Factors Affecting Nursing Students' Reflective Thinking During Simulation Debriefing.

Background: Although reflective thinking is regarded as an important learning aspect of debriefing, the factors that can affect reflective thinking during simulation debriefing remain unclear.

Purpose: This study aimed to identify factors affecting reflective thinking during simulation debriefing among nursing students.

Methods: This study used a cross-sectional descriptive survey design with a convenience sample of 198 Korean nursing students.

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.

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.

Learning needs of patients with heart failure a descriptive, exploratory study.

Aims And Objectives: To assess the learning needs of patients with heart failure in Korea as this information is the cornerstone for developing a programme based on patients' learning needs.

Background: Heart failure is a life-threatening event and a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in Korea. Cardiac educational programmes are intended to prevent the recurrence of heart failure and improve patients' quality of life.

Association between depression, patient scar assessment and burn-specific health in hospitalized burn patients.

Background: Depression is one of the most common psychological problems arising after a burn, but its relationship with patient scar assessment and burn-specific health are poorly understood. The aim of this study was to identify the incidence of in-hospital symptoms of depression, compare level of patient scar assessment, and burn-specific health by depression cutoff point, and identify the relationship between depression and these variables.

Methods: In a cross-sectional descriptive study, 113 burn patients from two inpatient burn centers were divided into two groups based on the cutoff point of the Korean Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (Korean CES-D): ≥25 or <25.

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.

[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.