A qualitative study on the field experience of genetic counseling in Korea.

In Korea, genetic counseling services began with the opening of genetic clinics in the early 1990s; in recent years, demand for these services has increased. However, genetic counseling is not an officially recognized healthcare service under the Korean national health insurance system; further, its certification is not recognized as a medical qualification. To clarify the role and significance of genetic counselors, this study examined their field experiences.

[Lived Experience of Kidney Transplant Recipients with Kidney Graft Failure].

Purpose: The study aimed to understand the semantic structure and nature of the disease experience of kidney transplant recipients with kidney graft failure by applying phenomenological research methods.

Methods: Data were collected between February and September 2021 through individual in-depth interviews with 12 kidney transplant recipients with kidney graft failure. Colaizzi's phenomenological analysis was used to analyze the meaning of the participants' illness experiences.

Association Between Nurse-Led Multidisciplinary Education and Cardiac Events in Patients With Heart Failure: A Retrospective Chart Review.

Purpose: This study examined the modifiable factors, including nurse-led multidisciplinary education and in/out-of-hospital rehabilitation, to predict cardiac events in patients with heart failure (HF) in South Korea.

Methods: A retrospective review of the medical records was conducted using data of patients admitted for HF between June 2021 and April 2022. A total of 342 patients were included in this study.

The Lived Experiences of COVID-19 Patients in South Korea: A Qualitative Study.

The purpose of this qualitative study is to provide an in-depth understanding and description of the disease experiences of COVID-19 patients. The participants were 16 patients discharged from hospitals after receiving treatment for COVID-19 in isolation. Data collection was conducted through individual in-depth interviews until data saturation, and the interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim.

A multi-center, randomized controlled clinical trial, cost-effectiveness and qualitative research of electroacupuncture with usual care for patients with non-acute pain after back surgery: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Although pain after back surgery is known to be difficult to control, various treatment options are available to patients and physicians. A protocol for a confirmatory randomized controlled trial (RCT) on pain and function after back surgery was designed based on the results of a pilot trial. The aim of this study is to compare the effectiveness and safety of electroacupuncture (EA) with usual care (UC) versus UC alone on pain control and functional improvement after back surgery.

Experiences of Depression in Low Income Elderly Women.

Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative research was to understand the meaning of the depression in low income elderly women.

Methods: Participants were 15 elderly women, aged between 60 and 80 who were registered in two senior welfare centers in Seoul. Data were collected from June to December, 2012 after having obtained consent from participants.

Phenomenological Study on Burnout Experience of Clinical Nurses Who have Turnover Intention.

Purpose: This study was aimed to understand the meaning and essentials of the experience of burnout for hospital nurses with turnover intention.

Methods: The design was a qualitative research of phenomenological study. Participants: Seven hospital nurses who had worked over three years and had experiences of turnover intention in a hospital with over 400 beds were included.

Qualitative content analysis of psychologic discomfort and coping process after needlestick injuries among health care workers.

Background: This study was designed to survey psychologic discomfort and coping processes of health care workers that suffered needlestick injuries (NSIs).

Methods: This qualitative analysis was performed with 15 health care workers who experienced NSIs. Data were collected using face-to-face interviews.

Experiences with, perceptions of and attitudes towards traditional Korean medicine (TKM) in patients with chronic fatigue: a qualitative, one-on-one, in-depth interview study.

Objectives: To explore perceptions and experiences of patients with chronic fatigue with traditional Korean medicine (TKM) and their motivation for choosing TKM.

Design: Qualitative, one-on-one, in-depth interview study.

Setting: Primary TKM hospitals in Seoul, Incheon and Daejeon, South Korea.

Job analysis of clinical research coordinators using the DACUM process.

Purpose: This study was done to analyze the job of clinical research coordinators (CRCs).

Methods: Through the "developing a curriculum (DACUM)" workshop, the definition of CRCs' role was described and CRCs' duties and tasks were identified. Finally, the developed duties and tasks were validated for importance, difficulty, and frequency.

A qualitative study of the experiences of patients with knee osteoarthritis undergoing moxibustion.

Objective: To explore and understand how patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) experience moxibustion.

Method: This qualitative research was conducted as part of a larger clinical trial of the effectiveness of moxibustion for the treatment of knee OA by qualitative content analysis. Sixteen patients with mild knee OA who participated in a 12-week moxibustion treatment as part of the trial were interviewed using open-ended questions.

[Evaluation of the Korean formal educational program for training care workers for frail elderly].

