2016 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Using Q-methodology to establish the Health Beliefs of Japanese, Australian and Thai nurses
| Project/Area Number |
26463210
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| Research Institution | Yamaguchi University |
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Principal Investigator |
Stone Teresa・E. 山口大学, 医学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (70639236)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
村上 京子 山口大学, 医学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (10294662)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | health beliefs / Q methodology / culture / evidence-based practice / nursing |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
April 2016 -March 2017: Data collection finalised in Australia and Japan. Papers being prepared for publication in Thailand, China and Japan.
Total grant period: Data has been collected as per plan from 60 nurses in China, Japan, Thailand and Australia. In Korea only 31 participants were recruited and data collected.
The findings suggest that nurses may have developed their ideas and beliefs related to health at an early age through education or observation by schools, family or community. When they are exposed to contradictory information including that derived from evidence-based sources, they may still practice accordingly to unconscious and unexamined beliefs and pass these on to their patients and students. Nursing clinical leaders can take advantage of the findings to educate nurses about cultural aspects of health as well as evidence-based practise, and to assist them to critically distinguish between beneficial and potentially harmful health beliefs and practices. Nurses in their clinical practice and in their private lives are often asked for advice about so-called commonsense health beliefs but these are frequently not addressed in their education despite a growing emphasis on primary and preventative health. Policy around what is included in undergraduate nursing curriculum should also be examined. Further research about nurse education policy is recommended to improve reflective practice and critical thinking.
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