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A Study on the Relationship between Self-Esteem and Meaning of Life in Higher Grade Elementary School Students
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Kyung Ah Kang, Shin Jeong Kim, Mi Kyung Song
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J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 2009;20(3):269-276. Published online September 30, 2009
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The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between self-esteem and meaning of life in higher grade elementary school students.
METHODS
Four hundred eighty four elementary school students in their 4 ~ 6th-grade at S, G and C City were recruited by convenient sampling. Data were collected from August to October, 2008 using a self-reported questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed by the SPSS/WIN 12.0 program with mean, standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, Duncan's test, and Pearson's correlation.
RESULTS
The average score of meaning of life was 3.07 +/- 0.38 and that of self-esteem was 3.43 +/- 0.62. There were significant differences in self-esteem according to variables region and religion, and in meaning of life scores according to variables region, grade, sex and religion. There was a significant positive correlation between self-esteem and meaning of life.
CONCLUSION
Self-esteem and meaning of life should be considered as important factors for healthy development in the elementary school period. Self-esteem should be considered as a main content in developing programs for finding meaning of life for higher grade elementary school students.
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Current Status of Community Health Nursing Practicum in Bachelor Program in Korea
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Chung Yul Lee, Hyang Yeon Lee, Gwang Suk Kim, Kyung Ah Kang
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J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 2006;17(1):26-37. Published online March 31, 2006
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This study was to investigate the current situation of community health nursing practicum in bachelor programs.
METHOD
Data were collected using a questionnaire consisting of questions on education goals, teaching items, teaching methods, and evaluation methods and items. Forty five nursing departments/colleges or 84.9% of four-year nursing schools in Korea responded to the survey.
RESULT
Nursing process application and understanding about the role and function of community health nurses were major goals of practice education. Community health centers were the most significant practice fields because all nursing schools mentioned them as places for practice. All nursing schools used a specific evaluation tool to measure students outcomes and utilized guidebooks to help students.
CONCLUSION
The results of this study suggest that the goals of practice education should be standardized to improve the quality of education. Besides, evaluation tools that can be used commonly at all nursing schools should be developed to measure the effectiveness of practice education of community health nursing.
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Content Analysis of Difficulties in Families with Terminal Cancer Patients
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Kyung Ah Kang, Shin Jeong Kim
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J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 2005;16(3):270-281. Published online September 30, 2005
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The objective of this study was to understand the caring experience of families with terminal cancer patients.
METHOD
This was designed to be an inductive and descriptive study. Forty-seven families with terminal cancer patients were interviewed in depth and collected data were examined through content analysis.
RESULT
The main categories of difficulties found in this study were "suffering of patient", "emotional suffering of family", "bereavement of patient", "difficulties in coping", "problems in treatment", "incurable situation", "family problems", "relationship with other people", "economic problems", "spiritual problems", "problems in the future", "informing patients of their condition", "preparing death", "emotional unstability", "meaninglessness", "unkindness of medical teams", "poor environment for treatment", "difficulties in hospital environment" and "economic burden".
CONCLUSION
The main point found from this result was that families taking care of terminal cancer patients are suffering emotionally from watching the patients' pains and had difficulties in coping with the patients' situation and treatment. In addition, they had negative experiences in medical teams attitude and hospital environment. This result can be used as an important guide for nurses to assess families' needs in the terminal care setting.
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The Need for Hospice Care in Families of Patients with Cancer
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Kyung Ah Kang, Shin Jeong Kim, Young Soon Kim
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J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 2004;15(4):639-647. Published online December 31, 2004
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The purpose of this study was to analyze the need for hospice care programs in families of patients with cancer.
METHOD
The study surveyed 98 families who were taking care of patients with cancer. This survey was conducted from August 2004 to October 2004 at two general hospitals in Seoul. The data were collected through a self-reporting questionnaire of 22 items. The items were classified into five areas by factor analysis to identify the construct validity. The reliability of the tool was established by Cronbach's alpha as .93 and the data collected were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test and ANOVA.
RESULTS
1) The degree of need for hospice care of the subjects showed a high average of 3.26 (+/-3.7). The need for 'emotional care of patients showed the highest mean (M=3.47), 'management of terminal physical symptoms' (M=3.34), 'control of secondary physical problems' (M=3.26), 'acceptance of the family's difficulty' (M=3.12), 'spiritual care for preparing for death' (M=2.96), respectively. 2) With respect to the demographic characteristics of the subjects, there were statistically significant differences in hospice care needs, according to the onset of diagnosis (F==3.110, p=.030).
CONCLUSION
Hospice care must be provided considering the needs of families of patients with cancer. In this sense, this country's needs as well as hospice nurses' higher concern and support for hospice care of patients require further education and program development to meet the current demands.
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The Experience of Life of the Physically Handicapped Adolescents
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Kyung Ah Kang, Shin Jeong Kim
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J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 2002;13(4):767-777. Published online December 31, 2002
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The study data were collected from July to November 2000. The investigators provided detailed explanations to the subjects about keeping the anonymity of the subjects name and confidentiality of the information provided by the study subjects. The subjects recevied in-depth interviews by the investigators. Each interview took about 40 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes. and each subject received interviews with the range of one to 3 rimes. All interviews were recorded under the permission of the subjects The investigators formed field notes after finishing each interview.
In the process of data analysis 'Realizing the difficulty due to physical handicap' was found to be the causal condition whereas 'acceptance of physical handicap' was identified as th context.
Then we identified awaring as the valuable being as the core phenomenon support from family and social group and spiritual help as the intervening condition effort for adaptation as the strategy and finding the meaning of life as the consequence.
Through the theoretical model derived from this study an important aspect the lives of physically handicapped adolescences was identified that awaring as the valuable being help them cope better and find the meaning of life in spite of suffering they experience.
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