• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.5-9
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• 1976

The categories of national health problems may be mainly divided into health promotion, problems of diseases, and population-economic problems which are indirectly related to health. Of them, the problems of diseases will be exclusively dealt with this speech. Rurality and Disease Problems There are many differences between rural and urban areas. In general, indicators of rurality are small size of towns, dispersion of the population, remoteness from urban centers, inadequacy of public transportation, poor communication, inadequate sanitation, poor housing, poverty, little education lack of health personnels and facilities, and in-accessibility to health services. The influence of such conditions creates, directly or indirectly, many problems of diseases in the rural areas. Those art the occurrence of preventable diseases, deterioration and prolongation of illness due to loss of chance to get early treatment, decreased or prolonged labour force loss, unnecessary death, doubling of medical cost, and economic loss. Some Considerations of Innovative Approach The followings art some considerations of innovative approaches to the problems of diseases in the rural Korea. 1. It would be essential goal of the innovative approaches that the damage and economic loss due to diseases will be maintained to minimum level by minimizing the absolute amount of the diseases, and by moderating the fee for medical cares. The goal of the minimization of the disease amount may be achieved by preventive services and early treatment, and the goal of moderating the medical fee may be achieved by lowering the prime cost and by adjusting the medical fees to reasonable level. 2. Community health service or community medicine will be adopted as a innovative means to disease problems. In this case, a community is defined as an unit area where supply and utilization of primary service activities can be accomplished within a day. The essential nature o the community health service should be such activities as health promotion, preventive measures, medical care, and rehabilitation performing efficiently through the organized efforts of the residents in a community. Each service activity should cover all members of the residents in a community in its plan and performance. The cooperation of the community peoples in one of the essential elements for success of the service program, The motivations of their cooperative mood may be activated through several ways: when the participation of the residents in service program of especially the direct participation of organized cooperation of the area leaders art achieved through a means of health education: when the residents get actual experience of having received the benefit of good quality services; and when the health personnels being armed with an idealism that they art working in the areas to help health problems of the residents, maintain good human relationships with them. For the success of a community health service program, a personnel who is in charge of leadership and has an able, a sincere and a steady characters seems to be required in a community. The government should lead and support the community health service programs of the nation under the basis of results appeared in the demonstrative programs so as to be carried out the programs efficiently. Moss of the health problems may be treated properly in the community levels through suitable community health service programs but there might be some problems which art beyond their abilities to be dealt with. To solve such problems each community health service program should be under the referral systems which are connected with health centers, hospitals, and so forth. 3. An approach should be intensively groped to have a physician in each community. The shortage of physicians in rural areas is world-wide problem and so is the Korean situation. In the past the government has initiated a system of area-limited physician, coercion, and a small scale of scholarship program with unsatisfactory results. But there might be ways of achieving the goal by intervice, broadened, and continuous approaches. There will be several ways of approach to motivate the physicians to be settled in a rural community. They are, for examples, to expos the students to the community health service programs during training, to be run community health service programs by every health or medical schools and other main medical facilities, communication activities and advertisement, desire of community peoples to invite a physician, scholarship program, payment of satisfactory level, fulfilment of military obligation in case of a future draft, economic growth and development of rural communities, sufficiency of health and medical facilities, provision of proper medical care system, coercion, and so forth. And, hopefully, more useful reference data on the motivations may be available when a survey be conducted to the physicians who are presently engaging in the rural community levels. 4. In communities where the availability of a physician is difficult, a trial to use physician extenders, under certain conditions, may be considered. The reason is that it would be beneficial for the health of the residents to give them the remedies of primary medical care through the extenders rather than to leave their medical problems out of management. The followings are the conditions to be considered when the physician extenders are used: their positions will be prescribed as a temporary one instead of permanent one so as to allow easy replacement of the position with a physician applicant; the extender will be under periodic direction and supervision of a physician, and also referral channel will be provided: legal constraints will be placed upon the extenders primary care practice, and the physician extenders will used only under the public medical care system. 5. For the balanced health care delivery, a greater investment to the rural areas is needed to compensate weak points of a rurality. The characteristics of a rurality has been already mentioned. The objective of balanced service for rural communities to level up that of urban areas will be hard to achieve without greater efforts and supports. For example, rural communities need mobile powers more than urban areas, communication network is extremely necessary at health delivery facilities in rural areas as well as the need of urban areas, health and medical facilities in rural areas should be provided more substantially than those of urban areas to minimize, in a sense, the amount of patient consultation and request of laboratory specimens through referral system of which procedures are more troublesome in rural areas, and more intensive control measures against communicable diseases are needed in rural areas where greater numbers of cases are occurred under the poor sanitary conditions.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.173-182
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• 2005

