본 연구는 현재 건강검진센터에서 수행하고 있는 영양서비스 현황과 영양서비스의 요구도를 관찰하여 영양서비스 개선을 위한 방법을 모색하고 이를 영양평가 및 상담에 적용하여 영양서비스의 만족도를 높이는데 기여하고자 수행하였다. 본 연구의 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1) 영양서비스의 경험이 있는 대상자는 상담군의 경우 58.5%, 비상담군의 경우 46.3%로 나타났다. 그 중 상담군 56.1%, 비상담군 43.9%가 개별상담을 받았고, 상담내용은 건강검진결과에 따른 결과상담이 가장 높았다. 영양지식 및 건강정보는 TV, 인터넷, 책, 잡지, 신문을 통해 얻는 경우가 많았으며, 영양사나 의사, 간호사 등 교육기관으로부터 정보를 얻는 비율은 낮았다. 2) 영양서비스를 받고 싶다고 생각한 적이 있는지에 대해 상담군 80.5%, 비상담군 73.2%가 긍정적으로 대답하였으며, 두 군간의 유의적인 차이는 없었다. 영양서비스 경험과 영양서비스에 대한 생각은 양의 상관관계를 보였다(r = 0.229, p < 0.01). 3) 영양평가의 필요성은 상담군의 경우 95.1%로 비상담군 80.5%에 비해 유의적으로 높게 나타났으며 (p < 0.05), 영양상담의 필요성은 상담군의 경우 97.6%, 비상담군의 경우 100%로 영양상담의 요구도가 높았으며, 두 군간의 유의적인 차이는 없었다. 또한, 영양서비스의 수단으로 개별 상담의 선호도가 가장 높았다. 4) 영양서비스 요구항목의 우선순위를 보면, 영양평가는 식사섭취열량평가가 가장 높았으며 (p = 0.000), 영양상담은 상담군의 경우 영양평가를 통해 출력된 영양소별 1일 섭취량 결과를 바탕으로 개인별 맞춤 상담을 원했으며 (p = 0.031), 비상담군은 건진결과에 따른 식사요법에 대한 영양상담을 원하는 비율이 높았다 (p = 0.000). 영양결과지는 도표나 그래프를 이용하여 한 눈에 알아 볼 수 있도록 만들어지기 원하였으며 (p = 0.014), 리플릿이나 영양책자는 사진의 추가로 시각적인 효과를 높여달라는 요구도의 순위가 가장 높았다 (p = 0.014). 본 연구 결과를 바탕으로 건강검진센터의 영양서비스 개선을 위한 제언은 다음과 같다. 1) 영양평가시 영양문제파악을 위한 개개인의 영양상태 평가 도구로써 보다 세밀한 평가가 이루어질 수 있도록 영양평가 도구 개발이 필요하겠다. 2) 현재 일부 정밀건강검진프로그램에서만 결과에 따라 개인별 식사요법이나 영양교육이 실시되고 있다. 그러나, 영양교육 및 다양한 영양서비스를 제공하는 것은 건강증진, 질병예방 측면에서 볼 때 큰 효과를 볼 수 있는 좋은 프로그램이며, 소비자들도 원하는 부분이다. 이에 다양한 영양교육프로그램 개발을 통해 건진프로그램에 영양서비스 정착에 힘써야 할 것이며, 더불어 영양사의 자질 향상을 도모하는 것도 필요하리라 하겠다. 3) 영양평가결과지에 그래프나 도표 첨부, 영양자료나 리플릿 제작시 사진이나 그림, 건강기능식품에 대한 정보 추가 등의 수정보완이 필요하겠다. 4) 본 연구를 통해 영양서비스 요구도 설문이 실시됨으로써 차후에 다양한 건강검진프로그램 평가에 대한 기초자료를 제공할 수 있으며, 적극적인 차원에서의 건강검진프로그램 관리에 대한 기본적인 자료제공의 의의를 가질 수 있을 것으로 기대된다. 5) 본 연구는 영양서비스에 대한 평가에서 제한된 부분만을 분석하였으므로 앞으로는 여러 가지 평가도구가 개발되어야 하며 또한, 영양상담 내용을 행동에 옮기는데 필요한 구체적인 변수들의 규명과 분석이 진행되어야 하겠다.
