• 성인간호학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.384-395
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• 2000

This study examined burdens of primary family caregivers, and family functioning of patients with cancer. In addition, the relationship between two concepts was assessed to develop nursing intervention to reduce the burdens of caregiving, and to improve family functioning. Ninety-two primary family caregivers of patients with cancer at a general hospital in Seoul participated in this study. The patients with cancer aged from 19 to 84 years with a mean age of 51 years, and sixty-one percent were male. About 30 percent of the patients suffered liver and billiary tract cancer. Fifty-six percent of the primary family caregivers were spouses of the patients and 70.7 percent were women. Primary family caregivers' burdens were assessed by the Burden Scale originally developed by Zarit (1980) and Novak & Guest(1989) and modified by Jang (1995) for use in Korea. The instrument consists of six subscales: time-dependent burden, developmental burden, physical burden, emotional burden, social burden, and financial burden. Family functioning was assessed by the Family APGAR developed by Smilkstein(1978). The results were as follows: 1. The average burden score was 86.1, indicating a moderate level of burden. The time-dependent burden scored highest followed by developmental, physical, social, financial, and emotional burdens. The mean score of family APGAR was 9.71; among subjects 82.6% were included in dysfunctional families. 2. Of the characteristics of patients, age, gender, number of admissions, and job were found to be associated with the level of burden. There was no significant difference between patient characteristics and family functioning. Of the characteristics of primary family caregivers, caregiver's perception of patient prognosis was significantly related to the level of burden, and family functioning. Caregiver's sex and age were also related to family functioning. The quality of relationship between a patient and a caregiver was significant situational factors affecting the level of burden, and family functioning. In addition, the income of family, and help from other family members were related to the level of burden. Given the results, it is essential to develop nursing intervention to reduce burden and to improve family functioning, such as support groups.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.236-247
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• 2012

Purpose: Purposes of this study were: evaluation of family burden of caring for elders who receive long term care services, and examination of differences in burden before and after the introduction of long term care service in Korea. Methods: Data were collected by questionnaires from 416 caregivers of elders who were registered with the Long Term Care Insurance Corporation in six cities. Data were collected in September, 2010 and analyzed using descriptive statistics, paired t-test, and ANOVA with the Scheffe test, and stepwise multiple regression. Results: Family burden decreased significantly after longterm care service was initiated. Subjective burden decreased from 2.93 to 2.69 (t=11.78, $p$<.001), and objective burden, from 3.40 to 3.10 (t=12.73, $p$<.001). Stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed that factors affecting subjective burden were family relations (F=13.60, $p$=.003), age (F=5.47, $p$=.019), job (F=6.98, $p$=.008), and education (F=4.59, $p$=.032), and that factors affecting objective burden were living together (F=17.66, $p$<.001), job (F=13.34, $p$=.003), monthly income (F=6.61, $p$=.010), and type of service (F=6.62, $p$=.010). Conclusion: The results of this first study to investigate caregiver burden after the Korean Long-term Care Insurance System was begun provide positive information for the development of strategies to decrease family burden in long term care.

• 가정간호학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.83-93
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• 2000

This study was conducted to provide the data for the improvement of cerebral ischemia patient nursing services through the investigation of burden and hospital service satisfaction by family caregivers who were nursing the cerebral ischemia inpatients. The study subjects consisted of 125 family caregivers who were enrolled in four university hospitals with over 300 beds and one Chinese medicine hospital with over 100 beds. The Data were collected from all of the personal subjects using standardized questionnaires by interview from March 1 to March 30 in 2000. Data were analyzed by using t-test, ANOVA. Scheffe's multiple comparison, and Pearson's Correlation Coefficients. The results were as follows: 1. The mean score of burden felt by family caregivers who were nursing the stroke patient was 2.18. In relation to the characteristics of patients, higher scores were shown in male patients who were over 80 years old, and patients who had from 4 to 12 days care giving, over three month duration of admission, from one month to three month duration of illness. The burden felt by family caregivers revealed higher score of dependency in the Activities of Daily Living. 2. The mean score of hospital service satisfaction perceived by family caregivers was 3.35. The highest hospital service satisfaction score was shown in female caregivers, and caregivers whose patients graduated from element school, and treatment method was Chinese medicine, the duration of admission was under 1 month. As a result. the family caregivers' burden was seemed to be high when the patients who were old, male and as care giving time, duration of admission, duration of illness were getting longer. In conclution, hospital service satisfaction was good, but the satisfaction was tend to decrease that family caregivers who were male, higher education background and duration of patients' admission getting longer.

