• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.7309-7314
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• 2013

Aim: To investigate factors that affect the place of death (POD) of terminal cancer patients. Materials and Methods: We recruited 702 consecutive patients (${\geq}18$ years) from 12 centers during July 2005 to October 2006, and 481 completed the questionnaire. In April 2011, we linked the data for 96.0% (n=462) of the deceased patients to the POD using the 2005-2009 death certificate data of Korea's National Statistical Office. The primary outcome variable was POD, and the predictive value of variables pertaining to patients and caregivers was evaluated using univariate and multivariate analyses. Results: Most patients died in a hospital (91.5%, n=441) and age, education, preference for place of terminal care, wish to use hospice/palliative care services, terminal cancer awareness, time between diagnosis and death, and global quality-of-life subscale of the EORTC QLQ-C30 of patients, and education and preference for place of terminal care of caregivers were significant predictors in univariate analyses. On multivariate analysis, patients and caregivers who preferred hospital/palliative care as the terminal care option over home care [adjusted odds ratio (aOR), 2.68; 95% confidential interval (CI), 1.18-7.04 and aOR: 2.65; 95%CI: 1.15-6.09 for patient and caregiver preferences, respectively] and caregivers who were highly educated (aOR, 3.19; 95%CI, 1.44-7.06) were predictors of POD. Conclusions: Most of the terminal cancer patients died in a hospital. Our findings indicate that major predictors of hospital deaths are preference of both the patient and caregiver for hospital/palliative care as the terminal care option and higher education of the caregiver.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.81-93
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• 2001

The purpose of this study was to develop a continuing nursing care program for cancer patients and the caregivers staying at their home and to test its effects on patients' symptom distress, caregiver burden, and satisfaction of life. The continuing nursing care program was based on the homecare needs of cancer patients, and was provided by three clinical nurses who took care of the patients while they were hospitalized. The program consisted of discharge education about selfcare using education materials(book and handout) and provisions of direct care. These were counselling and education during which visiting patients' home one week after discharge and telephone counseling two weeks after discharge. Counseling by telephone was always available during the research period. A quasi-experimental research design was used to test the effects of the program. Subjects for this study were 53 cancer patients discharged from the hospital and caregivers. These subjects were assigned to an experimental group (n=23) receiving continuous nursing care, or to a control group (n=30) not receiving continuous nursing care. Data from control group was collected first to protect from contamination. Data collection was done from October of 1998 to February of 2000. The collected data was analysed using mean, t-test, and chi-square test computed by SPSS software. The summary of results was as follows: 1) The symptom distress was a little decreased at posttest, but there were no significant differences between the experimental and the control group in symptom distress. 2) The score of caregiver burden was significantly decreased in experimental group at posttest, but no differences in control group. 3) There were no significant differences between the experimental and control group in the satisfaction of life. 4) The score of satisfaction of continuing nursing care program in experimental group at posttest was 2.321 of 3. In conclusion, even though this study did not obtain evidence of effectiveness of continuing nursing care program on patients, such as. It is still expected to be effective by a more improved program. Therefore we want to give some suggestions for further studies. 1) It is needed to make a communication channel with the patient's doctor to response promptly and appropriately to patient's conditions. 2) The research is necessary on patients in terminal stage or early stage of cancer diagnosis who have many nursing needs. 3) It is needed to readjust the roles and job assignment of clinical nurse to implement effectively as a program provider.

