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영어

This study applied a home therapy convergence program to patients who had undergone mastectomy and examined its effects on their arm functions, occupational performance, quality of life, and depression. The number of subjects was 20. The subjects were those who visited an occupational therapy room as outpatients and received the intervention twice per week, forty minutes per each time, for 12 weeks. In order to look at their arm functions before and after the intervention, K-DASH was employed and their edema was measured with a tape line. In order to examine their occupational performance, quality of life, and depression before and after the intervention, COPM, FACT-B, and BDI, respectively, were utilized. After the intervention, their arm functions significantly increased, but their edema did not significantly decrease, their occupational performance and quality of life significantly improved, and their depression was significantly reduced. Thus, a home education convergence program positively affected mastectomy patients’ arm functions, occupational performance, quality of life, and depression.

한국어

본 연구는 유방암절제술환자 대상으로 가정치료융합프로그램을 실시하여, 유방암절제술환자의 팔 기능, 작업수행력, 삶의 질, 우울감에 미치는 영향에 대해 알아보았다. 대상자는 유방암절제술환자 20명을 대상으로 12주간 주 2회 40분간 외래로 작업치료실에 방문한 환자를 실시하였다. 중재 전과 후의 팔 기능을 알아보기 위해, 한국형 상지 장애 척도(Korean version of the Disability of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand; K-DASH)와 부종을 줄자로 측정하였고, 작업수행력을 알아보기 위해 캐나다작업수행측정(Canadian Occupational Performance Measure, COPM)실시하였으며, 삶의 질을 알아보기 위해 Functional Assessment Cancer Therapy-Brest(FACT-B)을 사용하였으며, 우울감을 알아보기 위해 자기평가 우울척도(Beck Depression Inventory, BDI)를 이용하였다. 중재 결과 팔 기능은 유의하게 증가하였으나, 부종은 유의하게 감소하지 않았으며, 작업수행력, 삶의 질에서 유의하게 향상하였으며, 우울감은 유의하게 감소하였다. 따라서 가정치료융합프로그램은 유방암절제술환자의 팔 기능, 작업수행력, 삶의 질 우울감에 긍정적인 영향을 미친다는 사실을 알 수 있었다.