A Study on Mutual Interactions between Individual and Environment That Cause Medical Social Workers to Leave Job

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380785
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Rissho University
• Principal Investigator: TOMOKO HOSHO 立正大学, 社会福祉学部, 教授 (80299859)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 杉山 明伸 立教大学, コミュニティ福祉学部, 准教授 (40438106) ; 楢木 博之 身延山大学, 仏教学部, 准教授(移行) (40552245)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 医療ソーシャルワーカー / 離職 / 個人的要因 / 環境的要因 / 業務継続意向 / 離職意向 / 離職を思いとどまる要因

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to reveal individual factors, environmental factors and interactions between them that explain the separation from the service of medical social workers (hereinafter MSW) based on quantitative and qualitative surveys.
Regarding the quantitative survey, in 2015, a questionnaire survey was conducted by mail with 701 members of MSW associations in two prefectures who were working as MSW at that time. Consequently, factors that influence their intention to continue their services as MSW, those that influence their intention to leave the job and those that discourage them from leaving the job were identified. With regard to the qualitative survey, an interview survey was implemented with seven MSW who had already left their job. The integration of its results with the KJ method led to the generation of six groups, showing multi-layered factors that caused MSW to leave their job.

Free Research Field

社会福祉