This study was designed to assess the level of family function between cancer patient¡¯s families and normal families, and to seek better quality family-Mcentered nursing care. The subjects for this study were 95 cancer patient¡¯s families who were selected from the 4 university hospitals and 95 normal families who were selected from 1 university hospital.
The instrument used for this study was McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD) developed by Epstein, Baldwin and Bishop (1983). The scale consisted of 53 items covering 7 areas: ¡®problem solving¡¯, ¡®communication¡¯, ¡®roles¡¯, ¡®affective responsiveness¡¯, ¡®affective involvement¡¯, ¡®behavior control¡¯, and ¡®general functioning¡¯. As for data analyses, descriptive statistics, ¥ö2-test, t-test, ANOVA were adopted using SAS program.
The result of this study was as follows: There there was no significant difference between cancer patient¡¯s family function and normal family function. Also there was no significant difference on cancer patient¡¯s family function with regard to family characteristics, disease¡¯s characteristics, and clinical stage of cancer.
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