Is the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale Useful in Screening for Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease? A Systematic Review.

Background: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are screened to distinguish whether the cognitive decline in older adults is attributed to pathological causes rather than normal aging.

Objective: The purpose of this review was to analyze the diagnostic performance of the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale (ADAS-Cog) in screening for MCI and AD.

Methods: Electronic searches were performed on MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and PsycArticles databases using the following keywords: dementia and ADAS-Cog.

A rational emotive behavior therapy-based intervention for binge eating behavior management among female students: a quasi-experimental study.

Background: Binge eating behavior is highly likely to progress to an eating disorder, with female students particularly at risk.

Objective: This study aimed to verify the effect of a binge eating behavior management program, based on rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), on binge eating behavior and related cognitive and emotional factors among female college students.

Method: The study, conducted from November 1 to December 2, 2016, involved a pretest-posttest design and nonequivalent control group.

Factors related to self-care behaviours among patients with diabetic foot ulcers.

Aims And Objectives: To examine the level of self-care behaviours among patients with diabetic foot ulcers and identify factors related to their self-care behaviours.

Background: This study focused on the self-care behaviours of patients diagnosed with diabetic foot ulcers, a complication of diabetes.

Design: A cross-sectional study design was adopted.

Development and evaluation of a Communication Enhancement Program for People with Chronic Schizophrenia: A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design study.

Aim: This study aims to develop a Communication Enhancement Program for People with Chronic Schizophrenia (CEP-S), and to evaluate the effects of CEP-S.

Background: People with chronic schizophrenia are characterized by core communication disturbances; therefore, a program to enhance their communication skills is necessary. As such, they are predicted to have difficulty fitting into society, such as relationships with people, due to issues such as having normal communication with others.

A structural model of family empowerment for families of children with special needs.

Aims And Objectives: To explain and predict family empowerment in families of children with special needs.

Background: Family empowerment of families of children with special needs can be explained using the Double ABCX model. Although constant stressors such as parenting stress and family demands can have negative effects on family empowerment, family resources and parenting efficacy can mediate the negative effect through effective coping strategies.

Blood Pressure Response to Meditation and Yoga: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Objectives: To introduce research that presents scientific evidence regarding the effects of mantra and mindfulness meditation techniques and yoga on decreasing blood pressure (BP) in patients who have hypertension.

Methods: A literature search was performed to identify all studies published between 1946 and 2014 from periodicals indexed in Ovid Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, KoreaMed, and NDSL by using the following keywords: "hypertension," "blood pressure," "psychotherapy," "relaxation therapy," "meditation," "yoga," and "mind-body therapy." The Cochrane's Risk of Bias was applied to assess the internal validity of the randomized controlled trial studies.

[A Structural Equation Model on Family Strength of Married Working Women].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of predictive factors related to family strength and develop a structural equation model that explains family strength among married working women.

Methods: A hypothesized model was developed based on literature reviews and predictors of family strength by Yoo. This constructed model was built of an eight pathway form.

Perception of interprofessional conflicts and interprofessional education by doctors and nurses.

Purpose: This study aimed to collect information that is needed to develop interprofessional education curricula by examining the current status of interprofessional conflicts and the demand for interprofessional education.

Methods: A total of 95 doctors and 92 nurses in three university hospitals in Seoul responded to a survey that comprised questions on past experience with interprofessional conflicts, the causes and solutions of such conflicts, past experience with interprofessional education, and the demand for interprofessional education.

Results: We found that 86% of doctors and 62.

Effects of exercise programs on depressive symptoms, quality of life, and self-esteem in older people: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.

Objective: This study attempted to show evidence of exercise programs as intervention to decrease depressive symptoms and to improve quality of life and self-esteem in older people.

Design: Systematic review of randomized controlled trials.

Data Sources: Electronic databases of KoreaMed, Korea Scientific and Technological Intelligence Center, Korean Society of Nursing Science, Korean Academy of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Ovid-Medline and Embase were searched up to May 25th, 2012 for relevant articles.

[Effects of the Family Resilience Enhancement Program for families of patients with chronic schizophrenia].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of the Family Resilience Enhancement Program (FREP) on family hardiness, family sense of coherence, family problem solving communication, family crisis oriented personal evaluation, and adaptation in families of patients with chronic schizophrenia.

Methods: The study design was a nonequivalent control group prepost test design. Study participants were 17 families in the experimental group and 17 in the control group.

Stress and sleep disorder.

The purpose of this study was to review potential, physiological, hormonal and neuronal mechanisms that may mediate the sleep changes. This paper investigates the literatures regarding the activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, one of the main neuroendocrine stress systems during sleep in order to identify relations between stress and sleep disorder and the treatment of stress-induced insomnia. Sleep and wakefulness are regulated by the aminergic, cholinergic brainstem and hypothalamic systems.

