2000 Volume 5 Issue 1 Pages 107-114
The purpose of this investigation was to clarify the structure of care outcomes for the patients with dementia. The questionnaire was utilized for this study. The questionnaire was developed by the interview to expert nurses. They were asked about the patient's major changes when they received high quality of care. Seven hundred sixteen nurses participated this study. Characteristics of the subjects were that 57.5%of them was LPN, and 42.2% of them was RN. The average of their experiences was 6.2 years (SD 4.1) and their working places were at Geriatric Health Services Facility(62.2 %) and Hospital for Patient with Dementia(37.8%). As the result of cluster analysis, six structures were emerged as outcome of effective nursing care : "Recovery of self-care", "Stability of emotion", "Stability of behavior", "Acceptance to nursing care", "jihatsusei", and "Development of personal and social relations".
