The purpose of this research is to study the relationship between both the characteristic of the residents and the nursing home and the changes of the ADLs of the residents. Descriptive study was designed. 35 nursing homes and theirs residents in Kaoshiung City were be the sample and 34 questionnaires of the nursing home were returned. Residents¡¦ questionnaire were interviewed by trained personnel twice (pre and post), on June and December 2001 respectively. 310 residents including 141 male, 169 female, average age 72.94 were interviewed. Structural questionnaire was used as the tool, organization¡¦s questionnaire consists of the type of organization, size, admission rate , resignation rate. Resident¡¦s questionnaire including demographic data, Katz Index of ADLs, health status, pressure sore etc. Data analysis including descriptive analysis, T-test, Anova, Pearson relation analysis and linear regression analysis.
The result shown that 86.2% of the residents¡¦ ADLs severely dependent on others help. T-Test shown that male has better ADLs than female, widow has better ADLs than couple ¡]P¡Õ0.05¡^. but shown no significant of changes of ADLs. Age, sickness and ADLs and changes of ADLs shown no significant results. On the other hand, the relationship between the characteristic the nursing home and the changes of the ADLs of the residents shown the government aided and ¤½¥ßor°]¹Îªk¤Hnursing home has better changes of ADLs¡]P¡Õ0.01¡^. The greater the size of the organization the better of the ADLs changes, private sector and affliated nursing home shown no significant results of the ADLs changes. Pressure sore is the important index of the quality care of the long term care organization, research sectors always take it as the routine surveillance. This study consisted of 31 cases of pressure sore (10%),¤½¥ßor°]¹Îªk¤Hnursing home has a low incidence of pressure sore, the higher the bed using rate, the worse of the ADLs changes, the higher of the high incidence of the pressure sore, but there is no difference between the resignation rate and the incidence of the pressure sore.
The results of this study may help the clinical care-taker to design different care targets in order to help to recover and to improve the ability of ADLs by the characteristic of the residents. Moreover, study of the characteristic of nursing home and effects of the changes of the ADLs of the residents may act as suggestion to the manager and the administrator who may take the different characteristic of the organization into consideration when making policy to improve or to further investment and expansion of the organization.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0218105-161526 |
| Date | 18 February 2005 |
| Creators | Liao, Yu-ling |
| Contributors | none, none, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0218105-161526 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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