Fundamantal study on decision-making of children andnursing in pediatric care

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23593279
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Lifelong developmental nursing
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: Sato Yoko 北海道大学, 保健科学研究院, 教授 (90162502)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): EBINA Michiko 札幌医科大学, 保健医療学部, 教授 (10168809)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 意思決定 / 子どもの意見表明権 / decision-making / アドボカシー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Children's rights to decision making originated in United Nation's Children’s rights to decision making originated in United Nation’s Convention. The concept, however, was regarded as the normative one without any behavioral prescription or effectiveness. Children’s medical decision making was associated with: “children’s growth and development,” “their health issues” and “childcare environment and parents’ way of seeing their children” as antecedents; healthcare providers’ “advocacy”; and healthcare environment. As a consequence, “self-realization,” “autonomy” and “self-care behavior” were drawn from this research.
In the childcare practice, clarifying the concept of “children’s self decision making” is useful for building nursing skills which facilitate children’s autonomy and self-care agency.

Free Research Field

小児看護学