[Depression status of academic high school students in Seoul: mediating role of entrapment].

Purpose: Purpose of this study was to investigate the status of depression in academic high school students and path analysis model for exploring the mediating role of entrapment to depression in relation to academic stress and perceived social support.

Methods: Measurements were four reliable questionnaires measuring academic stress, social support, entrapment, and depression. Data were collected from students in 17 high schools in Seoul.

[Family functioning and quality of life of the family care-giver in cancer patients].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship among quality of life, family coherence, family hardiness, and family resources of the family care-giver caring for a cancer patient.

Method: Data was collected by questionnaires from 137 families with a cancer patient at a General Hospital and Government Cancer Hospital. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, pearson correlation coefficients, and stepwise multiple regression.

[Influencing factors on symptom self management in patients with chronic mental disorders].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the factors influencing symptom self management (SSM) in the patient with a chronic mental disorder.

Method: Data was collected by questionnaires from 204 chronic mental disorders in an outpatient clinic in a General Hospital and Public Mental Health Centers in Seoul and Kyunggi Province. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, pearson correlation coefficients, and stepwise multiple regression.

[Effects of assertive training on interpersonal relations, social behavior, and psychiatric symptoms in patients with a mental disorder].

Purpose: This study was designed to examine the effects of an assertive training program on interpersonal relations, and psychiatric symptoms in patients with a mental disorder.

Method: The study employed a quasi experimental design. The subjects included 44 patients with a mental disorder, 20 in the experimental group, and 24 in the control group.

[Self efficacy, health promoting behaviors, and symptoms of stress among university students].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between self efficacy (SE), health promoting behaviors (HPB) and symptoms of stress (SOS) among university students.

Method: Data was collected by questionnaires from 369 university students in Seoul, Korea. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, pearson correlation coefficients, and stepwise multiple regression.

Structural model for quality of life of patients with chronic cardiovascular disease in Korea.

Background: Health promotion among those with chronic illness has been proposed as a strategy to contain health care cost and enhance quality of life (QOL), but little research has been done in Korea on QOL focused on health promotion of patients with chronic cardiovascular disease (CCVD).

Objectives: This study was designed to estimate a structural model to represent the QOL of patients with CCVD, on the basis of a literature review and Pender's health promotion model (HPM).

Methods: Data were collected by questionnaire from 436 patients with CCVD in a university hospital in Seoul from August 2001 to July 2002.

[Influencing factors on symptoms of stress among hospital staff nurses].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the factors influencing Symptoms of Stress among hospital staff nurses.

Method: Data was collected by questionnaires from 249 hospital staff nurses in three General Hospital. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, pearson correlation coefficients, and stepwise multiple regression.

[Perceived stress, ways of coping, and health promoting behavior in patients with chronic cardiovascular disease].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship among perceived stress, ways of coping, and health promoting behaviors in patients with chronic cardiovascular disease(CCVD).

Method: Data was collected by questionnaires from 436 patients with CCVD in a General Hospital in Seoul. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficients, and stepwise multiple regression.

[Perceived stress, mood state, and symptoms of stress of the patient with chronic illness].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the factors influencing Symptoms of Stress in patients with chronic illness.

Method: Data were collected by questionnaires from 1,748 patients with chronic disease in General Hospital in Seoul. Chronic diseases of were cardiac disease including hypertension, peptic ulcer, pulmonary disease included COPD and asthma, DM, and chronic kidney disease.

[Drinking pattern, problem related drinking, perceived stress, ways of coping, and symptoms of stress of the female university students].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship among problem related drinking, perceived stress, ways of coping, and symptoms of stress of the college women.

Method: Data was collected by questionnaires from 436 the College Women in S City. It was analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficients.

[A workload analysis of a visiting nursing service based on a health center in Seoul].

Purpose: This study focused on analysing the workload of visiting nurses based on a health center.

Method: A Prospective descriptive analysis of self-records for workload data from 115 visiting nurses during 4 weeks was done. In addition, a cross-sectional analysis of linked data to grasp the priority of visiting nursing services from 155 visiting nurses at the 25 health centers in Seoul.

[Prediction on the negative outcomes of anger in female adolescents].

Purpose: This study was designed to construct a structural model for explaining negative outcomes of anger in female adolescents.

Method: Data was collected by questionnaires from 199 female adolescents ina female high school in Seoul. Data analysis was done with SAS for descriptive statistics and a PC-LISREL Program for Covariance structural analysis.

[A structural model for symptom management of the patients with chronic fatigue].

Purpose: This study was designed to construct a structural model for symptom management of life of the patients with chronic fatigue. The hypothetical model was developed based on the literature review and Self-regulating Model.

Method: Data were collected by questionnaires from 252 patients with chronic fatigue in the 8 community from December 2002 to April 2003 in Seoul.