Construction of empirical care model focused on the family empowerment rearing the child with severe motor and intellectual disabilities at home in Japan

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K15846
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Lifelong developmental nursing
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: Wakimizu Rie 筑波大学, 医学医療系, 准教授 (70510121)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 佐藤 奈保 千葉大学, 大学院看護学研究科, 准教授 (10291577) ; 松澤 明美 茨城キリスト教大学, 看護学部, 准教授 (20382822) ; 沼口 知恵子 茨城県立医療大学, 保健医療学部, 准教授 (50381421) ; 藤岡 寛 茨城県立医療大学, 保健医療学部, 教授 (90555327) ; 西垣 佳織 聖路加国際大学, 大学院看護学研究科, 准教授 (90637852)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): IWASAKI Nobuaki 茨城県立医療大学, 保健医療学部, 教授 (70251006)
• Research Collaborator: Ozawa Hiroshi ; KISHINO Miyuki ; IWATA Naoko ; YAMAGUCHI Keiko ; SASAKI Mikiko ; AKIMOTO Kazuhiro ; SAITO Saori
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 発達障害児 / 在宅 / 重症心身障害 / 家族 / エンパワメント / パス解析

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to construct the empirical model to promote family empowerment of children with severe motor and intellectual disabilities (SMID) at home.
The result of covariance structure analysis suggests that “the use of social resource,”“burden of primary caregiver,”“the number of agencies which support family,””household income,”and“home-visit service usage time” form family empowerment. Among them, “the use of social resource” was most influential to family empowerment. Additionally,“the use of social resource”was associated with “the number of agencies which support family,” “home-visit service usage time,” “visiting service usage time,”and“academic background of primary caregiver”, and also“the burden of primary caregiver”was associated with “the number of people who support family,”“the number of arousals during sleep,”and“bonds of family”(GFI=0.977 AGFI=0.958 CFI=0.922 RMSEA=0.040）.

Free Research Field

小児・家族看護学