Nurses' intention to care of COVID-19 patients in hospitals dedicated to infectious disease in South Korea: application of the theory of planned behavior and verification of the moderating effect of ethical nursing competence.

Background: The theory of planned behavior is a conceptual framework of recent studies to identify and explain nurses' intentions to care for patients with emerging infectious diseases. However, correlations between behavioral intentions and variables that explain them have been inconsistent in previous studies. The influence of new variables might be considered in this case.

Comparing the effects of patient safety education using design thinking and case based learning on nursing students' competece and professional socialization: A quasi-experimental design.

Background: Patient safety issues should be constantly monitored and sensitively recognized. In nursing education, it is necessary to find effective teaching methods to increase students' competencies in patient safety.

Objectives: This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of a new method, design thinking (DT), and a traditional method, case-based learning (CBL), in patient safety education.

Professional socialization of hospital nurses: A scale development and validation study.

Background: Tools currently available to measure professional socialization are outdated or could not reflect various properties of professional socialization of nurses. Thus, the objective of this study was to develop and validate a professional socialization measurement instrument for hospital nurses.

Methods: Fifty-two items were initially extracted from literature reviews and in-depth interviews with 32 nurses.

The influence of marital intimacy on urinary and sexual symptom experience among patients with prostate cancer: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Little is known about the influence of how patients with prostate cancer perceive emotional support from their spouses on their treatment-related symptoms.

Aims: To explore the influence of marital intimacy on urinary and sexual symptoms.

Methods: The research participants were 42 men diagnosed with prostate cancer recruited from a convenience sample from a university hospital in South Korea.

Unhealthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Korean People with Metabolic Syndrome.

This study identified factors associated with unhealthy lifestyle behaviors in people with metabolic syndrome in South Korea. The sample consisted of 1,207 subjects with metabolic syndrome from the Sixth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted in 2014. High-risk alcohol consumption, smoking, aerobic physical activity, leisure physical activity, excessive carbohydrate intake, and fat intake were measured.

Evaluation of the validity and reliability of the Korean version of the Nursing Professional Values Scale-Revised.

Background: The development of professional values is a significant factor in improving nursing practice. It is important to develop nursing curricula for establishing and investigating nursing students' professional values. Professional values of Korean nursing students may differ from those of nursing students in other countries, and research on the professional values of Koreans using a validated scale is needed.

Nursing students' critical thinking disposition according to academic level and satisfaction with nursing.

Background: The development of critical thinking dispositions has become an important issue in nursing education in Korea. Nursing colleges in Korea have developed teaching strategies and curricula that focus on developing critical thinking dispositions. It is an imperative step that evaluates the changing pattern and development of students' critical thinking dispositions.

Public knowledge and attitudes regarding antibiotic use in South Korea.

Purpose: This study was conducted to examine public level of knowledge and attitudes regarding antibiotic use and potential drug resistance.

Methods: A cross-sectional face-to-face survey of 1,177 residents aged 18 or over was conducted in Korea. A quota sampling method was used.

Perceived cognitive function and related factors in korean women with breast cancer.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore perceived cognitive function and its related factors in breast cancer patients that had received or were receiving adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery.

Methods: A cross-sectional and correlational design was used in this study. A total of 118 women who had undergone or were undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy after breast cancer surgery recruited from a convenience sample from a university hospital in Korea were included in the study.

[Psychometric evaluation of a need scale for cancer patients undergoing follow-up care].

Purpose: The purpose of this present study was to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of a needs scale for patients with cancer undergoing follow-up care (NS-C).

Methods: A preliminary NS-C of 48 was derived from literature reviews and in-depth interviews with patients with cancer. Content validation of the items was established by oncology physicians and nurses.

[Psychosocial adjustment process in adolescents with epilepsy].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the psychosocial adjustment process in adolescents with epilepsy in the context of Korean society and culture.

Method: A grounded theory method was used for data collection and analysis. Participants for this study were 9 adolescents who regularly visited an epilepsy clinic in a university hospital.