2000 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Evaluation of workload on care work with biomechanical and psychophysical method
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11680021
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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 |
体育学
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| Research Institution | NAGOYA UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
SHIMAOKA Midori Research Center of Health, Phsical Fitness and Sports, NAGOYA UNIVERSITY, Assoc.prof., 総合保健体育科学センター, 助教授 (30135389)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
IMAEDA Toshihiko Fujita Health Univ, School of Medicine, Lecturer, 医学部, 講師 (00303636)
HIRUTA Shuichi Research Center of Health, Physical Fitness and Sports, NAGOYA UNIVERSITY, Assoc.prof., 総合保健体育科学センター, 助教授 (30173272)
ONO Yuchiro Fujita Health Univ, School of Medicine, Prof., 医学部, 教授 (80135334)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2000
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| Keywords | nursing / caregiver / motion analysis |
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| Research Abstract |
Two experiments were conducted to examine physical workload about the care work for a client on a bed and in a wheelchair. In the first experiment, body position of a caregiver was biomechanically monitored with three-dimensional method during a task performed with each of 21 kinds of nursing techniques over a bed, and comparisons were made between the two types of beds with a different height ; Low = 59 cm, High = 69 cm. A female teacher (height of 149 cm, weight of 57 kg) of the nurse's college was participated as a caregiver, who had nurse qualification and was taking charge of practical training courses. Each of eight magnetic position-angle sensors was put on the caregiver's body parts ; the high back, the low back and an upper arm on both side, a forearm on both side and a thigh on both side. Position-angle data of the body parts were taken in to a computer every 0.2 sec. The results indicated that the peak angle of caregiver's trunk inclination (the horizontal = 0 degree) over the low bed was 4.8 degrees on average, which was 9.9 degrees (SD 7.0) deeper than that over the high bed, and that the compression force on a caregiver's interspinal disk (L5/S1) leveled off through each task over the low bed was significantly higher (P< .05) on average than that over the high bed. In the second experiment, ten nursing students (mean height=156.6±SD 4.9 cm) were served as test subjects to evaluate the relation between physique/muscle strength and subjective workload of transferring a client from wheelchair to bed with RPE (Rating Perceived Exertion). The significant correlation coefficients (P< .05) were detected between RPE of the neck ＆ shoulder and the height (r=0.732) and between those of the arms and the height (r=0.634).
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Research Products
(6 results)
