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KMID : 0604719990060020242
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Journal of Rheumatology Health
1999 Volume.6 No. 2 p.242 ~ p.252
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Self Management of Pain by Folk Remedies in Patient with Chronic Arthritis
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1김종임/1Jong Im Kim
2강현숙/2Hyun Sook Kang
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Abstract
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-Abstract-
The purpose of this study was to explore self management of pain by folk remedies
in patient with chronic arthritis. The participant of this study were 90 volunteers who
were visit C hospital and who want to counsel with researcher for their pain control by
convenient sampling method.
The results of this study were summarized as follows :
The subjects were the 90 patients who had been diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis(52.5%)
and osteoarthritis(47.8). 93.3% of participants were women. Mean age of participants was
53.7 and duration of arthritis was 7 years. Mean pain score was 5.5㎝.
Eighty five kinds of folk remedies were used for pain management. The mean cost
for folk remedies was 3,723,207 won and the patients with rheumatoid arthritis paid to
folk remedies as much as 3 times.
The perceived effect score of pain management by folk remedies was 2.932(the range
of perceived effect score were 0-10㎝). Percentage of discontinue to use folk remedies
was 82.8% and the major reason of discontinue to use folk remedies was no effect to
pain control(50.4%). Some participants(30.5%) were experienced side effect such as
exacerbation of pain(50.5%).
In conclusion, chronic arthritis patients have been experienced various kind of folk
remedies for the management of their pain. But the effect of pain control was very low.
The important weakness of folk remedies were economical waste and loss of opportunity
to treatment for arthritis. The nurse who care for arthritis should be teach about
weakness of folk remedies for their pain control to the patients with arthritis.
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