1999 Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages 47-57
The purpose of this study was to identify the meaning of their coping behaviors in patients with hip fractures. The subjects were 30 elderly persons, aged 65 to 91, to have surgical treatment. The data were collected from doctors' and nurses' charts, using retrospective methods. These data (their words and behaviors) were analysed by the qualitative research methods. Ultimately, four coping modes and stressors were founded. The results are as follows : 1) Their stressors supposed by four coping modes were a threat to the loss of self-image before they fractured and a threat to have the possibility of functional recovery from hip fracture. 2) Four coping modes were 【preservation of self-identity】, 【self-control】, 【to offer information and to acquire information】, 【challenge and self-integration】. 3) Four coping modes were used to preserve, to protect and to stabilize themselves for a recognized threat in the interaction of them with the environment. Coping modes were used according to own recognized threat and their circumstances. From the above results, dynamic interaction at the back of coping behaviors was supposed in the structure of self-conception.