목적: 본 연구는 호스피스 자원봉사자들의 부담감 정도와 관련요인들을 파악함으로서 바람직한 봉사활동을 할 수 있도록 돕는 중재프로그램 마련에 기초 자료를 제공하는데 그 목적이 있다. 방법: 연구대상은 가톨릭대학교 부속 8개 병원에서 호스피스 자원봉사 활동을 하고 있는 봉사자 243명이었다. 연구도구는 설문지로서 부담감 측정도구(25문항)와 삶의 질 측정도구(47문항)를 사용하였고 자료처리는 SAS program을 이용하여 t-test, ANOVA, Duncan test, Pearson's correlation coefficient로 분석하였다. 결과: 1. 조사 대상자 중 50대 연령군이 44.0%, 여성이 85.6%, 고졸 학력이 51.9%, 기혼상태 86.8%, 중정도의 생활정도 85.6%, 무직인 경우 45.3%, 삶의 질이 보통인 경우 78.6%였다 2. 조사대상자의 주당 봉사 시간은 평균 5.0시간, 자원봉사활동기간은 평균 41.7개월 봉사 대상자 임종경험은 평균 13.9회, 자원봉사자 교육을 받은 횟수는 평균 12.8회이었다. 11.5%에서 가족 중 호스피스를 받은 적이 있었으며 봉사활동 시작 동기는 이웃에 봉사하기 위하여 35.0%였다. 조사대상자의 72.9%에서 자원봉사활동에 대해 만족하고 있었으며 90.4%에서 호스피스 봉사활동에 대한 가족들의 반응이 긍정적이라고 하였다. 47%에서 본인이 자원봉사로서의 자질이 적절하다고 답하였고 94.3%에서 자원봉사자 교육이 필요하다고 답하였으며 32.9%에서 호스피스 봉사활동 중 영성적 돌봄이 가장 어렵다고 답하였다. 3. 조사 대상자의 전체 부담감 평균 평점은 $53.3{\pm}10.4$이었다. 일반적 특성에 따른 부담감 정도는 각 특성별로 유의한 차이는 없었다. 4. 호스피스 자원봉사관련 특성에 따른 부담감 정도는 호스피스 봉사활동에 대한 가족들의 반응이 긍정적인 경우 유의하게 낮았으며, 봉사활동 유형에 따른 부담감 정도는 가족 돌봄, 신체적 돌봄에서 유의하게 높았다. 5. 각 영역별 부담감 정도는 환자 돌봄에 대한 부담감, 봉사 후 자아성취감에 대한 부담감, 봉사 활동에 대한 부담감의 순으로 높았다. 각 항목별 부담감 정도는 "환자나 보호자가 죽음을 어떻게 받아들일지 염려된다", "환자에게 최선을 다하지 못할 때 죄책감을 느낀다", "환자를 돌볼 때 긴장된다"의 순으로 높았다. 6. 부담감과 삶의 질과는 역상관관계가 있었다. 결론: 이상의 결과를 토대로 호스피스 자원봉사자들의 부담감을 감소시키고 효율적인 자원봉사를 할 수 있도록 돕기 위해서는 교육정도와 가족들의 지지정도 가장 어렵게 느끼는 봉사활동을 고려하고 특히 환자들의 가족 돌봄과 환자의 신체적인 돌봄과 관련한 교육을 강화하며 삶의 질을 높이기 위한 방안이 모색되어야 할 것이다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.25-36
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• 1968

