Service contents and recovery orientation of psychiatric home-visit nursing evaluated by users in Japan.

The aim of this study was to clarify the differences perceived by users of home-visit nursing care between providers from medical institutions and services from independent home-visit nursing stations, as well as to examine the recovery orientation from the perspectives of the users. We conducted a questionnaire survey of 32 home-visit nursing stations and 18 medical institutions. From these facilities, 10 users of psychiatric home-visit nursing services who were being treated for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder were selected.

Future perspective of psychiatric home-visit nursing provided by nursing stations in Japan.

Psychiatric home-visit nursing supports the lives of people with mental disorders in the community and plays an important role in the "community-based integrated care system" which is rapidly being implemented in Japan. Although the number of responsive home-visit nursing stations (HVNS) is increasing, the current situation of service provision has not yet been clarified. This study aimed to investigate the characteristics and difficulties of psychiatric home-visit nursing provided by HVNS.

Expanding Use of Nurse Home Visiting for Community Psychiatric Care in Japan.

In Japan, Community-based integrated care systems are being built in response to a super-aged society and policies of de-institutionalization. In this paper, we present findings and discussion of our review about Japanese psychiatric home visit nursing services provided by Home Visit Nursing Stations (HVNS). We have examined documents, investigated the implementation rate and summarized findings of the surveys of home visiting services from 2006 to 2016.

The Role of Home Nursing Visits in Supporting People Living with Dementia in Japan and Australia: Cross-National Learnings and Future System Reform.

Japan and Australia are two western Pacific countries with divergent cultures and histories but they share a common public health concern of providing services for their increasing number of people living with dementia. Age is the greatest risk factor for developing dementia, and Japan is leading the world in aging populations. In 2016 in Japan 27.

Community outreach for patients who have difficulties in maintaining contact with mental health services: longitudinal retrospective study of the Japanese outreach model project.

Background: Japan still has the highest ratio of beds devoted to psychiatric patients in the world. In 2011, in order to reduce re-hospitalization of patients who became disconnected from regular contact with outpatient medical services, the Japanese Ministry established the Japanese Outreach Model Project (JOMP). In this study, we will explicate the JOMP project protocol and investigate the rate and length of hospital admission, impairments of social function and problematic behavior at the follow-up period (6- and 12-month) and time of services provided by JOMP.

Development of the Nurse Attitude Scale short form: factor analysis in a large sample of Japanese psychiatric clinical staff.

The Nurse Attitude Scale (NAS) measures nurses' Expressed Emotion. A short form of the NAS was developed and its reliability and validity examined. After performing factor analysis using 1252 samples, three factors were extracted.

Nursing care delivery in Japanese psychiatric units.

Japan has the largest number of psychiatric beds per population in the world. At the same time, little research had been done to describe nursing care delivered in psychiatric units. To describe contents of nursing care, the framework for care classification and measuring methods must be examined.