J Nurs Acad Soc.  1986 Dec;16(3):97-107.

A Survey Study of the Nurse's Helping Behaviors and Patient's Self-Exploration behaviors

• Kim MS

Abstract

This study was about nurse's helping behaviors and the purpose of the study was to find out the nurse's helping behaviors, to identify the nurse's helping behavior level by the nurses personal back ground and to find out the relationship between the nurse's helping behavior and patient's self exploration. The subjects, consisting of 192 adults in-patients who had less acute physical problem and 192 registered nurses working on these ward in 3 hospitals in Seoul and 1 hospital in Kang Won province of Korea. The data were collected from Jan. to Feb. 1986 through; the descriptive responds and self-reported questionaires. The instruments used for this study were Carkhuff's index of communication. Henderson's Irritating Listening Behavior, revised by the Kim(1984) and patient problem understanding scale, patients trust scale on nurse, developed by the Kim(1984). Analysis of the Data was done by use of mean, t-test, F-test and Pearson correlation coefficients. The results of study are summerized as follows; 1. Mean of nurse's helping behavior was 1.84 out of 4. These point were less than 3.0 which means the minimum points as the facilitative helper. 2. There was no significant differences of nurses helping behaviors by the nurse's personal back ground (p<.05). 3. There were positive relation between the nurse's helping behaviors and patient's self-exploration behavior (p<0001). In conclusion, I may can give some suggestion, according to the study results; 1. The systematic study about nurse's helping behavior is need all over the Korea. 2. Educational program for the facilitative rela tionship between nurses and patient must be developed. 3. Further detailed analysis methods are need on the independent variables of patient's self-explorations behavior.

MeSH Terms

Adult
Gangwon-do
Helping Behavior*
Humans
Korea
Seoul