Introduction In order to improve medical education through the introduction of a concept of comprehensive health care of a community, an area surrounding the University Campus was chosen for the Community Health Service Project. It has been on operation for last 4 years with its major emphasis on family planning services, and maternal and child health care. The major objectives of this survey at the area are to obtain: 1) The demographic data, 2) The health need and trend of medical care, 3) The attitude and practice in maternity care to be used for further improvement of the planning and the services of the project. Population and Survey Method Out of three Dongs of the Community Health Service Area, only two Dongs namely Changchun and Yonhee were selected for the survey. Total number of households and population in the area studied was 3,683 and 21,857 respectively. An interview was performed with questionnaire schedule which was recorded by interviewers. This includes the degree of utilization of health services provided by the Community Health Service Program such as family planning, prenatal care during their last pregnancy, delivery history and complications of the delivery as well as the incidence of illnesses in general. Prior to the interview, all interviewers were trained for interviewing technique for two days. The survey was carried out during the period from October December 1967. Results 1) Demographic Data : 41.3% of the population studied were children under age 15 and only 3.5% were over 60 years of age. Crude birth rate and crude death rate of this area studied during the period of November 1966-October 1967 were 20.5 and 7.7 respectively. Infant mortality rate during the same period was 35.9. 50.4% of the 2,832 households fell into the category of middle class, 39.8% to the lower class and 9.5% to the upper class in economic condition. 19.8% of 2,832 householders had no formal education, 22.7% primary school, and 57.5% middle or higher school education. 2) Health Status and Utilization of the Community Health Service: Those who suffered from many illnesses during the month of October, 1967 were 690(4.6% of 14,891 persons). Classification of these patients into the type of disease shown respiratory diseases 27.4%, gastrointestinal diseases 18.1%, tuberculosis 10.9%, skin and genitourethral diseases 4.5% and gynecologic patients 4.5%. Only 55.9% of the patients received medical care at hospital or doctor's clinic. But among TB and gynecologic patients, 70.7% and 72.4% were treated at medical facilities. 10.6% of 2,832 householders interviewed has ever utilized the Community Health Service Program provided by the Yonsei Medical School, Classifying these clients into the type of service, 35.9% utilized the wellbaby clinic, 31.0% the family planning clinic, 14.7% the home delivery care, and the rest utilized other services such as the premarital guidance cinlic and the sanitary inspection service. 3) Maternity Care: 23.6% of 2,151 deliveries were done at medical facilities such as hospital, private clinic, while 76.4% were done at home. Acceptance rate of prenatal care was 32.6% as whole, but 49.6 of 774 women who had the prenatal care service had their deliveries at medical facility. 45.1% of total deliveries were attended by medical and or paramedical personnel. 75.8% of the deliveries of those received prenatal care were attended by medical and or paramedical personnel while only 27.8% of the deliveries of those who did not have prenatal care attended by medical and or paramedical personnel. 49.8% of deliveries of the upper class, 29.8% of the middle class and 9.9% of the lower class were attended by medical and or paramedical personnel. 6.2, 3.3% and 24.8% of mothers reported about their xeperience of edema, coma and fever during the period of trimester of pregnancy and puerperium. 4) Family Planning: The rate of practice of family planning was 27.9%. 31.7% of them were by IUD, 2.9% by oral pill, 15.2% by sterilization and the rest by traditional methods. Those women who had 3 to 4 children had highest(30.2%). Practice rate among the various methods of family planning, oral pill was the most popular method to whom had 2 or less children. In relation between the practicing rate of family planning and living standard, the upper, middle and lower class practiced 37.5, 29.4 and 19.9% respectively.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.55-66
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• 2002

본 연구는 농촌사회의 사회적 지지에 영향을 미치는 사회경제적 요인을 밝히고, 이것이 개인의 건강증진행동과 어떠한 관련성을 갖는지를 분석하여 농촌사회 건강증진 정책에서의 사회적지지 향상 방법을 제안하고자 하였다. 2002년 7월 강원도 춘천시 2개리에 거주하는 주민 전수를 대상으로 하여 수행되었으며, 만성 중증질환이 없는 건강한 사람을 분석대상으로 선정하였다. 사회적 지지는 기능적 사회적지지 평가를 위한 변형한 한국어판 MOS-SSS(Medical Outcome Study-Social Support Survey)와 구조적 사회적지지 평가항목을 추가한 설문지를 이용하였고, 건강증진행동은 금연 금주 의도, 운동, 건강진단, 보건교육 참여, 폐경기 호르몬 치료 여부를 설문을 통해 측정하였다. 사회적 지지는 교육정도가 낮거나, 이혼이나 사별인 경우, 의료보호대상인 경우 낮았고, 사회계층이 높은 계층에서 높았으며 건강상태별로는 유의한 차이를 보이지 않았다. 건강증진행동과의 관련성 분석에서, 사회적 지지가 높은 사랑들이 건강검진율, 보건교육 참석률, 폐경기 호르몬치료율이 높음을 알 수 있었다. 음주량 흡연량을 보정한 금연 금주 의도는 사회적 지지가 높은 군에서 오히려 낮았다. 본 연구의 결과를 통해, 사회적 지지가 약한 의료보호대상, 이혼 사별가정, 저교육층에 대해 지역사회가 제공할 수 있는 기능적, 구조적 사회적 지지를 우선적으로 시행해야 하며, 농촌지역의 건강증진 보건프로그램에 사회적 지지서비스를 적극 반영해야 함을 제안하고자한다.

