Health promotion lifestyle profile of Augustinian Recollect Sisters: Basis for a Health Program

@#Studies on health promotion lifestyle of religious communities have relatively received little attention. This study aimed to determine the health promoting lifestyle of the Augustinian Recollect Sisters and to develop a program that will direct them to attain optimal health. Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile II was used to determine the health promotion lifestyle profile of 88 Augustinian Recollect Sisters. Descriptive statistics featured the profile of the respondents and Pearson r determined the significant relationship between the respondents' demographic profiles and their level/degree of engagement in health promotion lifestyle. Findings revealed no significant relationship between the respondents' demographic profile and their level of health promotion lifestyle.

Health promotion lifestyle profile of Augustinian Recollect Sisters: Basis for a health program

Studies on health promotion lifestyle of religious communities have relatively received little attention. This study aimed to determine the health promoting lifestyle of the Augustinian Recollect Sisters and to develop a program that will direct them to attain optimal health. Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile II was used to determine the health promotion lifestyle profile of 88 Augustinian Recollect Sisters. Descriptive statistics featured the profile of respondents and Pearson r determined the significant relationship between the respondents' demographic profiles and their level/degree of engagement in health promotion lifestyle. Findings revealed no significant relationship between the respondents' demographic profile and their level of health promotion style.  

"If I Only Touch Her Cloak": The Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph in New Orleans' Charity Hospital, 1834-1860 / 의사학

This study is about the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph in New Orleans' Charity Hospital during the years between 1834 and 1860. The Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph was founded in 1809 by Saint Elizabeth Ann Bailey Seton (first native-born North American canonized in 1975) in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Seton's Sisters of Charity was the first community for religious women to be established in the United States and was later incorporated with the French Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in 1850. A call to work in New Orleans' Charity Hospital in the 1830s meant a significant achievement for the Sisters of Charity, since it was the second oldest continuously operating public hospitals in the United States until 2005, bearing the same name over the decades. In 1834, Sister Regina Smith and other sisters were officially called to Charity Hospital, in order to supersede the existing "nurses, attendants, and servants," and take a complete charge of the internal management of the Charity Hospital. The existing scholarship on the history of hospitals and Catholic nursing has not integrated the concrete stories of the Sisters of Charity into the broader histories of institutionalized medicine, gender, and religion. Along with a variety of primary sources, this study primarily relies on the Charity Hospital History Folder stored at the Daughters of Charity West Center Province Archives. Located in the "Queen city of the South," Charity Hospital was the center of the southern medical profession and the world's fair of people and diseases. Charity Hospital provided the sisters with a unique situation that religion and medicine became intertwined. The Sisters, as nurses, constructed a new atmosphere of caring for patients and even their families inside and outside the hospital, and built their own separate space within the hospital walls. As hospital managers, the Sisters of Charity were put in complete charge of the hospital, which was never seen in other hospitals. By wearing a distinctive religious garment, they eschewed female dependence and sexuality. As medical and religious attendants at the sick wards, the sisters played a vital role in preparing the patients for a "good death" as well as spiritual wellness. By waging their own war on the Protestant influences, the sisters did their best to build their own sacred place in caring for sick bodies and saving souls. Through the research on the Sisters of Charity at Charity Hospital, this study ultimately sheds light on the ways in which a nineteenth-century southern hospital functioned as a unique environment for the recovery of wellness of the body and soul, shaped and envisioned by the Catholic sister-nurses' gender and religious identities.

Case report of two sisters suffering from Weill-Marchesani syndrome with pulmonary stenosis.

We report two sisters having a rare congenital anomaly-Weill-Marchesani syndrome having disproportionate short height, restriction of joint movements, brachydactyly, dislocation of lens, bilateral glaucomatous optic atrophy, and pulmonary stenosis.

Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa in Two Sisters / 대한주산의학회잡지

Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa is a rare, chronic non-inflammatory bullous disease, which easily forms bullae by minor mechanical trauma or spontaneously, is inherited either in an autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive fashion. We report herein two cases which presented with bullae, erosions and ulcers on extremities, buttock, chest, abdomen and face and loss of all nail since birth in two sisters. Bulla occured bencath the basal lamina histopathologically, anchoring fibrils were almost absent on electron miaoscopy in both cases. The two sisters represented dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa considering the absence of family history inheritcd in an autosomal dominant fashion and the clinical, histological and electronmicroscopic findings.

Hair Casts in Sisters / 대한피부과학회지

Hair casts are firm, yellowish white accretions ensheathing but not attached to the scalp and are freely movable up and down the affected shafts. There are two types of hair casts. The common type is found frequently in association with parakeratotic scalp disorders. The uncommon type, peripilar keratin cast is not associated with any cutaneous abnormality either in the scalp or elsewhere and it develops in young girls aged between 2 and 8 years. We report two cases of peripilar keratin casts that had developed in sisters who have had tightly tied-up their hairs for a long time.

Chronic Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus in Two Sisters / 대한피부과학회지

Scalp involvements occur in 30-60% of patients with chronic cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CCLE), and may result in irreversible cicartricial alopecia due to follicular destructions. The pathogenesis of CCLE is consiclered to be multifactorial; relevant factors would be immunogenetic, hormonal, and environmental ir fluences. Perhaps, the immunogenetic factors may be more important. We report a case of two sisters who had superficial scarring alopecia on the scalp, in the constitutions of underlying mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) and undifferentiated connective tissue syndrome (UCTS), respectively. This sister-CCLE case is regarded to be the first report among familial CCLE in Korea.

Unilateral Congenital Dislocation of Hip in Sister / 대한정형외과학회잡지

The etiology of congenital dislocation of the hip is still the subject of much discussion. Genetic growth disturbance, intrauterine and postnatal mechanical influences are considered as possible factors. According to Hass, typical congenital dislocation of the hip is not primarily a congenital disease. The occurance rate of C.D.H in sister or brother has been reported higher than others. But there have been no report about this cases. Two cases of C.D.H. in sister have been treated at Kang-Nam St. Mary's Hospital. Both of them were treated by traction and closed reduction under arthrography. Pavlik harness was applied in younger case after removel of hip spica cast. Clinically and radiologically the results were good during the follow-up period.