In this study, we attempted to investigate the needs and problems of the terminal cancer patients and their family caregivers to provide them with nursing information to improve their quality of life and prepare for a peaceful death. Data was collected from August 1, 1995 to July 31, 1996 at the internal medicine unit of S hospital in Seoul area with the two groups of participants who were family members of terminal cancer patients seventy four of them were in-patients and 34 were out-patients who were discharged from the same hospital for home care. The research tool used in this study has been developed by selecting the questionnaires from various references, modifying them for our purpose and refining them based on the results of preliminary study. While general background information about the patients was obtained by reviewing their medical records, all other information was collected by interviewing the primary family caregivers of the patients using the questionnaire. The data collected were analyzed with the SPSS PC/sup +/ program. The results of this study are summarized as follows ; 1) Most frequently complained symptoms of the terminal cancer patients were in the order of pain(87%), weakness(86.1%), anorexia(83.3%) and fatigue (80.6%). 2) Main therapies for the terminal cancer patients were pain control (58.3%), hyperalimentation(47.2%) and antibiotics(21.3%). 3) Special medical devices that terminal cancer patients used most were oxygen device (11.1%), and feeding tube(5.6%). Other devices were used by less than 5% of the patients. 4) The mobility of 70.4% of the patients was worse than ECOG 3 level, they had to stay in bed more than 50% of a day. 5) Patients wanted their medical staffs to help relieve pain(45.4%), various physical symptoms(29.6%), and problems associated with their emotion(11.1%). 6) 16.7% of the family caregivers hoped for full recovery of the patients, refusing to admit the status of the patients. Also, 37% wished for the extension of the patient's life at least for 6 months. 7) Only 38.9% of the family members was preparing for the patient's funeral. 8) 45.4% of family caregivers prefer hospital as the place for the patient's death, 39.8% their own home, and 14.8% undetermined. 9) Caregivers of the patients were mostly close family members, i.e., spouse(62%), and sons and daughters or daughter-in-laws(21.3%). 10) 43.5% of the family caregivers were aware of hospice care. 46.8% of them learned about the hospice care from the mass media, 27.7% from health professionals, and the rest from books and other sources. 11) Caregivers were asked about the most difficult problems they encounter in home care, 41 of them pointed out the lack of health professionals they can contact, counsel and get help from in case of emergency, 17 identified the difficulty of finding appropriate transportation to hospital, and 13 stated the difficulty of admission in hospital as needed. 12) 93.6% of family caregivers demanded 24-hour hot line, 80% the visiting nurses and doctors, and 69.4% the volunteer's help. The above results indicate that terminal patients and their family caregivers demand help from qualified health professionals whenever necessary. Hospice care system led by well-trained medical and nursing staffs is one of the viable answers for such demands.
