A study about effective delivery of family support activities among community

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K08830
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Hygiene and public health
• Research Institution: Jumonji University
• Principal Investigator: KATO Noriko 十文字学園女子大学, 人間生活学部, 教授 (30150171)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 澤田 いずみ 札幌医科大学, 保健医療学部, 准教授 (50285011) ; 柳川 敏彦 和歌山県立医科大学, 保健看護学部, 教授 (80191146)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 親支援 / 地域

Outline of Final Research Achievements

For providing enough parenting programs to those who have difficulty in child raising, we did interviews for health professionals within 5 cities with various population sizes. Providing budgets, professionals for family support and easy accesses parenting program family who are with problems of clinical level.　Official statistics for the number of children who were need protection, reported child maltreatment, school absence and delinquency could be effective in showing long term effect of community family intervention.
In a city near metropolitan area, 8.3 % of 3-year-old children were within clinical range of mental health problem. In the city, the system is not well arranged to introduce families to adequate parenting programs and the amount of personnel who can provide programs was very small compared to those needed.

Free Research Field

公衆衛生学