Development of preventive maternal health care system

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26671042
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Community health nursing
• Research Institution: Osaka City University
• Principal Investigator: YOKOYAMA Yoshie 大阪市立大学, 大学院看護学研究科, 教授 (50197688)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 林 知里 大阪市立大学, 大学院看護学研究科, 准教授 (50454666)
• Research Collaborator: 村井 智郁子 ; 北原 綾 ; 杉本 昌子 ; 中尾 由紀美
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: フィンランド / 母子保健 / ネウボラ / 保健師

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to clarify differences in subjective well-being for mothers with infants and associated factors by comparing Japanese and Finnish mothers.
In Finland, mothers with infants who received health check-ups at child’s age 4 months participated in the study. In Japan, mothers with infants who should receive health check-ups at child’s age 4 months and, whose age, age of the infant, and number of children matched with the Finnish mothers were selected. All Finnish mothers had individual infant health check-ups withby nurses in Maternity and Child Health Clinics nearly monthly. The same nurse was responsible for following up the family throughout the years. All Japanese participants received group health check-up once at child’s age 3 to 4 months, and a nurse did not cover same child and their mother. Finnish mothers had better subjective well-being than Japanese mothers.

Free Research Field

公衆衛生看護学