Purpose: This study aimed at understanding the correlation between self-esteem, death anxiety, and spiritual wellbeing in university students. Methods: Cross-sectional method was used 671 students in South Korea. This study used the Self-esteem developed by Rosenberg, the Fear of Death Scale revised by Lester and Abdel-Khalek, and Spiritual wellbeing developed by Paloutzian and Ellison. Results: Relationships between self-esteem, death anxiety, and spiritual wellbeing revealed an inverse correlation between self-esteem and death anxiety, and a direct correlation between self-esteem and spiritual wellbeing. Conclusion: In order for students of establishing identity to lead a healthy life, there is a need for studies aiming at developing, implementing, and evaluating the results of consultation and education programs for maintaining spiritual wellbeing such as psychological counseling and logotherapy at the university or regional community level.

The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between fatigue, sleep disturbance, and gestational stress in women during late stage of pregnancy. Methods: This study was conducted with 113 healthy pregnant women at gestational age greater than 27 weeks who were registered at community health centers and received prenatal care. A structured questionnaire regarding fatigue, sleep disturbance, and gestational stress was used. The data was analyzed using a t-test, an ANOVA, and Pearson correlation coefficients. Results: The subjects with unplanned pregnancies and irregular exercise patterns showed a higher level of fatigue than those with planned pregnancies and regular exercise patterns. Pregnant women with caffeine intake manifested higher levels of gestational stress and sleep disturbance than those without. The levels of sleep disturbance and gestational stress increased as the fatigue levels increased. The fatigue levels increased with increased levels of sleep disturbance. Conclusion: Planned pregnancy, regular exercise patterns, and caffeine intake were related with fatigue, sleep disturbance, and gestational stress in women during late stages of pregnancy. Fatigue, sleep disturbance, and gestational stress had close associations to each other. In the future, such results should guide development of nursing intervention programs for women in late stages of pregnancy.

Results: For male, the influencing factors on HRQOL were economic activity and smoking. For female, the influencing factors on HRQOL were education, psychological and physical stress, unmet basic needs, and psychiatric drugs. The types of insurance, unmet medical needs, anxiety about the future, depression, and self-rated health status showed statistically significant relationships with HRQOL both for male and female. Conclusion: Health care providers are suggested to consider the founded gender differences in this study when they develop interventions for HRQOL improvement for baby boomers in a community.

Purpose:The purpose of this study was to identify the factors which contribute to the burnout of a family member providing care to a family member in the intensive care unit (ICU). Methods: Data about participants' characteristics, stress, burden, social support and burnout were collected from March 1 to September 15, 2016. Data were collected through interviews and a self-report questionnaire. One hundred and twenty-three participants who were the primary caregiver participated in the study. Results: The reported mean stress score was 2.13±0.78 and of reported burden was 3.24±0.27. The mean score of social support was 3.17±0.59 and of burnout was 2.61±0.58. There were significant differences in education level, financial burden, assistant, and health status in burnout of the family caregivers. Burnout had significant correlations with stress (r=.76, p<.001), burden (r=.43, p<.001), and social support (r=-.62, p<.001). The influencing factors on burnout were stress (β=0.63, p<.001), burden (β =0.14, p=.010), and social support (β=-0.32, p<.001). These variables explained 71.8% of the total variance in burnout. Conclusion: The results suggest that stress, burden, and social support should be considered in developing the nursing interventions to improve the burnout among family caregivers of the ICU patients. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Purpose: This study was done to investigate the prevalence and factors affecting body shape misperception among Korean adult women. Methods: We analyzed raw data from the fourth Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Families, for 7,658 women over 20 years of age. For the multiple logistic regression model, the dependent variable was existence of misperception (yes/no). Results: The prevalence of body shape misperception was 42.6% (overestimation 6.5%, underestimation 36.1%). Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that age, education level, marital status, economic status and BMI were significantly associated with body shape underestimation. Education level and BMI were significantly associated with body shape overestimation. Conclusion: An effective obesity intervention program for women must reflect and monitor body shape perception as well as BMI.This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 서 론 1. 연구의 필요성 최근 외모지상주의와 상업주의가 만연하면서 여성들이 자 신의 체형에 대한 관심도가 높아지고 있으며 지나지게 마른 체 형을 선호하는 사회풍조가 보편화되고 있다[1,2]. 대인관계에 서도 외모의 중요성이 점차 커지고 있으며 호감을 주는 외모가 주요한 능력의 한 요소로 평가되면서 보다 나은 외모와 신체이 미지를 갖기 위해 아낌없는 노력을 기울이고 있다[3]. 특히 여 성들은 남성에 비해 외모와 체중 및 체형에 관심이 높고 더 많 은 체중조절을 시도하며, 외모의 신체이미지에 대한 만족도가 낮고 신체이미지에 대한 만족도가 낮은 경우 자존감이 낮아지 는 것으로 알려져 있다[2,4,5]. 이러한 사회분위기는 여성들에게 자신의 체형을 왜곡되게 인식하게 함으로써 정상 체중임에도 과체중이나 비만으로 인 식하여 무리한 체중조절을 시도하게 하는 등 정신적, 육체적 장애까지 초래하여 심각한 사회적 문제를 야기하고 있다[6,7]. 지나치게 마른 체형을 추구하고 자신의 체형에 대해 왜곡된 인 식을 가지게 되면 건강하지 못한 식습관을 형성하고 흡연, 원푸 드 다이어트, 살 빼는 약물사용 등 바람직하지 않은 방식으로 체중조절행동을 하기가 쉽다[2]. 그릇된 체형인식으로 인해 정 상체중이거나 심지어 저체중임에도 불구하고 무리하게 체중 조절을 시도하는 경우 식욕부진, 소화 장애, 골밀도감소, 면역 ⓒ 2016 Korean Society of Women Health Nursing http://www.women-health-nursing.or.kr