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Journal of Intensive and Critical Care Nursing | Volume 2
October 24-25, 2019 | Zurich, Switzerland
2nd European
Nursing Congress
International Conference on
Clinical Nursing & Practice
Joint Event
&
J Intensive Crit Care Nurs, Volume 2
Relationship between Healthy Elderly Individual Social Capital and Health according to
Ward Level in Tomi City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan: An ecological study
Park SJ
Saku University, Japan
T
he aims of this study were 1) to elucidate the relationship
between social capital and health by ward in Tomi City,
NaganoPrefecture,japan, inordertoclarifytheregional social
resources available to support long-term care prevention
utilizing self and mutual support of regional residents and
2) to comprehensively investigate the activation of regional
networks. We analysed elderly (aged 65 years or older)
individual survey data from 7,199 residents from all wards
within Tomi City in 2014 (number of valid responses: 5,546
[77.0%]). The social capital indicators used for the analysis
included participation in community activities, regional
managerial position experience, and general trust. The
health indicators included self-rated mental health, activities
of daily living, and depression. Standards for a “good” result
for each indicator were established, and the percentages of
each were tallied up by ward. Spearman’s rank correlation
coefficient and principal component analysis were used to
investigate correlations between social capital and health.
The results for overall respondents indicated correlations
between participation in sports and hobbies and activities of
daily living and self-rated mental health. Participation in non-
profit organizations/volunteer activities and participation
in community centre workshops exhibited correlations with
activities of daily living. In respondents aged 65–74 years,
participation in community centre workshops and general
trust were found to be correlated with activities of daily living.
Meanwhile,inrespondentsaged75yearsorolder,correlations
were noted between participation in sports and hobbies and
participation in non-profit organizations/volunteer activities
and activities of daily living. By creating a distribution map
using principal component analysis, we were able to
grasp the characteristics of the distribution of “community
participation/connections with people” and “health” in
each ward. Our results point the way forward for future
long-term care prevention support in Tomi City by clarifying
the correlation between social capital and health by ward.
Speaker Biography
Park SJ has completed his MEd, PhD from The University of Tokyo, JAPAN.
He is the associate professor of SAKU University, JAPAN. His research area
is suicide prevention, stress research, community health nursing, and
especially gatekeeper research for suicide prevention has been awarded
the Best Paper Award at Japan stress society. Also, he is doing counselling
in the area as cognitive behavioural therapy counselor.
e:
s-park@saku.ac.jp