A Study of the Relationship among Disease Characteristic、Self-Care Behavior and Quality of Life for Hemodialysis Patients A Study of the Relationship among Disease Characteristic、Self-Care Behavior and Quality of Life for Hemodialysis Patients A Stu

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...

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Main Authors: Chen, Yi-Ying, 陳怡盈
Other Authors: 廖佩珊
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81071251699668580556
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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.