Noriko Yamamoto‐mitani
Biographic Data
| ID | 4157858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noriko Yamamoto‐mitani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noriko |
| FAMILY NAME | Yamamoto‐mitani |
| SIGNATURE | MITANI N Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Tokyo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1704-7011 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Consensus on Care Competencies for Community Citizens in Japan: A Modified Delphi Study
Japan's rapidly aging population necessitates new approaches that enable citizens to actively participate in caring for themselves and others. However, a comprehensive framework defining the specific competencies needed for this critical community role has not yet been established. This study, therefore, aimed to define the novel concept of "care competency" and establish a consensus on its comprehensive component list for community citizens. We …
Applying the Relational Job Design Theory to the Retail Industry: The Association between Perceived Social Impact and Job Satisfaction, Turnover Intention, and Persistence
Retail workers contribute to the daily wellbeing of customers, including those living with disabilities or diseases. The relational job design theory suggests that one’s perceived social impact (PSI) of their job contributes to improvements in job satisfaction, turnover intention, and persistence. Confirming such an association could encourage organization managers to commit more to community care for the purpose of improving the work outcomes of…
Association between Prevention from Going Out and Incidence of Falls among Community-Dwelling Older Adults during Covid-19 Pandemic
To prevent falls, community-dwelling older adults must maintain regular physical activities. This study aimed to explore the association between the prevention from going out and the incidence of falls among community-dwelling older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a prospective cohort study that consisted of 381 individuals aged 65 years or older, living in a local community in Japan, and ranging from being independent to being …
A Project to Distribute Personal Protective Equipment to Homecare Agencies during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Its Association with the Sense of Security Improvement among Homecare Nurses/Helpers
During the early period of COVID-19 pandemic, there was a serious shortage of personal protective equipments (PPEs), which caused difficulty in homecare agencies to make home visits to those (possible) positive COVID-19 cases. An organization with the help of several foundations started a special program to distribute PPEs to those agencies in which there was a possible case or those cases that had close contact with the positive cases. This stud…
Association between Advance Care Planning for Older Adults and Family Caregivers’ Sense of Security in Home Care Settings: A Prospective Cohort Study
Family caregivers’ sense of security benefits older adults who receive home care. Advance care planning (ACP) is reported to affect family caregivers’ experience positively, but it might differ depending on family caregivers’ kin relationships with the older adults. This study aimed to investigate whether ACP for older adults in home care settings is associated with family caregivers’ sense of security and whether such an association depends on t…
Building Relationships Between Community Care Professionals and Convenience Stores in Japan: Community-Based Participatory Research
Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action - Volume 17, Number 1, Spring 2023
Building Relationships Between Community Care Professionals and Convenience Stores in Japan: Community-Based Participatory Research
The CGSCs' direct approach based on the public support agreement would effectively promote building relationships at convenience stores, leading to an age-friendly community
Evaluation of Infant Injury Prevention Education Provided during Antenatal Classes after Two Years: A Pilot Prospective Cohort Study
This study examined the long-term effects of an infant injury prevention program implemented during an antenatal class of 131 mothers. Questionnaires were completed 2 years postpartum to assess the incidence of injury (medically attended or home-care), mothers' perception of injury prevention, implementation of safety practices, and active attitudes toward injury prevention. Responses were obtained from 68 (51.9%) mothers (intervention group, 40;…
Infant Injury Prevention Education for Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Class: A Quasi-Experimental Study
It is important to educate caregivers in order to prevent infant injuries. However, there have been few studies on the effects of education on pregnant women. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of injury prevention group education on this group. Study participants were recruited from a group of pregnant mothers attending an antenatal class in Tokyo. Participants were assigned to either the intervention or control group based on the month in…
Medical Care-Related Decisions among Patients Diagnosed with Early Stage Malignant Brain Tumor: A Qualitative Study
Medical care-related decision-making among patients with malignant brain tumors has not been sufficiently discussed. This study aimed to develop a framework for understanding patients' experiences in the decision-making process. Semi-structured interviews with 14 patients were analyzed using a grounded theory approach, focusing on their 48 decision-making points. Additionally, interviews with two family members and seven healthcare providers, and…
Pregnant Women’s Intentions to Implement Safety Practices for Preventing Infant Injury: A Cross-Sectional Study
