A study on the intent to leave and stay among hospital nurses in Korea: A cross-sectional survey.

Aims: To investigate the intent to leave or stay among Korean hospital nurses, and to identify what factors influence their intent to leave or stay.

Background: Previous studies have simply measured nurses' intent to leave or stay; however, this study examines the associations of intent to leave and intent to stay with influential factors among Korean hospital nurses.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 267 nurses working at four general hospitals in South Korea.

Sexual activity and hepatitis B and C virus infection among young adults after introduction of a vaccination program in an area of high endemicity.

Background: In areas where hepatitis is endemic, little is known about the sexual transmission of HBV after introduction of an HBV vaccination program.

Methods: We used a self-administered questionnaire and serological tests for HBsAg, anti-HBs, anti-HBc, and anti-HCV to examine the role of sexual activity, as well as sociodemographic status, lifestyle habits, and a history of vaccinations, transfusions, and surgery, in the transmission of HBV and HCV in Korea. The subjects were 865 female and 541 male university students (median age, 19 years; age range, 16-25).

Prevalence of human papillomavirus and Chlamydia trachomatis infection among women attending cervical cancer screening in the Republic of Korea.

Cervical cancer screening with the conventional Papanicolaou test is recommended for the women aged 30 years and more in Korea. Cervical infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most important cause of cervical cancer and Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection and may also be associated with risk of cervical cancer. A cross-sectional study of women attending the National Cervical Cancer Screening Program in Busan and Suwon was carried out.

Acquisition of new infection and clearance of type-specific human papillomavirus infections in female students in Busan, South Korea: a follow-up study.

Background: Little is known about the natural history of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in Asian women.

Methods: A follow-up study was conducted, with exfoliated cervicovaginal cells self-collected from, and questionnaires administered to 197 female students, aged 17-26 years, who had been already examined one and half years before. The presence of 25 HPV types was evaluated by a polymerase chain reaction-based assay.

Serologic response to oncogenic human papillomavirus types in male and female university students in Busan, South Korea.

In the absence of genital samples, human papillomavirus (HPV) serology may be useful to assess HPV infection in young men and women. HPV seroprevalence and determinants of seropositivity were assessed in 817 female and 518 male university students in Busan, South Korea, of whom 74% and 44%, respectively, reported never having had penetrative sexual intercourse. Type-specific HPV DNA status, assessed by a short PCR fragment primer set, was available from genital samples.

Clonorchis sinensis infection and increasing risk of cholangiocarcinoma in the Republic of Korea.

To evaluate the prevalence and risk factors of Clonorchis sinensis infection, an epidemiologic survey was performed (3,169 residents; age range: 30-87 years; mean age = 59; 1,973 women) in three areas with different mortality rates of cholangiocarcinoma. C. sinensis prevalence was 2.

[Epidemiologic study of Clonorchis sinensis infestation in a rural area of Kyongsangnam-do, South Korea].

Objectives: To investigate the prevalence of Clonorchis sinensis infestation and to determine the associated risk factors among a population in a part of the rural area of Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea, which is an area known to have a high mortality from liver cancer and a high infection of C. sinensis.

Methods: The study population consisted of those people who have lived in rural areas and who were over 40 years old.

A seroepidemiological Study of Hepatitis B and C Virus (HBV and HCV) Infections in the Young Population in parts of Busan, Korea.

Objectives: To investigate the prevalence of hepatitis B and C virus infections and determine the associated risk factors among young adults in Busan, Korea, which is known to have a high incidence of liver cancer.

Methods: The study population consisted of volunteer participants in a health survey during 2002, which included 1, 350 students (515 males and 835 females) aged between 16 and 24 years, from three different schools in Busan. The participating students were asked to fill in a selfadministered questionnaire which included lifestyle habits and risk factors of hepatitis.

Prevalence and determinants of genital infection with papillomavirus, in female and male university students in Busan, South Korea.

Background: Little is known about the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in young adults in Asia.

Methods: We invited female and male students in Busan, South Korea, to participate in a survey that included, for females, self-collection of vaginal cells and, for males, physician-performed collection of exfoliated genital cells. The prevalences of 25 HPV types were evaluated, by a polymerase chain reaction-based assay, in 672 female students (median age, 19 years) and in 381 male students (median age, 22 years).