An evaluation of Web-based education as an alternative to group lectures for diabetes self-management.

This study evaluated the efficacy of Web-based diabetes self-management education for newly diagnosed patients with type II diabetes as an alternative to group lectures. Using a non-equivalent control group, pretest-post-test design, the participants in the Web group (n = 15) took part in a Web-based diabetes self-management program, while those in the lecture group (n = 16) attended 3 h of group lectures provided by health-care professionals specializing in diabetes care. The outcome variables were measured at the baseline (T0), and 6 weeks (T1) and 3 months (T2) after the interventions.

[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.

[Effects of abdominal breathing training using biofeedback on stress, immune response and quality of life in patients with a mastectomy for breast cancer].

Purpose: This study was to determine the effects of abdominal breathing training using biofeedback on stress, immune response, and quality of life.

Method: The study design was a nonequivalent control group pretest- posttest, quasi-experimental design. Twenty-five breast cancer patients who had completed adjuvant chemotherapy were enrolled.

[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.

[Secondary analysis: focusing on qualitative research].

Purpose: This article explored issues arising from secondary analysis of qualitative data and analyzed the results of qualitative secondary analysis studies published in English, focusing on the methodological aspects.

Method: A total of 29 studies were identified as qualitative secondary analysis studies, retrieving from the CINAHL database from 1982 to 3rd week of April 2003. These studies were analyzed by publication year, research method, and type of approach to secondary analysis.

[Adjustment patterns of illness process of people with hemophilia in Korea].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore adjustment pattern of illness process of people with hemophilia in Korea.

Method: 23 people with hemophilia had participated for this study. The data were collected through in-depth interviews and analyzed using Strauss & Corbin's grounded theory method.