Injury prevention education for pregnant women may be beneficial for infants' safety. Currently, knowledge about the scope of an expectant mother's intent to prevent injury is limited. The objective of this study was to determine pregnant women's intentions to implement infant injury prevention strategies. From May to June 2017, a self-administered questionnaire based on the precaution adoption process model was distributed among pregnant women w…
Association between participation in hospital‐led community activities and sense of security in continued community living among older adults in a rural district of Japan: A cross‐sectional study
For older adults to continue living in a community, they need to have a certain sense of security, especially in terms of the availability of healthcare in the community. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore important factors of the sense of security among older adults in their continued community living, with particular attention to hospital-led community activities. The participants comprised 252 randomly sampled older adults ag…
Home‐care nurses’ community involvement activities and preference regarding the place for end‐of‐life period among single older adults: A cross‐sectional study in Japan
Older adults' preference regarding where they want to spend their end-of-life (EOL) has been reported to be a significant predictor of the actual EOL location. Home-care nurses have often been reported to try involving single older adults' neighbours in the support network of the older adults (community involvement activities) to allow them to stay at home. Hence, nurses' community involvement activities may be among the significant factors of ol…
The Use of a Public Space in a Public Housing Complex by Senior Citizens: A Qualitative Study
Recently, many community gathering spaces (CGSs) have been built as platforms for senior citizens to socialize. This study constitutes an ethnographic examination of how senior citizens use a CGS in a public housing complex in Japan. The results depicted six characteristic styles in which senior citizens used the CGS: visiting a park, attending a school, using a library, using a meeting room, shopping for commodities, and participating in events.…
A Cyclic Model Describing the Process of Sustaining Meaningfulness in Practice: How Nurses Continue Working at One Home Care Agency
This study aimed to elucidate the experiences of home care nurses who had continued working a single agency, to gain insight into the prevention of premature turnover. We adopted a grounded theory approach to qualitative exploration of the experiences of 26 Japanese nurses working in a home care agency, using semistructured interviews and participant observation. Nurses' experience progressed through three phases: "encountering difficulty," "enjo…
Nurses’ and Care Workers’ Perception of Care Quality in Japanese Long-Term Care Wards: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Despite the growing importance of long-term care for older adults, there has been limited attention to its quality assurance issues in Japan. To start planning the initiation of continuous quality improvement in long-term care hospitals, we explored how nurses and care workers themselves perceived current approaches to quality assurance and improvement on their ward. We interviewed 16 licensed nurses and nine care workers, transcribed and analyze…
The Experience of Persons With Hematological Malignancy When Communicating With Health Care Professionals
This study aimed to elucidate the experiences of Japanese persons with hematological malignancy (PHMs) in communicating with health care professionals (HCPs), from diagnosis to the end of life, as recalled by their families. We interviewed 14 bereaved families and analyzed the data using the basic techniques of grounded theory. We found that PHMs lived to the fullest possible when they experienced ownership of their illness process despite their …
Regaining my new life: Daily lives of suicide-bereaved individuals
This study aimed to develop a conceptual framework of the experience of persons who have lost a family member to suicide in Japan. The authors conducted in-depth interviews with 24 such family members. They conceptualized their experience as a process of regaining my new life. Initially, their lives were out of their hands, but gradually they learned striving skills and recuperative conditioning, and integrated the skills to regain their lives. S…
Caring for Clients and Families With Anxiety: Home Care Nurses’ Practice Narratives
This study elucidated Japanese home care nurses' experiences of supporting clients and families with anxiety. We interviewed 10 registered nurses working in home care agencies and analyzed the data using grounded theory to derive categories pertaining to the nurses' experiences of providing care. We conceptualized nurses' approaches to caring for anxiety into three categories: First, they attempted to reach out for anxiety even when the client/fa…
Female family caregivers face a higher risk of hypertension and lowered estimated glomerular filtration rates: A cross-sectional, comparative study
Results suggest that female caregivers are at a higher risk of conditions such as cerebral, cardiovascular or kidney diseases than non-caregivers. Steps must be taken to identify caregivers with high blood pressure and lowered eGFR and provide them with the support they need before these risk factors develop into serious diseases
Home Care Nurses' Provision of Support to Families of the Elderly at the End of Life
