• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제69권6호
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• pp.434-441
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• 2010

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major health problem resulting in significant burden for patients and families. However, family caregivers' burden has not been well recognized. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the level of caregivers' burden and to explore the related factors based on family, patient, and social support factors. Methods: A face-to-face interview with 86 family caregivers who had been taking care of COPD patients was conducted. The participants answered a self-administered questionnaire. The questionnaire included the level of family caregivers' burden, health status and the relationship within the family, functional limitation of patients perceived by family caregivers and the social support. Results: The level of caregivers' burden among participants was considerably high. Risk factors for caregivers' burden included low educational level of family caregivers, low family income, hours of caregiving, and functional limitation of the patients. Protective factors for caregivers' burden were good relationship within the family and support from other family members or friends. Conclusion: It is proved that family caregivers are facing significant burden in taking care of COPD patients. To reduce family caregivers' burden, it is necessary to address socioeconomic status of the family and to provide various community resources including financial support and nursing services.

• 가족자원경영과 정책
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.123-141
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• 2010

Considering recent changes in care policies for children and the elderly, this study assumed that the familialistic characteristics of the welfare state in Korea might differ from those of the past. In order to explore the direction of change in familialism, this study focused on care policies for children under six and for the elderly who are sixty-five and over. Applying Leitner's four types of familialism-implicit familialism, explicit familialism, optional familialism, and de-familialism-to the study, it analyzed both familialization care policies, such as paid parental leave, homecare allowance, tax credit, and de-familialization care policies, including service provision and subsidies. The results of the study showed that care policy for children under 6 displayed the characteristics of "optional familialism," while care policy for the elderly reflected "de-familialism."

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제64권4호
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• pp.31-56
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• 2012

본 연구의 목적은 일본 개호정책 전개과정에서의 '가족개호(가족에 의한 개호제공)'에 대한 금전적 평가에 초점을 맞추어, 특히 개호보험제도의 도입이 '가족개호의 비용화'에 미친 영향을 살펴봄으로써 '가족개호'의 제도화 현상을 포착하는 것이다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 '개호의 사회화' 이념을 '가족개호의 비용화'라는 분석개념으로 조작적으로 정의하고, 이 '가족개호의 비용화' 상황과 그에 대한 국가의 개입방식을 개호서비스 제공에서의 가족의 역할과 가족개호에 대한 사회적 평가의 수준, 그리고 가족개호자(여성)의 가정 내 환경 및 노동시장에서의 지위 등과의 관련 속에서 분석한다. 이러한 분석을 통하여, 본 연구에서는 일본 개호정책의 전개과정에 나타난 '가족개호의 비용화구조'를 밝힘으로써 개호보험제도 실시와 더불어 현금급여가 극히 잔여적으로 도입될 수밖에 없었던 정책적 맥락을 이해하고자 한다.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제59권2호
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• pp.223-249
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• 2007

학제간 팀 접근을 통해 사회복지서비스를 제공하는 의료현장에서는 의료팀의 사회복지사 역할에 대한 명확한 인식과 기대를 파악하는 것이 사회복지사의 효과적인 역할수행에 매우 중요하다. 이에 본 연구는 의사, 간호사, 영양사 등의 의료팀성원을 대상으로 의료사회복지사의 역할에 대한 인식유형과 각 유형의 특성을 Q방법론을 활용하여 조사하였다. 연구결과 의료사회복지사에 대한 인식은 심리사회적 상담자 유형, 자원개발 및 연결자 유형, 복합기능수행자 유형의 3가지 유형으로 도출되었다. 이상의 결과를 바탕으로 의료사회복지실천의 함의를 찾아보았다.

