivation to study nursing. Practical satisfaction was significantly different according to age. The older aged group showed a significantly higher score in self-esteem, practical performance, and practical satisfaction. Conclusion: This study is meaningful in a way that it reveals the positive relationship among self-esteem, practical performance, and practical satisfaction in nursing students.
The Relations of Depression, Anxiety, Post-Traumatic Stress, Self-Esteem, and Social Adjustment among North Korean Refugees
Authors: Rho In Suk , Won Jeong Sook
Published: September 2024

Purpose: This study was done to investigate the relationship among anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress, and self-esteem on society adjustment in North Korean refugees. Methods: A descriptive correlational design was used in this study. The subjects were 105 North Korean refugees living in G-city metropolitan area, Korea. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and Pearson's correlation coefficients. Results: The score of so cial adjustment showed significantly positive correlations with the score of self-esteem (r=.3O, p=.002) and sig nificantly negative correlations with the score of depression (r=-.28, p=.004) and post traumatic stress (r=-.28, p=.OO4). Conclusion: This study showed that social adjustment significantly correlated with depression, self-es teem, and post traumatic stress among North Korean refugees. These findings suggest a need to develop a nurs ing intervention strategy to enhance self-esteem and social adjustment in order to decrease anxiety, depression, and post traumatic stress in North Korean refugees.
Development of an Expert System for Prevention and Management of Substance Related Disorder in Adolescents
Authors: Bae Jeongyee , Kim Young Hoon , Hwang Won-Joo , Panundo Rosel L.
Published: September 2024

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop a web-based expert system for preventing and managing substance related disorders focusing particularty on alcoholism, nicotinism, and narcotidsm in adolescents. Methods: Our design process utilized principles of a user-centered design wrth 4 phases: needs assessment, analysis, design/development/ testing, and application release. 3,885 adolescents were surveyed and focus group interviews were conducted. Survey and analysis results guided the design of the web-based expert system. Results: The resulting web site is http://www.baejy.comyebang. VAth our expert system, young boys and girls can assess their degrees of alcoholism, niootinism, and narcotidsm. The system analyzes facts based on answers to automated questions, and suggests solutions accordingly. A history tracking mechanism enables monitoring and future analysis. Also, programs like education, exercise, relaxation, music therapy, and counseling were included. Conclusion: This system is interactive and accessible to anyone in the world. It serves as an intervention strategy for not only adolescents who have a substance related disorder but also those adolescents who do not. It is expected that this management system will contribute to adolescent health promotion and share information on adolescent substance-related disorders to researchers and professionals.
Predictive Factors of Tobacco Cessation Behavior
Authors: Kim Soo Ok
Published: September 2024

Purpose: This study was done to discover predictive factors of short-term and long-term tobacco cessation behavior based on the theory of planned behavior. Methods: The subjects were 152 visitors who registered at 2 smoking-cessation clinics of a public health center in U city. The data was collected using structured questionnaires from February, 2007 to January, 2008, and were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, and logistic regression analysis. Results: 80.9% of the subjects had tried to quit smoking in the last year. The rate of success in tobacco cessation at 4 weeks was 81.6% and perceived behavior control was the significant predictive factor of tobacco cessation behavior. Non-smokers had a greater positive attitude and stronger perceived behavior control than smokers. At 12 weeks after registration, the rate of success in tobacco cessation deaeased to 59.9% and the significant predictive factor of tobacco cessation behavior was intention. Non-smokers had a stronger perceived behavior control and stronger intention than smokers. Conclusion:A program that improves perceived behavior control should be set up according to the length of cessation. A specialized program which focuses on the predictive factor should be supplied to help smokers be successful in tobacco cessation.
The Influence of One-Time Laughter Therapy on Stress Response in the Elderly
Authors: Kim Young-Sun , Jun Seong-Sook
Published: September 2024

Purpose: This study was to evaluate the effects of a one-time laughter therapy in elderly and to suggest that the practice is an effective nursing intervention to reduce the stress and reinforce immunity in the elderly. Methods: The research design was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. Laughter therapy was used as the experimental treatment from September 6,2005 until September 7,2005. Forty-eight subjects inGdty participated in this study. The 48 research subjects were assigned to an experimental (23 elderly) or control (25 elderly) group. Laughter therapy was administered one time for one day on the experimental group. In order to evaluate the effects of the laughter therapy, parameters of psychological stressful response (anxiety, depression, mood), physiologic stressful response (blood pressure, pulse, cortisol) and immunological stressful response (blood NK cell population, blood IgG) were measured before and after the treatment. Results: There was a significant change in the level of mood, systolic blood pressure, and cortisol but not blood NK cell population, or blood IgG. Conclusion: The results proved that laughter therapy is an effective nursing intervention to decrease systolic blood pressure, and cortisol levels and to inaease mood.
The Effect of Dance/Movement Programs on Self-esteem, Depression, and Anxiety in Psychiatric Inpatients
Authors: Jun Won-Hee , Park Jeong-Soon , Yang Soo
Published: September 2024