In this article we describe our study of assistance for family decisions and caregiving by Japanese home care nurses to families of elderly relatives at the end of life. The participants were 31 nurses who had been evaluated as providing good end-of-life care. We carried out semistructured interviews concerning the practice of family support in two cases (cancer and noncancer). We conducted a qualitative analysis using the constant comparative ap…
The Meaning of Family Caregiving in Japan and the United States: A Qualitative Comparative Study
This study explores how cultural values affect the meaning and experiences of daughter (or daughter-in-law) caregivers of elderly persons with dementia by comparing caregivers in the United States and Japan. Nine American and seven Japanese caregivers were interviewed twice at 6-month intervals. Interviews were audiotaped and analyzed using constant-comparative techniques. Data suggest that moral obligation to care and intense loss are two univer…
Subjective quality of life and positive appraisal of care among Japanese family caregivers of older adults
The impact of subject/respondent characteristics on a proxy-rated quality of life instrument for the Japanese elderly with dementia
When Caregiving Ends: The Course of Depressive Symptoms After Bereavement
This study describes depressive symptoms among caregivers following bereavement and connects these trajectories to earlier features of caregiving using life course and stress process theory. Data are from a six-wave longitudinal survey (five years) of spouses and adult children caring for someone with Alzheimer's Disease. The analytic subsample (N = 291) is defined by death of the care-recipient after the baseline interview. A latent class mixtur…
When Caregiving Ends: The Course of Depressive Symptoms After Bereavement
This study describes depressive symptoms among caregivers following bereavement and connects these trajectories to earlier features of caregiving using life course and stress process theory. Data are from a six-wave longitudinal survey (five years) of spouses and adult children caring for someone with Alzheimer's Disease. The analytic subsample (N = 291) is defined by death of the care-recipient after the baseline interview. A latent class mixtur…
Patterns of Family Visiting With Institutionalized Elders: The Case of Dementia
To a large extent, family visits to nursing home residents with dementia become established in the period immediately after relocation, which means that efforts to enhance continued family involvement should commence at the time of admission
The Use of a Public Space in a Public Housing Complex by Senior Citizens: A Qualitative Study
Recently, many community gathering spaces (CGSs) have been built as platforms for senior citizens to socialize. This study constitutes an ethnographic examination of how senior citizens use a CGS in a public housing complex in Japan. The results depicted six characteristic styles in which senior citizens used the CGS: visiting a park, attending a school, using a library, using a meeting room, shopping for commodities, and participating in events.…
Regaining my new life: Daily lives of suicide-bereaved individuals
This study aimed to develop a conceptual framework of the experience of persons who have lost a family member to suicide in Japan. The authors conducted in-depth interviews with 24 such family members. They conceptualized their experience as a process of regaining my new life. Initially, their lives were out of their hands, but gradually they learned striving skills and recuperative conditioning, and integrated the skills to regain their lives. S…
Home‐care nurses’ community involvement activities and preference regarding the place for end‐of‐life period among single older adults: A cross‐sectional study in Japan
Older adults' preference regarding where they want to spend their end-of-life (EOL) has been reported to be a significant predictor of the actual EOL location. Home-care nurses have often been reported to try involving single older adults' neighbours in the support network of the older adults (community involvement activities) to allow them to stay at home. Hence, nurses' community involvement activities may be among the significant factors of ol…
Home Care Nurses' Provision of Support to Families of the Elderly at the End of Life
In this article we describe our study of assistance for family decisions and caregiving by Japanese home care nurses to families of elderly relatives at the end of life. The participants were 31 nurses who had been evaluated as providing good end-of-life care. We carried out semistructured interviews concerning the practice of family support in two cases (cancer and noncancer). We conducted a qualitative analysis using the constant comparative ap…
Pursuit of Psychological Well-Being (Ikigai) and the Evolution of Self-Understanding in the Context of Caregiving in Japan
Using the Japanese concept of ikigai, which describes a certain state of psychological well-being, this study explores how Japanese family caregivers of elderly parents with dementia pursue, maintain, or attempt to regain their psychological well-being in the face of the hardship of caregiving. Using constant comparative methodology, twenty-six Japanese women who were caring for an elderly demented parent or parent-in-law were interviewed. Based …
Patterns of Family Visiting With Institutionalized Elders: The Case of Dementia
To a large extent, family visits to nursing home residents with dementia become established in the period immediately after relocation, which means that efforts to enhance continued family involvement should commence at the time of admission
Subjective quality of life and positive appraisal of care among Japanese family caregivers of older adults
The impact of subject/respondent characteristics on a proxy-rated quality of life instrument for the Japanese elderly with dementia
