2021 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Digitally inclusive, healthy ageing communities (DIHAC): A cross-cultural study in Japan, Republic of Korea, Singapore and Thailand
| Project/Area Number |
21H00795
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Institution | Juntendo University |
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Principal Investigator |
アウン ミョーニエン 順天堂大学, 健康総合科学先端研究機構, 特任准教授 (90841990)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
湯浅 資之 順天堂大学, 国際教養学部, 教授 (30463748)
小柳 祐華 東京有明医療大学, 保健医療学部, 助教 (20802284)
Malcolm Field 杏林大学, 総合政策学部, 教授 (50381281)
白山 芳久 順天堂大学, 国際教養学部, 准教授 (30451769)
野中 久美子 地方独立行政法人東京都健康長寿医療センター(東京都健康長寿医療センター研究所), 東京都健康長寿医療センター研究所, 主任研究員 (70511260)
長嶺 由衣子 東京医科歯科大学, 医学部附属病院, 特任助教 (70748368)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2026-03-31
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| Keywords | digital inclusion / empowerment / healthy ageing / older people / Japan / Korea / Singapore / Thailand |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Study team organized regular meetings for strategic implementation, and cross-cultural meetings to share researches and discuss policy and literature review. The website of the study has been made (https://digital-ageing.com/).The website explains objectives of the study, serves as knowledge hub through the pages of digital inclusion, healthy ageing, platform for survey and reports and also serves as a plat form for international collaboration. DIHAC team discussed with international research collaborators in regular zoom meetings. International researchers of ongoing digital interventions studies presented their experiences, methodologies, and interim results. So far, DIHAC policy review meetings have been organized 10 times and attended by researchers from more than 12 countries such as India, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, UK, Kenya and South Africa in addition to Japan, Singapore, ROK, and Thailand. Beyond focused review, discussion expanded from digital policies and program implementation to digital technology enhancing health promotion practices in the context of pandemic, social prescribing, empowerment for digital inclusion, ownership and age-friendliness of digital devices, healthy ageing, frailty and dementia prevention, and life course studies. DIHAC study protocol has been approved by Juntendo University ethics committee. Study instruments and interview guideline has been prepared and piloted. We delivered 3 international conference presentations and 3 invited international lectures to address digitally inclusive healthy ageing communities globally.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The research project is progressed as it is planned originally. It has achieved the targets such as policy and literature review, building a study website, ethical approval, pilots studies for instrument validation, collecting media and field data such as photographs and videos, and preparation for field surveys in four countries. We progressed as we aimed. We could organize international meeting 10 times in a year and wrote regular meeting analysis reports. Participants were from more than 12 countries in the last meeting. On average, 30 international researchers actively participated, discussed, and shared their experiences and result of the ongoing researches in DIHAC policy review meetings, monthly in 2021 and bimonthly in 2022 .
We organized senior citizen engagement workshops in Suginami ward in Tokyo, an urban area, Sakata city, Yamagata, a rural setting. We applied citizen-science approach to conduct the workshops. A workshop consisted of five senior and four workshops were organized : two for non-digital users and two for digital users. The workshops gave us the insights of the older persons in Japan about using digital technology, digital devices, why and how they got digital skills, their confidence, their fear and their expectation. The findings gave us clues for making questionnaires and input for empowerment frame work. The same approaches will be shared to collaborator countries.
Field activities were at a regular pace but on-line activities progressed more than expected. Using DIHAC website and zoom meeting, we could speed up international collaborations
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
1.Data collection in Japan, ROK, Thailand, Singapore: We plan to conduct filed surveys in four countries. This year plan is for collection of quantitative data. We have prepared questionnaires instrument and applied ethical committees approval. The surveys will apply digital skill measurement, e-health literacy measurement, quality of the life measurement using ICECAP-O instrument and several other information about digital appropriation mechanisms such as family assistance, digital training for the older persons, peer assistance, community empowerment. Face to face and online methods are prepared to collect the data.
2. Translation of the survey questionnaires into different language: Primarily we will prepare for four countries. If other countries wants to collaborate we will translate the survey instrument into more languages.
3. Data collection: Researchers will travel to collaborate with study site country for data collection. We prepared to apply ethical approval in each country and collect the data such as Singapore 360, ROK 360 and Thailand 480 participants. We prepared to organize senior citizen workshops in the communities of each countries and find out community based social innovations.
4. Analysis of the data as soon as after the data collection. This will apply STATA for quantitative analysis and MAXQDA for qualitative analysis
5. Bimonthly academic meeting named as DIHAC policy review meeting will be held inviting international researchers. Regular reports will appear on DIHAC study website survey and reports page. https://digital-ageing.com/surveys-and-blog/
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Research Products
(12 results)
