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Method
1: The study material was 650 female arthritis patients registered in an arthritis clinic. The questionnaire about the disease experience of female arthritis patients and the burden of husbands were sent. Returned questionnaires numbered 210(32.3%) and 27 were excluded because of inadequate answers. The remaining 183 questionnaires were analyzed. The mean age of the patients was 51 years and the mean age of spouses was 55 years. The mean marital period was 28 years. The average duration since diagnosis was 9.1 years. Education level was varied from primary school to graduate school, and average income/month was 1,517,300 won.
Method
2: Initial questionnaire studies on the burden of husbands were performed. Among 183 responding husbands, 23 consented to participate for a qualitative research. Data was obtained by direct and telephone interviews. The mean age of participants was 58 years, and the educational level and socioeconomic status also varied.
Result
1. Husbands' burden: The average burden was 57.68 with a range of 6-96. 2. Burden and general characteristics: The husband's burden correlated with the age of the patients, numbers in the family, therapy methods, patient's level of discomfort, patient's disease severity, patient's level of dependence and the husband's understanding of the level of severity. 3. Linear correlation analysis on burden: The husbands' burden is explained in 22.5% by husband's recognition of level of severity and husbands' age. 4. There were four patterns of the burden on husbands: both objectve burden and subjective burden were high(pattern I), both of objectve burden and subjective burden were low(pattern II), objective burden was high but subjective burden was low(pattern III), objective burden was low but subjective burden was high(pattern IV). The pattern was correlated with the family income, educational level of the patients and their husbands, therapy methods, patient's level of discomfort, patient's disease severity, patient's level of dependence and husband's understanding of level of severity. 5. The core category of the caring experience of the husbands with arthritis patients was "companionship". The causal factor was the patients' experience due to symptoms : physical disfigurement, pain, immobility, limitation of house chores, and limitation of social activities. Contextural factors are husbands' identification of housework and husbands' concern about the disease. The mediating factors are economic problems, fear of aging, feeling of limitation and family support. The strategy for interaction is mind control and how to solve emotional stress. The "companionship" resulted from caring activities, participation of household activities, helping patients' to coping with emotional experience. 6. Companionship is established through the process of entering intervention, and caring state of mind. Entering intervention is the phase of participation of therapy and involvement of houseworks. The caring phase consists of decision on therapy, providing therapy, providing direct care, and taking over the household role of wife. Through caring phase, the changing phase set a stage in which husbands consolidate the relationship with their wives, and are reminded of the meaning of marriage. As a result, in changing phase, husbands' companionship is enhanced. In conclusion, nursing care of chronic illnesses should include a family member especially the spouse. All information on disease shoud be provided to patients and whole family member. Strong support should also be provided to overcome difficulties in taking over role of other sex. Then the quality of life of patients and families will be much improved.

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  Dong-Hun Kim M.D., Hwee-Soo Jeong M.D., Dong-Wook Lee M.D.
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An analysis of the Nursing activities was carried out during the period of October 6 -10, 1975 for five days, at postanesthetic room in Seoul National University Hospital. Continuous Time Study method was applied to this study by Observing and checking the activities performed by 8 nursing personnel at head nurse, staff nurse, and nurse aide level. Six nursing Students and 6 staff nurses observed and recorded all activities during the day and the evening for 5 days after certain process of training. Following results were obtained; 1 . Percentages of nursing activities were identified at each level of nursing personnel according to the skill Level 1 ) Thirty three point forty two percent of the total head nurse's activities were spent by administrative activities, 21.33% by Clerical activties, 10.63% by Nursing activities, 6.54% by Messenger activities, 4.0% by Housekeeping activities, and24, 08% by Unclassified activities, 2 ) Forty point forty two percent of the total staff nurses' activities were spent by Nursing activities, 12.7% by Administrative activities, 8.03% by Housekeeping activities, 3.08% by Clerical activities, 2.03% by Messenger activities. 0.08% by Dietary activities, and 34.19 % by Unclassified activities. 3 ) Thirty six point sixty three percent of the total nurse aide' s activities were spent by Messenger activities, 14.4% by Housekeeping activities, 2.2% by Nursing activities, 1.0% by Clerical activities, 0.83% by Administrative activities, and 44.94% by Unclassified activities, 2 . Percentages of nursing activities were identified at each level of nursing personnel according to area of activity. 1) Thirty three point ninty six percent of the total head nurse's activities were spent by Unit - Centered activities, 30.26 % by Patient - Centered activities, 8.69% by Personnel-Centered activities and 24.09% by Other - Centered activities. 2 ) Fifty two point seventy four percent of the total staff nurses' activities were spent by Patient - Centered activities, 11.5% by Unit-Centered activities, 1.68% by Personnel-Centered activities and 34.02% by Other-Centered activities. 3 ) Forty nine point sixty seven Percent of the total Nurse aide' s activities were spent by Unit-Centered activities, 5.13% by Patient-Centered activities, 0.27% by Personnel -Centered activities and 4-1.93%by Other-Centered activities. 3 . Percentages of staff nurses' activities were identified at each skill Level according to their shifts. 1 ) Forty four point eighty one percent of the total day time activities were spent by Nursing activities, 13.62% by Administrative activities, 6.37% by Housekeeping activities, 2.08% by Clerical activities, 1.74% by Messenger activities, 0.07% by Dietary activities and 31.31 % by Unclassified activities. 2 ) Thirty three point eighty seven percent of the total evening time activities were spent by nursing activities, 10.51% by Housekeeping activities, 10.0% by Administrative activities, 4.58% by Clerical activities, 2.46 % by Messenger activities, 0.0 9 % by Dietary activities and 38.49% by Unclassified activities. 4. There was no great difference among activities of 5 days.