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A Study of the Relationship Perceived Social Support and the Quality of Life of Amputation and Paralysis patient of Veterans Hospital The Purpose of this study was to find out the Relationship between perceived social support and the quality of life of amputation patient and those of paralysis patient of Veterans hospital. The objects for this study were 72 amputation and paralysis patients receiving at one general hospital in Taejoun. The Data were collected by survey questionnaire and mail survey during the period from July 1, 2001 to July 31, 2001. The perceived social support was measured by the scale developed by Ji wean Park (1989), and the quality of life was measured by scale Ui Ja Noo(1985). The data was analysed by the SPSS statistical program percentile, means and standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation were utilized for analysis. The finding of this study were as follows : 1. There is no statistical difference among amputation patients with regard to the perceived social support, no matter what ages they are. But a significant difference can be found among the group of paralysis patients (F=3.038, P=0.05). The paralysis patients show different perceived social support which depends on whether they have a religion or not(F=0.432, P= 0.05). We also can find that the degree of perceived social support of amputation patients is becoming higher as they have more serious disabilities(F=2.80, P=0.05). However, two groups of patients-amputation and paralysis show statistically significant differences which come from the fact that whether they have their own jobs or not(P<0.004). 2. No significant difference can be found in quality of life of two groups of patients. 3. Amputation and paralysis patients show no differences with regard to the perceived social support, but they have different perception about the quality of life(t=1.236, p<0.05). 4. It is clear that there is a close relationship between perceived social support and the quality of life among these two groups of patients. As a Whole, the data what we have analysed support the hypothesis that the more two groups of patients perceived social support, they feel better quality of life(r=0.586, p=0.001).
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