A Preliminary Study on Quality of Life of Staffs in a Hospital - Comparisons between Direct and Indirect Patient Contact Group -

일 병원 직원의 삶의 질에 관한 예비적 연구 - 경험에 대한 비교 -

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the quality of life of staffs in a hospital. The results of the investigation were taken as a basic data of evaluating the quality of life of patients in psychiatric hospital and family members. Methods: The subjects of this study were Ankang Chungang Hospital staffs. The tool of this study was the Korean version of the SmithKline Beecham Quality of Life Scale. A total of 39 survey was returned. All answers were analyzed statistically by ANOVA or t-test. Results: Internal consistency was high, measuring 0.887 for the 23 items. Staffs have, statistically insignificant, relatively high quality of life. Indirect patient contact group and married group scored more higher than the other group. In so far as age, 30s and 40s scored more higher than the others averagely, the higher educated group, the higher quality of life, except factor competence and physical well-being. Conclusion: This study results support that the indirect patient contact group have higher quality of life in competence factor in quality of life. We recommend that the program that lift self-esteem and quality of life should be supplied for direct patient contact group who may have burnout syndrome. It will be necessary to evaluate the quality of life of patients in psychiatric hospital and patients' family members later.

연구목적: 병원에 근무하는 직원의 삶의 질에 관하여 조사하여 향후, 정신과 환자와 보호자의 삶의 질을 평가하기 위한 기초자료로 활용하기 위함이다. 방 법: 안강중앙병원에 근무 중인 직원을 대상으로 하여 삶의 질에 관한 설문지를 이용하여 조사하였다. 결 과: 삶의 질은 통계적으로 유의하지 않으나 대체로 긍정적이었으며, 간접 접촉군이 더 긍정적이었다. 기혼집단이 더 긍정적이었다. 연령에서는 30대와 40대가 더 긍정적이었으며, 대체로 고학력군이 긍정적이었으나, 유능감 요인과 신체적 안녕 요인은 저학력군이 더 긍정적이었다. 결 론: 본 연구에서 실시된 장기 가족교육모형은 가족의 대처방식을 향상시키고 우울증상의 감소를 가져오며, 환자가 자각하는 가족의 정서적 지지의 향상 및 우울증상의 호전을 가져오고, 재입원율의 저하 및 사회재활의 향상을 보이는 것으로 나타났다.