Publications by authors named "Eal Whan Park"
Background: While many cessation programmes are available to assist smokers in quitting, research suggests that support from individual partners, family members, or 'buddies' may encourage abstinence.
Objectives: To determine if an intervention to enhance one-to-one partner support for smokers attempting to quit improves smoking cessation outcomes, compared with cessation interventions lacking a partner-support component.
Search Methods: We limited the search to the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group Specialised Register, which was updated in April 2018.
Background: The prevalence of childhood obesity in South Korea has increased owing to economic improvement and the prevailing Westernized dietary pattern. As the incidence of chronic diseases caused by obesity is also expected to increase, effective interventions to prevent childhood obesity are needed. Therefore, we conducted a Delphi study to determine the priorities of a potential intervention research on childhood obesity prevention and its adequacy and feasibility.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The purpose of this study was to compare students' awareness of and satisfaction with clerkships in family medicine between a university hospital and a community hospital or clinic.
Methods: Thirty-eight 4th year medical students who were undergoing a clerkship in family medicine in the 1st semester of 2012 were surveyed via questionnaire. The questionnaire was administered both before and after the clerkship.
Background: Patients' perspectives of family medicine according to the physician's identity and role as a primary-care specialist need to be investigated. This study was conducted to investigate the perceived quality of the primary care of family medicine clinics as assessed by patients in a community setting.
Methods: Patients (or their guardians) visiting nine community family medicine clinics were surveyed using the Korean Primary Care Assessment Tool from April 2014 to June 2014.
Background: Varenicline is now very useful medication for cessation; however, there is only little result of researches with varenicline for cessation of hospitalized patients. This research attempted to analyze the cessation effect of medication and compliance of hospitalized patients.
Methods: This research included data for 52 patients who were prescribed varenicline among 280 patients who were consulted for cessation during their admission period.
The incidence rate of cervical cancer in Korea is still higher than in other developed countries, notwithstanding the national mass-screening program. Furthermore, a new method has been introduced in cervical cancer screening. Therefore, the committee for cervical cancer screening in Korea updated the recommendation statement established in 2002.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In the 1990s the primary focus of medicine was shifted to disease prevention. Accordingly, it became the responsibility of primary-care physicians to educate and counsel the general population not only on disease prevention specifically but health promotion generally as well. Moreover, it was, and is still today, considered important that physicians provide positive examples of health-promotion behaviors to patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: We aimed to identify the prevalence of feelings of guilt, censure, and concealment of smoking status among cancer patients and their family members who continued to smoke after the patient's diagnosis.
Methods: Among 990 patient-family member dyads, 45 patients and 173 family members who continued to smoke for at least 1 month after the patients' diagnoses were administered questions examining feelings of guilt, censure, and smoking concealment.
Results: Most patients who continued to smoke reported experiencing feelings of guilt toward their families (75.
Premedical students' experiences in community-oriented primary care.
Korean J Med Educ
September 2013
Purpose: Medical students must be taught community medicine to understand common community-wide health problems and develop the skills that are needed to solve them. In this study, community-oriented primary care (COPC) projects were undertaken by premedical students in a community medicine course, and their experience was assessed.
Methods: We analyzed the final reports of 570 premedical students who completed their community group projects from 2000 to 2012.
Background: To compare the prevalence and metabolic characteristics of metabolically healthy but obese (MHO) individuals according to different criteria.
Methods: We examined 186 MHO middle-aged men (age, 37.2 years; body mass index [BMI], 27.
Background: BATHE, the acronym for background, affect, trouble, handling, and empathy, is an interview approach that can be applied in the out-patient setting whereby questions belonging to each of the 5 categories are asked in the above order. As we have been taught to believe that BATHE raises the level of patient satisfaction and the quality of medical treatment overall, this study was designed to test the validity of the claim that applying BATHE heightens patient satisfaction.
Methods: Each of the 5 doctors was assigned 10 patients (5 in the BATHE group and the other 5 in the control group) with each patient being randomly assigned to either of the groups.
Medical students' perception and satisfaction with medical communication teaching using electronic modules.
Korean J Med Educ
September 2012
Purpose: To teach communication skills to medical students, a variety of instructional text and video materials are used. The purpose of this study was to investigate medical students' perception and satisfaction with medical communication teaching using electronic modules.
Methods: Medical communication subjects were developed for freshmen of the medical department.
Background: While many cessation programmes are available to assist smokers in quitting, research suggests that partner involvement may encourage long-term abstinence.
Objectives: The purpose of this review was to determine if an intervention to enhance partner support helps smoking cessation when added as an adjunct to a smoking cessation programme, and to estimate the size of any effect.
Search Methods: For the most recent update, the search was limited to the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group Specialized Register.
Background: The family medicine residency program consists mainly of clinical rotations in other specialties and the family medicine-specific training. We conducted this study to investigate how family medicine residents evaluated their training program that include family-oriented medicine, clinical preventive medicine, behavioral science and research in primary care.
Methods: In 2009, third-year residents of 129 training hospitals in Korea were surveyed to investigate the current state and their expectation of the residency program.
Background: Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) was adopted as a new standard criterion for diagnosing diabetes. We investigated the diagnostic utility of HbA1c by comparing the 2003 American Diabetes Association (ADA) diagnostic criteria of diabetes with HbA1c of 6.5%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: We wanted to determine whether an intervention to enhance partner support helps as an adjunct to a smoking cessation program.
Methods: We undertook a meta-analysis of English-language, randomized controlled trials of smoking cessation interventions through July 2002 using the following data sources: Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group specialized register, Cochrane controlled trials register, CDC Tobacco Information and Prevention Database, MEDLINE, Cancer Lit, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, ERIC, PsycLIT, Dissertation Abstracts, SSCI and HealthSTAR, with reviews of bibliographies of included articles. Included were trials that assessed a partner support component with a minimum follow-up of 6 months.