Evaluation of the Interaction Model of Client Health Behavior-based multifaceted intervention on patient activation and osteoarthritis symptoms.

Purpose: This study evaluated a multifaceted intervention for osteoarthritis symptoms.

Methods: A cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted with a convenience sample of 90 patients aged between 45 and 82 years, who were recruited from three Community Health Posts (CHPs). The CHPs were randomized into two experimental groups (E1 and E2) and one control group (C).

Incivility experiences in clinical practicum education among nursing students.

Background: Nursing students' incivility experiences not only cause stress and burnout but also have other negative effects on general clinical training, hindering their learning or even affecting their career decisions.

Objectives: This study aimed to comprehensively and thoroughly examine the specific phenomena and implications of incivility experienced by nursing students during clinical practicum.

Design: Based on the hermeneutical philosophy, this study utilizes an exploratory and qualitative design to describe the incivility experiences among nursing students undertaking clinical practicum.

Multidimensional Caregiving Burden of Female Family Caregivers in Korea.

The purpose of this study was to examine a staged theoretical model to explain cultural knowledge-based multidimensional burden of women family caregivers caring for community-dwelling older adults using a modified Poulshock and Deimling model. In the model, the antecedents included elders' impairment in activities of daily living (ADL), elders' cognitive impairment, caregivers' self-efficacy, and caregivers' familism. The perception contained the disruptive behavior burden and social functioning burden of caregivers.

Factors Associated With Medication Adherence Among Medical-Aid Beneficiaries With Hypertension.

The purpose was to examine factors associated with medication adherence among medical-aid beneficiaries with hypertension using the Expanded Behavioral Model of Health Services Utilization. A cross-sectional study was conducted with a convenient sample of 289 patients. The instruments included scales to measure medication adherence, health literacy, general self-efficacy, and pros and cons of chronic disease management.

Factors affecting Korean nursing student empowerment in clinical practice.

Background: Understanding the phenomenon of nursing student empowerment in clinical practice is important. Investigating the cognition of empowerment and identifying predictors are necessary to enhance nursing student empowerment in clinical practice.

Objectives: To identify empowerment predictors for Korean nursing students in clinical practice based on studies by Bradbury-Jones et al.

Psychometric Properties of the Korean Version of the "Patient Activation Measure 13" (PAM13-K) in Patients With Osteoarthritis.

This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Korean version of the Patient Activation Measure 13 (PAM13) using Rasch analysis. The sample consisted of 270 Korean patients with osteoarthritis. The PAM13 was translated into Korean using a standardized forward-backward translation approach.

Multilevel analysis of health care service utilization among medical aid beneficiaries in Korea.

Purpose: The current study was done to identify individual- and group-level factors associated with health care service utilization among Korean medical aid beneficiaries by applying multilevel modeling.

Methods: Secondary data analysis was performed using data on health care service reimbursement and medical aid case management progress from 15,948 beneficiaries, and data from 229 regions were included in the analysis.

Results: Results of multilevel analysis showed an estimated intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) of 18.

Translation and validation of the Korean version of Family Scale.

Background: Familism is an important and complex clinical issue because of its significant impact on family caregiving of elders.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of a Korean-translated version of the Family Scale (FS-K) among Korean adults. A descriptive, cross-sectional survey design was used.

Quality of nursing doctoral education in Korea: towards policy development.

Aims: This article is a report on an international study of the quality of nursing doctoral education; herein, we report findings for Korea. Specific aims were to: examine the validity and reliability of the quality of nursing doctoral education questionnaire; and identify contributing factors and domain(s) for improvement.

Background: The quality of nursing doctoral education has been a worldwide concern with the recent rapid increase in number of nursing doctoral programmes around the world, and comprehensive evaluation is needed for policy recommendations.

Factors associated with the overuse or underuse of health care services among medical aid beneficiaries in Korea.

Purpose: To compare and contrast demographic characteristics and health care service utilization between overusers and underusers of health care services and to identify factors associated with the overuse or underuse of health care services among the medical aid beneficiaries in Korea.

Methods: Secondary data analysis was performed using health care costs and medical aid case management progress data. Data on demographic characteristics, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and inappropriate health care service user category (overuse or underuse) were provided by the Medical-Aid Case Management Center of Korea, and heath care service reimbursement data were provided by the Korea National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC).

A study on Korean nursing students' educational outcomes.

The purpose of this study was to describe outcome indicators of nursing education including critical thinking, professionalism, leadership, and communication and to evaluate differences among nursing programs and academic years. A descriptive research design was employed. A total of 454 students from four year baccalaureate (BS) nursing programs and two three-year associate degree (AD) programs consented to complete self-administered questionnaires.

Lifestyle advice for Korean Americans and native Koreans with hypertension.

Aim: This paper is a report of a comparison of advice on lifestyle given by healthcare providers and subsequent action by recipients between Korean Americans and native Koreans with hypertension.

Background: High blood pressure is controllable by having a healthy lifestyle, such as weight control, dietary change, exercise, low-sodium diet, alcohol restriction and smoking cessation, and by taking medication. Healthcare providers play an important role in teaching individuals with hypertension on healthy lifestyles.