• 여성건강간호학회지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.549-565
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• 2000

Comprehensive review of the literature was conducted to determine 1) selected risk factors and its impact that affect pregnancy outcome such as smoking, alcohol consumption, and substance abuse 2) these factors can facilitate future strategies for health promotion and prevention for both pregnant women and fetus. Review of literature were extracted from searching MEDLINE(1966 - Oct. 2000). CINAHL (1982 - Oct. 2000) and the domestic literature. The following factors were identified: 1. The effects of risk behaviors on pregnancy. ${\cdot}$Maternal smoking was associated with the occurrence of premature or LBW delivery, fetal growth retardation, extremities defects, heart defects and sudden infant death syndrome. ${\cdot}$Maternal alcohol consumption was associated with spontaneous abortion, premature or LBW delivery, morphologic/neurologic problems, especially fetal alcohol syndrome. ${\cdot}$Heroin was associated with withdrawal after birth in which were born to heroine addicts for gestational age and lung maturation in animal studies. ${\cdot}$Cocaine was associated with spontaneous abortion, abruptio placenta and a poor response to environmental stimuli. ${\cdot}$So far, the effects of caffeine on pregnancy was controversial, but severe caffeine consumption was associated with premature or LBW delivery, spontaneous abortion, still birth and dystocia. 2. Intervention methods and its effects identified were as follows ${\cdot}$Conducted intervention for smoking, alcohol and drug consumption were single or combined. ${\cdot}$Intervention methods were counseling, phone contact, mailing, use of educational videotape, booklet, support person and alternatives such as nicotine patch. ${\cdot}$The interventions increased the rates of smoking cessation during pregnancy and awareness of the risk of drug consumption, and decreased amount of alcohol consumption. ${\cdot}$The intervention outcome found positive effect on birth weight and length. 3. Our recommendations were as follows ${\cdot}$The personal and social cognition should be enhanced through education and the mass media. ${\cdot}$It's necessary to educate and give information of preconceptional care, planned pregnancy and early prenatal care for optimal pregnancy outcome. ${\cdot}$It's necessary to develop comprehensive assessment tool which is reliable and valid on smoking, alcohol consumption and substance abuse to identify supportive or interventional program.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제11권11호
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• pp.433-441
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• 2020

본 논문은 고식적 항암화학요법을 받는 진행성 암환자의 미충족 요구를 분석하고 영향요인을 파악하여 암 말기 환자들에게 적합한 융합적 간호중재 프로그램 개발에 기초자료로 활용하고자 시도되었다. 연구대상은 일 대학병원에 입원하여 고식적 항암화학요법을 받는 진행성 암환자 71명으로 구성되었으며, 연구도구는 Shin 등이 개발한 CNAT(Comprehensive Needs Assessment tool in Cancer)를 사용하였다. 자료분석은 독립표본 t-검정, ANOVA 및 다중회귀분석으로 분석하였다. 연구결과 대상자의 미충족 요구는 의료진 영역이 4점 만점에 2.34점으로 가장 높았으며 심리적 문제 2.09점, 정보교육 1.69점의 순으로 나타났다. 진행성 암환자의 미충족 요구에 영향을 미치는 요인은 학력(β=.207, p=.047), 죽음에 대한 생각(β=-.269, p=.018), 진단명(β=-.283, p=.013)으로 나타났다. 본 연구결과를 바탕으로 진행성 암환자들에게 의료진 영역의 요구를 배려하여 심리적 지지를 제공하고, 학력, 진단명에 따른 요구 충족 방안을 고려할 필요가 있다

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.19-29
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• 2019

