This study was designed to explore the effectivenss of education to improve self-care of stroke patients with three types of charactor health locus of control and constitution.
A total of 56 patients were selected by convenience sampling at one oriental hospital. The teaching of self-care was conducted by the researcher. The self-care performance was measured for 10 days. The data were analyzed using t-test, ANOVA and
Scheffe
method as post hoc test.
@ES The results of this study are as follows:
@EN 1. The self-care performance by patients' characteristics:
Age and education had impact on the self-care performance. The level of young and high educated patients was high, gender, religion, occupation, monthly income, and the paralyzed side, however, didn't have influence on the self-care performance.
2. The self-care performance of patients with three types of constitution:
There was no statistical significance on the self-care performance of patients group by constitution. However, average score of self-care performance of patients with So-Um was high.
3. The self-care performance of patients with three types of health locus of control: There was no statistical significance on self-care performance of patient group by health locus of control.
4. The correlation between the constitution and the health locus of control:
There was no statistical significance on the introverted and chance health locus of control of patients with three types of constitution. However, there was a statistically significant relationship between the powerful others health locus of
control and
So-Yang.
Even though there was no statistically significant self-care performance of patients with So-Um, there was a clinical significance on the high score of self-care performance of patients with So-Um as compared with the self-care performance of the
patients. The health locus of control didn't have influence on the self-care performance of patients. There was a statistically significant relationship between the powerful others health locus of control and So-Yang. Therefore, this study
suggest
the
need to develop the nursing intervention to improve the self-care of stroke patients with the powerful others health locus of control and So-Yang. Furthermore, the longitudinal research is needed to determine the effectiveness of training to imp
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