With advanced medicine, diseases can be detected early on and people’s life span can be extended. However, terminal patients are increasingly growing, and a need is naturally raised to secure hospice and foster palliative medicine in order to alleviate the pain of many terminal patients and help them remain comfortable. It is very important to verify the efficiency of hospice services (National Hospice Organization, 1996). An analysis of satisfaction factors for hospice workers programs suggested that as structural factors, individuals’ supervision and the ratio of patients to workers were significant. In the service quantity, education, nursing, and spiritual services were found to be significant, and in the service quality, education and nursing services were significant. An analysis of major factors indicated that education service (quality),education service (quantity, nursing service (quality), nursing service (quantity), and relations with patients were found to be the most important in this order. The findings suggested what are the major satisfaction factors, and provided basic data for developing programs aimed at boosting satisfaction over hospice social welfare services.
Key words: hospice service, caregivers, satisfaction level, structural factor, process(service) factor