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E u r o S c i C o n E v e n t o n
Nursing Diagnosis &
Midwifery
Journal of Nursing and Health Studies
ISSN: 2574-2825
S e p t e m b e r 1 0 - 1 1 , 2 0 1 8
P r a g u e , C z e c h R e p u b l i c
Nursing Diagnosis & Midwifery 2018
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In our previous studies, we clarified that there were two types of linguistic
communications between elderly people who need long-term care and care
providers: "Type I communication: Task oriented communication" and "Type II
communication: Life-worldly communication“. In geriatric care facilities, the
average speech duration of the elderly people was 4 minutes per day, which was
extremely short. It was because, much of the conversation was occupied by type
I communication and the speech of the elderly was restricted. On the other hand,
Type II communication was proved to increase the elderly speech duration. The
lack of type II communication not only affects the quality of life of the elderly,
but also may affect the deterioration of the mental activity and the occurrence
of dementia of the elderly. Therefore, this study aimed to develop Life Worldly
Communication Scale for evaluating type-II communication in geriatric facilities
and home care. The survey consisted of 75 participants (24 in home care, 51
in geriatric care facility).The average age was 83.0 years (SD 5.44). The survey
contents were: basic participant attributes, utterance duration by elderly people,
LWCS, motor function (FIM), cognitive function (HDSR), depression score (CESD),
and life satisfaction (PGC). As the interim LWCS, we chose 16 items consisting
of: provided topics that fit the elderly (9), spontaneous utterance by elderly (3),
and conversations prompted by care providers (4) and created a four-point Likert
scale. We excluded 2 items from the results of item analysis, and created LWCS of
14 items. We examined the stability of test–retest, construct validity and criterion-
related validity of LWCS.
Biography
Yasuko Fukaya has engaged in education and research on
gerontological nursing and home care nursing. Her research
themes are exploring how to communicate between the elderly
and the care staff and searching the way of support for the
elderly ADL independence. In particular, global concern was
given to her research on elderly communication. Her article
(Fukaya, et al .2016) will publish as chapter in eBook "Top 10
Contributions on Nursing and Health Care". Her research article
(Fukaya.2017) got the World Academic Championship-2018 in
Nursing (Clinical Communication).
Study on the development of life worldly
communication scale (LWCS) for elderly
who need long-term care
Yasuko Fukaya, Ritsuko Wakabayashi and
Keiko Oomoto
Kanto-Gakuin University, Japan
Yasuko Fukaya et al., J Nurs Health Stud 2018 Volume: 3
DOI: 10.21767/2574-2825-C4-010