Effects on Nursing Students of Cognition-Behavior Integrated Breast Cancer Prevention Education Using an Interchangeable Nodule Model.

Purpose: The study was done to examine the effects of cognition-behavior integrated breast cancer prevention education, in which a breast model with interchangeable nodules was utilized, on the self-competency of nursing students in performing breast cancer education.

Methods: A nonequivalent control group non-synchronized design was used. A traditional lecture intervention was provided for 49 3rd year college of nursing students (control group) while the integrated breast cancer prevention education was given to 47 3rd year students in the same college one year later (experimental group).

Quality of faculty, students, curriculum and resources for nursing doctoral education in Korea: a focus group study.

Background: The rapidly increasing number of nursing doctoral programs has caused concern about the quality of nursing doctoral education, including in Korea.

Objectives: To describe the perceived quality of Korean nursing doctoral education in faculty, student, curriculum and resources.

Design: Focus group.

The comparative evaluation of expanded national immunization policies in Korea using an analytic hierarchy process.

The purpose of this paper is to propose new evaluation criteria and an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model to assess the expanded national immunization programs (ENIPs) and to evaluate two alternative health care policies. One of the alternative policies is that private clinics and hospitals would offer free vaccination services to children and the other of them is that public health centers would offer these free vaccination services. Our model to evaluate the ENIPs was developed using brainstorming, Delphi techniques, and the AHP model.

Nutrient profiles of korean-americans, non-Hispanic whites and blacks with and without hypertension in the United States.

Purpose: We compared the nutrient profiles of hypertensive Korean-Americans, non-Hispanic Whites and Blacks with those of normotensive Korean-Americans, Whites, and Blacks.

Methods: This study was a cross-sectional comparative design of nutrient profiles among three ethnic groups. Korean-Americans were interviewed at Korean-American health clinics and churches in Chicago and data were collected by the 24-hour dietary recall method.

Multidisciplinary practice experience of nursing faculty and their collaborators for primary health care in Korea.

Purpose: This study aimed to describe the range of participation of nursing faculty members and their collaborators in multidisciplinary primary health care in Korea and to analyze facilitators, benefits, barriers, and learned lessons.

Methods: An exploratory descriptive research design was utilized. A total of 13 nursing faculty members and 13 multidisciplinary collaborators were interviewed face to face using a brief questionnaire and semi-structured interview guide.

[A comparison of stress levels of elementary students by geographical regions].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare stress levels of elementary students according to three regional levels: a large city, a medium-sized city, and a rural area.

Methods: This was a descriptive comparative survey using a convenience sample of 1,161 5th-and 6th-grade students. The stress level was measured by a stress scale that consisted of 65 items regarding personal characteristics, family, school, and peer factors.

Dietary acculturation and diet quality of hypertensive Korean Americans.

Aim: This paper is a report of a study to describe the dietary acculturation of hypertensive and normotensive Korean Americans and native Koreans by comparing dietary pattern and diet quality.

Background: Dietary acculturation is a major factor that influences the risks for cardiovascular disease in immigrants. Nurses play a key role in educating immigrants about dietary acculturation.

[Development of standards and criteria for accreditation of a baccalaureate nursing education program: reflections on the unique characteristics of the nursing profession].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine characteristics of nursing science and identify expected outcomes from baccalaureate graduates, and to develop accreditation standards and criteria reflecting the characteristics of the nursing profession.

Methods: A methodological research design was utilized in this study. Related literature reviews and the nursing education program goals and objectives of the 99 nursing schools in Korea were analyzed.

[Development and testing of a sexually transmitted diseases prevention program in at-risk prostitutes].

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to test the effectiveness of an 8 session intervention program to prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among at-risk prostitutes.

Method: An experimental research design was employed. Subjects were 59 prostitutes (29 in the control group and 30 in the experimental group) who agreed to participate in this study.

Health disparities in lifestyle choices among hypertensive Korean Americans, non-Hispanic Whites, and Blacks.

Purpose And Methods: To describe medication profile, diet, and exercise/physical activity in hypertensive Korean Americans, a convenience sample of 100 hypertensive Korean Americans (KAs) at two KA health clinics were interviewed by bilingual Korean nurses using questions from the 1988-1994 Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III). One hundred age- and gender-matched hypertensive non-Hispanic Whites and 100 Blacks were randomly selected from the NHANES III dataset, and results were compared to describe the health disparities in lifestyle choices among the three groups.

Results: The medication profile among the three groups was similar.

[Content analysis of the experience of preceptors in clinical education for senior student nurses].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify experiences of nurses who served as preceptors in clinical education for senior student nurses in a college of medicine in Wonju city.

Method: Data was collected from 20 preceptors instructing senior student nurses in 2001 using a self-completion questionnaire. To analyze data, content analysis was done using an analysis scheme developed by the investigators.

Health care needs of elderly in a rural community in Korea.

The purpose of this study was to examine the need for health and social support services of the elderly who lived alone in a rural community in Korea. All 97 elderly who lived alone in 32 communities in H Eub(county), Kangwon Province participated in the study. Comprehensive assessment was conducted on their need for these services and on the status of their physical, functional, cognitive, emotional, nutritional, social, and environmental factors.