[The effects of a health promotion program for elderly].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop and to evaluate a health promotion program for elderly.

Method: Subjects were 63 elderly women (experimental group: 33, control group: 30). The study was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design.

[Development of a scale to measure the effectiveness of oriental nursing education].

Purpose: The aim of this study was to design and evaluate a scale for measuring reliability and validity in the field of oriental nursing education.

Method: A questionnaire was administered to 495 university nursing students using a convenience sampling method. The period of time for collecting data was from September 2003 to January 2004.