INFLUENCE OF AN OVERALL REHABILITATION PLAN ON THE FAMILY'S WILLINGNESS TO PARTICIPATE

SUZUKI Keisuke, TAKAHASHI Takenori, TAKAGI Yasuo, YAMAUCHI Keita

doi:10.11303/jsha.48.191

Recovery phase rehabilitation nursing units are required to prepare an overall rehabilitation plan for individual patient. Arguments doubting the usefulness of such a plan have recently been put forward. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the influence of this kind of plan on the willingness of a patient's family members to participate in the planned rehabilitation, and to find hints useful for improving the plan. To these ends, we conducted a self-entry questionnaire survey. The 49 valid responses to the survey form (prepared by modification of the original survey form on the basis of preliminary survey results) were analyzed by structural equation modeling. The analysis suggested the following necessities:(1)The family members utilize the rehabilitation plan in the order of plan format assessment, assessment of plan contents and decision of their posture towards the plan;(2)Willingness of family members to participate is stimulated by the ease in understanding the reasons for the relevant action taken by staff members, rather than by the action taken by staff members in its own right;(3)To stimulate family's willingness to participate, the information about the physical and mental status of the patient needs to be given in plain words and concretely;and (4)Adequate evaluation is needed regarding the specific information which will be useful for the patient's family.

INFLUENCE OF AN OVERALL REHABILITATION PLAN ON THE FAMILY'S WILLINGNESS TO PARTICIPATE

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