Purpose: This study aimed to examine the effects of dance/movement programs on self-esteem, depression, and anxiety in psychiatric inpatients. Methods: The research design was a non-equivalent and non-synchronized control group design. For this research, a total of 43 subjects were selected at a psychiatric unit of C university hospital in U-city.The experimental group consisted of 20 subjects and they received a dance/movement program service 2 times per week for 5 weeks. The remaining 23 subjects were assigned to the control group and they received standard services without a dance/movement program. In data analysis the SPSS/WIN 14.0 program was used. Results: The experimental group significantly improved compared to the control group in self-esteem and anxiety. However, in terms of depression, the experimental group showed greater improvement than the control group, but there was no statistical significance.Conclusion: This study result suggests that dance/movement programs could improve self-esteem, depression, and anxiety in psychiatric inpatients
The Effects of an Integrative Self-esteem Improvement Program on Selfesteem, Interpersonal Relations, and Quality of Life for Persons with Mental Disorder
Authors: Jo Geum Yi
Published: September 2024

Purpose: This study investigated the effects of integrative self-esteem improvement programs on self-esteem, interpersonal relations, and quality of life for persons with a mental disorder. Methods: The period of this study was from January 1st to January 31st, 2008. The subjects of this study were selected from persons with a mental disorder at S hospital in D city. There were 48 subjects, 25 for an experimental group and the other 23 for a control group. The research design was a non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest design as a quasi-experimental study. Data was analyzed using the SPSSA/VIN 12.0 program wrth chi-square test and repeated measurement ANOVA. Results: There was a significant change in self-esteem, interpersonal relations, and quality of life in the experimental group after treatment, which was significantly different from those in the control group. Conclusion: The integrative self-esteem improvement program was effective on improving self-esteem, interpersonal relations, and quality of life for persons with a mental disorder. Therefore, it is recommended that integrative self-esteem improvement programs should be used in clinical practice as an effective nursing intervention for persons with a mental disorder.
The Effects of an Aggression Management Program on Knowledge and Attitudes of Aggression Management in Psychiatric Nurses
Authors: Cho Mi A , Lee Chung Sook
Published: September 2024

Purpose: This study was to verify the effects of an aggression management program on knowledge and attitudes of aggression management in psychiatric nurses. Methods: This research design was quasi-experimental research of a non-equivalent control group pre-post test design. The total subjects were 22 psychiatric nurses. The research tools were knowledge, management of aggression and violence attitude scale (MAVAS) and overt aggression scale (OAS).Data was collected by self-reported structured questionnaires from June 13th to July 30th, 2008 and analyzed with frequency, percentage,χ2 test, Fisher's exact test, and Mann-Whitney U test. Results: The scores of knowledge and attitudes of aggression management was significantly different between the two groups. Conclusion: Based on the above findings, this program could be applied as an effective nursing intervention in managing patients' aggression by psychiatric nurses in nursing practice.
Making progress
Authors: Horton Emma
Published: September 2024

Emma Horton from the University of Sheffield discusses what has been learned from research looking at the impact of maker pedagogies in education
’It’s a Them and Us Thing’: Understanding Turnover Antecedents in Elite School Middle Management in England
Authors: Round Matthew
Published: September 2024

Turnover in middle management can be very expensive for a school, not just financially, but also in terms of providing continuity of leadership, sustainability of management practices, and quality student experiences. Therefore, a rigorous understanding of why middle managers in schools are thinking of leaving post can provide senior leaders an opportunity to develop strategies to reduce this turnover cost. Using the case of Lady Agatha’s Boarding School in England, this paper uses a novel approach to investigate the complexities of school middle management from a social perspective, arguing that by using a Bordieuan lens, researchers can investigate the complex matrix nature of working in middle management. By using the Bordieuan tools of field, habitus, doxa, capital, and symbolic violence, researchers can observe the struggles that the middle managers engage in to acquire capital or resources compared to other actors in the field, as tournaments of socio-political dominance. By using this original ontological turn in analysing turnover antecedents, researchers as well as practitioners could make significant impacts in the way turnover can be understood and its costs mitigated.
From Proto-Novel to Post-Novel: Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte as the Rewriting of Don Quixote
Authors: Çelikel Mehmet Ali
Published: September 2024

