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KMID : 0939320010040020137
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Korean Journal of Rehabilitation Nursing
2001 Volume.4 No. 2 p.137 ~ p.145
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A Study on the Relationship between Hope and Self-Care Agency in Hemodialysis Patients
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한경혜
김명희
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Abstract
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This study examined and identified the relationship
between the level of hope and self-care agency in hemodialysis patients.
The purpose of the study was to reveal that hope is an essential factor to enhance self-care agency and to prepare the basic materials to help nurse the patients.
The subjects for this study consisted of 108 persons who undergoing hemodialysis from 2 hospital. 2 hemodialysis center in Pusan, Korea. The degree of hope was measured by the questionnaire that has been developed by Miller. The self-care agency was measured by the questionnaire that has been developed by Kearney B.Y & Fleisher B.J.
The collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and t-test. one-way ANOVA and Pearson´s Correlation Coefficient with SPSS WIN program.
Results were obtained as follows:
1) The mean scores of hope were 131.77±25.77 (range 67-195). The rate of hope classified said that the lowest hope was 2.8% and low hope was 27.8%.
2) The mean scores of self-care agency were 143.78±23.63(range 74-187). The degree of self-care agency classified said that the rate of self-care agency deficiency was 0.9% and low self-care agency was 12.0%.
3)The hope was significantly retated to self-care agency. That is, the higher the hope score was, the higher the level of self-care agency score (r = 0.668, p = 0.001) was.
In this result, there were hemodialysis patients who have very low hope score and self-care agency score. In this cases self-care agency can be increased by encouraging the patients to be more hopeful.
Conclusively nurses should access the degree of hope and self-care agency of hemodialysis patients individually and apply the hope therapy in order that the patient have higher hope than before.
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