Development of a quality index of collaboration between nurses and care workers in supporting home care patients who need medical treatment

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25463393
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Fundamental nursing
• Research Institution: Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science
• Principal Investigator: HARAGUCHI Michiko 公益財団法人東京都医学総合研究所, 運動・感覚システム研究分野, 主任研究員 (00517138)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): OGURA Akiko 公益財団法人東京都医学総合研究所, 運動・感覚システム研究分野, 主席研究員 (60321882) ; NAKAYAMA Yuki 公益財団法人東京都医学総合研究所, 運動・感覚システム研究分野, 副参事研究員 (00455396) ; MURATA Kanako 昭和大学, 保健医療学部, 講師 (70381465) ; MATSUDA Chiharu 公益財団法人東京都医学総合研究所, 運動・感覚システム研究分野, 研究員 (40320650)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 連携 / 医療・福祉 / 看護 / ネットワーク

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We developed a collaboration scale that measures the same items in nurses and care workers to serve as a quality index of collaboration for home care patients who need medical care. First, we drafted a list of collaboration items based on concept arrangement and interviews with visiting nurses and visiting care workers. Next, we developed a scale composed of 23 items and four factors (management, collaborating operation, risk management, and building relationships) by means of exploratory factor analysis based on a fact-finding survey of collaboration. We then used this scale to analyze factors related to collaboration. And, it was founded that offices belonging to the same corporation, offices offered medical management and offices to support the sputum aspiration by care workers had high rate of collaboration. In the future, the promotion of a collaboration system for offices, as well as collaboration tailored to individual recuperating patients, will be needed.

Free Research Field

難病看護