Summary: | 博士 === 國立臺北護理健康大學 === 護理研究所 === 104 === The purposes of this study were to explore the resilience experience and resilience related factors among elderly residents in long-term care facilities. The cross-sectional design mixing with qualitative and quantitative method was used to understand the resilience resilience experience among and related factors elder people residing in long-term care facilities.
The first part is qualitative method by using ground theory. Twenty residents above 65 years were interviewed to explore the resilience experience residing in long-term care facility. Constant comparative method was used to analyze that elderly residents was in continuous resilient process right after they were resided in long-term care facility due to some reasons. After struggling, four themes of interactive behaviors were coded as: loss after residing long-term care facility, gain companion and support, adjust attitude, and integrate into new network they can pursue resilience toward new home which belongs to them.
The second part is quantitative method with purposive sampling to collect 200 elderly resident in long-term care facilities in Northern part of Taiwan. The questionnaires include stress, elderly depression, social support, spiritual well-being and resilience. The path relationship between resilience and related factors was established based on the results of hierarchical regression analysis. Path analysis showed that stress and resilience of elderly residents in long-term care facility had negative effect and social support and resilience had positive effect; stress and depression had positive effect and spiritual well-being and depression had negative effect; stress and social support had negative effect; social support play partial mediator between stress and resilience.
The results of this study can provide staff in long-term care facility in more understanding in resilience related factor and resilience experience of elderly residents in long-term care facility and as reference to provide resilience care intervention.
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