The purposes of this study was to determine the effect of beach ball play in stroke patients, and to define the strategy to promote their depression, powerlessness, self-esteem, activity of daily living. The experimental design was designed nonequivalent control group, non-synchroniged design. The study method had been done by investigating the experimental group and control group through the questionnaire on 57 patients who had been in patient department in D University hospital in Pusan from January 5th 1998 to the end of February 28th, 1998. Beach ball play was carried out experimental group once per day for 10 minute's for two weeks period from Jan 1998 to Feb 1998. Data was collected before and after the experimenation. Collected data was analyzed by means of frequency, percentage, chi-square test, mean, S.D, t-test with SPSS/PC. The results were summarized as follows: 1. The I st hypothesis: The experimental group which received the beach ball play should be higher in depression than the control group was supported(t=3.11, p=.003). 2. The 2nd hypothesis: The experimental group which received the beach ball play should be higher in powerlessness than the control group was supported(t=3.32. p=.002). 3. The 3rd hypothesis: The experimental group which received the beach ball play should be higher in self-esteem than the control group was not supported(t=-1.90, p=.064). 4. The 4th hypothesis: The experimental group which received the beach ball play should be higher in activity of daily living than the control group was not supported(t=-.47, p=.637). In conclusion, the patients who received beach ball play showed the increase in the degree of depression and powerlessness of stroke patients. So the beach ball play had been judged the nursing intervention to improve their emotional problem in stroke patients.
Busan ; Depression* ; Humans ; Nursing ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Research Design ; Stroke*