[Study of home nursing care needs and implementation of self care of chronically ill patients]

This study was done to gather the basic information needed to identify how the home nursing care needs and implementation of self care is being carried out for chronically ill patients. The subjects of the study were 294 from chronically ill patients in a general hospital, a university hospital and seven primary health care center and the data was collected by a nurses, public health nurse practitioners using questionnaires from July 30 to September 30, 1993. The data were analyzed using percentage, mean, and T-test, ANOVA. Our objectives were to understand basic nursing information general characteristics, implementation of self care, home nursing care needs, implementation of self care depend on general characteristics. The results of the study were as follows 1) General characteristics of subjects. The majority of subjects are female (54.8%); 66.7% of residence are fishing and agrarian villages. 20.1% of disease are neurologic system (backache, neuralgia, HIVD, C.V.A). 2) Environmental offord reveals high point in implementation of self care (2.76 +/- 1.37); 3) B.P check reveals high percentage in home nursing care needs. (84.7%); 4) Implementation of self care depend on general characteristics reveals significantly different by sex*, educational level**, monthly income**, number of family*, disease*, and reason of untreatment** (* < 0.05, ** < 0.01). In conclusion the study requires efforts of nurse practitioners, and the support of useful resources by government.