本研究旨在探討植物人家庭中主要照顧者在照顧過程中，身心所承受的負荷、壓力以及情緒轉化之研究，主要以半結構式開放性會談方式進行。 透過立意選樣方式，於屏東縣市選取五位家中有植物人家庭的主要照顧者，且此主要照顧者必須為家中成員，採質性研究中之深度訪談及實際觀察法，將主要照顧者於照顧過程中所面臨的身心負荷、壓力以及過程中支持主要照顧者持續照顧的動力一一呈現，共計五份文本資料，透過資料歸納及分析，發現在長期照顧的多重壓力下，支持主要照顧者走下去的動力為：(1)愛的力量戰勝一切；(2)接受、承擔尋獲新的生命意義；(3)相互依賴的人生。 根據上述研究結果，提供給不幸因疾病或意外而導致的植物人家庭，其主要照顧者、家庭，相關研究工作者，以及針對長期照顧問題提供建議，期盼能對相關實務研究及政府相關長照福利擬定有所幫助。 The purpose of this research is to investigate the main caregivers' physical and mental load, stress and emotion transformation during the period that they take care of vegetations mainly in the form of semi-structured open talks. Through the way of purposive sampling, we chose five main caregivers who needed to take care of vegetations in their families in Pingtung County, and the main caregiver is necessarily one of the family menbers. I adopted in-depth interviews and practical observations in the study of quality, and presented the main caregivers' mental and physical burden, stress and the support of caregivers' motion to keep taking care of vegetations. In total five datas, I found that there are three motions to support the main caregivers to keep going on though generalization and analysis. First, Love can overcome everything. Second, to accept, shoulder and find new meaning of life. Third, the life to rely on each other. According to the above result of this research, it's to give support to the main caregivers, families and workers who engage in related research of unfortunate vegetation families due to disease or accident, and to be aimed at giving advice to some problems of long-term care. I hope that I can make some efforts on related practical research and government related long-tern care welfare draft.
