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Original Article
The Effects of Senior Simulation Programs on Elderly Care Facilities Employees' Attitudes for Elderly Care, Understanding of the Aged, Job Satisfaction, and Job Performance
Hye-young Joung, Hye-Jin Hyun
Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 2012;23(2):222-230.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.0000/jkachn.2012.23.2.222
Published online: June 30, 2012

1Director, Heewon Elderly Care Facilities, Seoul, Korea.

2Professor, Department of Nursing, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea.

• Received: December 18, 2012   • Accepted: June 28, 2012

Copyright © 2012 Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing

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  • Purpose
    This research is to understand the effects of senior simulation on employees of elderly care facilities and utilize it in their job training.
  • Methods
    This research is a nonequivalence control group pre-to-post quasiexperiment research. 18 employees who have experienced senior simulation are set as test group and 18 other employees who have not experienced senior simulation are set as control group.
  • Results
    The hypothesis that 'the test group which has experienced senior simulation will show a positive change in their attitude on elderly care, compared to the control group' and 'the test group which has experienced senior simulation will show a positive change in understanding of elders, compared to the control group' was supported. The hypothesis that 'the test group which has experienced senior simulation will show a positive change in job satisfaction and performance of duties, compared to the control group' was dismissed.
  • Conclusion
    The senior simulation seems to contribute to elderly care facilities employees' change in their viewpoints of elders and broaden their understanding of them. The senior simulation was meaningful to provide basic help with implementing job training programs.
Table 1-1
Context of Outfits for Old Citizen Experience
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Table 1-2
Important Contexts in Terms of Actual Experiments
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Table 2
General Characteristics (N=36)
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Exp.=experimental group; Cont.=control group.

Table 3
Homogeneous Test for Study Variables (N=36)
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Exp.=experimental group ; Cont.=control group.

Table 4-1
Difference of Care Attitide between Experimental and Control Groups (N=36)
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Exp.=experimental group; Cont.=control group.

Table 4-2
Difference of Understand between Experimental and Control Groups (N=36)
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Table 4-3
Difference of Satisfaction between Experimental and Control Groups (N=36)
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Exp.=experimental group; Cont.=control group.

Table 4-4
Difference of Performance between Experimental and Control Groups (N=36)
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Exp.=experimental group; Cont.=control group.

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