• 산업융합연구
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.97-105
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• 2021

본 연구는 장애가족의 가족응집성과 부양부담이 삶 만족에 미치는 영향을 확인하여 궁극적으로 장애가족의 만족한 삶을 지원하고자 하였다. 연구는 장애가족을 돌보는 장애가정으로 설문조사를 통해 장애가족의 삶 만족에 영향을 주는 요인을 조사하였다. 연구결과 장애가족의 삶 만족은 5점척도에서 2.278로 낮게 나타났으며, 부양부담은 3.432로 비교적 높은 부양부담감을 느끼고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 하지만 가족응집성은 3.664로 비교적 양호한 것으로 나타나 삶 만족을 높이기 위해 부양부담을 낮출 수 있는 지원이 필요함을 보여주었다. 이러한 연구결과를 바탕으로 연구자는 장애가족의 삶 만족을 높이기 위해 다음과 같이 제언한다. 첫째, 돌봄자의 장애인 돌봄부담 경감을 위한 지원의 필요. 둘째, 돌봄을 받는 장애인을 위한 지원의 확대. 셋째, 장애인 가족지원 강화의 필요이다. 다만 본 연구는 경기도를 중심으로 이루어진 조사로서 연구의 한계가 있어 후속연구의 필요가 있다.

• 월간당뇨
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• 통권287호
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• pp.49-51
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• 2013

최근 만성콩팥병 환자의 생존율이 증가하였고, 환자들도 정상적인 삶을 살고자 하는 요구가 증가되면서 삶의 질에 대한 관심이 고조되고 있다. 그러나 만성콩팥병 환자의 투병생활은 질병자체의 고통 뿐 아니라 지속적인 검사, 치료 그리고 잦은 입 퇴원으로 경제적인 부담감, 완치가 아닌 기계에 의존한 생명 연장의 수단이기 때문에 죽음에 대한 불안과 위협, 가정 내역할과 책임의 변화로 가족갈등의 심화, 신체상의 변화로 원활한 대인관계 어려움, 사회적 고립 및 삶에 대한 의미상실 등을 초래할 수 있다. 이렇듯 만성콩팥병 환자는 여러 어려움을 직면하게 되는데 이를 구체적으로 살펴보고자 한다.

• 월간당뇨
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• 통권239호
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• pp.66-67
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• 2009

오랜만에 모인 가족 친지들, 맛깔스런 음식들. 모두가 즐거워야 할 추석이지만 당뇨인에게는 영 달갑지 않다. 이때만이라도 실컷 먹어봤으면 좋으련만 높아질 혈당과 늘어날 체중 생각에 즐거워야 할 명절이 오히려 괴롭기만 하다. 허나 맛있는 음식을 앞에다 두고 울상 지을 수만은 없는 법. 추석음식에 대한 사전 지식을 알고 적절한 양을 때에 따라 골고루 섭취한다면 당뇨인도 명절 기분을 만끽할 수 있다. 이번 추석은 늘 따라다니는 식사요법에 대한 부담감과 스트레스를 떨쳐버리고 웃으면서 맞이해보는 건 어떨까.

• 가정간호학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.91-97
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• 2007

Purpose: This thesis focuses on researching the burden of the Home Health Care that the Family Care-givers have. Method: This study had been conducted for the duration of 3 consecutive months from January 2006 to March 2006 and had investigated 120 person registered as the Home Health Care Clients to a University Hospital located in Incheon City. The thesis adopted the 'feeling of burden' measuring method jointly developed by Seo, Mi-Hye and Oh, Ga-Sil(1993), and FACES-III(Family Adaptability Cohesion Evaluation) developed by Olson(1985) etc. translated by Kim, Yun-Hee(1989) as the measuring method for Family Function. Result: The overall Health Status of the Home Health Care Clients was 2.18 point of average out of 3 point, where as 1.83 for Activities of Daily living and 1.98 for Vital sign, which are below the average. In the mean time, the Competence for Modified Barthel Index marked 30.88 point out of the full mark. The analyzed result of the burden that the family members have was 3.43 point of average out of 5 point which shows that the interviewee feel that they are considerable burden to their families. When it comes to 'the Burden to the family members' and 'the Function of the family' according to the characteristics of the patient, the result shows statistically significant differences, which are varied according to gender, the relationship between the care-givers and the patients. When it comes to the Family Cohesion, the difference was examined as 'statistically significant' according to the Academic background of the patients and the relationship between the patients and the interviewee.(p<0.05). The result also suggests that there exists 'Negative correlation' among the level of patients' health status, the Family Cohesion and the Family Burden. Conclusion: From the result of this study stated above, this thesis is strongly insisting that there is an urgent need for us to develop a health care mediation program, which could eventually reduce the burden of home health care that the patients' family have. At the same time, a follow-up research to prove the effect of the program is imminent.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.418-428
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• 1999

