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KMID : 0606119980040020286
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Korean Journal of Child Health Nursing
1998 Volume.4 No. 2 p.286 ~ p.293
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The Anxiety of Mothers with Leukemic Children
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Park Sun-Nam
Moon Young-Im
Park Ho-Ran
Choi Sun-Hee
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of anxiety for the mothers of leukemic children and to provide the fundamental data for the better performance of caring to them.
The subjects were 292 mothers : 100 mothers whose children had a leukemia, 80 mothers whose children had taken a tonsillectomy, 112 mothers whose children with medical disease except cancer.
The data were collected through The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory of Spilberger and analyzed by t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe´ test.
The results were as follows :
1. The state anxiety mean score of mothers with leukemic children was 54.16.
2. The state anxiety of mothers with leukemic children was higher than that of the rest (F=8.00, P=0.0004).
3. There was no significant difference in anxiety of mothers with leukemic children in relation to leukemic children’s and their mother’s general characteristics.
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KEYWORD
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Anxiety
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