A study of the reality of dealing with difficult situations in terminal care at home by visiting nurses and their sense of humor

这项研究的第一阶段是研究受试者在观看一段名为24小时的视频后幽默感与心电或脑电之间的关系。记录6例受试者的心电和脑电，并按常规进行分析。表现出较高幽默感的被试在脑电中的α%相对稳定。第二阶段包括10个与练习有关的项目，主要是关于困难的临终关怀情况和8个关于幽默的项目。研究对象为A市某客座护理站的35名护士。结果，在5分制中，临终关怀项目的得分范围在3.5至4.4之间，但与幽默得分没有显著相关性。本研究的最后阶段是访谈具有5年或5年以上处理困难情况经验的访问护士。对数据的定性分析得出了6个类别：“提供更好的护理”、“加深参与”、“照顾个性”、“赋予家庭力量”、“作为一个团队参与进来”和“作为一名访问护士进一步成长”。除此之外，还提到了幽默的重要性。

The first phase of the study was to examine the relationship between subjects' sense of humor and ECG or EEG after watching a video titled 24 hours. ECG and EEG were recorded from six subjects, and conventionally analyzed. Those subjects showing higher sense of humor indicated relatively stable %α in EEG.The second phase consisted of a questionnaire which contained 10 items related to practice mainly about situations with difficult terminal care and 8 items on humor. The subjects were 35 nurses working at a visiting nursing station in A City. As a result, the range of scores on the terminal care items was between 3.5 and 4.4 on a 5-point scale ; however, there was no significant correlation with the humor score.The final phase of this study was interviewing visiting nurses with 5 or more years of experience about their dealing with difficult situations. A qualitative analysis of the data yielded 6 categories : "provide better care," "deepen the involvement," "take care of individuality," "empower the family," "get involved as a team," and "further growth as a visiting nurse." Beside these, the importance of humor was also mentioned.