J Korean Acad Soc Nurs Educ.  2014 May;20(2):175-183.

Effect of Supportive Education Program for Hospice Patients's Family

Affiliations
  • 1Nurse, Keimyung University Dongsan Hospital, Korea.
  • 2Professor, Department of Nursing, Hyechon College, Korea. sengbira@hanmail.net

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.

Keyword

Hospice; Family; Education

MeSH Terms

Anxiety
Depression
Education*
Fatigue
Hospices*
Humans
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