Purpose: This study was done to evaluate the formal education program provided by the Korean government for care workers for frail elderly people.

Methods: This study was a cross-sectional survey in which 438 certified care workers who had completed the education program participated. Data were collected from June to October 2009, using a self-report questionnaire consisting of satisfaction with, and understanding of the education program.

Professional values in Korean undergraduate nursing students.

Developing professional values among undergraduate nursing students is important since such values are a significant predictor of quality care, clients' recognition, and therefore nurses' job satisfaction. This study explored South Korean nursing students' perception of nursing professional values (NPV) and compared the NPV scores between groups according to participants' demographic characteristics. The study participants comprised of 529 students, mostly female (96.

[Evaluation of nurses' competency in nurse-patient communication about medications: conversational analysis approach].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop evaluation criteria for conversations about medication and to demonstrate conversational analysis with actual dialogues on medication as examples.

Methods: This study was a secondary analysis of qualitative research using conversational analysis which showed functional phases and patterns of dialogue about medication (greeting, identifying the patient, medicating, finishing). Nurse-patient conversations were videotaped and transcribed and 75 conversations were used for analysis.

[Quality of life and illness intrusiveness by type-D personality in the patients with coronary artery disease].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the influence of the type-D personality on quality of life and illness intrusiveness.

Methods: This study was a cross-sectional study. Data were collected using self-reported questionnaire from 200 patients with coronary artery disease (CAD).

[The life of elderly women living alone].

Purpose: This study aimed to uncover the fundamental nature of living alone in female elderly.

Methods: The phenomenological research approach developed by van Manen was adopted.

Results: The theme was 'taking a firm stand alone on the edges of life'.

[Family caregivers' experiences utilizing a nursing home for their elderly family members].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the experiences of the family caregivers using a nursing home for their elderly family members.

Method: Participants for this study were 1 man and 9 women caregivers. Data was collected through in-depth interviews from October, 2005 to April, 2006 and analyzed using Strauss and Corbin's grounded theory methodology.

[Functional phases and patterns of dialogue sequence in nurse-patient conversation about medication].

Purpose: Effective communication is an essential aspect of nursing care. This qualitative study was performed to analyze nurse-patient conversations about medication.

Method: The nurse-patient dialogue was collected by video tape recording during the nurse's duty time in an internal medicine ward.

[The experiences of transplantation coordinators' practice].

Purpose: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand the experiences in the transplantation coordinators' practice.

Method: Data was collected through a tape-recorded in-depth interview from nine participants who were transplantation coordinators of their hospitals. It was analyzed using the phenomenological method proposed by Colaizzi(1978).

[Role-identity of home care nurse practitioners].

Introduction: It is important to understand the nature of the identity through the live experiences of Home Care Nurse Practitioner(HCNP) because the role identity of a professional is constructed by continuous social interactions, This study aims to understand the construction of the role identity of HCNP.

Method: Data was collected from 12 hospital based HCNPs. This study involved two focus group discussion sand four in-depth individual interviews.

[The experiences of recovery from disease in patients doing meditation].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of recovery from disease in the patients doing a kind of Buddhist meditation, and to develop a grounded theory about meditation.

Method: Data was collected by an in-depth interview using tape-recordings from sixteen participants doing meditation. The data was analyzed using the grounded theory method proposed by Strauss and Corbin(1998).

[Differences in processes of change, decisional balance, and temptation across the stages of change for smoking cessation].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate smoking cessation behavior of male taxi drivers in Korea on the basis of the Transtheoretical model(TTM), and to validate the usefulness of TTM.

Method: Data were collected using a self-reported questionnaire including smoking history and major factors of TTM from 208 subjects who were current smokers or ex-smokers. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and ANOVA.

[The male nurses' experiences of adaptation in clinical setting].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identified the male nurses' encounter in adapting themselves in the hospital settings dominated by the female nurses in number.

Method: Data were collected through the in-depth interview of 16 male nurses and analysed through the grounded theory methodology.

Result: The behaviors of male nurses for job-adaptation can be summarized as a series of struggles to consolidate their own ground.

Decisional balances and the process of change in smoking cessation in patients with coronary artery diseases.

Purpose: Despite many smoking cessation programs, many patients with CAD continue to smoke or re-smoke. The processes of change and self-change for smoking cessation is emphasized. The purpose of present study was to investigate decisional balances and processes of change according to stages of change for smoking cessation in the patients with CAD.