Purpose: This study is to analyze the research trends centering on the theses relate to hospice released in Korea. Method: The researcher collected the academic degrees and theses published on the book of the academic society from 1991 to 2004,and examined 110 domestic papers of hospice. Result: 1)The number of articles increased every year after 1997, 52(47%) theses were published in 2000-2002. 97(88%) articles were quantitative studies(experimetal design 17, non-experimetal design 80), and 13(12%) were qualitative studies. 2)As for the subject, the results were :patients with end stage 44(40%), nurse 18(16%), hospice care system, facilities, and literature review 12(10%). 3)As for major concepts of correational studies 15(13%), the results were:quality of life, activities of volunteers, suffering experience of nurse, attitude of hospice, spiritual health, mental health, pain contol and satisfaction, coping pattern, anxiety about death, depression, burnout, and cognition. 4)The subjects and contents of survey, the results were :pain control and need for nursing care in patients, need for spiritual care and physical care in family, cognition and attitude of death and hospice in medical and paremedical staff, and eucational program of hospice, facilities, and development of model. 5)The treatment of experimental research, the results were: hospice nursing,educational program, informational support, spiritual nursing, supportive nursing intervention, home hopice care, information services for control of cancer pain, social support in home hospice services. 6)In the theme of the qualitative studies, the results were: experience of dying patients, perceive of hospice care and death, experience of family of terminal ill patients, meaning of dying in Korean, 7) In the instrument in studies, the results were: MQOL, EQOL, QOL, NIC, Spiritual Need Scale, Spiritual Well-being Scale, Spiritual Perspective Scale, Coping for Grief Scale, K-CPAT, VAS, BPI, Depression Scale, Stait-anxiety Scale, Care-giver Burden Inventory, Burnout Inventory, Mental quality. Conclusion : More research needs to be encouraged in experimental and qualitative research fields. Researches should be conducted for the establishment of the basis of practical and theoretical framework and hospice polices.
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