Effect of Supportive Education Program for Hospice Patients's Family.
- Author:
Tae Yeon LEE
1
;
Yunhee KWON
Author Information
1. Nurse, Keimyung University Dongsan Hospital, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Hospice;
Family;
Education
- MeSH:
Anxiety;
Depression;
Education*;
Fatigue;
Hospices*;
Humans
- From:Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
2014;20(2):175-183
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was examine effects of fatigue, anxiety, depression, social support, and spiritual well-being of supportive education program for hospice patients's family. METHOD: Using a non-equivalent control group pre-post quasi-experimental design, 70 study subjects were assigned into two groups, experimental group (n=35) and the control group (n=35). Measures were fatigue, state-anxiety, depression, social support, and spiritual well-being to test for the effects of supportive education program for hospice patients's family. Data analyzed using chi2 test, t-test with SPSS/WIN 19.0 version. RESULTS: The experimental group receiving supportive education program for hospice patients's family had a significant changes of fatigue, state-anxiety, depression, social support, and spiritual well-being. CONCLUSION: The supportive education program for hospice patients's family is an effective intervention to enhance social support and spiritual well-being and to decrease fatigue, anxiety and depression.