This project was a service-cum-research effort with a quasi-experimental study design to examine the health benefits of an integrated Family Planning (FP)/Maternal & Child health (MCH) Service approach that provides crucial factors missing in the present on-going programs. The specific objectives were: 1) To test the effectiveness of trained nurse/midwives (MW) assigned as change agents in the Health Sub-Center (HSC) to bring about the changes in the eight FP/MCH indicators, namely; (i)FP/MCH contacts between field workers and their clients (ii) the use of effective FP methods, (iii) the inter-birth interval and/or open interval, (iv) prenatal care by medically qualified personnel, (v) medically supervised deliveries, (vi) the rate of induced abortion, (vii) maternal and infant morbidity, and (viii) preinatal & infant mortality. 2) To measure the integrative linkage (contacts) between MW & HSC workers and between HSC and clients. 3) To examine the organizational or administrative factors influencing integrative linkage between health workers. Study design; The above objectives called for quasi-experimental design setting up a study and control area with and without a midwife. An active intervention program (FP/MCH minimum 'package' program) was conducted for a 2 year period from June 1982-July 1984 in Seosan County and 'before and after' surveys were conducted to measure the change. Service input; This study was undertaken by the Soonchunhyang University in collaboration with WHO. After a baseline survery in 1981, trained nurses/midwives were introduced into two health sub-centers in a rural setting (Seosan county) for a 2 year period from 1982 to 1984. A major service input was the establishment of midwifery services in the existing health delivery system with emphasis on nurse/midwife's role as the link between health workers (nurse aids) and village health workers, and the referral of risk patients to the private physician (OBGY specialist). An evaluation survey was made in August 1984 to assess the effectiveness of this alternative integrated approach in the study areas in comparison with the control area which had normal government services. Method of evaluation; a. In this study, the primary objective was first to examine to what extent the FP/MCH package program brought about changes in the pre-determined eight indicators (outcome and impact measures) and the following relationship was first analyzed; b. Nevertheless, this project did not automatically accept the assumption that if two or more activities were integrated, the results would automatically be better than a non-integrated or categorical program. There is a need to assess the 'integration process' itself within the package program. The process of integration was measured in terms of interactive linkages, or the quantity & quality of contacts between workers & clients and among workers. Intergrative linkages were hypothesized to be influenced by organizational factors at the HSC clinic level including HSC goals, sltrurture, authority, leadership style, resources, and personal characteristics of HSC staff. The extent or degree of integration, as measured by the intensity of integrative linkages, was in turn presumed to influence programme performance. Thus as indicated diagrammatically below, organizational factors constituted the independent variables, integration as the intervening variable and programme performance with respect to family planning and health services as the dependent variable: Concerning organizational factors, however, due to the limited number of HSCs (2 in the study area and 3 in the control area), they were studied by participatory observation of an anthropologist who was independent of the project. In this observation, we examined whether the assumed integration process actually occurred or not. If not, what were the constraints in producing an effective integration process. Summary of Findings; A) Program effects and impact 1. Effects on FP use: During this 2 year action period, FP acceptance increased from 58% in 1981 to 78% in 1984 in both the study and control areas. This increase in both areas was mainly due to the new family planning campaign driven by the Government for the same study period. Therefore, there was no increment of FP acceptance rate due to additional input of MW to the on-going FP program. But in the study area, quality aspects of FP were somewhat improved, having a better continuation rate of IUDs & pills and more use of effective Contraceptive methods in comparison with the control area. 2. Effects of use of MCH services: Between the study and control areas, however, there was a significant difference in maternal and child health care. For example, the coverage of prenatal care was increased from 53% for 1981 birth cohort to 75% for 1984 birth cohort in the study area. In the control area, the same increased from 41% (1981) to 65% (1984). It is noteworthy that almost two thirds of the recent birth cohort received prenatal care even in the control area, indicating that there is a growing demand of MCH care as the size of family norm becomes smaller 3. There has been a substantive increase in delivery care by medical professions in the study area, with an annual increase rate of 10% due to midwives input in the study areas. The project had about two times greater effect on postnatal care (68% vs. 33%) at delivery care(45.2% vs. 26.1%). 4. The study area had better reproductive efficiency (wanted pregancies with FP practice & healthy live births survived by one year old) than the control area, especially among women under 30 (14.1% vs. 9.6%). The proportion of women who preferred the 1st trimester for their first prenatal care rose significantly in the study area as compared to the control area (24% vs 13%). B) Effects on Interactive Linkage 1. This project made a contribution in making several useful steps in the direction of service integration, namely; i) The health workers have become familiar with procedures on how to work together with each other (especially with a midwife) in carrying out their work in FP/MCH and, ii) The health workers have gotten a feeling of the usefulness of family health records (statistical integration) in identifying targets in their own work and their usefulness in caring for family health. 2. On the other hand, because of a lack of required organizational factors, complete linkage was not obtained as the project intended. i) In regards to the government health worker's activities in terms of home visiting there was not much difference between the study & control areas though the MW did more home visiting than Government health workers. ii) In assessing the service performance of MW & health workers, the midwives balanced their workload between 40% FP, 40% MCH & 20% other activities (mainly immunization). However,