A Study of Life Satisfaction by Chronic Arthritis Patient

만성관절염 환자의 삶의 만족도에 관한 연구

This study is descriptive research clarifying the relations between physical inconvenience, social aptitude and sense of satisfaction In life of the chronic arthritis patients. This research has been conducted from 115 patients by structured self-reporting questionnaires and direct interview of the adult patients over the age of 16 years old who had been under treatment in 3 University hospitals in Seoul from Oct. 4, 1996 through Oct. 24, 1996 for 20 days. The collected materials have been under t-test and F-test(ANOVA) per variables after computerizing using SPSS package and the correlation between various causes was conducted by pearson's correlation coefficient method. The results are as the follows : 1) Generally the age of starling the disease was 40-60 with 91 in female(79.0%) and male 88(76.5%), the persons who had the religion showed the high rate of being taken ill and the persons with over high school education have fallen ill by 46.1%. The monthly income has shown that 77.5% was over 1,000,000won or over, the periods of the disease in average was 4 years 3 months showing it was the chronic disease, the degree of recognizing the disease was 19.0%, spouse and children were most concerned about their disease and the part of Joint attacked was knee(73.0%), wrist(43.5%) and others which showed that they have been very inconvenient in daily life. 2) The variables affecting to physical inconvenience were by age (F=9.06, p=.000), education level(F=7.14, p=000), economic standards (F=2.18, p=.05), the period of disease(F=3.09, p=.03), hospitalized or not(F=3.23, p=.002), showing such correlations. 3) The variables affecting to the social adaptation were by age (F=3.47, p=.018), education level(F=4.98, p=.001), periods of taken ill (F=419, p:.007), hospitalized or not (F=3.23, p=.004) and the operation or not (F=1.30, p=.028) showing such correlations. 4) The variables affecting to life satisfaction were by sex(t=2.08, p=.045), economic status(F=3.15, p=.01) being able to explain statistically. Through the above correlations, they are required to receive self-management education positively to elevate the effect of rehabilitation treatment and effective nursing arbitration and also they required to be reduced physical inconvenience at the early stage and be helped to be able to lead the quality life in satisfaction by elevating the diverse adaptation to the society by correcting the transformed joint.