[Effects of cognitive behavioral therapy program on mental health problems in children dealing with trauma: focused on community district victimized by oil spill].

Purpose: This study was done to evaluate the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy in a victimized community district and to determine if the program is an effective nursing intervention to reduce posttraumatic stress disorder symptom, depression and state anxiety.

Methods: A nonequivalent control group design was used for the study. The participants, 32 elementary school students, were selected from grades 4, 5, 6 and each student was assigned to either the experimental (16) or control (16) group.

Prediction of pain outcomes in Korean older adults: use of a structural equation model.

Objective: To construct a structural equation model of pain adjustment outcomes (e.g., depression and fatigue) in Korean older adults based on the cognitive-behavioral model of chronic pain.

[Prediction model on mental health status in middle-aged women of an urban area].

Purpose: This study was designed to construct a structural model for explaining mental health status in middle-aged women.

Methods: The data was collected by self-reported questionnaires from 206 middle-aged women in Seoul. Data analysis was done with the SAS pc program for descriptive statistics and a PC-LISREL Program for finding the best fit model which assumes causal relationships among variables.

[A correlational study among perceived stress, anger expression, and depression in cancer patients].

Purpose: This study was to identify the relationship between perceived stress, anger expression, and level of depression in cancer patients.

Method: A cross-sectional descriptive study design was used. Data was collected by questionnaires from 185 in- and out-patients who were diagnosed with cancer at 3 university hospitals and the National Cancer Center using Spielberger et al.

[A meta-analysis of the effects of a self-efficacy promoting program].

Purpose: This meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the effects of a self-efficacy promoting program and analyze its components.

Method: The material used for this study were 18 self-efficacy promoting program studies carried out from Jan. 1980 to Oct.

[Risk factors for sexual behaviors in girl's high school students].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine risk factors for sexual behaviors in Korean female high school students.

Method: Data was collected by a written questionnaire from June 22 to July 18, 2002 from 522 girls, who were stratified samples from a target population of 63,375 11th grade students from 200 regular high schools and 70 vocational high schools in Seoul, Korea. We conducted multiple regression analysis using the SAS pc+ program.