Health and Social Welfare Review Vol.36 No.3, pp.393-427
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of wandering detecter on burden stress, anxiety, depression in family caregivers, and wandering behaviors, anxiety in dementia elders. A non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest design was used. Participants were 60 (experimental group=29, control group=31) who lived at home in B metropolitan city. Experimental group applied wandering detector over 8 weeks. Burden stress, wandering behaviors, anxiety, depression of the participants were examined with self-report questionaries and individual interviews. Data were collected between August 1 and December 22, 2015, and were analyzed using independent t-test, chi-square test with IBM SPSS Statistics (Version 24.0). After the intervention experimental group showed significant decreases in the anxiety (p