Woong Im | 2 Articles |
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: Once attacked by paralytic poliomyelitis, most of patients have difficulties in their social activities and need a close assistance in their rehabilitation efforts. By examining the relation between the onset of paralytic poliomyelitis and the paralytic pattern, this study made to provide some helps in estimating the prognosis of the paralytic poliomyelitis and their rehabilitation activities. Methods : Authors made suvey on 48 paralytic poliomyelitis victims who work at 00 electronic company in Seoul, Korea. Results : The ratio between male and female was approximately 2 to 1. Out of 48 victims, 46(95.8%) were attacked by poliomyelitis before 5 years old. The victims were country-widely distributed and most of them were attacked in summer. The victims attacked under 5 years old have paralysis on their both legs (52.2%), those after 5 years old show paralysis on both legs. Conclusion : Most of the victims were attacked by poliomyelitis under 5 year old, have paralysis on their both legs and need early stage rehabilitational education and treatment. Family members and social level concern and help should be continuously given to them so that they can manage their stable social activity. In relation, the role of family physician is important for them.
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: Through the examination on the actual smoking condition of high school student with the family factors, the relationship between the problems of family APGAR and smoking, psychological influence by smoking and articles of newspaper and public opinion on smoking, this study tried to provide helpful materials which can be used to make education plans to let them stop smoking. Methods : To make survey, authors selected 505 junior and senior students (male: 222, female: 283) from four high schools, of which two(a girls' and a boys') are located in Seoul and the rest in the country. Results : Among the surveyed students, 38.7 of boys and 12.0% of girls smoke habitually. About the motives of smoking, 34.1% start smoking through the inducement of their friends, 30.0% curiosity and 27.0% stress. About the age when first smoked, 20.3% responded that they start smoking before 13 years old, 24.8% at the age of fourteen, 25.4% at fifteen, 13.7% at sixteen, 9.3% at seventeen and 6.2% at eighteen, which showed that the earlier their first smoking experience, the higher the rate of tendency sticking to habitual smoking. The 18.3% of smoking students and 1.8% of non-smoking ones experienced addicting drug. In addition, 93.0% of smoking group and 27.2% of non-smoking one experienced drinking. When it comes to the family factors in smoking, religion of family member did not make any noticeable statistical differences. The higher the average family income, the higher the rate of smoking. The students whose parents have a do-as-you-2like-it attitude of education showed higher rate of smoking that those of democratic one. In particular, students who had habitually smoking family members recorded comparatively high smoking rate. The average family APGAR score was 5.7. The 15.0% of students had severely dysfunctional family 37.8% moderate and 35.6% healthy functional family, of which severely dysfunctional group showed high smoking rate. Conclusion : Severely dysfunctional family group showed high smoking rate and a variety of family factors influenced on the adolescent smoking. Since smoking has serious influence on their physical and psychological status, the early stage education to help them stop smoking and the recovery from family dysfunction are thought to be very important.
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