2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Clarifying the various support needs of ambulance users for the establishment of a support system in a community
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22K21081
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
0908:Society medicine, nursing, and related fields
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-08-31 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | 軽症の救急車利用者 / セグメンテーション / 健康・心理・社会的ニーズ / クラスタリング / 混合研究法 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The participants in this study were 5,982 adult ambulance users with minor diseases or injuries under the jurisdiction of the Higashihiroshima Fire Department in Hiroshima, Japan, from 2016 to 2020. They were categorized into subgroups (segments) by Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) using items such as age, sex, location of occurrence, type of accident, passenger, and urgency as judged by the ambulance crew. Next, emergency medical professionals were interviewed about the health, psychological, and social needs of each segment of adult ambulance users with minor diseases or illnesses. The results revealed that some of the identified segments had high psychological and social needs.
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| Free Research Field |
社会疫学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
本研究の学術的意義は、マーケティング分野で実績があり医学分野でも活用されているセグメンテーション理論を救急医学領域に導入し、軽症の救急車利用者の健康・心理・社会的ニーズの特定というこれまでに検証されていない対象者と分析視点を用いる点である。
本研究の社会的意義は、軽症の救急車利用者が救急医療サービス利用で満たされない健康・心理・社会的ニーズを把握し、保健・介護・福祉分野との協働による個人のニーズに応じた支援提供の提案と、持続可能な救急医療システムの構築につながる基礎資料となり得る点である。
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