Development of guidelines on disaster food support for people who need special treatment food

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K02381
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 08030:Family and consumer sciences, and culture and living-related
• Research Institution: Tokyo Health Care University
• Principal Investigator: Takaki Haruyoshi 東京医療保健大学, 看護学部, 准教授 (90187930)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 堀田 昇吾 東京医療保健大学, 看護学部, 講師 (70795707) ; 今井 淳子 東京医療保健大学, 看護学部, 助教 (20751233)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 病者用食 / 災害用備蓄 / 病院（災害拠点病院） / 糖尿病 / 高血圧 / 食物アレルギー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A survey was conducted on the stockpiling of food for the sick, with patients, hospitals, and local governments. Patients with food allergies had begun stockpiling food due to concerns about food in times of disaster, triggered by media reports, and they wanted the local government and medical facilities to cooperate in stockpiling, as they too would stockpile their own food. Hospitals felt the need to stockpile their own food for the sick and actually had a fixed stockpile, but on the other hand, nutritional guidance to patients was inadequate. The local government had stockpiled a certain amount of food for the sick to a certain extent, but since they did not cooperate with local hospitals and other institutions, they did not know how much they needed to stockpile, and they wanted the patients themselves to take responsibility for the supply. It is necessary to resolve these discrepancies in thinking.

Free Research Field

災害看護学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

食物アレルギーのように特別な病者用食の備蓄について、患者と病院と自治体にそれぞれ調査を行ったところ、３者で考え方の違いがあることが分かった。この考え方の齟齬を解消していくためには、今後地域の病院が中心となって、通院患者数などから、その地域での病者用食の必要量を推定し、それの必要量を基に自治体での備蓄計画を作成することが重要である。一方で、地域の病院は通院患者に対しても積極的に災害に対する備蓄の方法やその必要性を教育し、患者自身が災害に備えることで、自身の不安を解消できるように努めることが大切である。