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Purpose@#This study was an experimental research study to examine the effects of aroma essential oil inhalation on autonomic nerve system response, electroencephalogram and concentration. @*Methods@#The participants were 92 healthy adults: 32 in the experimental group, 30 in the placebo group, and 30 in the control group. In the experimental group, lemon and rosemary oil were mixed in a ratio of 4: 1, and 0.1 ml was dropped on gauze and then naturally inhaled for a total of 30 minutes. The application for the placebo group was 0.9% saline solution, and for the control group, no treatment. To determine the effects, the autonomic nervous system response was measured by applying Canopy 9 Plus 4.0 before the experiment and at 10, 20, and 30 minutes after the experimental application, and an electroencephalogram was taken using QEEG-8. The computerized neurocognitive function test for measuring concentration was given before the experiment and at 30 minutes after the treatment. @*Results@#There were no significant differences in the homogeneity tests for general characteristics and for the dependent variables prior to the experiment. There was a significant difference in sympathetic nervous activity between the experimental group, placebo group, and control group (F=3.78, p=.027), and the experimental group had higher sympathetic nervous activity than the control group. There was no statistically significant difference on the electroencephalogram between the ⍺ and beta waves of the three groups. The Stroop Color-Word interference test (color) of the three groups for concentration measurement was significantly different between pre test and at 30 minutes after the treatment (F=7.40, p=.001), and the score for the experimental group increased compared to the control group. @*Conclusion@#The findings showed that the inhalation of aroma essential oil activated the sympathetic nervous system and partially increased the level of concentration.
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BACKGROUND: This descriptive study was conducted to investigate the relations among stress of clinical practice, stress coping, ego-resilience and clinical competence in nursing students.METHODS: The participants in this study were 146 who were nursing students at D university in D city. A questionnaire was conducted to investigate the relationship between stress of clinical practice, stress coping, ego-resilience and clinical competence. Collected data were analyzed using t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation with IBM SPSS Statistics 20.0 program.RESULTS: The Stress of Clinical Practice score of subjects was 60.8, Stress Coping score was 79.7, ego-resilience score was 38.8 and Clinical Competence score was 160.9. Students with high Satisfaction of major showed low clinical stress(F=12.410, p < .001) and showed high clinical performance(F=7.766, p < .001). There were statistically significantly correlations that ego-resilience showed a positive correlation with stress coping (r=.338, p < .001), and clinical competence was stress coping (r=.455, p < .001) and ego resilience (r=.373, p < .001).CONCLUSION: The results of the study indicate that stress coping, resilience, and clinical competence are significantly strongly correlated. Therefore, it is suggested that to improve the clinical competence of nursing students should be improve ego-resilience and develop stress coping ability.
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PURPOSE: The purposes of this study were to identify knowledge, health belief and compliance in patients with hypertension and to identify the most important predictors for compliance of hypertensive patient. METHOD: The participants in this study were 117 patients who were receiving treatment for hypertension at E. university hospital or one of three local clinics in D-city. Data were collected using a knowledge measurement instrument, health belief scale, and an instrument on compliance. Collected data were analyzed using chi2 test, ANOVA, multiple linear regression with PASW statistics 18.0 program. RESULTS: There were statistically significantly positive correlations between knowledge of hypertension and health belief, health belief and compliance. But there was no correlation between knowledge of hypertension and compliance. In the multiple regression analysis, perceived barriers, perceived severity, perceived benefits were significant predictors to explain compliance and accounted for 54.1% of the variance in compliance. CONCLUSION: The results of the study indicate that health belief and compliance are significantly strongly correlated. Thus it is suggested that nursing interventions to improve compliance should include nursing care plans to increase health belief, perceived severity, perceived benefit and to decrease perceived barrier.