When Caregiving Ends: The Course of Depressive Symptoms After Bereavement
This study describes depressive symptoms among caregivers following bereavement and connects these trajectories to earlier features of caregiving using life course and stress process theory. Data are from a six-wave longitudinal survey (five years) of spouses and adult children caring for someone with Alzheimer's Disease. The analytic subsample (N = 291) is defined by death of the care-recipient after the baseline interview. A latent class mixtur…
The Meaning of Family Caregiving in Japan and the United States: A Qualitative Comparative Study
This study explores how cultural values affect the meaning and experiences of daughter (or daughter-in-law) caregivers of elderly persons with dementia by comparing caregivers in the United States and Japan. Nine American and seven Japanese caregivers were interviewed twice at 6-month intervals. Interviews were audiotaped and analyzed using constant-comparative techniques. Data suggest that moral obligation to care and intense loss are two univer…
Home Care Nurses' Provision of Support to Families of the Elderly at the End of Life
In this article we describe our study of assistance for family decisions and caregiving by Japanese home care nurses to families of elderly relatives at the end of life. The participants were 31 nurses who had been evaluated as providing good end-of-life care. We carried out semistructured interviews concerning the practice of family support in two cases (cancer and noncancer). We conducted a qualitative analysis using the constant comparative ap…
Female family caregivers face a higher risk of hypertension and lowered estimated glomerular filtration rates: A cross-sectional, comparative study
Results suggest that female caregivers are at a higher risk of conditions such as cerebral, cardiovascular or kidney diseases than non-caregivers. Steps must be taken to identify caregivers with high blood pressure and lowered eGFR and provide them with the support they need before these risk factors develop into serious diseases
Caring for Clients and Families With Anxiety: Home Care Nurses’ Practice Narratives
This study elucidated Japanese home care nurses' experiences of supporting clients and families with anxiety. We interviewed 10 registered nurses working in home care agencies and analyzed the data using grounded theory to derive categories pertaining to the nurses' experiences of providing care. We conceptualized nurses' approaches to caring for anxiety into three categories: First, they attempted to reach out for anxiety even when the client/fa…
Regaining my new life: Daily lives of suicide-bereaved individuals
This study aimed to develop a conceptual framework of the experience of persons who have lost a family member to suicide in Japan. The authors conducted in-depth interviews with 24 such family members. They conceptualized their experience as a process of regaining my new life. Initially, their lives were out of their hands, but gradually they learned striving skills and recuperative conditioning, and integrated the skills to regain their lives. S…
A Cyclic Model Describing the Process of Sustaining Meaningfulness in Practice: How Nurses Continue Working at One Home Care Agency
This study aimed to elucidate the experiences of home care nurses who had continued working a single agency, to gain insight into the prevention of premature turnover. We adopted a grounded theory approach to qualitative exploration of the experiences of 26 Japanese nurses working in a home care agency, using semistructured interviews and participant observation. Nurses' experience progressed through three phases: "encountering difficulty," "enjo…
Nurses’ and Care Workers’ Perception of Care Quality in Japanese Long-Term Care Wards: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Despite the growing importance of long-term care for older adults, there has been limited attention to its quality assurance issues in Japan. To start planning the initiation of continuous quality improvement in long-term care hospitals, we explored how nurses and care workers themselves perceived current approaches to quality assurance and improvement on their ward. We interviewed 16 licensed nurses and nine care workers, transcribed and analyze…
The Experience of Persons With Hematological Malignancy When Communicating With Health Care Professionals
This study aimed to elucidate the experiences of Japanese persons with hematological malignancy (PHMs) in communicating with health care professionals (HCPs), from diagnosis to the end of life, as recalled by their families. We interviewed 14 bereaved families and analyzed the data using the basic techniques of grounded theory. We found that PHMs lived to the fullest possible when they experienced ownership of their illness process despite their …
Medical Care-Related Decisions among Patients Diagnosed with Early Stage Malignant Brain Tumor: A Qualitative Study
Medical care-related decision-making among patients with malignant brain tumors has not been sufficiently discussed. This study aimed to develop a framework for understanding patients' experiences in the decision-making process. Semi-structured interviews with 14 patients were analyzed using a grounded theory approach, focusing on their 48 decision-making points. Additionally, interviews with two family members and seven healthcare providers, and…
Pregnant Women’s Intentions to Implement Safety Practices for Preventing Infant Injury: A Cross-Sectional Study
Injury prevention education for pregnant women may be beneficial for infants' safety. Currently, knowledge about the scope of an expectant mother's intent to prevent injury is limited. The objective of this study was to determine pregnant women's intentions to implement infant injury prevention strategies. From May to June 2017, a self-administered questionnaire based on the precaution adoption process model was distributed among pregnant women w…
