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PURPOSE: This study was to investigate the effects of respiratory rehabilitation training on the respiratory functions of hospitalized cervical spinal cord injury patients. METHODS: One group pre and post test design was used. Subjects were 20 cervical spinal cord injury inpatients of the national rehabilitation center. Training program consisted of air cumulation training, manual assisted coughing training, and abdominal breathing. Trained rehabilitation nurse implemented 20 minutes program twice a day for 4 weeks. Respiratory function was measured as peak coughing flow rate, and perceived respiratory difficulty after activity on wheel chair for 30 minutes and during speaking and singing. Perceived respiratory difficulty was measured with modified Borg scale. Also content analysis was done with the result of open ended question about subjective feeling about training. All variables were measured 3 times before, 2weeks and 4 weeks after the program. RESULTS: Peak coughing flow rate significantly improved after compared to before training. Also all three perceived respiratory difficulty variables decreased significantly after training. In the content analysis, 'it's easier to cough up phlegm' was the most frequent answered subjective feeling. 'Sound at speaking and coughing became louder', 'respiratory volume increased', and 'comfortable chest feeling' were frequent answered subjective feeling, in order. CONCLUSION: Although it is preliminary since no control group, respiratory rehabilitation training was found to be effective to improve respiratory function in terms of peak coughing flow rate, perceived respiratory difficulty, and subjective feeling. It is necessary further systemic research to investigate the effects of respiratory rehabilitation training.
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Humans , Cough , Education , Inpatients , Rehabilitation Centers , Rehabilitation , Respiration , Singing , Spinal Cord Injuries , Spinal Cord , Thorax , WheelchairsABSTRACT
PURPOSE: This study was performed to examine present health condition on community clients and the degree of cognition on community oriental health promotion program. METHOD: Research design is cross-sectional descriptive study, 300 residents who live in S city were selected. The period of data collection was from October 2005 to April 2006. The research instruments used were the VAS of fatigue, headache, pain, Depression, anxiety to examine present physical and psychological health condition and questionnaire on the degree of cognition on Oriental Health Promotion Program. SPSS 10.0 was used for statistics. RESULTS: The range of fatigue, headache, pain, depression, anxiety was 2.09-3.75. The degree of cognition on program was 2.67. As for the degree of cognition on oriental health promotion program according to general characteristics of subject, there was significant difference(F=3.79, p=.038) between below 65 years(2.88) and above 65 years(3.12). CONCLUSION: We are trying to develop oriental health promotion program fit to property of community, especially elderly.
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Aged , Humans , Anxiety , Cognition , Data Collection , Depression , Fatigue , Headache , Health Promotion , Surveys and Questionnaires , Research DesignABSTRACT
PURPOSE: This study aims to identify the role and function of the RNP (rehabilitational nurse practitioner) expected by nurses and doctors. METHOD: This study was a survey. The data were collected 188 nurses and 21 doctors who worked for disabled patients in the rehabilitation hospital during months of June, 2004 and August, 2005. RESULTS: 98.4% of nurse and 61.9% of doctors agreed at opening of RNP course. The major role of RNP expected by nurses were educator, counsellor and case manager. The major role of RNP expected by doctors were direct care, self care promoter & exercise and emotional care. There was a significant difference about the need for opening of RNP course and major role and function of RNP between the group of nurses and doctors. CONCLUSION: The results of this study showed that the need for opening of RNP was identified and the major role of RNP was educator, counsellor, case manager and direct care. So there is a need for further research about major role of RNP related to various setting including rehabilitation hospital, nursing home, home care etc.
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Humans , Home Care Services , Nurse Practitioners , Nursing Homes , Rehabilitation , Self CareABSTRACT
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to analyze research in the Korean Journal of Rehabilitation Nursing and to suggest further perspective for rehabilitation nursing research. METHOD: In this study we reviewed the contents of 134 articles published in this journal from its beginning year 1998 to 2004. RESULTS: The majority of subjects were adult patients. The type of disease were Cerebrovascular Accident, Neuromuscular disease, Cancer patients, Urogenital disease such as Chronic Renal Failure, Spinal cord injury. Domain of research almost was client, type of research were survey (34.3%), quasi experimental study (20.9%), correlation study (19.4%). Nursing intervention of experimental study was exercise (39.0%), education (17.1%). Place of data collection was hospital (58.2%), position of researcher was professor (67.2%), method of data collection was questionnaire (50.7%). CONCLUSION: There has been a lack of written consent, child rehabilitation, measurement tool development, qualitative research. More studies about rehabilitation nursing are needed to extend the role and fields for professional nursing.
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Adult , Child , Humans , Data Collection , Education , Kidney Failure, Chronic , Neuromuscular Diseases , Nursing , Qualitative Research , Surveys and Questionnaires , Rehabilitation Nursing , Rehabilitation , Spinal Cord Injuries , Statistics as Topic , StrokeABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to compare the educational needs and perception of mothers of normal neonates and high risk infants. This research was designed as a descriptive study. Data were collected for two months from April 2002 to March 2002. Subjects were 41 mothers of high risk infants and 60 mothers of normal neonates in one general hospital in Seoul participated in the study. Measurement tools used in this study were the educational needs scale developed by Cho Kyoul Ja et al and the neonatal perceptive inventories scale developed by Broussard. They ask mothers to rate each item on a four point Likert type scale. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS 8.0 program. The variables were listed as frequency, mean, standard deviation, X2 test, t-test, ANOVA. The results were as follows: The educational needs of the mothers of primi pregnancy was higher than the mothers of multi pregnancy. The educational needs on management of diseases such as prevention of infection, symptoms of disease, mental development, attachment promotion, congenital metabolism test, management of convulsion, care of vomiting and fever were higher than general care of infants such as immunization, measurement of temperature, hiccough care, follow up care. The informations must be included in nursing intervention program to reduce the mothers' stress level. In conclusion, in order to promote positive mother infant relationship, nurse need to give information and educate the mothers of high risk infant and normal neonate.
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Humans , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Pregnancy , Equipment and Supplies , Fever , Hiccup , Hospitals, General , Immunization , Metabolism , Mothers , Nursing , Seizures , Seoul , Vomiting , Child HealthABSTRACT
In order to ascertain the status of health damage among Korean farmers who spray pesticides regularly in summer, blood and urine samples were collected for 88 volunteers during July to Septembei in 1990. Serum cholinesterase activity, parent compounds of pesticides in blood and urine, SGOT, SGPT, blood pressure, pulse rate were measured. The results were as follows ; 1. Mean cholinesterase activity after spraying pesticides was significantly lower than that before splaying. While proportion of abnormal cholinesterase activity (<1900U/L) group was 2.3% before spraying pesticides, tHe proportion of the group after spraying was 22.8% 2. Cholinesterase activity were decreased over 50% in 14.7% of the suhjects who can be classified into poisoning group 3. While pulse rate and blood pressure were slightly increased in poisoning group, those were significantly decreased in non-poisoning group. 4. Consecutive splaying of pesticide caused further reduction of cholinesterase activity, 5. Five parent compounds of pesticides frequently used during summer farming were analyzed using 106 blood samples. IBP in one sample and Isoprothiolane in four samples were detected. No parent compounds were detected in urine samples.