• 지역사회간호학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.132-143
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• 2003

Purpose: A descriptive correlation study was done to provide basic data for comprehensive nursing care by analyzing the, relationship between spiritual well-being and death anxiety of the elderly. Method: 358 respondents who lived in facilities for elders such as nursing homes and elder's rehabilitation centers were selected, and their age was over 65 years old. Paloutzian and Ellison(1982)'s spiritual well-being scale and Park(1989)'s death Anxiety scale was used. From August 2nd to November 7th, 2002, readymade questionnaires were handed out by the researcher to those who could fill it out and for those who could not fill out the questionnaires alone, the researcher read it and completed it by interview. The data were analyzed with SPSS Win 10.0 program, t-test, ANOVA, and correlation coefficient. Result: 1) The mean score for spiritual well being of the elderly was 43.95 in a possible range of 20-80. The mean score of religious well being was 22.22 and that of existential well being was 21.73 in a possible range of 10 - 40. 2) The mean score for death anxiety of the elderly was 109.04 in a possible range of 34 - 136. 3) There were significant differences in spiritual well being according to religion, and present occupation. 4) There were significant differences in death anxiety according to age, religion, and family status. 5) In testing concerning the relationship between spiritual well being and death anxiety, there was a statistically negative correlation(r=-.70 p=.000). Conclusion: There was a negative correlation between spiritual well being and death anxiety. When the nurse implicates the nursing intervention, which can promote the spiritual well-being, elder's death anxiety also can be released.

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.95-135
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• 1987

본 논문은 미국노인과 한국노인들을 대상으로 그들의 정신 및 심리적 건강을 비교 분석한 것이다. 이 분석을 위해 종속변수로서는 생의 만족도, 내외적 통제도와 죽음불안도를 선정하였으며, 독립변수로는 노인들의 배경변수인 성별, 연령, 국적, 직업유무, 교육수준, 건강상태, 가족과의 관계, 생활수준, 결혼여부 등을 채택하였다. 본 논문의 목적은 삶의 만족도, 내외적 통제도, 죽음불안도의 3가지 종속변수와 14개의 독립변수와의 상관관계를 분석하고, 이들 세가지종속변수에 가장 큰 영향을 주는 독립변수들을 찾아내어 그 결과에 따라 한국과 미국노인들간의 정신 및 심리적 건강의 차이점 (공통점)을 밝혀 내려는데 있다.

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.81-92
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• 1999

This study attempt to analyze the influence of the preliminary education on the Elderly's attitude for death and to present basic data for the death-preliminary education. The data were collected by administerial the Questionnaire interview with 169 the elderly who was 200 the elderly over 60 year old in silver colleges. The Questions was consists the awareness recognition of death, character, attitudes toward for death. The statistical methods used for the analysis were t-test, factor analysis. The results were the follows. There was no statistically significant relations between the fear of death and the general characteristics the elderly, but the old women felt more anxiety than old men. Especially, more aged, unhealthy the elderly felt it more and the lower educated or the single felt it more severely. The change in the attitude for death: They attitude for death was considerably changed after the preliminary education. Fears and anxiety about death were more reduced and the inevitability of death was accepted positively. This result showed the influence of the preliminary death education had positive affliction of the elderly's attitude for death. Accordingly, with the practice of the preliminary education we can release the elderly from the fear for death and guide them to live meaningly.

• 재활간호학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.18-26
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• 2014

Purpose: To improve the family functioning, fear of death and depression among the terminally ill cancer patients, the effects of letter as an independent nursing intervention were identified. Methods: Non-equivalent control group pre and post test design was used. Subjects were 60 patients and their family members who were hospitalized at hospice units of an university-affiliated hospital. Patients and their family members were encouraged to write a letter to each other at least 4 times for 2 weeks. Results: Family functioning, fear of death and depression in the experimental group were significantly more improved after intervention than those of control group, even depression of experimental group before intervention was worse than that of control group. Conclusion: Writing a letter to family members is worth to use as an independent nursing intervention for terminally ill patients. It is recommended that further study to identify the potential of letters as an independent nursing intervention is implemented for various patients.

• 한국농촌간호학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.65-73
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• 2013

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between intention to use advance directives and level of death anxiety in community-dwelling elders. Method: The participants were 200 older adults who were aged 60 or over and attended the community welfare centers. The level intention to use advance directive was measured by a questionnaire that was developed by the authors for the study. The measure by Kraus and Ellisond was administered to evaluate the level of death anxiety. Result: The average score for intention to use advance directives was $2.05{\pm}0.88$ and that of death anxiety was $6.2{\pm}2.28$. There were significant differences in the intention to use advance directives according to education levels and individual properties. Although there was no significant relationship between the intention to use advance directives and the level of death anxiety, they were negatively associated. Therefore, older adults who had lower death anxiety would tend to use advance directives. Conclusion: It would be necessary to screening the level of death anxiety to promote use of the advance directives. In addition, education programs for advance directives would be essential to consider about advance directives for their end-of-life especially for the community-dwelling elderly in Korea.