• 가정간호학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.294-305
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• 2020

Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the preliminary effects of applying a developed web-based video education program in patients with cancer receiving chemotherapy. Methods: A one-group pre-post test design was used. The web-based video education program to prevent infection consisted of 5 subjects. The program was confirmed to be valid by an expert group of doctors and nurses. Convenience sampling of 23 subjects was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of the web-based video education program. Data were analyzed based on nonparametric statistics using SPSS 25.0 software. Results: Per the results of the study, knowledge and self-management behavior of infection prevention significantly improved after application of the program; however, there was no significant difference in self-efficacy. Conclusion: It was confirmed that the web-based video education program is effective to improve the knowledge and self-management behavior of infection prevention. However, as a preliminary study, this study did not have external validity. Therefore, it is necessary to verify the effectiveness of the program through randomized controlled trials and confirm the true infection prevention effect that was not considered in this research design.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.329-334
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• 2015

목적: 본 연구는 보건소에 등록된 재가 호스피스 완화돌봄 대상자의 특성과 증상을 분석하는 것이다. 방법: 부산광역시 소재 6개구 보건소에 등록된 호스피스 완화돌봄 대상자 144명의 초기 방문기록지(호스피스대상자 등록카드, 초기 통증평가지, 초기 통증 외 증상평가지)를 후향적으로 분석하였다. 결과: 대상자의 평균 연령은 67.7세이었으며, 혼자 사는 대상자가 46.2%, 교육정도는 중졸 이하가 65%였다. 종교는 불교가 36.3%로 가장 많았고, 47.5%가 의료급여 대상자였다. 진단명은 폐암, 위암, 간암의 순이었고, 기능 상태는 일상생활이 어려운 경우가 48.9%로 나타났다. 등록 당시 암 치료 중인 대상자는 39.6%이었고, 84.5%가 말기상태를 인지하고 있었다. 대상자들의 83.6%에서 통증을 호소하였으며, 그 중 36.5%에서 중간정도 이상의 통증을 호소하였다. 통증 외 증상에서 가장 많은 대상자가 호소하는 증상으로는 피로(84.7%)였으며, 피로를 호소하는 대상자의 49.3%가 중증의 증상을 호소하는 것으로 나타났다. 결론: 본 연구결과 재가 호스피스 완화돌봄 대상자들은 사회경제적 취약군으로, 중간정도 이상의 통증과 통증 외 증상을 호소하는 대상자가 많았다. 따라서 재가 호스피스 완화돌봄 대상자의 효율적인 관리를 위해서는 대상자 특성에 따른 차별화된 통합적 전략이 필요하다.

• 가정간호학회지
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• 제6권
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• pp.78-87
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• 1999

From 1990 to 1997 Home Care Education Programs have been offered at 11 Home Care Education Institutes. But there have been no revisions in the program. Especially in the clinical practicum, the Ministry of Health and Welfare proposed 248 hours as 'Family Nursing and Practice'. But each of institutes has developed their own program, and the clinical practicum is very different. Institutions for home care practice have been very limited and even now only 40 hospitals started home care in the second demonstration project. A few community-based institutions have also been offering home care services. This study was conducted to analyze home care clinical practicum offered at Y university, and plan for a revised home care clinical practicum. Y university clinical practicum was revised to include 'visits to community institutions', 'laboratory practice', 'hospital practice', 'discharge planning and home care practice', and 'home care specialty practice'. The results of the evaluation and plan for a revision are as follows: 'Visits to community institutions' is a practice that helps the students understand community resources which are available to home care nurses, and as an orientation to institutions for practice. 'Laboratory practice' is to used to improve nursing skills that are applicable to home care. Problems that the students identified in the laboratory practice were 'lack of opportunity for individual practice', and 'inadequate theoretical preparation for practice'. To address these problems the basic nursing skills laboratory was open and could be used freely by the home care students, and practice could be done after the theoretical lectures. 'Hospital practice' is a practicum in which the students apply nursing skills to patients and to obtain assessment skills for discharge planning. Using a preceptorship, five days for hospital practice should be offered. 'Discharge planning and home care practice' was done at Wonju Christian Hospital. This institute is too far away that this practice should be provided at different institutions as soon as it is possible to contract with home care institutions. Patients groups in different home care institutions are very different, so the 'Home care specialty practice' should be done after analyzing patient groups and choosing specialty areas. These areas are' care of patients with respiratory dysfunction', 'care of patients with neurologic dysfunction', 'care of cancer patients', 'care of patients on dialysis', and 'wound care'. This practice should be offered with a preceptorship, so preceptors, clinical directors, and students should meet for home visit orientation.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.10-19
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• 2013