목적: 본 연구는 1998년부터 2017년까지 수행된 호스피스 간호연구 논문을 분석한 서술적 조사연구이다. 방법: 주요 검색어는 '호스피스', '간호'였으며(마지막 검색일: 2018년 3월 30일) 검색은 학술연구정보서비스(www.riss4u.net)를 통해 선정되었으며, 더불어 한국간호과학회지 및 8개 분과 학회지와 한국 호스피스 완화의료학회지와 한국호스피스협회지에 1998년부터 2017년까지 게재된 논문 모두를 검토하였으며, 학위논문은 제외하여 자료를 수집하였다. 결과: 1998년부터 2002년에 51편(20.0%)이었던 논문이 2013년부터 2017년에는 79편(31.0%)으로 약 11% 이상 급증하였으며 호스피스간호 학문분야별로 심리학 분야가 92편(36.2%)으로 가장 많았으며 다음으로 간호학 분야가 46편(18.1%)로 나타났다. 연구 대상자별로 분석한 결과 말기암환자가 72편(28.3%)으로 압도적으로 많았다. 이외에 1편(0.4%)은 HIV 바이러스, AIDS 환자였으며 아동 말기암환자도 2편(0.8%)으로 나타났다. 연구 방법은 양적 연구는 183편(72.0%)으로 가장 많았으며 다음으로 질적 연구 22편(8.7%)으로 많았다. 실험 중재는 총 34편(13.5%)으로 호스피스교육프로그램이 7편(2.8%) 가장 많이 진행되었다. 결론: 호스피스 간호연구의 대상자는 대부분 환자에 치중되어있었으며 소수 호스피스대상자와 가족대상자의 연구가 적어 소수의 호스피스대상자와 가족대상의 연구가 활발히 진행될 필요가 있다. 연구 방법은 양적 연구가 대부분으로 나타나 향후 근거기반의 간호연구 환경의 조성을 위하여 순수 실험연구와 질적 연구의 활성화가 필요하다. 더불어 연구주제가 심리적 변수가 대부분으로 나타나 호스피스대상자의 주요 간호문제인 통증 등의 생리적 변수를 적용한 실험 연구가 활성화되어 대상자의 통증중재프로그램방안의 모색이 필요하다.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.155-164
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• 2002

본 연구는 일개 보건지소에 등록된 고혈압 환자의 치료율 및 관리율을 구하고 치료지속성과 관련성이 있는 변수를 파악하고 치료중단 이유를 조사하기 위하여 2000년 11월 이전에 군남면 보건지소에 등록되어 치료받고 있는 고혈압 환자 295명을 대상으로 하여, 의무기록조사와 전화설문조사를 병행하여 실시되었다. 그 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 대상자 295명중 남자가 108명(36.6%), 여자가 187명 (62.7%)이었으며 평균연령은 남자 64.6세, 여자 66.3 세로 여성에서 더 높았다(p<0.05). 2. 대상자의 54.9%가 지속적인 치료를 받는 것으로 조사되었고, 간헐적 치료군이 19.3%, 치료중단군이 25.8%였다. 3. 성, 연령, 의료보장, 거주지 등 연구대상자의 특성중 거주지로부터 보건지소까지 이동시 소요되는 시간만이 치료지속성과 통계적으로 유의한 관련성이 있었다(p<0.01). 3. 치료중단의 이유로는 증상 또는 몸의 불편함이 없어서가 23.9%를 차지하였고 그 다음으로 타의료기관 이용(18.4%), 교통의 불편(17.9%), 약국 이용(14.9%), 거동 불가능(7.5%), 경제적인 이유(6.0%), 보건지소 서비스에 불만족(4.4%) 순이었다. 4. 전체 대상자 295명의 평균 치료혈압은 $144.9{\pm}12.9/86.9{\pm}8.6mmHg$이었고, 이들 중 평균 치료혈압 이 140/90mmHg 미만으로 적절히 조절되는 환자는 32.5%였다. 이러한 연구결과를 종합해 볼 때, 보건지소 고혈압 환자들의 낮은 치료율, 관리율을 개선하기 위해서는, 적극적인 추후관리와 고혈압에 대한 환자의 잘못된 인식을 교정해주는 효과적인 보건교육을 포함하는 보다 체계적인 고혈압 관리 사업이 요구된다고 하겠다.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.221-231
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• 2004

