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KMID : 0895020060090010101
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Chungnam Journal of Nursing Academy
2006 Volume.9 No. 1 p.101 ~ p.113
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Self-Care of Adult Patient with Asthma
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Oh Hyun-Sook
Kim Bu-Nam
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was to identify the self-care by adult patients with asthma
Method: The data were collected from 1 February 1999 to 7 April 1999. The total of 95 questionnaires were gathered. The measurement tool used for this study was a thirty-six item questionnaire developed by the researcher who had interviewed 3 asthma patients in detail about self-care at routine care and reviewed literatures about asthma patient’s self-care. The tool used this study was composed of five categories(family support, communication with health care professionals, trigger avoidance, asthma symptom control, medication area) and 35 items. The internal reliability of the tool was measured at Cronbach’s α =.875. Data were analyzed by using a statistics package(SPSS) and statistical significance of the date was measured by using a descriptive statistics, ANOVA and t-test.
Results: 1) Self-care of adult patients with asthma were 3.78±48 on the 5 point Likert scale. To the fifth categories of self-care, family support was 3.51±69, communication with health care professionals was 3.98±63, trigger avoidance was 3.6±.79, asthma symptom control was 4.04±.52, and medication was 3.59±61.
2) Self-care by the subject’s general characteristics, showed that there were significant differences with age, sex and family type(p＜.05).
3) Self-care according to illness-related characteristics, showed that there were signigicant differences with health care provider, prior intensive care unit hospitalization, inhaler use and education experiences(p＜.05, p＜.01).
Conclusion: The results could provide nursing interventions on the family support and medication area of self-care. In applying nursing interventions, we should consider patient’s age, prior ICU hospitalization, inhaler use and education experiences.
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KEYWORD
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Asthma patients, self-care
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