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KMID : 0607720120230030256
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Journal of Korean Community Nursing
2012 Volume.23 No. 3 p.256 ~ p.265
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Agitation in Home-dwelling Persons with Dementia and Coping Behaviors in Primary Care-givers to the Agitation
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Kim Hye-Suk
Park Hee-Ok
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate agitation in home-dwelling persons with dementia and coping behaviors of primary family care-givers to agitation.
Methods: The research was designed as a descriptive study. A total of two hundred and five subjects had participated in this study. To measure agitation in persons with dementia, Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory was used. To measure coping behaviors of primary family care-givers to the agitation, a questionnaire was used. Descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe? test were used to answer the research objectives.
Results: ’Repetitive mannerisms’ and ’repeating sentences’ were the most commonly occurred agitation in home-dwelling persons with dementia. ’Leaving the situation’, ’allowing certain time’, and ’soothing by talking’ were the most common coping behaviors occurred in primary care-givers.
Conclusion: The findings of the current study would provide meaningful data to develop nursing programs to control agitation for home-dwelling persons with dementia and education programs for primary care-givers to cope
with persons’ agitation.
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KEYWORD
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Dementia, Psychomotor agitation, Caregivers, Coping behaviors
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