Use of Community Bridge Workers to Facilitate Effective Provision of Maternal and Child Health Information to Foreign Mothers

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24593463
• 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: Aichi Medical University
• Principal Investigator: SAKAMOTO MARIKO 愛知医科大学, 看護学部, 教授 (70285237)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 在日外国人母子 / 情報提供 / コミュニテイ・ブリッジ・ワーカー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To identify issues surrounding the provision of maternal and child health and child rearing information to foreign residents in city A in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, where the percentage of foreign residents is particularly high, we conducted a semi-structured interview of 11 collaborators and a questionnaire survey of 88 foreign mothers caring for their pre-school children. Based on the results obtained, childcare support activities for foreign mothers were launched in cooperation with citizens’ groups. Through such activities, we recruited human resources to serve as a bridge between the foreign community and the public health sector, and tested the system of “community bridge workers” who will facilitate effective information provision to foreign mothers.

Free Research Field

地域看護学