Summary: | 碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 應用統計學研究所 === 97 === The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship among disease characteristic, self-care behavior and quality of life for Hemodialysis patients. Questionnaire survey
between gender had been conducted on the Hemodialysis patients with age over
18 in North Taiwan area. Responses of 266 patients selected by Quota Proportional
Sampling were statistically analysed with descriptive statistics, correlation analysis,
canonical correlation analysis and structural equation modeling. The results of study are
following:Most of the subjects are married, unemployed , with age 45 or above and
have 7 year hemodialysis history averagely. Among all of them, 33% s has high overall
quality of life, 22% has somewhat low overall quality of life , especially for Physical
and Psychological Domain. Those with better self-care behavior have slighter disease
characteristic. And the symptom control liability from medicine outweighted the
influence from diet. The SEM shows that there are significant relationship between
Disease characteristics and quality of life and also between the Disease characteristics
and self-care behaviors.
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