Effects of the Self-Efficacy Promotion Program for people with mental disorders in their transition or preparation towards employment

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26463490
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Gerontological nursing
• Research Institution: Kochi University
• Principal Investigator: OI Miki 高知大学, 教育研究部医療学系看護学部門, 教授 (70314987)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 精神障害者 / 就労支援 / 自己効力感 / 心理教育プログラム / 運動療法 / 介入研究

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In 2016, corporations that collaborated in this research (four sites) implemented the program (commercialization) and engaged in improving the health of the users, the people with mental disorders. The future objectives of the researchers are to improve this program and to validate its effects in enhancing muscular strength, flexibility, or general endurance.
The intervention with the Self-Efficacy Promotion Program was validated in a randomized comparative study. A summary of the research results are as follows: a significant inter-group difference was found in the total scores of the Self-Efficacy for Community Life scale, a screening tool used to assess the self-efficacy of the mentally ill in community life (p<0.001), and change in the World Health Organization Quality-of-Life Scale sub-items in the physical domain of Activities of daily living, Energy and fatigue, and Work capacity in the (p=0.012) after intervention with the program.

Free Research Field

精神看護学