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Caregivers' Experience of Violence and Coping with It in Nursing Homes
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Eun Young Lee, Hee Sun Kang, Kyung Hee Kim, Kyung Sook Park
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J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 2012;23(2):134-143. Published online June 30, 2012
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2012.23.2.134
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The purpose of this study is to investigate verbal, physical and sexual violence to caregivers in nursing home workplaces.
METHODS
This cross-sectional study was done from October 17 to 31, 2011 at eight randomly selected nursing homes in Seoul and one nursing home in Gyeonggi, South Korea. This study explored their responses to violence and violent situations, and then investigated on how caregivers coped with workplace violence.
RESULTS
The results of this study show that most caregivers in nursing homes experience some form of violence. Verbal violence was more frequent than physical or sexual violence. Verbal and physical violence occurred most often while they were changing the clothes of patients and sexual violence occurred most often while they were showering patients. After experiencing violence, caregivers most often dealt with the situation by informing their colleagues of what was happened.
CONCLUSION
These results suggest that institutional and administrative measures must be implemented to increase the prevention of violence against caregivers and to improve effective measures to deal with violence once it has occurred. Violence in nursing homes can be reduced through the combination of appropriate responses by caregivers and proper education of both patients and caregivers.
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A Study on Spouse Support, Self Esteem and Psychosocial Adjustment of Patients in Mastectomy
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Eun Young Lee, Chung Nam Kim
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J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 1998;9(2):550-563. Published online December 31, 1998
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- This study was designed to provide the basic data of effective nursing intervention for alleviation of psychosocial adjustment of patients in mastectomy after identifying the correlation between the spouse support, self esteem and psychosocial adjustment.
The study subjects were 83 postmastectomy patients who visited the outpatient clinic at 3 university hospitals in Taegu city from September 10, 1997 to October 16 1997.
Data was collected by researcher and face-to-face interview was conducted.
Nam's spouse support scale(1987), Rosenberg's self esteem instrument (1965), Derogatis' Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness Scale were used.
The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient, t-test and ANOVA with the SAS program.
The results of this study were as follows: 1. The mean score for the spouse support of the subjects was 3.73, self esteem was 3.69 and psychosocial adjustment was 3.61points.
2. According to the patient's hope of breast reconstruction(t=2.04, p=0.0445), there was significant difference of self esteem. According to the patient's family number( t=2.31, p=0.0237), there was significant difference of the psychosocial adjustment.
3. Perceived spouse support and self esteem had statistically significant positive correlations(r=0.5120, p=0.0001).
Perceived spouse support and psychosocial adjustment had statistically significant positive correlations(r=0.4187, p=0.0001).
Perceived self esteem and psychosocial adjustment had statistically significant positive correlations(r=0.6296, p=0.0001).
Therefore, to increase the level of psychosocial adjustment of patients in mastectomy, it will be effective to supportive nursing intervention by improving spouse support and enhancing self esteem.
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