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A Study on the Motivation to Write Signing Advance Medical Directives

사전연명의료의향서 작성 동기에 관한 연구

  • 장경희 (건국대학교 일반대학원 문학예술치료학과) ;
  • 강경희 (건양대학교 치위생학과) ;
  • 김두리 (건양대학교 간호대학) ;
  • 임효남 (건양대학교 간호대학) ;
  • 김광환 (건양대학교 병원경영학과)
  • Received : 2019.08.30
  • Accepted : 2019.10.04
  • Published : 2019.10.31

Abstract

This study examined the patient's advantage and respect self-decision to protect human dignity and values, who are on the pathway of the hospice palliative care and death process. The study subjects were the elderly who had signed the advance medical directives at C Christian religious facilities in S region. The survey period was started on July 1st, 2019 and lasted for ten days. The study resulted in four topics and eight sub-topics on the motivation for preparing advanced medical directives. The four topics were 'for children', 'fear of pain', 'want to clear my life', 'felt the necessity', and the sub-topics were 'don't want to make a burden to children', 'don't want to make a worry of medical expenses', 'fear of pain', 'have experience of taking caring of painful death process', 'relaxed mind', 'importance of self-decision', 'have known it before but now decided', and 'it is the new information and decided'. This research is meaningful in that it can form the basis for improving well-dying education programs for the good death of the elderly and supplementing effective systems for preparing advance medical directives.

본 연구의 목적은 호스피스 완화의료와 임종과정에 있는 환자에게 최선의 이익을 보장하고 자기결정을 존중하여 인간으로서의 존엄과 가치를 보호하기 위하여 S시 소재의 C 기독교 종교시설을 방문하여 사전연명의료의향서를 작성한 노인을 대상으로 사전연명의료의향서 작성의 동기를 알아보기 위해 시행되었다. 조사 기간은 2019년 7월 1일부터 10일간 진행하였다. 연구 결과 사전 연명의료 의향서 작성 동기에 관해 4개 주제와 8개의 하위주제가 도출되었다. 주제는 '자식들을 위해서', '고통스러울 것 같아서', '내 삶을 잘 정리하고 싶어서', '필요성을 느껴서' 등의 4가지 주제가 도출되었으며, 하부주제로 '자식들 고생시키고 싶지 않아서', '자식들에게 의료비 부담주고 싶지 않아서', '고통에 대한 두려움이 있어서', '고통스러워하는 가족의 임종을 돌본 경험이 있어서', '편안한 마음을 위해서', '자기결정권의 중요성을 느껴서', '그전부터 알고는 있었지만 이번에 결심하게 되어서', '정보를 처음 알게 되었는데 결심하게 되어서'였다. 본 연구결과는 노인들의 좋은 죽음을 위한 웰다잉 교육 프로그램 개선과 사전연명의료의향서 작성을 위한 효과적 제도를 보완하기 위한 기초자료가 될 수 있다는 점에서 의의가 있다.

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