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The purpose of this study was investigated the relationship between college student's attachment to parent and adjustment to college. For this study, research data were collected from 180 collage students, and self-report measures including parent attachment, academic adjustment and campus life satisfaction were used. As a results, it should be considered the difference in college student's attachment to parents according to sex. It had significant relations among satisfaction of a major, parent attachment, academic adjustment and campus life satisfaction. Therefore, it was considered the degree of a parental attachment when we consulted with student about the adjustment in college. Thus, results of this study show the importance of a wide variety of policy research, continuous counseling, and development of programs for a better adjustment to college life.

IS Questionnaire helps to identify the severity of pain that a worker suffer while conducting their tasks. This questionnaire is used for defining the harmful factors of Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders. Lack of established analytic systems and experts in Ergonomics makes the investigation of the harmful factors of Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders which burdens employers. Cumbersome and costly as a result, KOSHA Guide H-9-2012 is mandating to conduct the investigation within 1 year since foundation for start-ups and once in every 3 year is barely complied by employers resulting in poor implementation of investigations. While conducting the investigation on harmful factors of Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders,we are able to learn the severity of pain that a worker suffers while conducting their tasks by having them to fill out Individual Symptom Questionnaires. This study is designed to develop simplified anticipation table that facilitates the labor/management cooperation and shorten investigation lead-time in selecting the burdensome tasks that could cause Musculoskeletal Disorders. This simplified anticipation table is based on the analysis of ISQ to identify the harmful factor of Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders. The simplified anticipation table was made based on the result of the ISQs by employees of General hospitals, nursing houses, wholesale warehouses and College janitors. The difficulty of task reflected on the questionnaire was compared with task analysis of employees with the help of the metrics in ergonomics such as RURA, REBA, OWAS. By pinpointing the ailing body parts by each industry and task using the result of questionnaire, we developed the customized simplified anticipation table which reduces time and cost consumed in defining harmful factors of Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders. Simplified anticipation table compared with the result of ergonomics analysis of an employee who is conducting burdensome tasks that could induce Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders which IS table reveals that 11 burdensome tasks notified by the Ministry of Employment and Labor existed in common at the studied workplaces. The result of our analysis found that ISQ in certain industry doesn’t serve well in selecting burdensome tasks. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop customized simplified anticipation table with imposing weights into intensity and frequency of tasks and manual to avoid risk of Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders.

The purpose of this study was to develop a risk factor matrix for each task by analyzing the work environment of nursing care workers working at nursing hospitals and identifying the risk factors of musculoskeletal diseases to nursing care workers. During the work, eight representative tasks (transferring patients, changing positions, eating, dressing, bathing, cleaning the room, transporting laundry, and removing stools) were selected. This is similar to the work of a caregiver during the study of the previous study, Yoo (2011). The most difficult task among the representative eight tasks was shifting of patients, dressing, and bathing. A survey of 262 caregivers from six hospitals in Daegu metropolitan city showed that general characteristics, job stress, general characteristics and job stress, and job stress and musculoskeletal symptoms As a result of analyzing the relationship, general statistical significance was shown in relation to general characteristics and job stress, but statistical significance was not shown in relationship between job stress and subjective symptoms of musculoskeletal disorders. We also developed a quantitative risk factor matrix for each task that can compensate for the disadvantages of the qualitative matrices that were developed by identifying the pain complaint rates for each part of the work through questionnaires. As a result of comparative analysis with the body parts where musculoskeletal diseases can occur in each task obtained through the ergonomic evaluation tool, it is found that the body parts obtained from the analysis of ergonomic evaluation tool and the burdened body part found in the harmful factor matrix are in agreement there was. An integrated risk factor matrix was developed as an average of the hazard values of work - related hazard factors matrix, and the difference of the risk value with the separated matrix was analyzed. And the function formula of the mathematical molding among the variables was grasped by linear regression analysis. In order to improve the working environment that is easily exposed to musculoskeletal diseases, many researches and education will be needed. In addition, it is urgent to develop a risk matrix for the prevention of musculoskeletal diseases.

근래 우리나라 농촌지역이 안고 있는 문제점은 여러 가지가 있겠지만, 고령화에 따른 안전사고와 근골격계 질환 환자의 증가가 주목을 받고 있다. 농촌지역의 고령화 현상을 조사한 보고에 따르면 농촌지역은 이미 2007년도에 고령자 비율이 22.2% 넘어서 초고령 사회로 진입한 것으로 나타나고 령화 현상으로 인한 여러 문제들의 대책 마련이 도시지역보다 더욱 시급함을 알 수 있다. 그러므로 본 연구에서는 노화에 따른 신체적, 인지적, 감각적 기능의 변화와 관련된 선행 연구들 중에서 장비의 설계와 평가에 필요한 요소를 추출하고 이를 바탕으로 고령자를 위한 농작업 편이장비의 주요 UI 구조부를 도출하였다.

The purpose of this study is to adopt the safety climate into domestic construction site effectively, in addition conduct the survey for the awareness of safety climate and analyze the Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSD) of manual material handling (MMH) workers who work in army construction site and Directorate of Public Works (DPW) facilities under United States Forces Korea (USFK) camps in Korea. Job tasks in the construction trades often involve materials handling activities such as lifting, carrying, and removing, workers are at risk for musculoskeletal disorders from both acute and repetitive stress. This is especially evident with work that involves heavy materials and strenuous physical activity. The survey contained three sections. The first section consisted of ten questions with type of trade, years in trade, yearly working time, working status, handedness, gender, age, height and weight. The second section of the survey was a modification of the standardized KOSHA MSD questionnaire. The third section of the questionnaire concerned the workers’ perceptions of the physically stressful elements in their job. This portion of the questionnaire contained a listing of fifteen conditions and tasks with the following instructions, this list describes things at work that could contribute to job-related pain and injury. This study determines the factor structure of safety climate within an army facilities construction site using a modified version of the safety climate questionnaire (SCQ). It also investigates the relationship between safety climate and MSD. The SCQ was administered to 628 employees from four (4) areas (Uijongbu, Yongsan, Pyongtaek, and Daegu) and in three (3) job categories – construction, maintenance, and office work. Factor analysis derived four (4) factors, which were similar to those obtained in an earlier study using the SCQ. No differences between the earlier study and current domestic survey were found. Discussion focuses upon the measurement of safety climate, and also requires studying relationship between safety climate and job stress on behalf of MSD.