Association between participation in hospital‐led community activities and sense of security in continued community living among older adults in a rural district of Japan: A cross‐sectional study
For older adults to continue living in a community, they need to have a certain sense of security, especially in terms of the availability of healthcare in the community. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore important factors of the sense of security among older adults in their continued community living, with particular attention to hospital-led community activities. The participants comprised 252 randomly sampled older adults ag…
Home‐care nurses’ community involvement activities and preference regarding the place for end‐of‐life period among single older adults: A cross‐sectional study in Japan
Older adults' preference regarding where they want to spend their end-of-life (EOL) has been reported to be a significant predictor of the actual EOL location. Home-care nurses have often been reported to try involving single older adults' neighbours in the support network of the older adults (community involvement activities) to allow them to stay at home. Hence, nurses' community involvement activities may be among the significant factors of ol…
The Use of a Public Space in a Public Housing Complex by Senior Citizens: A Qualitative Study
Recently, many community gathering spaces (CGSs) have been built as platforms for senior citizens to socialize. This study constitutes an ethnographic examination of how senior citizens use a CGS in a public housing complex in Japan. The results depicted six characteristic styles in which senior citizens used the CGS: visiting a park, attending a school, using a library, using a meeting room, shopping for commodities, and participating in events.…
Infant Injury Prevention Education for Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Class: A Quasi-Experimental Study
It is important to educate caregivers in order to prevent infant injuries. However, there have been few studies on the effects of education on pregnant women. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of injury prevention group education on this group. Study participants were recruited from a group of pregnant mothers attending an antenatal class in Tokyo. Participants were assigned to either the intervention or control group based on the month in…
Evaluation of Infant Injury Prevention Education Provided during Antenatal Classes after Two Years: A Pilot Prospective Cohort Study
This study examined the long-term effects of an infant injury prevention program implemented during an antenatal class of 131 mothers. Questionnaires were completed 2 years postpartum to assess the incidence of injury (medically attended or home-care), mothers' perception of injury prevention, implementation of safety practices, and active attitudes toward injury prevention. Responses were obtained from 68 (51.9%) mothers (intervention group, 40;…
Association between Prevention from Going Out and Incidence of Falls among Community-Dwelling Older Adults during Covid-19 Pandemic
To prevent falls, community-dwelling older adults must maintain regular physical activities. This study aimed to explore the association between the prevention from going out and the incidence of falls among community-dwelling older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a prospective cohort study that consisted of 381 individuals aged 65 years or older, living in a local community in Japan, and ranging from being independent to being …
A Project to Distribute Personal Protective Equipment to Homecare Agencies during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Its Association with the Sense of Security Improvement among Homecare Nurses/Helpers
During the early period of COVID-19 pandemic, there was a serious shortage of personal protective equipments (PPEs), which caused difficulty in homecare agencies to make home visits to those (possible) positive COVID-19 cases. An organization with the help of several foundations started a special program to distribute PPEs to those agencies in which there was a possible case or those cases that had close contact with the positive cases. This stud…
Association between Advance Care Planning for Older Adults and Family Caregivers’ Sense of Security in Home Care Settings: A Prospective Cohort Study
Family caregivers’ sense of security benefits older adults who receive home care. Advance care planning (ACP) is reported to affect family caregivers’ experience positively, but it might differ depending on family caregivers’ kin relationships with the older adults. This study aimed to investigate whether ACP for older adults in home care settings is associated with family caregivers’ sense of security and whether such an association depends on t…
Building Relationships Between Community Care Professionals and Convenience Stores in Japan: Community-Based Participatory Research
Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action - Volume 17, Number 1, Spring 2023
Building Relationships Between Community Care Professionals and Convenience Stores in Japan: Community-Based Participatory Research
The CGSCs' direct approach based on the public support agreement would effectively promote building relationships at convenience stores, leading to an age-friendly community
Medicine (23 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Nursing (13 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Gerontology (8 works) · Family medicine (7 works) · Public health (7 works) · Qualitative research (7 works) · Business (6 works)