Japanese nurse academics' pedagogical development using collaborative action research.

Background: To meet contemporary professional standards, nurse educators must provide students with educational content that considers active learning strategies.

Objective: This study explored the process and challenges faced by nurse academics working collaboratively to implement an online problem-based learning course.

Design: Collaborative action research.

[Prevention of Infection and the Practice of Dementia Nursing by Certified Nurses During the COVID-19 Pandemic].

The purpose of this study is to clarify the practices of Certified Nurses in Dementia Nursing during the 2019 Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) from two perspectives: 1) protecting elderly people with dementia from contracting the virus and 2) providing basic care for dementia to ensure the maintenance of cognitive function and comfort and safety. A self-constructed questionnaire was used to survey 386 Certified Nurses in Dementia Nursing working at hospitals in 23 prefectures where more than 30% of the population is 65 years old and over about their nursing practices and the measures they were taking during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was clarified that the certified nurses devised ways to prevent infection without undue imposition on people with dementia, and that they facilitated interactions with people and created a comfortable environment while paying attention to the prevention of infection.

Evaluation of a training program for community-based end-of-life care of older people toward aging in place: A mixed methods study.

Aims: To evaluate a training program that supports community-based service staff in implementing aging-in-place and end-of-life care programs.

Background: Globally, as the population ages, the need for end-of-life care has never been greater. Since Japan is facing the issues of a super-aged population sooner than most countries, there is a particularly urgent need to enhance end-of-life care for older people.

The Effects of an Artificial Garden on Heart Rate Variability among Healthy Young Japanese Adults.

Spending time in nature might positively influence mental health by inducing a relaxed state. Recently, gardens have been created on hospital rooftops in Japan to help inpatients recover from various physical and mental aliments. However, there is little evidence regarding any positive physiological effects of artificial gardens designed for health.

[Effects of strolling on the mind and autonomic activities of elderly people in the 2018 Yamaguchi Yume Flower Expo Well-being Garden based on the heart rate, blood pressure, low frequency/high frequency and mood].

Aim: In recent years in Japan, forest therapies have been implemented in various places. While the effects of such therapies have been reported in previous research papers, those of artificial gardens have not been clarified. At the 2018 Yamaguchi Yume Flower Expo, the Yamaguchi University Faculty of Medicine had the opportunity to provide a "Well-being Garden" in collaboration with the Japan Landscape Contractors Association Yamaguchi Prefecture Branch.

Individual reactions to viewing preferred video representations of the natural environment: A comparison of mental and physical reactions.

Aim: Globally, awareness of the vital link between health and the natural environment is growing. This pilot study, based on the idea of "forest bathing," or shinrin-yoku, the mindful use of all five senses to engage with nature in a natural environment, was initiated in order to determine whether stimulation by viewing an individual's preferred video of sea or forest had an effect on relaxation.

Methods: The participants were 12 healthy men in their twenties and they were divided into two groups based on their preference for sea or forest scenery by using the Visual Analogue Scale.

Dementia-specific risks of scabies: retrospective epidemiologic analysis of an unveiled nosocomial outbreak in Japan from 1989-90.

Background: Although senile dementia patients in long-term care facilities are at leading risk of scabies, the epidemiologic characteristics of this disease have yet to be fully clarified. This study documents the findings of a ward-scale nosocomial outbreak in western Japan from 1989-90, for which permission to publish was only recently obtained.

Methods: A retrospective epidemiologic study was performed to identify specific risk factors of scabies among patients with dementia.