Publications by authors named "Shota Kuroiwa"
Purpose: Our study aimed to clarify home and social factors by gender that lead to maintenance of health in the elderly, such as taking care of others and having social activities.
Methods: A total of 14,712 and 14,799 respondents to the "Survey of Needs in the Spheres of Daily Life" conducted in Nanto City, Toyama Prefecture in 2017 and 2020, respectively, who were aged 65 years or older (recovery rate was 78.5 %) were enrolled.
Introduction General internists in Japanese hospitals sometimes consult on adolescents. Our university hospital encounters more adolescents with mental health complaints than other city hospitals. Consequently, based on our experience, we hypothesized that psychiatric disorders are significantly more common among teenagers who visit general internists.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: The present study clarified the relationship between elderly individuals providing nursing or caring for others, including their spouses, and their own health maintenance over three years.
Methods: Study participants were those who had completed the "Survey of Needs in the Spheres of Daily Life" distributed to all elderly individuals ≥65 years old in Nanto, Toyama Prefecture, Japan, in both 2014 and 2017. We evaluated data from 6,088 individuals after excluding those with insufficient data.
Background: In the home medical care setting, the factors causing emergency home visits (EHV) remain unclear. This study aimed to determine those factors and examine their relationship with EHV requests.
Methods: This is a single-center retrospective observational study from data obtained from a home medical care clinic.