갑상샘암 수술환자의 심리 및 신체적 불편감에 미치는 정보교육 프로그램 효과

The Effects of Infoimation Education Program on Psychological and Physical Discomfort of Patients Undergoing Operation for Cancerous Thyroid Glands

Objectives: This study was designed as a non-equivalent control group pre and post-test quasiexperimental study to examine the effects of education program using information on the psychological and physical discomfort of patients undergoing operation for cancerous thyroid glands. Methods: The study covered for three months from June 17, 2006 to September 19，2006. The subjects of this study were selected from those patients who were admitted in one of the general hospitals in order to receive the operation for cancerous thyroid glands. They include 29 control group patients who were hospitalized during the period of Jun 17th to August 3rd 2006，and 31 experimental group patients who were hospitalized during the period of August 5th to September 19th， 2006， respectively. The instruments utilized for conducting this study includes the Multidimensional Self-Report Symptom Inventory test originally developed by Derogatis & et al. (1983) for measuring psychological discomfort. And for measuring physical discomfort, the tools developed by McCorkle & Young (1978) was utilized. Results: 1) Hypothesis 1 “The level of psychological discomfort of the experimental group who completed the information education program would be decreased comparing with that of the control group who didn t complete the program” was partly supported (Worry & Anxiety factor: p= .049). 2) Hypothesis 2 “The level of physical discomfort of the experimental group who completed the information education program would be reduced comparing with that of the control group who didn t complete the program，，was not supported (p= -.90). Conclusion: The information program provided for this study was proved to be not effective for decrease physical discomfort of the patients undergoing operations for cancerous thyroid glands but proved to be effective for decrease the anxiety factor of psychological discomfort.