Korean Parent-Child Health Journal (부모자녀건강학회지)

The Academic Society of Parent-Child Health (부모자녀건강학회)
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Comparison of Grandmothers' Subjective Health Status, Depression, Quality of Life and Conflict with Their Children Depending on Whether Raising Grandchildren or Not

손자녀 양육 여부에 따른 조모의 주관적 건강상태, 우울, 삶의 질 및 자녀와의 갈등 비교

  • 최혜정 (강원대학교 일반대학원 간호학과)
  • Received : 2017.11.03
  • Accepted : 2017.12.17
  • Published : 2017.12.31
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Abstract

Purpose: This research compared the degrees of grandmothers' subjective health status, depression, quality of life and conflict with their children between the grandmothers who take full charge of raising their grandchildren and the grandmothers who don't and was being conducted to provide the basic data of arbitration for health improvement of grandmothers raising grandchildren. Methods: The study participants was 30 grandmothers who take full charge of raising the grandchildren and 30 grandmothers who don't of grandchildren. Grandmothers' subjective health status, depression, quality of life and conflict with their children between the grandmothers was measured by measurement tools developed by previous research. Data collecting were measured by self-report questionnaire. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient by SPSS 23.0. Results: The depression score of grandmothers raising grandchildren was $26.60{\pm}12.04$, which was significantly higher than that of $19.57{\pm}7.04$ grandmothers were not raising grandchildren (t=2.76, p=.008). Also the conflict score of between children and grandmothers raising grandchildren was $30.70{\pm}10.72$, which was significantly higher than that of $22.43{\pm}6.40$ between children and grandmothers were not raising grandchildren (t=3.63, p=.001). Conclusion: The results showed that a solution to intervene the depression and conflict with their children of the grandmother who raise their grandchildren is needed.

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