2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A study of the reality of dealing with difficult situations in terminal care at home by visiting nurses and their sense of humor
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19592523
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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 |
Clinical nursing
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| Research Institution | Yamaguchi Prefectural University |
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Principal Investigator |
TANAKA Aiko Yamaguchi Prefectural University, 看護栄養学部, 教授 (10285447)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ICHIMURA Takao 山口県立大学, 看護栄養学部, 教授 (80144468)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | 在宅ターミナルケア / 訪問看護師 / 危機的場面 / 対処 / ユーモア |
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| Research Abstract |
The first phase of the study was to examine the relationship between subjects' sense of humor and ECG or EEG after watching a video titled 24 hours. ECG and EEG were recorded from six subjects, and conventionally analyzed. Those subjects showing higher sense of humor indicated relatively stable %α in EEG.
The second phase consisted of a questionnaire which contained 10 items related to practice mainly about situations with difficult terminal care and 8 items on humor. The subjects were 35 nurses working at a visiting nursing station in A City. As a result, the range of scores on the terminal care items was between 3.5 and 4.4 on a 5-point scale ; however, there was no significant correlation with the humor score.
The final phase of this study was interviewing visiting nurses with 5 or more years of experience about their dealing with difficult situations. A qualitative analysis of the data yielded 6 categories : "provide better care," "deepen the involvement," "take care of individuality," "empower the family," "get involved as a team," and "further growth as a visiting nurse." Beside these, the importance of humor was also mentioned.
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