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KMID : 0613620160360030393
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Health Social Welfare Review
2016 Volume.36 No. 3 p.393 ~ p.427
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Effects of Wandering Detector in Dementia Elder
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Jun Seong-Sook
Kim Hyo-Eun
Sung Sang-Min
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of wandering detecter on burden stress, anxiety, depression in family caregivers, and wandering behaviors, anxiety in dementia elders. A non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest design was used. Participants were 60 (experimental group=29, control group=31) who lived at home in B metropolitan city. Experimental group applied wandering detector over 8 weeks. Burden stress, wandering behaviors, anxiety, depression of the participants were examined with self-report questionaries and individual interviews. Data were collected between August 1 and December 22, 2015, and were analyzed using independent t-test, chi-square test with IBM SPSS Statistics (Version 24.0). After the intervention experimental group showed significant decreases in the anxiety (p<.01) of family caregivers and wandering behaviors (p<.01), anxiety (p<.01) of dementia elders compared to the control group. However, no significant difference was found between groups for burden stress, depression of family caregivers. Through the
resulted of the interviews, two themes were drawn: experiences of family caregivers and dementia elders. The first and second theme included 8 categories and 24 subcategories.
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KEYWORD
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Dementia Elder, Wandering Detector, Wandering Behaviors, Burden Stress, Anxiety, Depression
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