Publications by authors named "Ga Eon Lee"

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the experiences of acute care hospital nurses' on spiritual care with focus group interviews.

Methods: Data were collected from 24 nurses recruited from one acute-care hospital in a southern province of Korea. Six focus groups were assembled considering age and religion.

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to translate the nursing home adjustment scale (NHAS) from Korean into English and assess its psychometric properties on a sample of nursing home residents in the USA.

Methods: A total of 193 older adults in six nursing homes in the Midwest were included in this study. Reliability of the NHAS in English was tested using Cronbach's alpha values for internal consistency.

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Background: Adjustment to a nursing home by elderly residents is an issue in transitional care in nursing homes. Although research on relocation adjustment has been conducted in many countries, adjustment has generally been measured with life satisfaction scales, assuming equivalence between life satisfaction and successful adjustment. Research has not been reported on adjustment to relocation using an adjustment scale.

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop a scale of free nursing home adjustment for the elderly in Korea.

Method: The developmental processes were construction of a conceptual framework, development of preliminary items, verification of content validity, twice data gathering, verification of construct validity, and reliability of final items. The first 53 preliminary items were obtained through review of literatures about nursing home adjustment and in depth interviews with 5 staffs of nursing home.

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of preoperative pain control education on the pain control barrier, postoperative pain and pain control satisfaction in gynecological patients.

Method: The study was a quasi-experimental research design. There were 58 subjects who were admitted for gynecological surgery to D University Hospital in B city.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study aimed to create a critical thinking disposition scale specifically for nursing students, focusing on identifying key factors that influence their critical thinking skills.
  • The research involved constructing a framework, developing initial items, checking content and construct validity, and selecting the final items, resulting in a scale comprised of 35 items grouped into 8 factors.
  • The scale demonstrated high reliability (Cronbach's alpha of .892) and revealed that further research is needed to enhance its validity and reliability in measuring critical thinking dispositions.
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The purpose of this study was to develop a job stress scale for hospital-based home care nurses in Korea. The process was construction of the conceptual framework, development of the preliminary items, verification of the content validity, item analysis and test of the reliability. The preliminary items were based on literature review and in-depth interviews with home care nurses.

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