This study was done to. determine the relationship between the anxiety of patients family in hospital and various influencing variables. .
The purpose of this study was to determine factors that may lead to lower level of anxiety of patients´ family and provide basic data for family in hospital setting.
The subject for this study were 81 family members selected from ICU, ER, OR, and ward at Chungnam National University Hospital in Daejeon.
Data was collected from March 1, 1982 to Feb. 10, 1983 using the questionnaire method and analyzed by the use means, standard deviations, Interco relations, analysis of variance and T-test.
The results obtained were as follows:
1. Six variables related to families anxiety were relationship with medical personnel, lack of medical knowledge, family problem, patients´ illness, hospital environments and economics, in order.
2. Families anxiety caused by hospital environments, there was significant
difference in hospitalized unit of patient, the family of patients who were in emergency unit were significantly higher than the other unit (P<0.05).
3. Families anxiety caused by the encounter with medical personnel, there was significant difference in families marital status, the unmarried family members were significantly higher than the family members who were married(P<0.05).
4. Families anxiety caused by patients´ illness, there was very significant difference in hospitalized unit of patient, the family members of patient who were in ICU were very significantly higher than the other unit(F=10.764, P<0.01).
5. Families anxiety caused by economics, there was significant difference in patients´ marital status, the family of married patients´ were higher than unmarried (p<0.05).
6. Families anxiety caused by lack of medical knowledge, there was very significant difference in patients´ marital status, the families anxiety of married patients´ was higher than unmarried(P<0.01).
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