Kim Dooree
College of Nursing, Konyang University, Daejeon 35365, Korea.
Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Oct 18;9(10):1390. doi: 10.3390/healthcare9101390.
The number of dementia patients in Korea is increasing with the increase in the elderly population. Accordingly, the importance of the role of the caregivers, who are the main care worker other than the family, is increasing. Therefore, in this study, a virtual reality practice program was developed to enhance the practical competency of caregivers who take care of dementia patients, and the effects were analyzed. The caregiver said that among the mental behaviors of dementia patients, aggression and delusion were the most difficult. Based on this information, a practice program was developed by realizing a case of a male dementia patient who expressed refusal to bathing help as an aggressive behavior due to delusion in virtual reality, and the effect of the virtual reality practice program was analyzed for five caregivers. As a result, 'interest in new teaching methods', 'improving concentration of practical education based on real cases', and 'increasing confidence in caring for dementia patients' were found. As this study is a pilot test, it is necessary to repeat the study with more subjects in the future, and to develop virtual reality implementation cases for various mental and behavioral symptoms.
随着韩国老年人口的增加，痴呆症患者的数量也在上升。相应地，作为除家人之外主要护理人员的照顾者的作用愈发重要。因此，在本研究中，开发了一个虚拟现实实践项目以提高照顾痴呆症患者的照顾者的实践能力，并对其效果进行了分析。照顾者表示，在痴呆症患者的心理行为中，攻击行为和妄想是最难应对的。基于此信息，通过在虚拟现实中呈现一名男性痴呆症患者因妄想而将拒绝洗澡帮助表现为攻击行为的案例，开发了一个实践项目，并对五名照顾者分析了虚拟现实实践项目的效果。结果发现，该项目带来了“对新教学方法的兴趣”、“提高基于真实案例的实践教育的专注度”以及“增加照顾痴呆症患者的信心”。由于本研究是一项试点测试，未来有必要对更多受试者重复该研究，并针对各种精神和行为症状开发虚拟现实实施案例。
