2011 Volume 53 Issue 4 Pages 299-311
Health consultation room practices are typically based upon the function of the health room in school and the yogo-teacher's work duties, but research concerning those matters is greatly anticipated. The present study takes as its focus the use of blankets to contained students in the health room in school. The goal is to shed light upon questions concerning the physiological and psychological effects evident in students who are not comforted with blankets compared with those who are.
The subjects of the study are a grade school student, a junior high school student, and a high school student who visited the office of a yogo-teacher in prefecture A with ten years of professional experience. As for the research method, the yogo-teacher who had participated in blanket use training sessions selected students with psychological symptoms as research subjects, and administered a questionnaire to those students who did use a blanket and those who did not before and after their visit to the health room in school.
Concerning the results of using blankets to contained students, the pain and stress levels in the grade school student were reduced, and in the junior high school student the temperature remained steady, while pain and stress levels were also reduced. It was also evident in the high school student that pain and the stress levels were reduced. From this, concerning the effectiveness of using blankets to contained students within the activities of the health consultation room, it is an effective method for reducing pain and stress in the case of students with psychological symptoms.
