2018 年 23 巻 2 号 p. 95-101
The aim of this study was to evaluate effect of gymnastics for mother and child on improving breeding of mother. The subjects were 15 children and their mothers in the gymnastics club. Children’s average age were 2.5±0.5 age, mother’s average age were 36.3±3.2 age. The participants were recruited that they saw a bulletin board or they gathered by the invitation from friends. And, mother and child participated together to the lesson. The gymnastics club had 2 classes, by gymnastics teacher was made the gymnastics program for mother and child. And each classes were 60 min activities. The contents of program were gymnastics of each touching for mother and child and gymnastics of using daily necessities. In the case of gymnastics instruction, the leader did called credit that promoted a nature action for mother. In addition, observation scene was 5 minutes of the program of 60 min (pretest). The instrument used to collect the behavioral date was questionnaire method, action observation method and qualitative description study method. The results of questionnaire method scored were higher than the before the intervention of gymnastics for mother and child. The result of the action observation method was shown that the increase in the time to participate in the gymnastics class. And, the result of the qualitative description study method was shown that five categories were collected from an interview of mothers. This study suggests that the intervention of gymnastics for mother and child promote the change for nursing of mother to infant. Therefore, it is the opportunity to participate in gymnastics club to increase the time of touch to a child as one of the factors that it promotes a nursing of the mother.