Mijung Kim; Kyunghee Lee

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Development of Empowerment Program for Persons with Chronic Mental Illness and Evaluation of Impact: Mijung Kim, Kyunghee Lee; Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2015;45(6):834-845.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2015.45.6.834
Published online: December 31, 2015

¹Department of Nursing, Changwon Moonsung University, Changwon, Korea.

²College of Nursing, Keimyung University, Daegu, Korea.

Address reprint requests to: Lee, Kyunghee. College of Nursing, Keimyung University, 1095 Dalgubeol-daero, Daegu 42601, Korea. Tel: +82-53-580-3927 Fax: +82-53-580-3916, khl645@kmu.ac.kr

• Received: January 30, 2015 • Revised: February 17, 2015 • Accepted: August 11, 2015

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Abstract

Purpose
This study was done to develop an empowerment program for people with chronic mental illness and to analyze effects of the program on level of empowerment.
Methods
The research was conducted using a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. Participants were 37 people with chronic mental illness (experimental group: 18, control group: 19). The empowerment program was provided for 8 weeks (15 sessions). Data were collected between July 21 and October 17, 2014. Data were analyzed using Chi-square, Fisher's exact test, Sapiro-wilk test, and Repeated measure ANOVA with SPSS/WIN 18.0.
Results
Quantitative results show that self-efficacy, interpersonal relationships, attitudes in the workplace, occupational performance capacity, and levels of empowered execute were significantly better in the experimental group compared to the control group.
Conclusion
Study findings indicate that this empowerment program for persons with chronic mental illness is effective for improving self efficacy, interpersonal skills, attitudes in the workplace, occupational performance capacity, levels of empowered execute.
Keywords: Self-efficacy; Interpersonal relations; Social problems; Occupational therapy; Power

This manuscript is a condensed form of the first author's doctoral dissertation.

The authors declared no conflict of interest.

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Research design.

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Empowerment Program Development for People Living with Chronic Mental Illness

Table 2

Homogeneity Test of Characteristics and Dependent Variables between Experimental and Control Group (N =37)

^*Fisher's exact test; Exp.=Experimental group; Cont.=Control group.

Table 3

Effect of Empowerment Program on Self-Efficacy, Interpersonal Relationship Abilities, Social Problem Solving Ability, Operational Practice Attitude, Occupational Performance Capacity, and Empowerment Execute Levels (N =37)

Exp.=Experimental group (n=18); Cont.=Control group (n=19); GxT=Group×Time.

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Development of Empowerment Program for Persons with Chronic Mental Illness and Evaluation of Impact

J Korean Acad Nurs. 2015;45(6):834-845. Published online December 31, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2015.45.6.834

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Development of Empowerment Program for Persons with Chronic Mental Illness and Evaluation of Impact

Table 1

Empowerment Program Development for People Living with Chronic Mental Illness

Table 2

Homogeneity Test of Characteristics and Dependent Variables between Experimental and Control Group (N =37)

^*Fisher's exact test; Exp.=Experimental group; Cont.=Control group.

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Exp.=Experimental group (n=18); Cont.=Control group (n=19); GxT=Group×Time.

Table 1 Empowerment Program Development for People Living with Chronic Mental Illness

Table 2 Homogeneity Test of Characteristics and Dependent Variables between Experimental and Control Group (N =37)

^*Fisher's exact test; Exp.=Experimental group; Cont.=Control group.

Table 3 Effect of Empowerment Program on Self-Efficacy, Interpersonal Relationship Abilities, Social Problem Solving Ability, Operational Practice Attitude, Occupational Performance Capacity, and Empowerment Execute Levels (N =37)

Exp.=Experimental group (n=18); Cont.=Control group (n=19); GxT=Group×Time.