Biomedical subjects

Chi-Chun Chin

Publications and source records attributed to Chi-Chun Chin.

6 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2006

[A family caregiver's experience of care-giving on her own: "face it", "accept it", "deal with it" and "let it go"].

"Aging in place" has become one of the important policies promoting long-term care in the community. In the aging societies of today, the need for family caregivers to care for the elderly has increased. How one woman coped with shouldering the heavy burden of providing long-term family care alone were the main interests of this case study. From interviewing the subject it was discovered that her attitude to the labor of love that is care-giving was the same as the four great vows for handling problems that Master Sheng Yen proposes: "face it", "accept it", "deal with it", and "let it go". Health professionals could help family caregivers to take things more easily and enter the state of "letting it go" by deeply understanding the perception of the caregiver, providing useful information, and encouraging the caregiver to make use of resources that are available for assistance.

Caregivers↗

PubMed2005

Impact of postpartum depression on the mother-infant couple.

BACKGROUND: Few studies have explored the influence of postpartum depression on later life among mothers in Taiwan. The present follow-up study aims to explore the effects of postpartum depression on the psychosocial health of mothers and on the overall development of their infants. METHODS: Follow-up evaluations were carried out on 29 postnatally depressed and 31 nondepressed mothers and their infants at 1 year after childbirth. Dependent variables were measured by means of five structured questionnaires. RESULTS: Postnatally depressed mothers reported significantly higher perceived stress, but lower social support and self-esteem than nondepressed mothers at 1 year after childbirth. The participants' postpartum depression had no significant effect on their infants' eight developmental areas, nor did depression influence their plans about the number of children to have in the future. CONCLUSIONS: Postpartum depression may have a negative influence on the psychosocial health of women, but it does not appear to influence the overall development of their infants and their family planning.

Adult↗

PubMed2004

[A concept analysis of autonomy].

Holistic care is the primary focus of today's health care system. Nurses are encouraged to maintain good relationships with their patients and to be sensitive to patient autonomy. Furthermore, patients are increasingly demanding and enjoying the right to join in decision-making processes concerning their treatment plans. The importance of patient autonomy is emphasized in the nursing literature on ethics, but no articles focus on the specific situation in Taiwan. The authors review definitions of and concepts tied to autonomy in the literature, redefine the concept to incorporate additional attributes, and construct example cases. Finally, they list empirical references on the application of the concept and the development of appropriate measures.

Holistic Nursing↗

PubMed2004

[Exploring the knowledge of asthma, attitude and self-management behaviors of school age children with asthma in the Ping-Tung area].

The present correlational research was aimed at: exploring asthmatic children's knowledge of their disease, their attitude towards it, and their self-management behavior. Convenient sampling was used to recruit subjects. One hundred and sixty eight asthmatic children from 7 to 12 years old were recruited from 14 elementary schools in the Pintung area, Taiwan. The results showed: (1) a moderate-leveled standardized score of 57.26 for knowledge of the disease; a positive-leveled standardized score of 86.27 for attitude toward the disease; a moderate high-leveled standardized score of 69.34 for self-management behaviors; (2) no significant relationship between demographic information and self-management behavior; (3) a significant correlation between asthmatic knowledge and self-management behavior; (4) a significant correlation between attitude towards asthma and self-management behavior; and (5) knowledge of the disease and attitude towards the disease as important predictors of self-management behavior, together accounting for 23.9% of the total variance. Results of the present study could serve as a basis for future studies.

Asthma↗

PubMed2004

[Assisting a hospitalized preschool child's stress from acute lymphocyte leukemia through play].

The purpose of this article was to help one preschool leukemia child to face the stress of hospitalization by using play. The child, facing stress of hospitalization, used coping behaviors that included regression and escapism. The cognitive theories for entertainment, role-play and talking-story play were adopted to release the child's stress and anxiety. Clinical workers may like to use the findings of this article to promoter children's maturation and ability to cope with stress during hospitalization.

Child, Hospitalized↗

PubMed2003

Factors related to satisfaction with body image in children undergoing chemotherapy.

This cross-sectional correlational study explored factors related to satisfaction with body image in children undergoing chemotherapy. We recruited 118 children with cancer undergoing chemotherapy at three medical centers. Subjects ranged from 6 to 18 years old (mean, 10.8 years). Most had leukemia, were in the first to third grade of elementary school, and had their mother as the primary caregiver. Two structured questionnaires were used, the Body Image Scale (part I, Cronbach's alpha = 0.82; part II, Kuder-Richardson-20 = 0.86) and Social Support Scale (family part, Cronbach's alpha = 0.88; nurses part, Cronbach's alpha = 0.91). Satisfaction with body image was significantly related to gender, age, education level, and the frequency of changes in appearance caused by chemotherapy. Girls felt more dissatisfied than boys. Satisfaction with body image was lower in older children, in children with a high level of education or in those with more frequent changes in appearance. Significant predictors of subjects' satisfaction with body image were gender, education level, and appearance-related side effects of chemotherapy, which accounted for 23.3% of total variance. These findings suggest that the family and nurses should pay more attention to teenagers who perceive changes in their appearance and help them to develop a positive body image. Furthermore, it is essential that a new scale to measure social support about body image is developed in future studies.

Adolescent↗