• 아동학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.141-161
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• 2000

This study examined the conditions and administration of 548 private, social welfare, and elementary school-based facilities providing after-school child care. The School-Age Care Environment Rating Scale developed by authors was administered to the teachers of these facilities. The rating scale consists of 84 items in 9 sub-areas. Seven point ratings were obtained for each item. One-way ANOVA confirmed differences between all items at the (p<.001) except for supplementary special needs items. The private facilities had the best environment for after-school child care except for staff development. The social welfare facilities showed good evaluation in staff-child interactions, activities, staff development and administration. The elementary schools obtained low evaluations except for supplementary special needs items. The evaluation of social welfare facilities was highest in Seoul and private child care facilities were highest in other areas.

• 대한간호
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.49-69
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• 1997

The urgent needs to establish hospice care systems in Korea arise from the following reasons: 0) a drastic increase in chronically ill patients with the increase of aged population: (2) rapid changes in living environment from the traditional habitation (e. g., Many Koreans living in apartment complexes, which is the most popular form of modern residence in recent years, prefer to die in the hospital.): the overall increase in patients with advanced cancer: (4) recent trends in early discharge of terminally ill patients from the limited hospital facilities to accomodate other medical insurance beneficiaries; (5) easy acceptance of euthanasia owing to the recent social atmosphere that belittles the dignity of human life; (6) medical and nursing care of AIDS patient in terminal stage; (7) and the problem associated with inhumane medical care system, overtreatment, and groundless fears against narcotics. Terminally ill patients were used to be treated in the hospital in the past. In these days, however, they are forced to have home cares with little assistance from the qualified medical personnel because of insufficient hospital facilities, which are even short for the need of emergency patients and provide priority cares to medical insurance beneficiaries with other acute problems. And yet, neither are there any administrative organizations nor systematic medical studies that deal with the level of terminally ill patient's need, their family's problems and resources of hospice care systems in Korea. Thus, most patients are not able to get appropriate medical care at the terminal stage of their lives. The objective of this study is to make comprehensive database for various hospice care organization currently in operation, link them through medical information system, and develop an easily accessible hospice care model that meets the need of most Korean people. Our survey results may be summarized as follows: Nationally there are 40 organizations that provide partial or full hospice care. However, these organizations are not linked to any formal medical service network. Furthermore, the objective of hospice care, care principles, personnel with appropriate training, educational programs, standard for care, costs, consulting service to patients' family members, the extent of medical care from professional staff members, status of hospice facility, and management of those institutions are neither clearly defined nor organized compared to the international hospice care standards. The surveys on patients of terminal stage. grouped in hospice and non-hospice care patients. reveal what they want visiting nursing care to help their pain control. psychological. social and spiritual demands. While the more than 90% of hospice care patients want to reduce their pains. the non-hospice care patients. in addition to their desire for pain control. demanded more psychological. social and spiritual helps as well. The results of this research could be utilized to 0) define the standard of hospice care. (2) provide the guidance for hospice medical care costs. (3) establish the database of hospice care systems. (4) develop softwares. (5) build communication network through Medinet. and (6) provide an organized visiting home nursing care system. These information should be a valuable resource to many medical staffs who are involved in cancer therapy. nursing care. and social welfare programs.

• 가정간호학회지
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• 제12권1권
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• pp.70-91
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• 2005

Purpose: Long-term care facilities have a responsibility to provide care service that enables residents to maintain their maximal functional capacity and quality of life. Also their needs must be reflected to the service programs. In oder to provide an adequate service, we should assess the elderly's physical, psychological and social health status and the need. In addition to this, the long-term care facilities must be defined clearly by the type of services. This study would contribute to conduct appropriate services in public long-term care policy for the older population in the future. This study would provide informations of long-term care facilities' services and older persons' needs for long-term care. Method: To achieve this objectives, this paper investigates the types, service programs of long-term care institutes and job descriptions of workers. The subjects were consisted of 150 long-term care institutes. 150 institutes of long-term care facilities were drawn from all over the country by a nonrandom, convenience sampling. The data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, $x^2$-test using SPSS program. The instruments of this study were self-reported questionnaires for long-term care institutes. The data were collected from March 1, 2004 to may 31, 2004. Results: Service programs of long-term care institutes were not enough for residents' demands. The job descriptions among nurse, social worker and physical therapist were not clearly defined. The nurse's main role was medication and checking vital sign(49.7%), that of social worker's was observation and supervising (31.2%). The most significant problems were lacking of diverse service programs for residents. Conclusion: Considering these findings and conclusion, the needs of long-term care services should be provided by individual physical and psychological level. And the professional manpower for elderly should be educated in multi disciplines.

