Factors Which are Thought to Influence the Female Care-givers’ Continuation of Their Work

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to look into the possible factors which thought to influence the female care-givers when they try to be engaged in nursing while keeping their work, ln survey 1, by conducting the interviews with 5 female care-givers who have work, the items which are considered to influence female care-givers’ continuation of their work were collected. In survey 2, interviews with questionnaire sheets were carried out for 146 care providers from home-care agencies, who are 40 years old and above. And based on the frequency distribution and mean value, the items which have been collected in the above survey were carefully selected. After conducting survey 1,120 items were collected, and they were categorized into following groups according to the content. 1.People who receive care, 2. main care-giver, 3. nursing, 4. family, 5. service, 6. work. As a result of survey 2. the factors which are considered to highly influence female care-givers’ continuation of their work were sampled out from each of these categories,and then the specific 46 items were selected. From this study, therefore, it can be concluded that these categories would serve assessment by care providers from home-care agencies when they try to support the female care-givers so that they are able to keep their work while being engaged in nursing activities.