| Project/Area Number |
11672354
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
基礎・地域看護学
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| Research Institution | St. Luke's College of Nursing |
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Principal Investigator |
KAHARU Chie School of Nursing St, Luke' s College of Nursing associate professor, 看護学部, 助教授 (30194947)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2000
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2001)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
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| Keywords | nursing skills / effectiveness in clinical settings / footbath / skin temperature / skin core temperature / parasympathetic nervous system |
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| Research Abstract |
This study attempted to formulate the effectiveness of nursing skills in clinical situations. I proposed the framework used an inductive reasoning method and I demonstrated whether it is reasonable to explain the effectiveness of nursing skills in clinical settings, or not. I used the following procedures in this study.
1. I selected a footbath among nursing skills to promote sleep,
2. I analysed articles described how sleepless cases got good sleeping and how a footbath influenced on physiological responses.
3. I built up a hypothesis that a person who had a low foot skin temperature slept well more than a person who had a high skin temperature resulting from a footbath. And skin temperatures and parasympathetic nervous system were physiological indicators responding to a footbath.
4. I conducted the quasi-experiment. Subjects were 18 healthy women with the consent of participations in this experiment and same subjects were member of the control group, too. I measured a foot and a hand skin temperature, a hand and a forehead core temperature, and electrocardiogram. It was found that law foot skin temperature subjects had higher hand skin core temperature, lower forehead core temperature than high foot skin temperature subjects after foot bathes. At the same time parasympathetic nervous system activities showed a tendency to increase for high foot skin temperature subjects. These results demonstrated that law foot temperature was a condition to apply a footbath in order to get good sleeping for a sleepless person.
These results suggested that the framework used an inductive reasoning method would be useful to explain a condition to apply a nursing skill effectively in clinical settings.
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