• 한국사회복지학
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• 제69권3호
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• pp.97-119
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• 2017

가정외보호 서비스는 그 유형에 따라 서비스의 질과 만족도에 많은 차이가 발생할 수 있지만, 우리나라의 대표적 가정외보호 유형인, 양육시설, 그룹홈, 가정위탁 서비스를 비교한 연구는 거의 이루어지지 않았다. 본 연구는 양육시설, 그룹홈, 가정위탁으로부터 보호 서비스를 받고 있는 494명의 아동을 대상으로 5년간 보호 만족도를 조사하여 비교하였다. 더 나아가 가정외보호 아동의 보호 만족도 변화궤적에 영향을 미치는 요인을 다층모형 분석을 이용하여 조사하였다. 연구결과, 첫째, 그룹홈 아동의 보호 만족도가 가장 높은 것으로 나타났으며, 다음으로 가정위탁, 아동양육시설 순이었다. 둘째, 자아존중감, 사회적지지, 그리고 가정외보호 서비스 유형이 가정외보호 아동의 보호 만족도 변화 궤적에 유의미하게 영향을 미치는 요인으로 분석되었다. 이러한 연구 결과를 바탕으로 아동의 가정외보호 적응을 돕고 보호 만족도를 높이기 위한 방안을 제시하였다.

• 한국농촌간호학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.34-43
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• 2008

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to suggest new direction for domiciliary care for elders provided by public institutions in rural areas. Method: The participants in the study were elders using one of 11 public health care institutions, of which 8 operated day care services exclusively, and 3 operated both day care and short-term respite care services. A survey was conducted using a structured questionnaire that included items on general characteristics of the service users, conditions of the services, personnel, financial status, facilities, and perception of the tasks of the staff. Result: The service content of the day care centers included Western and Chinese medical service, physical services, activities of ADL, nursing care services, meal services and transportation services. Domiciliary care centers provided a wide variety of health and social welfare service for elders. Personnel consisted of 3 to 8 staff for day care centers and 7 to 10 for domiciliary care centers. Both types of centers rely on financial support from local government for operation. The perception of the staff was the need for operation of these centers by public health facilities such as public health centers and sub-centers. Conclusion: The result suggest a need to activate the function of public institutions to provide domiciliary care for elders. For this new change, the role as a social support system must be developed.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.845-858
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• 2019

Objectives: This study aims to contribute to devising systems for family caregivers of dementia patients by examining the state of oral care of dementia patients, and depression and social support among family caregivers of dementia patients. Methods: Family caregivers of dementia patients in the metropolitan area were selected in this study. The inclusion criteria were individuals who have provided care for a dementia patient at home for at least six months and those who come in contact (including phone calls) with the patient at least twice a week. Results: Oral health knowledge of the elderly, caregiving burden, depression, and social support were examined. The mean scores for oral health knowledge of the elderly and caregiving burden were $57.11{\pm}16.94$ out of 100 and $17.33{\pm}8.61$ out of 48, respectively. Further, the mean caregiving behavior score, depression score, and social support score were $8.49{\pm}13.71$ out of 100, $5.11{\pm}3.05$ out of 10, and $72.75{\pm}17.03$ out of 100, respectively. Factors affecting oral health knowledge of the elderly were examined. The results showed that the level of oral health knowledge of the elderly increased with an increasing perception of a need for oral health education (p<0.05), caregiving burden (p<0.01), and social support (p<0.01). Conclusions: These findings suggest that developing and popularizing oral care intervention programs for family caregivers of dementia patients are necessary to ensure systematic oral care for dementia patients.