Salman Rushdie’s 2019 novel Quichotte is the story of a hero reimagined by Rushdie as a 21st century version of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote. The novel opens in contemporary America where the 70-year-old protagonist Ismail Smile, who goes mad by watching TV, works as a travelling salesman for a pharmaceutical company called Smile Pharmaceuticals. The plot focuses on Ismail’s love for a famous television personality Miss Salma R. who, like Ismail, comes from India. He gets retired, changes his name to Quichotte and goes on a quest to win Salma’s love. The quest turns into a complete replica of Cervantes’s Don Quixote when, on a shooting star, he wishes that he had a son who suddenly appears in the passenger seat of the car he drives. He names him Sancho.
Yet, the narration turns out to be a novel in the novel written by a spy novelist referred to only as Brother. Quichotte, therefore, becomes Brother’s imagination that recreates the classical Don Quixote in a contemporary setting. This paper, then, focuses on the concept of post-truth in the meta-narrative of Salman Rushdie who not only rewrites a classical novel but also raises questions as to whether or not truths and narrators are reliable. This study also analyses the saturation of the manipulating power of post-truth era in the lives of Rushdie’s characters.
Assessment of Hair Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Their Impact on Respiratory Health and Functional Exercise Capacity in Adolescent Females: A Study in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Authors:   Environment and Health Research Group, Research Institute for Health Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Radarit Kessaya ,   Ph.D. Degree Program in Environmental Science, Environmental Science Research Center, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Ponsawansong Pitakchon ,   Environment and Health Research Group, Research Institute for Health Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Somsunun Kawinwut ,   Environment and Health Research Group, Research Institute for Health Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Thongjan Nathaporn ,   Environment and Health Research Group, Research Institute for Health Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Santijitpakdee Teetawat ,   Environment and Health Research Group, Research Institute for Health Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Prapamontol Tippawan ,   Environment and Health Research Group, Research Institute for Health Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
Published: September 2024

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous environmental pollutants originating from various combustion processes. While PAH exposure has been associated with adverse respiratory health outcomes, including impaired lung function, this cross-sectional study examines the associations between hair PAH concentrations, lung function, and functional exercise capacity among 352 female school students in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Hair samples were analyzed for 15 PAHs, and lung function was assessed using spirometry while functional exercise capacity was evaluated using the six-minute walk test (6MWT). Nine PAHs were quantitatively detected in hair samples, with significant inverse correlations observed between PAH levels in hair and various lung function parameters, including the percentage of predicted values for forced vital capacity (% pred FVC), forced expiratory volume in one second (% pred FEV1), peak expiratory flow (% pred PEF), FEV1/FVC ratio (% pred FEV1/FVC), mean forced expiratory flow between 25% and 75% of FVC (% pred FEF25−75), and FEF25–75/FVC ratio (% pred FEF25−75/FVC). Elevated PAH concentrations were also associated with reduced six-minute walk distance (6MWD). Our study provides compelling evidence of the adverse effects of PAH exposure on respiratory health and functional exercise capacity in adolescent females.
How to manage and avoid revision after unicompartmental knee arthroplasty?
Authors: Hao Na , Yu Ke-Xiao , Ran Jin-Wei
Published: September 2024

The article by Zhao et al presents a retrospective case series on the reasons for initial revision after unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA). Clarifying the reasons that may cause UKA revision can further reduce the rate of revision UKA, focusing on gasket dislocation, osteophytes, intra-articular loose bodies, and tibial prosthesis loosening. This article provides valuable insights, not only by detailing the revision status of 13 patients who underwent revision after initial UKA but also by providing a comprehensive analysis of the incidence of revision after initial UKA. By reviewing and analyzing the causes, they established references for the early detection of risk factors for revision in clinical practice and for formulating surgical strategies and rehabilitation programmes. This commentary emphasizes the need for a meticulous understanding and an analysis of the revision rate following initial UKA and related management strategies. The implant rates, regional variation, and benefits of uncemented Oxford UKA have been explored, particularly in terms of bone preservation, appropriate surgical techniques, and weight management to control complications and improve patient prognosis.
Infantile bacterial meningitis combined with sepsis caused by Streptococcus gallolyticus subspecies pasteurianus: A case report
Authors: Zou Dan , Li Fen , Jiao Shu-Li , Dong Jin-Rong , Xiao Yao-Yao , Yan Xiao-Ling , Li Yan , Ren Dan
Published: September 2024

BACKGROUND

Streptococcus gallolyticus subspecies pasteurianus (SGSP) is a rare pathogen responsible for infant sepsis and meningitis and is potentially overlooked because it is not included in routine group B streptococcal screenings. Hence, we present a case of SGSP-induced infant meningitis and sepsis, accompanied by bronchopneumonia induced by multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), providing insights into the identification, management, and prognosis of this bacterial infection.

