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KMID : 0869520060120010025
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Journal of East-West Nirsing Research
2006 Volume.12 No. 1 p.25 ~ p.32
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Effect of Koryo Hand Therapy on Menopausal Symptoms and Attitude in Perimenopausal Women
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Shin Hye-Sook
Song Young-Ah
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was to examine the effects of Koryo Hand Therapy on menopausal symptoms and attitude in permenopausal women.
Methods: The research design was a nonequivalent controlgroup pretest-posttes. The subjects consisted of 45 women between the ages of 40 and 60 years in the Gyeonggi-do, Korea. There were 23 women in the experimental group and 22 in the control group. In this study, the experimental group received KHT of three times a week, for a total of 8weeks. The instruments for this study were to measure the effects of KHT were the menopausal symptoms scale and attitudes to the menopause(Maoz, Downty, Antonovsky & Wijsenbeek, 1970). The data were analyzed by -test and Fisher’s Exact Test, Mann-Whitney U-test, Wilcoxon signed rank test procedures, using SPSS/Win PC 13.0.
Results: For menopausal symptoms, there were statistically significant differences between experimental group and control group. For menopausal attitudes, there were no statistically significant differences between groups.
Conclusions: This result showed that KHT was effective in decreasing menopausal symptoms in perimenopausal women.
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KEYWORD
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Menopausal symptom, Koryo hand therapy, Perimenopausal women
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