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KMID : 0869919990050020300
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Journal of Korean Academy Society of Nursing Education
1999 Volume.5 No. 2 p.300 ~ p.314
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Effectiveness of the Self-care Education for the Medication and Symptoms Management on the Psychiatric Patients’ Quality of life
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Shon Kyung-Hee
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Abstract
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This study is an attempt to evaluate the effect of the medication and symptoms self-care education on the psychiatric patients’’ quality of life. This exploratory study was designed to a quasi-experiment of pretest-postest with a non equivalent control group. Subjects of 40 patients who were discharged from a mental hospital in Pusan were selected to be experiment and control group, with each group consisting of 20. The research period was from March, 6 to May, 29, 1999 and the pre-post test was given before and after implementing MSSE to the both experiment and control group. The results finding were summarized as follows ; 1. subjects who attended self-care education scored significantly higher than control group in quality of life.(Z=-2.06, P=0.034) 2. Those who were in the experiment group reported more significant higher scores than control group in item of quality of life, living situation(A=-2.62 P=0.012), relations with spouse (Z=-2.31 P=0.038) and children (Z=3.37, P=0.008), fear (Z=-1 95, P=0.049) and anger(Z=-2.07 P=0.041), work functioning (Z=-2.34, P=0.021), environmental adjustment. (Z=-2.05, P=0.039)
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KEYWORD
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Psychosocial rehabilitation, Patient education, Quality of life
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