This study aims to investigate the effects of abdominal massage on constipation in institutionalized elderly. A randomized cross-over design including 15 participants was conducted in M city on 2008. The sample group received abdominal massage program. Abdominal massage was performed as 10-minutes per day, 6 days per week, for 2 weeks. Data was collected and assessed 4 times about frequencies of bowel movements per week, stool consistency, degree of difficulty with defecation, and time required for defecation; a week before the experiment, the first week and the second week for experiment and a week after the experiment. The statistical methods included Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, t-test and paired t-test using SPSS 13.0. Frequencies of bowel movements per week, degree of difficulty with defecation, and time required for defecation were significantly different between the experimental group and the control group. The results of this small study suggest a positive effects of the relieving constipation of the institutionlized elderly.
Intra-facility patient transfer poses substantial risks of patient falls and care-giver’s musculoskeletal injuries. Several patient lifters and aid devices have been introduced but they have not been widely used due to their bulky size and slow operation. A prototype of new patient transfer aid device has been developed to help care-givers transfer patients safely and more efficiently than conventional manual transferring or the use of powered patient lifters. This study was aimed to explain how the new patient transfer aid device has been developed, evaluated and redesigned to improve its safety, functionality and usability. Both laboratory experiment using a quantitative assessment method and field user research by interview and shadowing have been conducted to evaluate ergonomic advantages and to identify usability issues when transferring patients using the new aid device. Then, the initial prototype has been redesigned to address the issues and improve overall usability.
Purpose. The purpose of this study was descriptive research to evaluate the clinical competency and nursing professionalism values before and after nursing clinical practice in nursing students.Methods. The data collected from 100 nursing students by the study period was from December 10, 2013 ~ November 12, 2014 to measure the performance and clinical care professional intuition. The collected data were analyzed by paired t-test, ANOVA, correlation.Results. Clinical practice before performance was 3.48(±.38), after practice 3.79(±.40) was a professional nursing practice before intuition 3.90(±.41), after the practice was 3.74(±.40), clinical performance and the nursing profession is positive found to be correlated.
Conclusions.This study suggests that development of research programs to improve care professional intuition in nursing college is necessary as results.
PURPOSE: This study is designed as a retrospective study, and identified the clinical usability of Sit to Stand (STS) test for predicting of fall incidence in stroke patients who experienced a fall within 1 year. METHODS: Between July 2011 and November 2012, 69 inpatients with stroke in K rehabilitation hospital were participated under voluntarily signing the informed consent form. STS test and 10m walk test (10MWT) were used to assess the muscle strength of lower-extremity and walking velocity, respectively. Also, we tested dynamic balance and motor function of lower-extremity in affected-side using with the Berg balance scale (BBS) and the Fugl-Meyer assessment of lower extremity (FM-L/E).METHODS: There were significant differences between subjects with fall-experienced group and without subjects without fall-experienced group in STS test, 10MWT, BBS
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