Development of a guideline the health behavior focusing on Somatic Sensations of patient with Chronic Heart Failure

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25463433
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Clinical nursing
• Research Institution: University of Kochi
• Principal Investigator: Shimomoto Rie 高知県立大学, 看護学部, 助教 (60553500)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): YAMANAKA Fukuko 高知県立大学, 看護学部, 講師 (60453221) ; FUJITA Sawa 高知県立大学, 看護学部, 教授 (80199322)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 慢性心不全患者 / 身体感覚

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The study subjects comprised 19 patients with chronic heart failure, including 9 males and 10 females, and their average was 74 ± 15.0 years old, was obtain.
The patients given physical symptoms at the time of acute exacerbation, following 7 categories were extracted. “Suspicious swelling”, “difficulty in breathing when the patient started working”, “difficulty in breathing when the patient’s lung does not spread”, “feeling heavy heart and legs”, “chest pain”, “do not want to work at all”, and “a standard of boundary”. The patients listened to daily interior voices of their bodies and raised sensitivity of their bodies. Thereby they decided their own standard for adjusting their lives and bodies according to perceiving sensitively a change in their bodies.
The study suggests a condition on which the patients with chronic heart failure live while trying somatic sensations and behavior suitable for it in everyday life.

Free Research Field

臨床看護学