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.109-125
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• 2007

How an elderly people meets death is the matter of how he has lived his life. It is very important for an elderly people at the last step of his life to re-light up life and to meet death with dignity. The purpose of this study is to investigate where fear or anxiety of death come from among the four dimensins of death anxiety and to compare the differenced between the elderly group and non-elderly group, For this research, the 473 of the subjects from 20 to 80 years old attending social welfare center and community areas in Seoul have been questionned. The summary for the study mentioned the following: First, the overall scores of death anxiety, in the non-aged group, gender and religiosity are important factors affecting the decrease of death anxiety, On the other hand, in the aged group, self-respect, death readiness and number of friends are significant factors. Secondly, for death anxiety of self, age and spouse are significant relationships among non-aged group and gender, death readiness and number of friends for aged-group. In the dying of self, the following each three significant variables: gender, self-respect and spouse among non-aged group and gender, self-respect and number of friends among aged group. In death anxiety of others, age, view on next world and spouse are best predictor for non-aged group. Finally, family-relationship, self-respect and spouse are significant factors for aged group. In dying of others, only one factors are influenced for non-aged group, on the other hand, gender, self-respect and death readiness are important factors for aged group. There remains the need for more detailed examination into the nature of this relationship and the extent to which core components strongly affecting the above subscales.

• 동의신경정신과학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.65-74
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• 2011

Objectives : This study aims to examine the effects of death education program on meaning in life, death anxiety and attitude toward nursing care of the dying patients among nursing students. Methods : Subjects were 155 nursing students of the K college. Before and after the intervention, students responded a questionnaire developed to measure meaning in life, death anxiety and attitude toward nursing care of the dying patients. To analyse the data, Cronbach's ${\alpha}$, t-test, and paired t-test were used with an SPSS 12.0 program. Results : 1. Meaning in life and attitude toward nursing care of the dying patients levels significantly increased, death anxiety levels significantly decreased. 2. Meaning in life levels increased significantly in the 20-24 age group, female, first grade, no religion, no death experience of relatives. 3. Death anxiety levels decreased significantly in the 20-24 age group, female, no religion, no death experience of relatives, but increased significantly in a buddhist group. 4. Attitude toward nursing care of the dying patients levels increased significantly in the 20-24 age group, female, first grade, won buddhist, no death experience of relatives. Conclusions : This study, through the above result, shows that the death education program can be an effective nursing education to improve meaning in life and attitude toward nursing care of the dying patients and to decrease death anxiety. These results suggest that the death education program will be helpful for recognizing the values of themselves and their current lives and improving their nursing intervention care of the dying patients.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제12권9호
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• pp.273-283
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• 2021

본 연구의 목적은 요양병원간호사를 대상으로 임종간호스트레스에 영향을 미치는 요인을 파악하고 임종간호에 대한 인지 및 교육요구도를 확인하고자 함이다. 본 연구의 대상자는 경상남도에 위치하고 있는 7개 요양병원에서 6개월 이상 근무하고 임종간호 경험이 한 번 이상 있으며 연구의 목적을 이해하고 연구 참여에 동의한 간호사 163명을 대상으로 구조화된 설문지를 이용하여 조사하였다. 본 연구 결과 요양병원간호사의 임종간호스트레스에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 요인은 임종간호교육 요구도(β=.25, p=.001)이었으며, 다음으로 죽음불안(β=.21, p=.005), 임종간호환경 만족여부(β=.17, p=.017), 임종간호 인지정도(β= .15, p=.040)로 확인되었다. 본 연구 결과를 바탕으로 요양병원간호사의 임종간호스트레스를 완화시키기 위해서는 요양병원간호사의 임종간호에 대한 교육요구도가 충족되는 것이 필요하며 이를 위해 임종간호교육프로그램 개발과 적용이 필요할 것이다.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제61권4호
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• pp.355-380
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• 2009

본 연구는 빈곤노인의 노화경험의 의미를 발견해내고 이를 바탕으로 빈곤노인을 위한 복지정책을 제시하고자 하였다. 이러한 목적을 위해 빈곤노인을 기준표집방법으로 총 16명 선정하여 심층면접을 진행하였고 Colaizzi(1978)의 현상학적 연구방법을 사용하였다. 연구결과, 빈곤노인의 노화경험의 의미는 27개 주제, 10개 주제묶음과 4개의 범주로 나타났다. 4개의 범주는 '죽음으로 향해 가기', '초라해지는 마음', '험한 인생살이', '삶의 끈을 지켜나가기'이었다. 이러한 의미를 통합해볼 때 빈곤노인의 노화경험의 본질은 '정부로부터 생계비를 받을지언정 제 힘으로 살아가기'로 발견되었다. 빈곤노인의 노화경험은 의존적이라기보다는 독립적이고 긍정적인 삶의 의미를 강하게 드러냈고, 생계비가 최소한의 생존비용임을 보여주었고, 심한 죽음불안을 나타냈으며, 가(家) 중심의 유교문화적 맥락을 통해 이해될 수 있었다. 이에 빈곤노인복지정책은 이들의 독립적이고 긍정적인 생활지원을 위한 사회활동의 촉진, 최저생계비의 현실화, 심리정서적 서비스의 강화, 죽음준비교육의 실시, 빈곤노인복지정책의 매뉴얼 구축 등으로 제시되었다.

• 대한불안의학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.60-65
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• 2017

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) has been noted as a significant risk factor for possible suicide attempts. According to the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide, individuals can attempt suicide after they have acquired the capability to commit it. The acquired capability for suicide can be defined as one's habituated level to the pain and fear associated with suicidal behaviors. This is obtained through constant exposure to painful and provocative events, NSSIs being a prime example. This article reviews prior related studies to determine the extent to which the acquired capability for suicide can be utilized as a predictive factor for fatal suicide attempts following NSSIs. Our review finds a total of 11 studies that directly or indirectly support the claim that the acquired capability for suicide should be considered as a relevant factor linking NSSIs and suicide attempts. Given that NSSIs are most frequently observed in clinical settings, our findings suggest that the acquired capability for suicide will be a useful indicator for clinicians to predict the risk of future suicide attempts by patients.