Abstract
The purpose of this study is to create a questionnaire to understand the dynamics of a mutually supportive relationships between elderly dementia patients and nurses. The study participants were ten nurses, of which six underwent a focus group interview and four underwent individual interviews. Qualitative inductive analysis was conducted on the interview results, from which the questionnaire items were extracted. This study was implemented upon receiving approval from the affiliated university’s research ethics committee. The results of the analysis showed eight categories and forty subcategories. From these results, thirty-seven questions were created to understand the dynamics of caring relationship between elderly dementia patients and nurses. The questions consisted of the following categories: the situation of the elderly dementia patients; the nurses’relationship with others; the nurses’ actions that lead to building a trusting relationship with elderly dementia patients; the changes in nurses due to building trusting relationships with elderly dementia patients; the changes in elderly dementia patients due to building trusting relationships with nurses. The caring relationships between elderly dementia patients and nurses are dynamic wherein each complements the other. The questionnaire was made with these results as the foundation, and in the future, we plan to conduct a survey of nurses using this questionnaire and connect this to the development of a caring model. This study has received a grant from JSPS KAKENHI JP16K12210.
Presenters
Misa KomatsuSeisuke Hayakawa
Norikazu Ohnishi
Kazunari Takemura
Makoto Tabata
Ritsuko Shimizu
Tsutako Miyazaki
Details
Presentation Type
Theme
Medical Perspectives on Aging, Health, Wellness
KEYWORDS
caring,elderly,dementia,nurse
