A study of issues facing non-institutionalized children with disabilities during a disaster and resolution of those issues

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24593384
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Lifelong developmental nursing
• Research Institution: Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Principal Investigator: YAMAMOTO Michiyo 首都大学東京, 人間健康科学研究科, 准教授 (00269515)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): NAKAGAWA Kaoru 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科, 教授 (00305426)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 災害発生 / 災害対策 / 重症心身障害児 / 発達障害児 / 東日本大震災

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study used interviews and a questionnaire to determine how the Great East Japan Earthquake affected children with severe motor and intellectual disabilities/children with developmental disorders and their families in the Tokyo area. Children with severe motor and intellectual disabilities suffered since equipment they depended on to live could not be used (e.g. lack of electricity for medical equipment) and other items they needed were out of service (e.g. residential elevators). These conditions hampered the creation of a daily schedule. In addition, mothers of children with developmental disorders were concerned about their children panicking in the wake of the large earthquake. Children panicked when aftershocks caused their fear to return and when they were unable to return to their previous lives. After the earthquake, children enhanced their own disaster preparedness, and their mothers worried about these actions causing friction with other people.

Free Research Field

障害児看護