Kim Ok-Soo, Baik Sung-Hee
College of Nursing Science, Ewha Womans University, Sudaemun-Gu, Seoul, Korea.
Taehan Kanho Hakhoe Chi. 2003 Jun;33(3):425-32. doi: 10.4040/jkan.2003.33.3.425.
To examine the relationships among loneliness, social support, and family function in elderly Korean.
The sample for this study were 290 elderly Korean who were at least 60 years of age. Data were collected by interview using the translated Korean versions of the Revised University of California Los Angels Loneliness Scale(RULS), Family APGAR, and Social Support Questionnaire 6.
Subjects were moderately lonely and had moderately functional families. Means for social support were 1.42 for network size and 4.09 for satisfaction. Subjects who lived with their spouses had a larger number of network members than who did not live with spouses. However, living with spouses was not associated with social support satisfaction. The level of loneliness was related negatively to the level of social support network, social support satisfaction and family function in this study. Social support satisfaction and Family function were the significant predictor of loneliness.
The number of social supporter and satisfaction and family function should be considered in nursing intervention to decrease the level of loneliness in older adults. Further studies and efforts will be needed to reduce the level of loneliness in older adults.
探讨韩国老年人的孤独感、社会支持与家庭功能之间的关系。
本研究的样本为290名年龄至少60岁的韩国老年人。通过使用翻译后的韩语版本的修订版加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校孤独量表（RULS）、家庭APGAR和社会支持问卷6进行访谈收集数据。
研究对象存在中度孤独感，家庭功能处于中等水平。社会支持的网络规模均值为1.42，满意度均值为4.09。与配偶同住的研究对象比未与配偶同住的拥有更多的社交网络成员。然而，与配偶同住与社会支持满意度无关。在本研究中，孤独程度与社会支持网络水平、社会支持满意度和家庭功能呈负相关。社会支持满意度和家庭功能是孤独感的重要预测因素。
在护理干预中，应考虑社会支持者的数量、满意度和家庭功能，以降低老年人的孤独程度。需要进一步的研究和努力来降低老年人的孤独程度。
