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조혜명 ( ) - 구미1대학
박정숙 ( Park Jeong-Sook ) - 계명대학교 간호대학
박명화 ( Park Myong-Hwa ) - 아이오와 주립대학
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Abstract
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This study was conducted to compare activities of dally living. fatigue and depression between rheumatoid arthritis patients and healthy persons. The subjects consisted of 53 rheumatoid arthritis patients and 53 healthy persons at a university hospital in Daegu City. Data were collected by means of structured interviews with questionnaires from July 20, 1999 to August 25, 1999. The instrument used in this study were the activities of daily living scathe developed by Katz et al. (1970) and Barthel(1973), Multidi-mensional Assessment of Fa샤? by Belza et al.(1995) and CES-D(Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression) scale. Analysis of data was done by use of descriptive statistics, Pearson Correlation, Chi-square test, t-test, ANOVA, MANCOVA and Duncan with the SPSS program. The major finding are summarized as follows : 1. The first hypothesis that the rheumatoid arthritis patients will have a lower decree of activities of dally living than the healthy persons was supported (F=4.584. p= .035). 2. The second hypothesis that the rheumatoid arthritis patient will have a higher decree of fatigue than the healthy persons was supported (F=7.799, p= .006). 3. The third hypothesis that the rheumatoid arthritis patients will have a higher degree of depression than the healthy persons was supported (F=4.7y8, p= .031). With the above results, it can be concluded that rheumatoid arthritis patients had a lower degree of activities of daily living and a higher degree of fatigue and depression than the healthy persons. Therefore, by providing appropriate nursing intervention, activities of and depression would be alleviated.
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KeyWords
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원문 및 링크아웃 정보
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등재저널 정보
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