Develop the nursing to patients with disorder of consciousness to live independently; relation between arousal and sitting posture

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26893245
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Clinical nursing
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University of Science
• Principal Investigator: Miyata Kumiko 北海道科学大学, 保健医療学部, 講師 (60736099)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-08-29 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 姿勢 / 覚醒 / 意識障害

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study, as basic research to develop the nursing to patients with disorder of consciousness to obtain their independent life, verifies the relevance of the state of arousal and sitting posture.
In the low arousal state of patients with disorder of consciousness was deemed to sleep synonymous, researched the posture of when the healthy people were sleeping in sitting position. As a result, the angle of head, neck, trunk, and pelvis was tilted forward at the time of low arousal than awakening, was particularly marked change in the angle of the head. As paradoxical meaning, the relevance of keeping the sitting position with anti-gravity and the improvement of arousal, has been inferred.

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