The main purpose of this study was to identify the effects of group social support and individual social support on the reduction of burden and improvement in family functioning of families with asthmatic children. The design of this study was a randomized pre-posttest quasi-experimental design to compare the two experimental groups. The theoretical framework for this study was derived from the study of burden in family caregivers by Suh and Oh (1993) based on the main effect model of social support theories. The data were collected from February 12, 1998 to May 29, 1998 at the pediatric out patient department of a university hospital located in Suwon city. The sample consisted of 39 family members who were identified as families with asthmatic children, Eighteen subjects were randomly assigned to the group social support group and 21 were assigned to the individual social support group. Group and individual social support members were seen for 60 to 90 minutes, four times over one to three weeks. The instruments used in this study were the Burden Scale developed by Suh & Oh(1993), the Visual Analogue Scale, and the Family Adaptability Cohesion Evaluation Scale(FACES-III) developed by Olson, Portner, and Lavee(1985). The collected data were analyzed using Mann-Whitney test, x$^2$-test, Wilcoxon sign rank test, t-test, ANOVA (Scheff), Pearson correlation coefficient. multiple regression, and social support process and content analysis. The results are as follow : 1. There was no significant difference before the experimental treatment among the subjects in the group social support group and individual social support group for general characteristics, burden, or family functioning. 2. Hypothesis 1 : “There will be a greater reduction on the burden score of the group social support group compared to the individual social support group” was not statistically significant(U＝174.5, p＝.683). The burden scores showed a significant decrease after participation in social support as compared to before participation for both groups. However there was a tendency for more reduction in the burden scores for the group social support than for individual social support. 3. Hypothesis 2 : “There will be a greater improvement in the family functioning scores for the group social support group compared to the individual social support group” was not statistically significant(U＝153.0. p＝.309). There was a tendency toward improvement in the family functioning scores of the group social support as compared to that of the individual social support. 4. According to the length of the treatment period, families with asthmatic children displayed affirmative responses, and the families set up a self-help group of mothers with asthmatic children in order to share their experiences, to get information and to solve their problems. In conclusion, it was found that group social support was the more effective nursing intervention for reducing burden and for improving family functioning of families with asthmatic children.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.471-476
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• 2018

이 논문은 한 가정에서 나타난 가족관계의 형성과 분열과정의 원인과 결과, 관계회복에 대한 의미를 파악하는 데 목적을 두고 있다. 분석 작품으로는 2018년 상반기 가장 높은 시청률을 보인 드라마<황금빛 내 인생>을 선정하였다. 연구방법은 이 드라마에서 나타난 한 가정을 중심으로 베이비부머세대와 에코부머세대, 그 이후 세대를 통해 분석하였다. 그 결과로는 가족관계에 대한 세대 간의 부담과 갈등, 그리고 책임감은 가부장적인 일방적인 관계였다. 이러한 관계는 부담감으로 얽혀있는 관계를 끊어버리고 해체하였다. 가족 간의 관계단절은 가족의 굴레에서 벗어나 개인의 주체성을 회복하는데 중요한 역할을 하였으며, 해체된 관계단절의 회복은 개인의 자존감과 정체성이 먼저 정립된 후 이루어지는 쌍방향성 관계에서 가능한 것으로 나타났다.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.202-210
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe depression, caregiving burden and the correlation of the two variables in the families of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and to clarify factors predicting caregiving burden. Methods: A descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted with 139 family members who provided care to patients with ALS. The characteristics of patients and families, Korean-Beck Depression Inventory (K-BDI), Korean version of Zarit Burden Interview (K-ZBI) and Korean-Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Functional Rating Scale - Revised (K-ALSFRS-R) were used as study measures. Results: The mean score for K-BDI was 19.39 out of 63 suggesting sub-clinical depression and 38.2% of the family members exhibited depression. The mean score for K-ZBI was 66.03 out of 88. The predictors for K-ZBI were K-BDI, age of family member, length of time spent per day in caring, relationship to patient and K-ALSFRS-R. Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that levels of depression and caregiving burden are high among family members caring for patients with ALS. As depression is associated with caregiving burden, screening and emotional supports should be provided to reduce the burden of care for these family. Support programs to alleviate the care burden are also needed, considering family demographics, time per day in caring giving and K-ALSFRS-R.