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Nursing Heavy Handling Works and The Questionnaires to nurses

Research Project

Project/Area Number 06672336
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Nursing
Research InstitutionTokyo Denki University

Principal Investigator

OGAWA Koichi  TOKYO DENKI UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, PROFESSOR, 理工学部, 教授 (90016684)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) OKUBO Yuko  JICHI MEDICAL COLLEGE, SCHOOL OF NURSING, LECTURER, 講師 (30233076)
Project Period (FY) 1994 – 1995
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1995)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
KeywordsNursing Heavy works / Caring forces / Questionnaire to nurses / Reaction forces / Back Pain / 寄り掛かり力 / 看護 / 看護重労働 / 腰痛 / 看護補助機器 / 移乗 / 腰痛発生頻度 / ボディメカニックス
Research Abstract

The long term aim of the project in to design a nurse helping machine in order to reduce the risk of back pain among nursing staff. Data were collected in Japan and Britain to establish methods of patient handling and nurse's views on mechanical aids. In October 1994, 500 questionnaires were distributed to nurses working in seven hospitals in Japan and in the same month in 1995, 418 forms were sent to nurses employed by Aberdeen General Hospitals (City, Morningfield and Woodend Hospitals). There were 357 replies from Japanese and 299 British nurses. Caused back pain percentages in working was only 10 % (Within 12 months in 1995) for British nurses, but was 75% (during past their career in working) for Japanese nurses. The reasons of the difference between them were that 1 questions between both countries were differed, 2 no government guideline or directive on patient handling exist in Japan, 3 there were key lifters in British wards but no in Japanese, 4 training programs on the guide … More line have recently been introduced for nurses in Britain However, it suggests that nurses agreed on the high risk of patient lifting in both countries, the majority would like to see helping machines available, and also there should have been a move away from the traditional methods of manual lifting and handling to one based on ergonomic principles.
Two force detecting devices had developed during 1994-1995 in Tokyo Denki University. One is the forceshoes which could measure the reacting forces against floor during nursing. The figure is just like a pair of shoes and it could detect the toe and the heel force independently. And the other is the sensor which could measure the leaning forces on an edge of bed during care of a patient. Using two sensors, we could measured the forces of sitting up from lying position, and sliding a patient on bed toward to a pillow. The experiments for the nursing heavy manual handling a patient had been conducted in the Jiti Medical College, School of Nursing. It was found that the risk of handing a patient will be reduced when a nurse lean to the edge of a bed. Less

Report

(3 results)
  • 1995 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1994 Annual Research Report

Research Products

(10 results)

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All Publications (10 results)

  • [Publications] 小川鑛一: "看護動作時の力測定用センサについて" 人とシステム(日本人間工学会). 1. 82-89 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1995 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 小川鑛一: "看護・介護力作業と医療・福祉について" 人とシステム(日本人間工学会). 2. 44-48 (1996)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1995 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 小川鑛一: "重量物移動動作における寄り掛り力の影響について" 人とシステム(日本人間工学会). 2. 49-56 (1996)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1995 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KOICHI OGAWA: "ON FORCE SENSORS FOR NURSING" HUMAN AND SYSTEM (The Japan Society of Ergonomics). VOL.1. 82-89 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1995 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KOICHI OGAWA: "ON NURSING HEAVY WORKS AND ERGONOMICS" HUMAN AND SYSTEM (The Japan Society of Ergonomics). VOL.2. 44-48 (1996)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1995 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KOICHI OGAWA: "MEASUREMENT OF EXTERNAL REACTION FORCE DURING NURSING TRANSFER TASKS" HUMAN AND SYSTEM (The Japan Society of Ergonomics). VOL.2. 49-56 (1996)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1995 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 小川鑛一: "看護・介護力作業と医療・福祉について" 人とシステム,日本人間工学会. 2. (1996)

    • Related Report
      1995 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 小川鑛一 他: "看護労働に関するアンケート調査(看護者の機械導入意識について)" 日本人間工学会誌,第31巻特別号. 31. 254-256 (1995)

    • Related Report
      1995 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 小川鑛一、大久保祐子他4名: "看護労働に関するアンケート調査(看護者の機械導入意識について)" 日本人間工学会誌第31巻特別号. 31. (1995)

    • Related Report
      1994 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 大久保祐子、小川鑛一他4名: "看護労働に関するアンケート調査(ベッド-車椅子移動・移乗動作における重労働部分について)" 日本人間工学会第31巻特別号. 31. (1995)

    • Related Report
      1994 Annual Research Report

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