Publications by authors named "Hye Min Byun"
Purpose: This study aimed to understand the non-contact nursing experiences of clinical nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: A qualitative research design applying thematic analysis was used. The participants were purposive sampled from three institutes: a tertiary hospital, a general hospital, and a residential treatment center in Seoul.
Article Synopsis
- Nurses face increasing ethical challenges, especially during crises like COVID-19, which highlights the need for improved public health ethics education to enhance their response skills.* -
- This study explored the effectiveness of using news articles and panel discussions in a nursing ethics program, analyzing students' reflections using text mining techniques to understand their ethical thinking processes.* -
- Findings indicate that news articles foster rational ethical reasoning, while panel discussions enhance emotional responses, suggesting that both methods can work together to enrich nursing students' ethical competencies.*
Phenomenological Study of Women's Experiences of Neonatal Transport After Childbirth in Korea.
J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs
March 2024
Objective: To explore the experiences of women in Korea who were separated from their newborns when they were transported to neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) to receive treatment.
Design: Phenomenological.
Setting: A university hospital with approximately 600 beds in Seoul, Korea.
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how wearing face masks during COVID-19 affects sound energy and speech recognition, particularly for those with hearing aids.
- Participants watched videos of speakers with and without masks, and their audio comprehension was tested under different conditions.
- Results showed that masks reduce sound energy but premium hearing aids improve speech recognition, highlighting the need for better communication strategies for those with hearing loss.
Aims: To identify specific patterns of lifestyle behaviours among young adults and examine the relationships of the patterns to sociodemographic characteristics and health conditions (hypertension, diabetes and obesity).
Design: Descriptive, correlational study.
Methods: Data from a nationally representative sample of 4562 young adults aged 19-39, who participated in the 2016-2018 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, were analysed.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is three-fold: 1) to evaluate factors influencing hearing aid (HA) satisfaction; 2) to provide a profile of HA satisfaction in daily life; and 3) to examine the reasons why people gave up using HAs.
Materials And Methods: Data for 1148 respondents were statistically analyzed and reported.
Results: In the study, age (β=-0.
Purpose: This study was conducted to assess public awareness and policy challenges faced by practicing nurses.
Methods: After collecting nurse-related news articles published before and after 'the Thanks to You Challenge' campaign (between December 31, 2019, and July 15, 2020), keywords were extracted via preprocessing. A three-step method keyword analysis, latent Dirichlet allocation topic modeling, and keyword network analysis was used to examine the text and the structure of the selected news articles.
Purpose: This study aimed to analyze the mass and social media contents and structures related to particulate matter before and after the policy enforcement of the comprehensive countermeasures for particulate matter, derive nursing implications, and provide a basis for designing health policies.
Methods: After crawling online news articles and posts on social networking sites before and after policy enforcement with particulate matter as keywords, we conducted topic and semantic network analysis using TEXTOM, R, and UCINET 6.
Results: In topic analysis, behavior tips was the common main topic in both media before and after the policy enforcement.
A transformative service research for healthy transition to adulthood of young people living alone in Korea.
Health Soc Care Community
September 2021
This study was conducted to explore phenomena related to the physical, psychological and social health vulnerabilities of young people who lived alone and to establish strategy for service implementation to facilitate their healthy transition to adulthood. In accordance with the double diamond process of service design, five workshops involving 12 participants and 9 experts were held from July to November 2018 in the D-district of Seoul, Korea. As a result, the participants were identified as a difficult group to engage in health management because of their features: unconcern for health, inevitable neglect for health or fixation of lifestyle far from health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This study aimed to construct a management model for patient transfer in a multilevel healthcare system and to predict the effect of counseling with nurses on the patient transfer process.
Methods: Data were collected from the electronic medical records of 20,400 patients using the referral system in a tertiary hospital in Seoul from May 2015 to April 2017. The data were analyzed using system dynamics methodology.