[A study on link of health and welfare service and barrier's factors of visiting nurses and social welfare workers].
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to explore the link between health and welfare service and barrier's factors by reviewing the connection between the public health center's visiting nurse and social welfare center's social workers.


METHODS
A survey by mail or a face-to-face interview of 151 visiting nurses in 25 public health centers and 48 social welfare workers in general social welfare centers in Seoul, was preformed from Feb. 12, 2001 to Mar. 15, 2001. The data were analyzed with frequency, percentage, mean value, paired t-test and independent t-test using SPSS/WIN 7.5 program.


RESULTS
1. 'The necessity and degree of cooperation with social welfare workers of visiting nurse' scored average 4.49 and 3.19, and 'The necessity and degree of cooperation with visiting nurse and social welfare workers' scored average 4.81 and 3.15 on the five-point scale; there was a significant difference between the two variable in visiting nurse and social welfare workers. 2. In barrier's factors which health and welfare service offer to, visiting nurses showed statistically significant higher score than social welfare staff; 'job factor', 'resource factor', 'clients factor', 'individual ability factor'.


CONCLUSIONS
In order to provide link system that hold clients in common in public health center and social welfare center, it is recommended a case management team should be constructed and educate visiting nurses for case manager.
Yoo
In-Young
IY
Department of Nursing, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. yooinyoung99@hotmail.com