Factors Associated with Non-Adherence to Self-Management Among Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Survey Using the Delphi Technique and Analytic Hierarchy Process.

Background: The relevant factors and patterns of non-adherence to self-management among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) need to be elucidated to improve self-management.

Purpose: This study was a survey to prioritize the relevance of factors associated with non-adherence to COPD self-management using the Delphi technique and analytic hierarchy process (AHP).

Patients And Methods: A total of 15 expert panels were established to determine the priority of relevant factors in a three-round Delphi survey and an AHP.

Effect of self-management education using pictogram-based content of health information on outcomes in Korean patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A randomized controlled trial.

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the effects of pictogram-based self-management education on the symptom experience, self-efficacy, self-management adherence, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Methods: Sixty COPD patients were enrolled from a pulmonology clinic at C hospital in southwestern Korea and subsequently randomized into two groups.

Results: A significant improvement in self-efficacy scores was noted (t = -2.

Development of pictogram-based content of self-management health information for Korean patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Background: Adherence to self-management greatly impacts patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. However, most patients with COPD have a limitation in understanding text-based self-management plans owing to low health literacy. Thus, strategies to improve self-management in patients with COPD should be developed.

[Influence of Learning Presence of Non-Face-to-Face Class Experience in Nursing Students on Academic Achievement: Mediating Effect of Learning Flow and Moderated Mediation of Digital Literacy].

Purpose: This study aimed to identify the mediating effect of learning flow and the moderated mediation effect of digital literacy on the effect of the learning presence of non-face-to-face class experience in nursing students on academic achievement.

Methods: Participants were 272 nursing students from six universities in two different cities. A self-report questionnaire was used to measure learning presence, learning flow, digital literacy, and academic achievement.

Reliability and Validity of the Korean Version of the Coping and Adaptation Processing Scale-Short-Form in Cancer Patients.

Purpose: This study was conducted to assess the reliability and validity of the Korean version of the Coping and Adaptation Processing Scale-Short-Form in patients with cancer.

Methods: The original scale was translated into Korean using Brislin's translation model. The Korean Short-Form and the Functional Assessment Cancer Therapy-General were administered to 164 Korean patients with cancer using convenience sampling method.

The Performance of Healthcare-associated Infection Control Guideline among Hospital Nurses: A Structural Equation Model.

Background: To improve efficient and systematic management and following of healthcare-associated infection guidelines, the relationship among various factors must be understood. Efforts should be made to strengthen or reduce relevant factors. We developed a structural equation model for following HAI-control guidelines.

[Effect of Debriefing Based on the Clinical Judgment Model on Simulation Based Learning Outcomes of End-of-Life Care for Nursing Students: A Non-Randomized Controlled Trial].

Purpose: This study was conducted to identify effects of debriefing based on the clinical judgment model for nursing students on their knowledge, skill performance, clinical judgment, self-confidence and learner satisfaction during simulation based end-of-life care (ELC) education.

Methods: Simulation based ELC education was developed in six steps as follows: selection of learning subjects and objects, development of learning tools, a trial run of simulation-based education, students' skill training, and evaluators' training. Forty-eight senior nursing students (25 in the experimental group and 23 in the control group) participated in the simulation-based ELC education using a high-fidelity simulator.

[Effects of Group Counseling Program Based on Goal Attainment Theory for Middle School Students with Emotional and Behavioral Problems].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a group counseling program based on goal attainment theory on self-esteem, interpersonal relationships, and school adjustment of middle school students with emotional and behavioral problems.

Methods: Forty-four middle school students with emotional and behavioral problems (22 in the experimental group and 22 in the control group) from G city participated in this study. Data were collected from July 30 to September 24, 2015.

Reliability and Validity of the Korean Version of the Cancer Stigma Scale.

Purpose: In this study the reliability and validity of the Korean version of the Cancer Stigma Scale (KCSS) was evaluated.

Methods: The KCSS was formed through translation and modification of Cataldo Lung Cancer Stigma Scale. The KCSS, Psychological Symptom Inventory (PSI), and European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire - Core 30 (EORTC QLQ-C30) were administered to 247 men and women diagnosed with one of the five major cancers.

[Structural Model of Evidence-Based Practice Implementation among Clinical Nurses].

Purpose: This study was conducted to develop and test a structural model of evidence-based practice (EBP) implementation among clinical nurses. The model was based on Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt's Advancing Research and Clinical Practice through Close Collaboration model and Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations theory.

Methods: Participants were 410 nurses recruited from ten different tertiary hospitals in Korea.

