Research Themes

• 労働者の歯科口腔保健に着目した生活習慣病予防のための保健指導プログラムの開発
  01 Apr. 2024 - 31 Mar. 2027
• 多職種による在宅生活ニーズ把握の視点と視線：アイトラッキング解析による教材開発
  01 Apr. 2023 - 31 Mar. 2026
• 多職種による在宅生活ニーズ把握の視点と視線：アイトラッキング解析による教材開発
  01 Apr. 2023 - 31 Mar. 2026
• 在宅生活ニーズの把握と多職種連携のための見取り図の活用効果の具体的検証
  01 Apr. 2020 - 31 Mar. 2023
• New ways of utilizing house floor plan sketches to facilitate multidisciplinary teamwork aimed at identifying the lifestyle needs of elderly individuals living at home
  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
  Teikyo Heisei University
  01 Apr. 2017 - 31 Mar. 2020
  We sought to verify the effectiveness of utilizing house floor plan sketches (FPSs) as a tool for assessing in-home living assistance of elderly individuals. First, we developed a training video to encourage care providers to utilize FPSs. In the video, a public health nurse creates an FPS while gathering information during a home visit, then checks the care recipient’s living conditions together with the care recipient and family members, and also convenes a multidisciplinary case conference. Next, the care providers watched the video and then filled out a questionnaire about utilizing FPSs and their effectiveness. Their responses suggested that watching the video increased their interest in FPSs, but some planning and minor adjustments were needed before they could utilize them routinely. The care providers also made recommendations such as utilizing FPSs in the basic curriculum for nursing and welfare students, as well as by care practitioners providing in-home living assistance.
• Utilization of a nonverbal medium to understand home living needs through multidisciplinary cooperation and participation by the individuals concerned
  Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
  Teikyo Heisei University
  01 Apr. 2014 - 31 Mar. 2017
  The objective of this study was to determine how to effectively utilize floor plan sketches (FPSs) to understand home living needs. Following a survey on the utilization of FPSs and a trial of their use, a conference of hypothetical cases was conducted to examine the effect of utilizing FPSs. FPSs were effective in enabling specific information to be shared in a short time, particularly information on the living environment. Moreover, their use stimulated imaginative thinking in those who lived in the home. These findings suggest that FPS utilization may lead to a broadening of support measures.
• On comprehensive health care system based on semihealth status in school
  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
  Yamaguchi University
  2007 - 2009
  This study tried to clarify a multidimensional structure of the semihealth status in junior and high schools students in Japan, and to examine the relationship between the status and related environmental factors. The multi-stage sampling method was adopted in order to select the subjects and 540 students in junior high schools and 604 students in high schools were selected for this study. The self-reported questionnaires were administered in 2008. The principal component analyses were performed to the eligible data in order to extract the multidimensional structure of the semihealth status. Four principal components were extracted as compound scales of the structure. Especially, the first principal component could be interpreted as the semihealth index (SHI) indicated synthesis semihealth conditions. Using the multidimensional criteria of the semihealth, the status was assessed. In junior high and high schools students, the semihealth status was closely associated with vigorous physical activities after school lesson, the time of reading at home, and the time of watching television at home.
• The study of infection control with facilities for the elderly
  Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
  Yamaguchi University
  2006 - 2008
• Development on Assessment Scaling of Easiness of Daily Living for the Mental Disorders in Community
  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
  Yamaguchi University
  2005 - 2007
  The purpose of the present study was to develop an assessment scaling on the easiness of daily living for the mental disorders in their communities and to clarify the actual conditions on an activity of mental health and welfare in a community in Japan. Therefore, the nationwide investigation was designed for this study. The mails included instructions for the study, the 33-item questionnaire, and a return addressed envelope were mailed to public health departments in every city, town, and village in Japan The letter stated that only those who agreed to participate in this study should reply to the questionnaire. Of the total 1,830 municipalities, 1,398 departments (76.4%) returned the questionnaire. The principal component analysis was applied to the 33-item's data composed of aspects from the current environmental condition and degree of importance on the environment used for the multidimensional analysis. As a result, five principal components were extracted both these aspects, and each the first principal component was grasped as the synthesis scaling on the easiness of daily living among the mental disorders in their communities, respectively. The first component of the current environmental condition was interpreted as the cognition of current status, and its score indicated the value of the status. Then the first component of the degree of importance on the environment was interpreted as the cognition of importance, and its score indicated the value of the importance. On two-dimensional space composed of axes consisted of the status and importance scores, every municipality was plotted out Furthermore, using four quadrants on the space, there was distilled the community environmental traits into four patterns.