목적: 경남지역 암센터와 경남지역 각 보건소와의 말기암환자를 대상으로 시행한 연계 사업을 담당자를 대상으로 한 설문조사를 통해서 평가하고자 하였다. 방법: 2008년 1월 1일부터 2011년 12월 31일까지 경남지역 암센터와 연계 사업 협약을 체결하고, 환자를 등록해서 진행한 보건소 실무자를 대상으로 진행하였다. 총 9개 지역 보건소의 실제 사업에 참여한 경험이 있는 재가암 담당자 20명을 대상으로 설문지를 개발하여 조사를 하였다. 각 문항의 평가는 Likert 5단계 척도를 변형하여 단계마다 -2에서 +2까지 점수를 부여하였고, 각 문항의 총점은 40점이었다. 결과: 2008년 1월부터 2011년 12월까지 73예(72예는 경남지역 암센터, 1예는 보건소에서 등록)가 연계되었다. 서비스에 대한 평가로 환자나 가족들의 심리적 안정에 도움이 된다라는 항목이 23점으로 가장 높았고, 전반적으로 재가암 사업에 도움이 된다는 점이 11점으로 가장 낮게 나왔다. 연계 서비스에 대한 개선 문항으로는 입원 절차의 간소화가 35점, 환자 병원 방문 시 실질적 혜택 제공이 34점으로 높게 나온 반면, 보건소의 인력 강화가 4점으로 가장 낮게 나타났다. 결론: 말기암환자를 대상으로 한 경남 지역 암센터-보건소 재가암 쌍방향 서비스는 몇 가지 한계점을 드러내었다. 보다 나은 연계 서비스를 위해서는 이번 연구를 통해 나타난 여러 점들을 개선하고, 또 지역 실정에 맞는 모델을 개발하는 등의 노력이 필요한 것으로 생각된다.

• 재활간호학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.257-270
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• 1999

