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http://dx.doi.org/10.22156/CS4SMB.2019.9.7.041

The Effect of Attitudes toward the geriatric of Caregivers on their Emotional Work and Burnout  

Lee, So-Young (Department of Nursing, Kyungwoon University)
Hong, Ju-Young (Department of Nursing, Kyungwoon University)
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Journal of Convergence for Information Technology / v.9, no.7, 2019 , pp. 41-47 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study examine to identify the mediating attitudes toward the geriatric patient in the relation between emotional work and burnout. Data were collected by self-report questionnaires targeting 142 caregiver in D city and G city. Data were analyzed with SPSS/PC ver. 21.0 programs. There were significantly positive correlations between toward the geriatric patient, emotional work and burnout. As a result of analyzing the main factors affecting the level of care performance for attitudes toward caring the geriatric attentiveness, health state, work type appeared to be significant explanatory variables, and this model's explanatory power was 31%. Therefore, it is necessary to apply the education program to improve the social awareness in addition to the stable work environment of the nursing care provider in order to raise the attitude of the caregiver to care for the elderly.
Keywords
Caregiver; Emotional work; Burnout; Geriatric; Care attitudes;
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