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RelationshipbetweenSelf-careAwarenessandPerformance inLiverTransplantationPatients

  • Global Health and Nursing
  • Abbr : Global Health Nurs
  • 2016, 6(2), pp.51-58
  • DOI : 10.35144/ghn.2016.6.2.51
  • Publisher : Research Institute of Nursing Science
  • Research Area : Medicine and Pharmacy > Nursing Science
  • Published : July 31, 2016

Tae-Kyeong Lee 1 Kang In Soon 2

1양산부산대학교병원
2부산대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Purpose:Thepurposeofthisstudywastoidentifythelevelsofself-careawarenessandperformanceandrelationships between them in liver transplantation (LT) patients. Methods: The participants in this study were 81 outpatientswhohadreceivedLTwithintwoyearsatYUniversityHospital.Thedatawerecollectedforthreemonths fromAugust18,toNovember5,2015.Theself-careawarenessandperformancescalewas developedbyYun (2007).Thedatawereanalyzedusingdescriptivestatistics,t-test,analysisofvarianceandPearson'sCorrelation Coefficient through the SPSS/WIN 21.0 program. Results: The average rating of self-care awareness and performance were 4.49 and 4.40 points out of a total of 6. Self-care awareness decreased over time since the LT (t=2.908, p=.040). Self-care awareness showed positive correlation with performance (r=.637, p .001). < Conclusion: The result indicate that LT patients'self-care performanc is essential to improving their self-care awareness. Therefore, to improve LT patients' self-care performane, health care providers need education on LT patients' self-care awareness.

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