Research in Community and Public Health Nursing

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Text Network Analysis of Newspaper Articles on Life-sustaining Treatments: Eun Jun Park, Dae Woong Ahn, Chan Sook Park; J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 2018;29(2):244-256. Published online June 30, 2018; DOI: https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2018.29.2.244

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PURPOSE
This study tried to understand discourses of life-sustaining treatments in general daily and healthcare newspapers.
METHODS
A text-network analysis was conducted using the NetMiner program. Firstly, 572 articles from 11 daily newspapers and 258 articles from 8 healthcare newspapers were collected, which were published from August 2013 to October 2016. Secondly, keywords (semantic morphemes) were extracted from the articles and rearranged by removing stop-words, refining similar words, excluding non-relevant words, and defining meaningful phrases. Finally, co-occurrence matrices of the keywords with a frequency of 30 times or higher were developed and statistical measuresâ€”indices of degree and betweenness centrality, ego-networks, and clusteringâ€”were obtained.
RESULTS
In the general daily and healthcare newspapers, the top eight core keywords were common: â€œpatients,â€â€œdeath,â€â€œLST (life-sustaining treatments),â€â€œhospice palliative care,â€â€œhospitals,â€â€œfamily,â€â€œopinion,â€ and â€œwithdrawal.â€ There were also common subtopics shared by the general daily and healthcare newspapers: withdrawal of LST, hospice palliative care, National Bioethics Review Committee, and self-determination and proxy decision of patients and family. Additionally, the general daily newspapers included diverse social interest or events like well-dying, euthanasia, and the death of farmer Baek Nam-ki, whereas the healthcare newspapers discussed problems of the relevant laws, and insufficient infrastructure and low reimbursement for hospice-palliative care.
CONCLUSION
The discourse that withdrawal of futile LST should be allowed according to the patient's will was consistent in the newspapers. Given that newspaper articles influence knowledge and attitudes of the public, RNs are recommended to participate actively in public communication on LST.

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Comparison in Spiritual Well-being and Quality of Life between Hospital and Home Hospice Patients: Bok Hee Kim, Hee Ok Park; J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 2013;24(3):292-301. Published online September 30, 2013; DOI: https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2013.24.3.292

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PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to compare the spiritual well-being and quality of life between hospital and home hospice patients.
METHODS
A total of 116 patients from 4 hospice hospitals in D city and P city participated in this study from January to April 2012. To measure spiritual well-being, an instrument developed by Paloutzian and Ellison (1982) and revised by Park (2005) was used. To measure quality of life, an instrument developed by Cho (1993) and revised by Sun (2003) was used. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, t-test, chi2-test, and ANCOVA.
RESULTS
Spiritual well-being and quality of life were higher in home hospice patients than in hospital hospice patients, but they were not statistically significant. Higher education and having religion were significantly related to higher spiritual well-being in both groups. Having religion and pain history for the past one week were significantly related to higher quality of life in both groups.
CONCLUSION
For hospice patients, participation in religious activities needs to be encouraged to improve their spiritual well-being and quality of life. Assessing the hospice patients' pain history with close observation and managing the pain are suggested.

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