The purpose of this study is to investigate factors related to the intent of using home nursing of chronic disease patients who got out of a university hospital. For the purpose, the study selected 153 patients who were hospitalized and left K university hospital with diagnoses of cancer, hypertension, diabetes and cerebral vascular accident and ordered to be discharged and performed interviews with them and surveys on their medical records to obtain the following results. For this study a direct-interview survey and medical record review was conducted from June 28 to Aug. 30, 1998. The frequency and mean values were computed to find the characteristics of the study subjects, and $X^2$-test, t-test, factor analysis and multiple logistic regession analysis were applied for the analysis of the data. The following results were obtained. 1) When characteristics of the subjects were examined, men and women occupied for 58.8% and 41.2%, respectively. The subjects were 41.3 years old in aver age and had the monthly aver age earning of 0.99 million won or below, which was the most out of the total subjects at 34.6%. Among the total, 87.6% resided in cities and 12.4 in counties. The most left the hospital with diagnosis of cancer at 51.6%, followed by hyper tension at 24.2%, diabetes at 13.7% and cerebral vascular accident at 7.2%. 2) 93.5% of the selected patients had the intent of using home nursing and 6.5%, didn't. Among those patients having the intent, 85.6% had the intent of paying for home nursing and 14.4%, didn't. The subjects expected that the nursing would be paid 9,143 won in aver age and 47.7% of them preferred national authorities as the main servers. 86.3% of the subjects thought that home nursing business had the main advantage of making it possible to learn nursing methods at home and thereby contributing to improving the ability of patients and their facilities to solve health problems. 3) Relations between the intent of use and characteristics of the subjects such as demography-related social, home environment, disease and physical function characteristics did not show statistically significant differences among one another. Compared to those who had no intent of using home nursing, the group having the intent had more cases of male patients, the age of 39 or below, residence in cities, 5 family member s or more, no existence of home nursing servers, leaving the hospital from a non-hospitalized building, disease development for five months or below, hospitalization for ten days or more, non-hospitalization with in the recent one month, two times or over of hospitalization, leaving the hospital with no demand of special treatment, operation underwent, poor results of treatment, leaving the hospital with demand of rehabilitation services, physical disablement and high evaluation point of daily life. 4) Among those patients having the intent of using home nursing, 47.6% demanded technical nursing and 55.9%, supportive nursing. As technical nursing,' inject into a blood vessel ' and 'treat pustule and teach basic prevention methods occupied for 57.4%, respectively, topping the list. Among demands of supportive nursing, 'observe patients 'status and refer them to hospitals or community resources as available, if necessary' was the most with percent age point of 59.5. Regarding the intent of paying for home nursing, 39.2% of those patients wishing to use the nursing responded paying for technical services and 20.2, supportive services. In detail, 70.0% wanted to pay for a service stated as 'inject into a blood vessel', highest among the former services and 30.7%, a service referred to as 'teaching exercises needed to make the body of patients move', highest among the latter. When this was analyzed in terms of a relation between the need(the need for home nursing) and the demand(the intent of paying for home nursing), The rate of the need to the demand was found two or three times higher in technical nursing(0.82) than in supportive nursing(0.35). In aspects of tech ical nursing, muscle injection(1.26, the 1st rank) was highest in the rate while among aspects of supportive nursing, a service referred to as 'teach exercises needed for making patients move their bodies normally'(0.58, the 1st rank). 5) factors I(satisfaction with hospital services), II(recognition of disease state), III(economy) and IV(period of disease) occupied for 34.4, 13.8, 11.9 and 9.2 percents, respectively among factors related to the intent by the subjects of using home nursing, totaled 59.3%. In conclusion, most of chronic disease patients have the intent of using hospital-based home nursing and satisfaction with hospital services is a factor affecting the intent most. Thus a post-management system is needed to continue providing health management to those patients after they leave the hospital. Further, supportive services should be provided in order that those who are satisfied with hospital services return to their community and live their in dependent lives. Based on these results, the researcher would make the following recommendation. 1) Because home nursing becomes more and more needed due to a sharp increase in chronic disease patients and elderly people, related rules and regulations should be made and implemented. 2) Hospital nurses specializing in home nursing should be cultivated.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제52권1호
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• pp.52-65
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• 2022

Purpose: This study was conducted to develop a scale to measure spiritual distress in cancer patients. Methods: A total of 69 preliminary items for the spiritaul distress assessment tool (SDAT) were compiled, based on a literature review, selection of empirically relevant items through concept analysis of hybrid models, confirmation of content validity by experts, cognitive interviews, and a pretest. Self-administered questionnaires were collected between April 1 and July 31, 2018, from 225 cancer patients at four medical institutions and one nursing home. The data were analyzed using item analysis, exploratory factor analysis, convergent and discriminant validity, and Pearson correlation for criterion validity. Reliability was tested by Cronbash's α coefficient. Results: The final version of the SDAT consisted of 20 items. Five-factors, loss of peace, burden of family, avoidance of confronting death, guilt and remorse, regret for not being able to apololgize and forgive were extracted, and showed 62.8% of total variance. The factors were confirmed through convergent and discriminant validity. Criterion validity was confirmed by functional assessment chronic illness therapy spiritual well-being scale 12 (FACIT-Sp12). The overall Cronbach's α was .91, and the coefficients of each subscale ranged from .78~.83. Conclusion: The SDAT for cancer patients is valid and reliable. It is suggested that the tool can be used to measure spiritual distress in cancer patients.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.216-224
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• 2010

