The purposes of this study were developing supportive nursing care that improve the degree of hope and investigating the effect of supportive nursing care on the degree of hope in the hemodialysis patients.
A quasi experimental research(not equivalent control group pre-test and post-test design) was used in this study to analyze the effect of supportive nursing care on hope of hemodialysis patients.
Experiments were carried out from August 10 to September 26, 2000 with 34 subjects assigned to experimental(17 patients) and control(17patients) groups in H hospital, K city.
The instruments used for this study were supportive nursing care that researcher developed and Miller’s Hope scale(1988) that translated and adapted by Lee(1992).
Data were collected by pre-test, experiment treatment(supportive nursing care) and post-test. Supportive nursing care program was initiated individually 1 week after the pretest, performed 20 to 30 minutes/day, 3 per week for 2 weeks.
The data were analysed by using SPSS for windows(version 10.0) including frequency, percentage, chi square test, student t-test, paired t-test and ANOVA. The result of this study are summarized as follows:
1.The hypothesis that the experimental group who were given supportive nursing care will have the higher degree of hope than control group was accepted(t=2.23, p= .03).
2.In general characteristics, marital status(F=9.6, p=.001) had statistically significant difference in the degree of hope.
From above results of the study, supportive nursing care may be effective nursing intervention for the patient receiving hemodialysis and could be used for nursing practice to improve hope of hemodialysis patients.
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