[The Development and Evaluation of a Health Literacy-Adapted Self-Management Intervention for Elderly Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy].

Purpose: This study aimed to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of an adapted health literacy self-management intervention for elderly cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.

Methods: The intervention in this study was systematically developed through the six stages of Intervention Mapping Protocol and was based on Fransen et al's causal pathway model. A quasi-experimental trial was conducted on a total of 52 elderly patients (26 in an experimental group and 26 in a control group) undergoing chemotherapy in Korea.

[The experience of adult Korean children caring for parents institutionalized with dementia].

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to explore and describe the experience of adult Korean children who are caregivers for parents institutionalized with dementia.

Methods: Participants were fourteen adult children caregivers of elders institutionalized with dementia. Data were collected through in-depth unstructured interviews with individual participants from August to November, 2012.

[Structural relationship of burnout and related variables among family caregivers of cancer patients].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to construct a structural equational model to explain and predict burnout in family caregivers of patients with cancer. The study was based on the Stress-Appraisal-Coping Model of Lazarus and Folkman (1984) and Family Stress Theory (Hill, 1958).

Methods: Data were collected from July 10 to September 30, 2012 through direct interviews and a self-report questionnaire survey.

Nursing Home Placement: The Process of Decision Making and Adaptation among Adult Children Caregivers of Demented Parents in Korea.

Purpose: The goal of this study was to explore and describe the process of nursing home placement decision making and adaptation among adult children caregivers of demented parents in Korea and to generate a substantive theory grounded in their experiences.

Methods: The participants were 16 adult children caregivers who had placed their demented elders into nursing homes. Data were collected by in-depth unstructured interviews with individual participants.

A path analysis: a model of depression in Korean women with breast cancer-mediating effects of self-esteem and hope.

Purpose/objectives: To test a hypothetical model of depression in Korean women with breast cancer and to test the mediating effects of self-esteem and hope.

Design: Cross-sectional design.

Setting: Participants were recruited from three general hospitals and one cancer hospital in Busan, South Korea.

[Psychosocial adjustment of low-income Koreans with cancer].

Purpose: To describe psychosocial adjustment of low-income Koreans who have cancer.

Methods: Data were collected during 2008 using individual in-depth interviews with 18 Korean people with cancer. The income status of the participants was low, 11 were recipients of the National Basic Livelihood Protection program.

[An ethnographic study on eating styles of adult diabetics in Korea].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore adult diabetics' eating styles and factors which influence them.

Method: The study adopted an ethnographic method based on a perspective which views the eating style as a cultural phenomenon. Data was collected through a personal interview, participant observation, and documented materials from Oct.

[The illness experience of women in advanced uterine cancer].

Purpose: This hermeneutical inquiry was aimed at understanding the experience of women with advanced uterine cancer and providing sociocultural data on hospice nursing for these Korean women. We adopted hermeneutic phenomenological approach of van Manen. The research question was "What do women with advanced uterine cancer experience in their life?".