목적: 본 연구는 암환아 가족의 호스피스 요구도를 파악하여 앞으로 암 환아 간호시, 대상자의 요구에 적절한 호스피스 간호를 제공하기 위한 목적으로 시도되었다. 방법: 자료수집은 2004년 2월부터 7월까지 서울의 2개 대학병원에서 암으로 진단 받고 입원한 아동의 가족 104명을 대상으로 하였다. 대상자의 아동 호스피스 요구도를 측정하기 위해서는 아동 호스피스에 대한 국내 외 문헌고찰과 아동 호스피스 전문가와 관련자, 암 환아 가족 20명을 대상으로 면담하여 개발한 암 환아 가족의 아동 호스피스 요구 측정도구[10]를 사용하였다. 결과: 1. 대상자의 아동 호스피스 요구 정도는 4점 만점에 $2.77{\sim}4.00$점의 범위로 평균 3.41점(.38)으로 높게 나타났다. 각 요인에 따른 요구정도는 아동의 정서적 간호 말기 주요 신체적 증상의 조절, 2차적인 생리적 문제의 조절, 가족이 어려움 수용, 죽음준비를 위한 영적 돌봄의 순으로 나타났다. 2. 대상자의 일반적 특성에 따른 아동 호스피스의 요구 정도는 아동 어머니의 연령(F==4.980, P=.009), 형제나 친척 중 암 환자의 유무(t=2.423, P=.017)에 따라서만 유의한 차이가 있었다. 즉, 대상자의 아동 호스피스 요구정도는 어머니의 연령이 $36{\sim}40$세인 경우가 요구 정도가 가장 높고 35세 이하인 경우가 가장 낮았으며 형제나 친척 중 암 환자가 있는 경우가 없는 경우보다 요구 정도가 더 높았다. 결론: 아동 호스피스에 대한 암 환아 가족의 요구 정도는 정서적, 신체적, 사회적, 영적 돌봄의 순으로 나타나 가족이 자녀의 죽음을 앞두고 자녀의 신체적 증상관리와 함께 자신의 죽음에 대한 이해가 어려운 자녀의 불안과 두려움을 경감시켜주기 원하는 부모의 특성이 파악되었다. 또한 호스피스에 대한 요구도는 높았으나 자녀에 대한 호스피스 돌봄의향은 낮게 나타나 암 환아 부모들이 적극적인 치료와 호스피스에 대한 양가감정을 가지고 있음을 유추해 볼 수 있었다. 본 연구의 결과는 암 환아 가족들을 위해 간호사가 제공해야 하는 호스피스 돌봄의 방향을 제시하고 있다고 생각되며 이를 위해서는 호스피스 관련 기관뿐만 아니라 국가적 차원의 아동 호스피스에 대한 관심과 지원이 요구된다고 생각한다.

• 대한간호
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.59-76
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• 1997

The purposes of this study were to identify the contents and satisfaction level of the patients received home care service, and to compare the differences of the contents by the characteristics of the patients. Seventy eight patients received home care service from 1st Jan. to 30th Sept., 1996 were data-collected to analyze the contents and outcomes of home care service. Sixty-nine patients currently receiving home care service were participated to evaluate the satisfaction level of home care service. The data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, $x^2$ test, and ANOVA by SPSS $PC^+$ program. The findings of this study were as follow : 1. The contents & outcomes of home care service 1) The mean age of the subjects was 64.4 years: 58% of them were female. Those who living in Seoul were 83% and the rest of the subjects was living in Kyung-Gi. 2) The subjects who had one diagnosis were 41%. Over 60% of them had the disease of neurologic & sensory system. 3) The mean number of visit was 6. Only one visit was 22%. The mean time of care was 79 minutes. Duration of visit from 31 minutes to 60 minutes were 47 %. The subjects who terminated the visit because of death were 67.3%. 62% of the persons who referred them to the home care service were nurses. 4) The pain after the service was more relieved than before. The amounts of intake, the degree of bed sore, edema & fracture after the service were more improved than before. Health status after the service was improved in general. 5) There were significant differences between initial and last conscious level in tracheostomy care & oxygen inhalation care. There was significant difference between initial and last degree of activity in blood sugar check. 6) There were significant differences on the number of visit in assessment of the status, evaluation & observation, vital sign check, skin care, injection, medication, bed sore care, colostomy care, relaxation therapy for pain relief, patient education, family care, exercise therapy, position change, supply of disinfected equipments and infection control. There were significant differences on visiting time in nasogastric tube care, drainage tube care and oxygen inhalation care. 2. The satisfaction level of home care service 1) 50% were male. Over 60 years of the subjects was 61 %. Those who living in Seoul were 82%. 2) The subjects who had one or two diagnosis were 32% respectively. 55% of the persons who referred them to the home care service were nurses. 3) Total level of satisfaction of home care service was very high. 4) The older the age, the higher the satisfaction level. The larger the number of visit, the higher the satisfaction level. 5) The subjects who were in cloudy state were higher level of satisfaction than in alert or coma state. The subjects whose activity were normal or who needed assistance were higher level of satisfaction than bedridden or immobilized subjects. These findings suggested that the patients had substantial need for posthospital care. They tended to be elderly and to have experienced the wide range of health problems associated with aging, chronicity, including limitations in activities, and other serious health problems. So, the nationwide home care systems beyond the limit of demonstration program by local association and the development of the effective financial system of home based health care are necessary for the clients who are in need of home care.