CASE SUMMARY

A 45-day-old female infant presented with two episodes of high fever (maximum temperature: 39.5 °C) and two generalized grand mal seizure episodes that lasted over ten seconds and self-resolved without concomitant symptoms. Postadmission, the patient’s C-reactive protein level was 40.73 mg/L, white blood cell count was 13.42 × 109/L, neutrophil ratio was 78.4%, procalcitonin level was 7.89 μg/L, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) white cell count was 36 × 106/L, multinucleated cell ratio was 95.2%, and protein concentration was 0.41 g/L. Blood and CSF culture revealed that the pathogen was SGSP. The bacterium was sensitive to ampicillin, furazolidone, penicillin, lincomycin, moxifloxacin, rifampicin, vancomycin, and levofloxacin but resistant to clindamycin and tetracycline. Sputum culture revealed the presence of MRSA, which was sensitive to vancomycin. The patient was diagnosed with meningitis and sepsis caused by SGSP, accompanied by bronchopneumonia induced by MRSA. Ceftriaxone (100 mg/kg/d) combined with vancomycin (10 mg/kg/dose, q6h) was given as an anti-infective treatment postadmission. After 12 days of treatment, the infant was discharged from the hospital with normal CSF, blood culture, and routine blood test results, and no complications, such as subdural effusion, were observed on cranial computed tomography. No growth retardation or neurological sequelae occurred during follow-up.

CONCLUSION

SGPSP-induced infant bacterial meningitis and sepsis should be treated with prompt blood and CSF cultures, and a sensitive antibiotic therapy to ensure a favorable prognosis.
Imaging characteristics and treatment strategies for carotid artery occlusion caused by skull base fracture
Authors: Wang Xue-Jian
Published: September 2024

The internal carotid artery occlusion caused by head and neck trauma, also known as traumatic intracranial artery occlusion, is relatively rare clinically. Traumatic skull base fracture is a common complication of traumatic brain injury. Traumatic skull base fracture is one of the causes of traumatic internal carotid artery occlusion. If not detected early and treated in time, the prognosis of patients is poor. This editorial makes a relevant analysis of this disease.
Evaluating Numerical Stability in High-Accuracy Simulations: A Comparative Study of Time Discretization Methods for the Linear Convection Equation
Authors: GAUR Vibhanshu Dev , PATHAK Mayur , SHANKAR Anirudh , SHARMA Nidhi
Published: September 2024

With the advent of technology, it has become possible to perform direct numerical simulations and the demand for high accuracy computing is increasing. Numerical simulations play an important part in understanding physics of the flow and instability mechanism in flows. For high accuracy, numerical schemes must be chosen that satisfy the physical dispersion relation, should not amplify or attenuate the solution and resolve all possible length and time scales. In the present paper, spectral stability analysis of linear convection equation is performed using first order forward difference (FD1) method and fourth order Runge Kutta (RK4) method, consisting of four stages, for time discretization and a second order central difference (CD2) method for evaluating spatial derivative. The results show that the presence of numerical instability for FD1 method is independent of the CFL number, consistent with the stability analysis which showed FD1 method to be unconditionally unstable. However, for RK4 method, the solution is found to be neutrally stable only for a particular range of CFL number, even stable solution introduced error by attenuating the computed or analytical solution.
Investigating the Effectiveness of Vortex Generators in Aviation through High-Fidelity CFD Analysis
Authors: HOTHAZIE Mihai-Vladut , BUNESCU Ionut , STOICAN Mihaita-Gilbert , CHELEMEN Dennis-Stefan
Published: September 2024

The present study highlights the benefits of using vortex generators as a passive boundary layer control method to delay the flow separation. Using high fidelity CFD analysis, a parametric study regarding the optimum position of vortex generators is carried out using an in-house automation procedure. After that, relevant quantities such as wall shear stress, turbulent kinetic energy, pressure coefficient distribution and oil flow visualization are analyzed and corresponding conclusions are drawn. The use of turbulent and energy quantities allows to quantify the impact of the generated vortices on the boundary layer and to identify the optimal positioning of vortex generators for improved aerodynamic performance.
Enhancing Propulsion Efficiency: Investigating Pressure Gain Combustion Dynamics in Pulse Detonation Engines
Authors: PATHAK Mayur , GAUR Vibhanshu Dev , JINDAL Tejinder Kumar
Published: September 2024

In order to obtain important knowledge for raising the performance and efficiency of propulsion systems, in this paper we investigate the dynamics process of pressure gain combustion in the Pulse Detonation Engine. Through comprehensive experimentation, we analyse the intricate mechanisms governing the pressure gain combustion in PDEs. Our findings present innovative methods for increasing combustion efficiency, boosting thrust generation, and addressing operational difficulties in PDE designs. Additionally, we discuss creative strategies for utilizing pressure gain effects to enhance engine performance metrics.