1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A population-based study on the school adjustment of children with chronic fatigue.
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06451044
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Educaion
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
MURAI Norio Tohoku University, Faculty of Education, Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (90004829)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TAKAHASHI Kiyoko Tohoku University ; Assistant Professor, 医療短期大学部, 講師 (30125596)
MUE Suetsugu Tohoku University ; Professor, 医療短期大学部, 教授 (40004882)
HOSOKAWA Toru Tohoku University, Faculty of Education, Associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (60091740)
NIHEI Yoshiaki Tohoku University, Faculty of Literature, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (10007833)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1994 – 1996
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| Keywords | Chronic fatigue / Children / Questionnaire / Population based study / Life habits / School nonattendance |
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| Research Abstract |
Using a child fatigue check list and a questionnaire concerning child's daily life, an epidemiological survey was performed with about nine thousand parents who had school age children, in Sendai city and other districts. The following findings were obtained : 1) higher the fatigue behavior was seen with increasing the age of children ; 2) girls of upper grades in school tended to show more fatigue behavior than boys ; 3) fatigue behavior of children appeared to be different among the districts ; 4) the EQS Structural Equation Program (Bentler, 1995) produced a fairly good fit of the final path model (CFI=0.876), which revealed that the score on the child fatigue check list was directly predicted solely by the latent variable named "unhealthy life habits" ; 5) school nonattendance was significantly correlated with the score on the child fatigue check list. It was concluded that chronic fatigue shown by school children was mainly due to the irregular or unhealthy life habits such as sleeping or eating which would raise the risk of school nonattendance.
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