편마비대상자를 위한 이완술이 스트레스, 통증, 우울에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구 = A Study on the Effects of Relaxation Technique on Attendant Stress,Pain and Depression of Hemiplegic Patients

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Most hemiplegic patients have been suffered from severe physical and emotional handicaps with attendant stress, depression and persistent pain. The relaxation technique as a mean of independent nursing interventions have been used to relieve pain due to physical and emotional tensions and decrease the level of depression and stress by inhibiting sympathetic activities.
From February 9, 1998 through February 28, 1998, 58 hemiplegic pateints who had been rehabilitated at a well-fare center in Seoul were surveyed to assess the effects of relaxation technique on their stress, pain and depression. This subjects were categorized into two groups ; One included 28 hemiplegic patients as an experimental group. The other included 30 hemiplegic patients as a control group.
For measuring the level of stress, pain and depression, questionnaire composed of 30 items, VAS and VRS, the instruments developed by Back and Kim Yeoun were used.
Results were statistically analyzed with Paired t-test and Chi-square test and as follows.
1. The levels of stress were lower in the experimental group than that in the control group after the relaxation technique for three weeks(t=7.810, p=0.0000).
2. The levels of pain were lower in the experimental group than that in the control group three weeks after the relaxation technique(t=3.819, p=0.0002, t=3.012, p=0.0038, t=3.524, p=0.0008).
3. The levels of depression were lower in the experimental group than that in the control group three weeks after the relaxation technique(t=3.725, p=0.0004).
Conclusively, the relaxation technique lessen significantly the levels of attendant stress, pain and depression of hemiplegic patients and is expected to facilitate their daily life activities as a mean of nursing interventions