Anxiety among Japanese nursing researchers before and after dispatch for COVID-19 pandemic support: Effects of anxiety-enhancing and buffering factors.

Aim: We investigated the levels of anxiety and the factors influencing it among Japanese nursing researchers before and after engaging in dispatch support activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study also tested the relationships between pre- and post-relief anxiety and their enhancing and buffering factors.

Methods: A web-based survey was conducted with 9832 members from the Japan Academy of Nursing Science, covering 15 items related to participant attributes such as age and disaster relief qualifications, factors affecting anxiety about support activities such as the content and duration of one activity, and the level of anxiety before and after activities.

Nurses' Perceptions Regarding End-of-life Care for Individuals with Non-cancer Diseases on Non-invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation-dependent: A Qualitative and Descriptive Study.

Objectives: Palliative care is essential for patients requiring respiratory assistance through non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV). This study aimed to describe nurses' perception of individuals with NPPV and non-cancer terminal diseases in various clinical settings.

Material And Methods: This qualitative and descriptive study was conducted using semi-structured interviews with audio recordings with advanced practice nurses from different clinical settings and obtained their perceptions of end-of-life care for patients with NPPV.

Practical Measures for Dealing With the Struggles of Nurses Caring for People With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Comorbid With Cognitive Impairment in Japan.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease for which there is currently no cure. This study aimed to explore the situations with which nurses struggled, their implemented practical measures, and the challenges they experienced when caring for patients with ALS comorbid with cognitive impairment (hereinafter, targeted patients). In this qualitative study, we conducted a survey with nurses ( = 121) experienced in caring for ALS patients; the survey contained a free-writing section in which participants described their struggles regarding care delivery for these patients.

Circumstances and Signs of Approaching Death in Patients With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Undergoing Noninvasive Ventilation in Home Care Settings.

The purpose of this study was to elucidate the circumstances and symptoms of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) using noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) in whom death was approaching, to understand how to provide palliative care to dying patients with ALS receiving NPPV management. The participants were 6 home visiting nurses who were head or subhead nurses of a home visiting nursing agency. Data were collected conducting individual semistructured interviews and then group interviews.

Comparison between home and hospital as the place of death for individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the last stages of illness.

Introduction: Healthcare providers need to better understand the end-of-life situations of in-home amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients to support their desires about where to die and to allow peaceful death.

Purpose: To clarify the situations of individuals with ALS in the last stages of illness according to the place of death as reported by home care nurses.

Methods: Minimum structured interviews were conducted with 14 home care nurses, and data regarding 14 ALS patients who died were collected.

Circumstances surrounding death and nursing difficulties with end-of-life care for individuals with ALS in central Japan.

Purpose: This study aimed to clarify the circumstances surrounding death for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in Japan and difficulties in providing home-care end-of-life nursing for these individuals.

Method: A questionnaire was mailed to the directors of 709 home-care nursing agencies located in central Japan.

Results: Of 232 questionnaires returned (response rate 32.

Benefits of off-campus education for students in the health sciences: a text-mining analysis.

Background: In Japan, few community-based approaches have been adopted in health-care professional education, and the appropriate content for such approaches has not been clarified. In establishing community-based education for health-care professionals, clarification of its learning effects is required. A community-based educational program was started in 2009 in the health sciences course at Gunma University, and one of the main elements in this program is conducting classes outside school.