Original Article
Research on the Caring of the Nurses Concerned With Cancer Nursing : Investigation of the Factors Which Influence Caring Along With Cancer Nursing
2000 Volume 14 Issue 2 Pages 42-54
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2000 Volume 14 Issue 2 Pages 42-54
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify the level of the caring self-evaluation of nurses concerned with cancer nursing and to verify the factors, which related to caring of nurses by the multiple regression analysis. This was questionnaire investigation and the subjects of this study were 500 nurses who worked in the cancer wards of 8 general hospitals in Osaka. The variables used for the multiple regression analysis were the caring scale of nurses as the subordinate variable and 17 variables (which include the attitude toward death, the care anxieties scale of nurses, general-self-efficacy〈GSES〉, etc), as the independent variable. The main results were as follows :
1) The levels of the caring self-evaluation and the GSES of nurses were relatively low. These levels became high when the experience years increased and significant differences were noted between the levels of the years by multiple comparison (Tukey).
2) Results of the multiple regression analysis demonstrated that there was a strong order of the relation of 4 in 17 factors. Care anxieties scale of nurses didn't originate in the caring evaluation, but a significant negative correlation (γ=－0.199, P＜0.001) was noted. The order from strongest factor to weaker factors were age (β＝0.256, P＜0.001), GSES (β＝0.255, P＜0.001), the feeling of the gap for a goal for cancer nursing (β＝－0.187, P＜0.001), unwillingly, facing a patient's death adopting an attitude to care for with a businesslike feeling (β＝－0.113, P＜0.01), respectively.
3) 3 factor except for the age was the related factor of the reverse (plus and minus) to the caring self-evaluation and the care anxieties scale of nurses.
The findings indicated the factors enhancing caring of nurses concerned with cancer nursing, and corelations between the factors. It was also suggested that the need of follow up research about the multiple experienced nurses' practical caring ability and ways of making use of it.
