Sung-Yun Ahn ¹, Young-Ju Kim ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Nursing Science, PaiChai University, KR
2 Department of Nursing Science, Health Institute of Technology, KR

Abstract

This study was conducted to examine the relationship among smartphone use, stress, and quality of sleep in nursing students. Smartphone overuse and stress were factors significantly influencing quality of sleep for those students, and they had an explanatory power of 21.1% in the quality of sleep.

Keywords

Nursing student, Smart phone use, Stress, Quality of sleep

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Myoung-Jin Kwon ¹, Sung-Yun Ahn ²

Affiliations
1 1Department of Nursing, Daejeon University, Daejeon, Dong-gu, KR
2 Department of Nursing, PaiChai University, Daejeon, Seo-gu, KR

Abstract

Background/Objectives: This study used the CERAD-K to investigate the relationships among the cognitive, verbal, and constructional functions in elderly patients with cognitive impairments. Methods/Statistical Analysis: The subjects in this study were 155 community-dwelling elderly who were registered at the community clinic in the C region. These subjects consisted of 108 with mild cognitive impairments and 47 with Alzheimer's disease. We used the Korean Version of the Consortium to Establish a Registry of Alzheimer’s Disease (CERAD-K). The data that were collected in this study were analyzed with SPSS 21.1. Findings: In both elderly patients with mild cognitive impairment and patients with Alzheimer's disease, cognitive function correlated significantly with all verbal and constructional functions, and the verbal and constructional functions decreased as cognitive function decreased. For the elderly patients with mild cognitive impairments, Verbal Fluency (β = 0.218, p = 0.005) and Word List Recognition (β = 0.223, p = 0.011) were the factors with significant influence, and they had a 65.7% explanatory power for cognitive function. In the elderly patients with Alzheimer's disease, Praxis Delayed Recall was a factor with significant influence, and it had a 69.2% explanatory power for cognitive function. Application/Improvements: The cognitive rehabilitation treatment of elderly patients with mild cognitive impairments requires a multidisciplinary approach that includes treating the verbal and constructional functions.

Keywords

CERAD-K, Cognitive Function, Constructional Function, Elderly, Verbal Function.

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Sung-Yun Ahn ¹, Myoungjin Kwon ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Nursing Science, Pai Chai University, KR
2 Department of Nursing, Daejeon University, KR

Abstract

Background/Objectives: The purpose of this study is to provide basic data for nursing mediation program by grasping the factor that influence pain of osteoarthritis patients with depression. Methods/Statistical Analysis: The original data of ‘The 5th, 3rd year Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey’ was used for this study. The 2012 national survey conducted by Ministry of Health and Welfare and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had total 8058 subjects and this study was conducted with 132 subjects who answered ‘yes’ in the question, asking about whether having osteoarthritis current or not and whether having depression or not. Findings: Subjective health status significantly correlated with stress (r = -.23, p = .006), walking time (r = .17, p = .044) and perceived level of pain (r = .33, p = .003). A significant correlation was also found between BMI and sleep hours (r = -.20, p = .019) and between BMI and perceived level of pain (r = .25, p = .025). To identify the explanation power of factors affecting pain, a linear regression analysis was conducted with pain of OA patients with depression as an independent variable and general variables, subjective health status, stress, walking duration, BMI, sleeping time, dining times, as dependent variables. The subjective health status (β = 0.331, p = .009) had an impact on the pain level with an explanatory power of 17.8%. Application/Improvements: Strategies that take into account perceptions of subjective health status are important for the development of targeted interventions aimed at reducing pain.

Keywords

Pain, Osteoarthritis, Depression, Subjective health status, Stress.

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