Exploratory research about experience of pediatrician who lost their patients and

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25780320
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Takata Yoshinori 早稲田大学, 人間科学学術院, その他(招聘研究員) (30634266)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 患者の死 / 医師 / 苦悩 / 支援

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research explores how Japanese pediatricians experience their patients’ death based on semi-structured interview. It showed that pediatricians have complicated feeling when their patients died, but they cannot always express their feeling openly because of occupational rule that demand them to “be cool” and attending doctor system and they have to cope with difficult situation caused by patients’ death by individualized way. There are little support for pediatricians who suffer from patients’ death at present, so we should build support network in future.

Free Research Field

医療社会学