Masayo Kashiwagi
Biographic Data
| ID | 77356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Masayo Kashiwagi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Masayo |
| FAMILY NAME | Kashiwagi |
| SIGNATURE | KASHIWAGI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tokyo Medical and Dental University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4524-9593 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Japanese Local Governments’ Dissemination Activities for Advance Care Planning: A Descriptive Analysis of a Nationwide Survey during the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study aims to compare the awareness-raising activities between municipalities with and without focused anti-infection measures during the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Descriptive analysis was conducted using a nationwide self-administered questionnaire survey on municipalities' activities for residents and for healthcare providers and care workers (HCPs) in October 2022 in Japan. This study included 433 municipalities that h…
Characteristics of Home-Visit Nursing Agencies That Closed after the 2012 Fee Revision for Home-Visit Nursing Services: A Nationwide Panel Data Analysis in Japan
Despite the 2012 fee revision raising fees for home-visit nursing services to increase their supply in Japan, 300 to 500 home-visit nursing agencies (VNA) are still being closed annually. This study aims to identify the regional and organizational characteristics of the VNAs that closed after the 2012 fee revision. A longitudinal observational study was conducted using nationwide panel data of VNAs from 2014 to 2017 (N = 6496). Multiple logistic …
Adverse Events in Home-Care Nursing Agencies and Related Factors: A Nationwide Survey in Japan
Despite the importance of patient safety in home-care nursing provided by licensed nurses in patients' homes, little is known about the nationwide incidence of adverse events in Japan. This article describes the incidence of adverse events among home-care nursing agencies in Japan and investigates the characteristics of agencies that were associated with adverse events. A cross-sectional nationwide self-administrative questionnaire survey was con…
Factors promoting resident deaths at aged care facilities in J apan: A review
Due to an increasingly ageing population, the Japanese government has promoted elderly deaths in aged care facilities. However, existing facilities were not designed to provide resident end-of-life care and the proportion of aged care facility deaths is currently less than 10%. Consequently, the present review evaluated the factors that promote aged care facility resident deaths in Japan from individual- and facility-level perspectives to explori…
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…
Alexithymia and Grief Reactions in Bereaved Japanese Women
To examine the relationship between grief reactions and alexithymia, 54 Japanese women (33 outpatients attending a psychosomatic clinic and 21 normal healthy participants) completed the Texas Inventory of Grief (TIG), the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), and the Profile of Mood States (POMS). Each woman had experienced the death of a spouse or a first-degree relative. The TIG scores were positively correlated to the scores on the first…
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…
Alexithymia and Grief Reactions in Bereaved Japanese Women
To examine the relationship between grief reactions and alexithymia, 54 Japanese women (33 outpatients attending a psychosomatic clinic and 21 normal healthy participants) completed the Texas Inventory of Grief (TIG), the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), and the Profile of Mood States (POMS). Each woman had experienced the death of a spouse or a first-degree relative. The TIG scores were positively correlated to the scores on the first…
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…
Factors promoting resident deaths at aged care facilities in J apan: A review
Due to an increasingly ageing population, the Japanese government has promoted elderly deaths in aged care facilities. However, existing facilities were not designed to provide resident end-of-life care and the proportion of aged care facility deaths is currently less than 10%. Consequently, the present review evaluated the factors that promote aged care facility resident deaths in Japan from individual- and facility-level perspectives to explori…
Characteristics of Home-Visit Nursing Agencies That Closed after the 2012 Fee Revision for Home-Visit Nursing Services: A Nationwide Panel Data Analysis in Japan
Despite the 2012 fee revision raising fees for home-visit nursing services to increase their supply in Japan, 300 to 500 home-visit nursing agencies (VNA) are still being closed annually. This study aims to identify the regional and organizational characteristics of the VNAs that closed after the 2012 fee revision. A longitudinal observational study was conducted using nationwide panel data of VNAs from 2014 to 2017 (N = 6496). Multiple logistic …
Adverse Events in Home-Care Nursing Agencies and Related Factors: A Nationwide Survey in Japan
Despite the importance of patient safety in home-care nursing provided by licensed nurses in patients' homes, little is known about the nationwide incidence of adverse events in Japan. This article describes the incidence of adverse events among home-care nursing agencies in Japan and investigates the characteristics of agencies that were associated with adverse events. A cross-sectional nationwide self-administrative questionnaire survey was con…
Japanese Local Governments’ Dissemination Activities for Advance Care Planning: A Descriptive Analysis of a Nationwide Survey during the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study aims to compare the awareness-raising activities between municipalities with and without focused anti-infection measures during the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Descriptive analysis was conducted using a nationwide self-administered questionnaire survey on municipalities' activities for residents and for healthcare providers and care workers (HCPs) in October 2022 in Japan. This study included 433 municipalities that h…
Medicine (5 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Family medicine (3 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (2 works) · Nursing homes (2 works)