목적: 본 연구는 말기 재가암환자 관리를 위한 병원호스피스센터와 보건소 간의 연계 프로그램을 평가함으로써 보다 효율적이고 효과적인 재가암환자 관리체계를 구축하고자 시도되었다. 방법: 호스피스센터-보건소 재가암관리 연계 사업은 1) 협약체결, 2) 재가 말기암환자 발굴 및 등록, 3) 가정호스피스 방문 서비스 제공, 4) 만족도 조사의 단계로 전개되었다. 일 호스피스센터와 지역의 3개 보건소가 협약을 체결하였고, 2009년 2월 1일에서 12월 31일까지 11개월 동안 43명의 환자에게 605건의 가정호스피스 방문을 실시하였다. 방문기록지 분석을 통해 서비스 대상자의 특성과 제공된 서비스의 종류와 내용을 분석하였고, 이 중 20명에게 서비스 만족도 조사를 실시하였다. 결과: 대상자의 76.7%가 60세 이상이었고, ECOG 전신 수행상태 점수는 0점과 1점이 각각 37.2%, 39.5%이었다. 환자가 병식이 있는 경우는 90.7%, 호스피스 동의서에 서명한 경우는 62.8%였다. 초기방문 시 환자의 주 호소는 전신쇠약감(86.0%)과 식욕부진(72.1%)이 가장 많았다. 평균 총 서비스 기간은 144.42일이었고, 총 605건의 방문 중 간호사 방문이 371회로 가장 많았다. 각 방문중 정서적 지지와 건강상담이 가장 빈번하게 제공되었고, 서비스 전반에 대한 만족도는 5점 척도로 측정하였을 때 평균 4.45점이었다. 결론: 본 연구는 지역사회 내에서 실제적이고 체계적인 재가 말기암환자 관리 프로그램 구축을 위한 중간평가로서의 의미가 있다. 본 연구에서 의뢰된 대상자는 입원형 호스피스보다 기능 상태가 양호하고 서비스 제공기간이 길었으며, 서비스에 대한 만족도, 특히 정서적지지와 환자상태 설명에 대한 만족도가 높았다. 그러나 방문횟수와 빈도, 임종기 관리, 병원입원 재입원하는 환자관리에 대한 기준과 서비스 표준마련은 앞으로의 과제로 제시되었다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권18호
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• pp.7981-7984
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• 2014

Purpose: Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening with fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) has been associated with a reduction in CRC incidence and CRC-related mortality. However, a conventional FOBT requires stool collection and handling, which may be inconvenient for participants. The EZ-Detect$^{TM}$ (Siam Pharmaceutical Thailand) is a FDA-approved chromogen-substrate based FOBT which is basically a self-checked FOBT (no stool handling required). This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of EZ-Detect for CRC detection. Methods: This prospective study was conducted in the Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand between November 2013 and May 2014. Some 96 patients with histologically-proven CRC and 101 patients with normal colonoscopic findings were invited to perform self-checked FOBT according to the manufacturer's instructions. Results were compared with endoscopic and pathologic findings. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) for CRC detection were calculated. Results: The present study revealed the sensitivity, specificity, PPV and NPV of this self-checked FOBT for CRC detection to be 41% (95% CI: 31-51), 97% (95% CI: 92-99), 93% (95% CI: 81-98) and 63% (95% CI: 55-70), respectively. The overall accuracy of the self-checked FOBT for identifying CRC was 70%. The sensitivity for CRC detection based on 7th AJCC staging was 29% for stage I, 32% for stage II and 50% for stage III/IV (P=0.19). The sensitivity was 33% for proximal colon and 42% for distal colon and rectal cancer (P=0.76). Notably, none of nine infiltrative lesions gave a positive FOBT. Conclusions: The self-checked FOBT had an acceptable accuracy of CRC detection except for infiltrative tumors. This home-administrated or 'DIY' do-it-yourself FOBT could be considered as one non-invasive and convenient tool for CRC screening.