Development and evaluation of simulation-based scenario education program for professional oral hygiene care in intubated patient.

Purpose: This study was conducted to develop a professional oral hygiene care (POHC) simulation education program for intubated patients and to evaluate the suitability of education by evaluating the performance confidence (PC), critical thinking disposition (CT), and learning satisfaction (LS) of dental hygiene students.

Methods: This study developed a POHC simulation education program (theory, skill training, scenario education, and debriefing) for intubated patients through expert validation and consisted of a single-group pre- and postexperiment design. The subjects were 3rd and 4th year students at the Department of Dental Hygiene in Wonju City, and a total of 30 people were enrolled.

Initial Development of User-Based Quality Evaluation Questionnaire of Smartwatch Technology for Applying to Healthcare.

Background: Smartwatches are a consumer wearable device offering a potential, practical, and affordable method to collect personal health data in healthy adults. For patients with chronic diseases, this would enable symptom monitoring and aid clinical decision making. Therefore, providing customized checklists to recommend smartwatches is beneficial.

Psycho-behavioural factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Korean adults: The moderating role of age.

Aims: This study aimed to identify the psycho-behavioural factors influencing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine hesitancy among Korean adults. We examined the primary effects of eHealth literacy, social responsibility and self-efficacy on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy using the information-motivation-behavioural skills (IMB) model. The moderating effect of age on the relationship between psycho-behavioural factors and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy was also examined.

[Effects of Hospital Characteristics on Employment Rate, Working Period and Retirement of Ward Nurses in Korea: A Retrospective Cohort Study Based on HIRAS Data].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of hospital characteristics on employment rate, working period, and retirement of ward nurses in Korea through a retrospective cohort study based on HIRAS data.

Methods: Data were obtained from a report on medical care institutions of Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (HIRAS). Data from 259,941 nurses who were working for a day or more from January 1, 2012, to December 31, 2016, at 2,942 medical care institutions were analyzed.

Hospital Nurses' Perceived Patient Safety Culture and Adverse Nurse Outcomes in Korea.

Background: Hospital nurses are likely to be the first to observe patient safety issues in clinical settings, and thus it is important to include their views on patient safety culture. However, there are few studies addressing the influence of nurses' perceived patient safety culture on adverse nurse outcomes as quality of care.

Purpose: This study was to identify the relationship between nurses' perceptions of patient safety culture and adverse nurse outcomes in Korea.

Associations between Health Literacy, Cancer-Related Knowledge, and Preventive Health Behaviors in Community-Dwelling Korean Adults.

This cross-sectional study aimed to examine the association between health literacy, cancer-related knowledge, and preventive health behaviors among community-dwelling adults in Korea. Data were collected from 542 adults aged ≥ 18 years living in five big provinces in Korea (Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, Gyeongsang-do, Chungcheong-do, and Gangwon-do). Socio-demographic and health-related characteristics were determined using structured questionnaires.

Effects of a comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation program in patients with coronary heart disease in Korea.

The purpose of this study was to develop a comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation program that considered patients' learning needs and cultural context, and to identify the impact of this program on patients with coronary heart disease in Korea. We employed a quasi-experimental design to evaluate the effects of the developed program in 61 patients with coronary heart disease. The experimental group received education, counseling, educational materials, and telephone follow-ups by cardiac nurses for six months.

Quality of life of women with urinary incontinence: a systematic literature review.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to review studies that have examined the quality of life of women with urinary incontinence.

Materials And Methods: A review was conducted that used the databases PubMED, Proquest, CINAHL, and Sciencedirect. Articles were included that were published in English between 2005 and 2010 the key words use were urinary incontinence, women, and quality of life.

Effects of a cognition-oriented breast self-examination intervention for Korean women and their spouses.

Objective: This study evaluated the effectiveness of a cognition-oriented breast self-examination (BSE) intervention program that is based on the Transtheoretical Model and reflects individual characteristics according to BSE stage among Korean women and their spouses.

Design: A time-series nonequivalent control group design was used. SAMPLE AND MEASUREMENT: Twenty-four couples in each of 2 groups completed a preintervention test and were evaluated 1, 3, and 6 months later for their knowledge of breast cancer and BSE, spousal encouragement for BSE, perceived confidence in BSE methods, change in BSE stage, and perceived benefits and barriers to BSE.

Knowledge, barriers, and facilitators of Korean women and their spouses in the contemplation stage of breast self-examination.

The aim of this study was to identify the knowledge, barriers, and facilitators of breast self-examination (BSE) in Korean couples in the contemplation stage. The study design was based on assumptions from the Health Belief Model and Transtheoretical Model that contemplators perceiving benefits as greater than barriers are likely to move to the next stage. Participant couples, with wives having never practiced BSE but with an intention to do so, were drawn from churches.

[Factors influencing functional status in patients with heart failure].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that influence the functional status of patients with heart failure.

Method: A descriptive, correlational study design was used. The participants in this study were 260 patients with heart failure who were admitted at Y University and U University in Seoul, Korea.

Activity intolerance and impaired physical mobility in elders.

Purpose: To clarify the use of two nursing diagnoses, activity intolerance and impaired physical mobility, with elderly patients.

Method: Ninety-two elders from a long-term care facility in Wonju, Korea. A checklist developed by the researchers was used for data collection.

Predictors of mammography participation among rural Korean women age 40 and over.

Purpose: The study was conducted to identify predictors of mammography screening for rural Korean women according to 'Stage of Change' from the Transtheoretical Model which, along with the Health Belief Model, formed the theoretical basis for this study.

Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive design was utilized. Through convenience sampling 432 women were selected from 2 rural areas.

[Content analysis of the experience of preceptors in clinical education for senior student nurses].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify experiences of nurses who served as preceptors in clinical education for senior student nurses in a college of medicine in Wonju city.

Method: Data was collected from 20 preceptors instructing senior student nurses in 2001 using a self-completion questionnaire. To analyze data, content analysis was done using an analysis scheme developed by the investigators.