Construction of the genetic education model in the kindergarten

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26861995
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Community health nursing
• Research Institution: Tokai University
• Principal Investigator: MORIYA Hiromi 東海大学, 健康科学部, 講師 (80631845)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 遺伝看護 / 遺伝教育 / 幼稚園 / 親子 / 肯定的気分

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, genetic education is defined as the human rights education in human genetics. We organized events to introduce genetic education to parents and kindergarteners, with the theme “everybody is different; therefore,everybody is valuable.”We recruited 480 parents in a kindergarten, which included 24 sets of parents and kindergarteners who took part in genetic education. Participants were evaluated using the positive mood scale (PMS, 12 items) and positive automatic thought scale (PATS, 29 items). All sub-scales of the PMS score significantly increased, and four sub-scales of the PATS score significantly increased. These scores of participants in this study significantly increased, suggesting that this program may be an effective introduction to genetic education for families.

Free Research Field

遺伝看護学