Development of a community empowerment model to enhance community organization activities

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23593372
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Community health/Gerontological nurisng
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: NAKAYAMA Kimiko 神戸大学, 保健学研究科, 准教授 (70324944)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KUSANO Emiko 大阪医科大学, 看護学部, 准教授 (70346419) ; HATONO Yoko 九州大学, 大学院医学(系)研究科, 教授 (20260268) ; KANEKO Masako 慶應義塾大学, 看護学部, 教授 (40125919) ; KOTERA Sayaka 神戸大学, 大学院保健学研究科, 准教授 (30509617)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: エンパワメント / コミュニティ / 地区組織 / 保健師 / ヘルスプロモーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aimed to develop a community empowerment model to enhance public health nurses’ support for community organization activities. Thus, a community empowerment model was developed. In this model, the support components were defined as the vertical axis while the developmental process of community empowerment was defined as the horizontal axis. The support components were as follows: residents' status images, relationship between the residents and public health nurses, public health nurses' intention, and their support content.

Free Research Field

公衆衛生看護学