Effect of an individualised education programme on asthma control, inhaler use skill, asthma knowledge and health-related quality of life among poorly compliant Korean adult patients with asthma.

Aims And Objectives: This study assessed the effect of an individualised education programme on asthma control, inhaler use, asthma knowledge and health-related quality of life among poorly compliant adult Korean patients with asthma.

Background: Previous studies show that proper educational strategies are necessary to increase asthma knowledge and skills to improve patients' self-management and health-related quality of life.

Design: A one-group quasi-experimental design with repeated measurements.

A blended learning program on undergraduate nursing students' learning of electrocardiography.

This study sought to evaluate the feasibility of applying the blended learning program that combines the advantages of face-to-face(FTF) learning and e-learning. The blended learning program was developed by the authors and implemented for 4 weeks. 56 senior nursing students were recruited at a university in Korea.

[A comparison of interventions recorded in nursing notes between acute and subacute stage after a cerebrovascular accident].

Purpose: This study aimed to: 1) determine the core nursing interventions, and 2) compare acute interventions with subacute interventions recorded in the nursing notes of patients with cerebrovascular accidents (CVA).

Methods: The nursing records covering the first 10 days of 30 patients with a CVA who were admitted from January to December 2004 at C University Hospital in Korea were examined. Data was collected using the nursing interventions classification (NIC) from January to April 2005.

[Effects of educational program of manual lymph massage on the arm functioning and the quality of life in breast cancer patients].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of EPMLM (educational program of manual lymph massage) on the arm functioning and QOL (quality of life) in breast cancer patients with lymphedema.

Method: Subjects in the experimental group (n=20) participated in EPMLM for 6 weeks from June to July, 2005. The EPMLM consisted of training of lymph massage for 2 weeks and encourage and support of self-care using lymph massage for 4 weeks.

[Development of clinical performance indicators for establishing a connecting system between hospital performance management and quality improvement].

Purpose: This study aimed at developing integrated clinical performance indicators(CPIs) through the analysis of quality improvement(QI) activities of a hospital and literature review about performance measures.

Method: The CPIs were developed through the following three stages; 1)Identifying preliminary CPIs 2)A staff validity test in preliminary CPIs 3)Developing final CPIs.

Result: One hundred twenty-three preliminary CPIs were developed through QI activities of the target hospital for 8 years and literature review.

[A comparison of perceived nursing needs among oncology nurses, patients with non-terminal cancer and patients with terminal cancer].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the perceived importance and the perceived caring of nursing needs among oncology nurses, patients with non-terminal cancer and patients with terminal cancer.

Method: A total of 83 oncology nurses, 56 patients with non-terminal cancer and 39 patients with terminal cancer served as subjects. Data was collected based on the 4-point Likert scale using a self-administered questionnaire from Mar.

[Comparison of cancer nursing interventions recorded in nursing notes with nursing interventions perceived by nurses of an oncology unit--patients with terminal cancer].

Purpose: The purposes of this study were to determine the core nursing interventions in nursing notes and the practice which was perceived by nurses of an oncology unit with patients with terminal cancer. Also, comparing interventions in nursing notes with interventions in perceived practice was done.

Method: Subjects were 44 nursing records of patients with terminal cancer who had died from Jan.

[Health pattern of elderly according to age group who living alone in an urban area].

Purpose: This study was conducted to identify the differences of health patterns; health-related characteristics, health behaviors, health problems, and self-care levels of elderly, living alone in an urban area according to age group.

Method: The study design was a descriptive survey and the subjects were 1,800 elderly consisting of 937 young old, 704 middle old, and 159 old old. Data was collected from May to July 2003 using the structured questionnaire and analyzed by descriptive statistics, chi(2)-test, Fisher's exact probability test, ANOVA and Scheffe test using SPSS/PC.

[Model development of an elderly health promotion center: the effect of a social support program at a community health center].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop a model of an elderly health promotion center after witnessing the effect of a social support program on dependent variables in older adults at a local community health center.

Method: The subjects were 60 female adults over 65 years dwelling in a rural area, and they were divided into experimental and control groups each with 30 people. A social support program was implemented 6 hours a day, 3 times a week, for 4 months in the experimental group.

[Validation of Quality of Life Index-Cancer among Korean patients with cancer].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to validate Quality of Life Index-Cancer (Q.L.I.

[Nurses' image perceived by academic and vocational high school teachers in Korea].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify nurses' image and its related factors to make nurses' image among academic and vocational high school teachers in Korea.

Method: Study samples were composed of 470 teachers who were from 12 high schools in G and J city located in southwestern part of Korea. Data were collected from August 26 to October 4, 2002.