• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.639-648
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• 2008

This study is to examine the meaning of death, the level of death anxiety, and the aspect of death anxiety that the aged have. For this, a quantitative research subjecting 532 of the aged living in local area, Jeollabuk-do was carried out. And among those 532 questionnaires, 10 were subjected for depth interview. The following is a summary of the result from this study. First, the meaning of death for the aged is classified into three classes as positive, neutral and negative meaning. Among these, there were far greater numbers of the aged who put neutral or negative meanings on their death than the positive one. Second, death anxiety of the aged are divided into three factors: 'annihilation anxiety', 'process anxiety', and 'afterdeath anxiety'. The factor that involves death anxiety the most was process anxiety, then afterdeath anxiety, and annihilation anxiety, in the order. Third, as a result of classifying the feature of death anxiety in the aged into the symptoms of death anxiety and the motive of recognizing death anxiety. Death anxiety is classified into the people with symptoms and those without symptoms, and those with certain symptoms are classified into the physical symptoms and the mental symptoms. The motive of recognizing death anxiety appeared when the individual is aged, experiences the death of other people, suffers physical pains, and when there is a mental loneliness.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.353-363
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• 1997

With the occurrence of cancer, most cancer patients experience various emotional changes such as anxiety, depression, and emotional shock. Especially in our country, cancer has been recognized as an incurable disease resulting in death. The number of cancer patients increases daily. But as the survival rate of cancer patients is also increasing, there is a need to find the better methods of nursing care for cancer patients. The purposes of this paper are as follows : 1) To understand family support and hope and quality of life for the cancer patient both during hospitalization and at home. 2) To determine the relationship between family support, hope and quality of life. To examine the problems. we used a questionnaire and obtained data form the records of 45 home care and 90 hospitalized (in 3 university hospitals) patients in Taegu area from the period of June 15 to August 15, 1996. SPSS /PC was used for the data analysis and the statistical methods used were the T-test and ANOVA. The results of this paper are as follows : 1) In the aspect of family support, there is no difference between hospitalized and home care cancer patients(t=1.63, P>0.01). 2) In the aspect of hope, hospitalized cancer patients have a higher score than home care cancer patients(t=3.08, P>0.01). 3) In the aspect of quality of life, hospitalized cancer patients have a higher score than home care patients(t=2.96, P<.01). 4) There is a correlation between quality of life and hope with a correlation coefficient r=0.5195 and P=0.000. In addition, the correlation coefficient between quality of life and family support is 4179 with P=0.000. 5) The family support of the cancer patient is influenced by sex(F=9.1863, P<0.01), education(F=4.3641, P<0.01) and the level of life (F=5.5002, P<0.01), 6) The hope of cancer patients is influenced by the number of hospitalizations(F=3.6413, P<.05), education(F=6.0113, P<.01). and the level of life(F=5.0649, P<.01). 7) The quality of life of cancer patients is influenced by the number of hospitalization(F=5.1167, P<0.05), education(F=3.1590, P<0.01) and the level of life(F=5.6942, P<0.01).

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.18-27
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• 2000

목적 : 본 연구는 강남성모병원 호스피스 병동에 입원한 환자들의 입원 시 삶의 질과 간호서비스를 받는 동안 삶의 질 변화와 호스피스 간호서비스가 말기환자의 삶의 질에 미치는 영향을 알아보고자 시도하였다. 방법 : 1999년 10월부터 2000년 3월 사이에 가톨릭 대학교 강남성모병원 호스피스 병동에 입원한 환자와 가족 100명을 대상으로 연구자가 수정, 보완하여 개발한 설문지를 통해 자료를 수집하였고, 수집된 자료는 repeated measures ANOVA로 분석하였다. 결과 : 1) 간호제공자에 의해 인지된 환자의 삶의 질 평점은 입원시, 입원 1, 2, 3, 4주에 각각 3.31, 3.68, 3.56, 3.73, 3.75로 입원 당시보다 시간이 지남에 따라 유의하게 향상되었고, 입원시점에 따라 항목별로 살펴 볼 때 "신체적 청결"(F=6.50, P=0.0001) "통증조절"(F=18.01., P=0.0001) "대변상태"(F=2.96, P=0.0237) "수면상태"(F=3.99, P=0.0048) "메스꺼움/구토"(F=4.50, P=0.0022) "의료진의 편안한 돌봄"(F=3.95, P=0.0051) "가족들의 돌봄"(F=2.76, P=0.0317) "불안감"(F=3.14, P=0.0177) "마음이 편안함"(F=3.63, P=0.0085) "인간적인 대우"(F=3.32, P=0.0136) "죽음이 끝이 아니라 새로운 시작이라고 생각함"(F=2.54, P=0.0450) 등의 항목에서 유의한 차이가 있었다. 2) 환자 자신에 의해 인지된 삶의 질 평점은 입원 시와 입원 1주에 각각 3.63, 3.83으로 향상되었지만 유의한 차이는 보이지 않았다. 입원시점에 따라 항목별로 살펴볼 때 "통증조절" 항목만이 유의한 변화를 보였다. 3) 사망시점으로부터 삶의 질 평점은 사망 5주전, 4주전, 3주전, 2주전, 1주전에 각각 3.48, 3.51, 3.44, 3.46, 3.50이었으며 유의한 차이는 없었다. 결론 : 본 연구의 결과 호스피스 서비스는 말기 환자의 삶의 질에 긍정적인 영향을 주는 것으로 보여졌다. 따라서 호스피스 서비스의 질 향상을 위해 호스피스 환자들을 지지해 줄 중재방안을 모색해야 하며, 특히 간호의 영적 영역에 초점을 두어야 하겠다. 또한 말기 환자의 주관적인 삶의 질 측정을 위해 도구개발이 이루어져야 하며 대상자를 확대하여 계속적인 연구가 있어야 할 것으로 생각된다.