| Keywords |
Visiting health services ; RAI-MDS-HC 2.0 ; CAPs |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this study was conducted to investigate the health needs of visiting health service residents with a standardized tool RAI-MDS-HC2.0. From April 1 to April 30 of the year 2006, the 15 educated visiting nurses tried to face to face interview and collected the data. Total 153 data were analyzed by using SPSS 12.0 statistical program. The results are summarized as follows. The mean age of the subjects was 71.3 years olds, and the men and women ratio of them was 28.8% and 71.2% showing 3 times larger women than men. The most frequently found diseases could be listed in the order of hypertension, arthritis and diabetes mellitus by showing 58.8%, 31.4% and 30.7%, respectively. Arthritis showed a significant difference between sexes by showing 13.6% of men compared to 38.5% of women (Chi-square=9.66, p=0.008). The average health problems were 9.91 among 30. The first priority health need was preventive measure (CAPs 25) by showing 96.1% of 153 subjects. And transportation use was also the top priority of dependent function with showing 47.7% of them. The main subjective problems could be found slow and hesitant speaking (98.7%) in physical area, hypochondriasis (38.5%) in mental-psychological area and all day alone in social area (51.6%). Conclusively, it is suggested that the preventive measure (eg, health care examination) could reduce the number of health problems, and the planning and manual development of visiting health management policy could be demanded urgently. |