Effects of Nurse-led Holistic Healthcare Home Visit Intervention Program on the Stress Index, Depression and Quality of Life in Korea Multi-cultural Couples
AUTHORS
Yeun Mi Kim,Dept. Nursing of department, Suwon Women's University, 72 Onjeong-ro, Gwonseongu, Suwon, 16632, South Korea
Chang Bae Ko,Dept. Business Administration, Kyungdong University
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to develop a nurse-led home visit intervention program from the aspect of holistic health in order to maintain and improve holistic health of multi-cultural couples in rural areas, and to check its effects. This is an equality, control-group before and after similarity experimental study on 20 couples in the control group and 20 couples in the test group that were snowball sampled from multi-cultural couples introduced from agencies in the rural areas of Y-gun and G-gun in K Province, and couples introduced by these couples from June 13 to July 27, 2014. For research tools, the stress index, which is a physiological measurement variable, and depression and quality of life, which are structuralized survey tools, were used for measurement. The collected data were analyzed using the SPSS/WIN 21.0 program. Results of the study showed that stress index was lower for the test group of wives than the control group, but there was no significant difference (t=-1.12, p=.136). Meanwhile, the test group of husbands displayed significantly lower stress index compared to the control group (t=-3.14, p=.002). For depression, both the wife (t=-3.75, p=.001) and husband (t=-4.20, p=.001) were found to be lower in the test group compared to the control group. However, for quality of life, both the wife (t=3.86, p=.001) and husband (t=5.28, p=.001) showed higher levels in the test group than the control group. Therefore, the holistic healthcare home visit intervention program developed in this study was found to have positive effects for reducing the stress and depression of multi-cultural couples and in improving their quality of life.
KEYWORDS
Multi-cultural Couples, Stress Score, Depression, Quality of Life, Nurse-led, Holistic Healthcare, Home Visit Intervention Program
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