養護教諭における学校欠席者情報収集システムの活用レベルと研修の検討

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【Objective】

　Ibaraki prefecture had activated School Absenteeism Surveillance System for all public schools in 2009, and all nursery schools participated it since 2011. The staff of nursery schools and teachers of kindergartens, elementary, junior high, and high schools, have been recording symptom or diagnosis of the absence preschoolers or students at this system. Such information has been shared by board of education, school doctors, the public health center, and local government officers simultaneously as well as other nursery schools or schools in the prefecture. This system helps them to monitor the situation of infectious diseases, early detection, and timely correspondence, and it will be useful to avoid large-scale outbreaks.

【Method】

　At first we conducted a survey for all school nurses in the prefecture in cooperation with the educational boards in 2011. Then we classified the utilization levels of the system into three grades based on their answers.

【Result】

　We collected answers from school nurses belonging to approximately 88％ of all schools. The levels of utilization are high for 2％ followed by medium for 29％ and basic for 69％ of all schools, respectively.

【Discussion】

　We conclude that the regular training courses for school nurses were quite useful and important for the proper recording and skill up for utilization of the information collected from School Absenteeism Surveillance System. We also recognize that the cooporation among parents, communities, schools, nursery schools, education board, the public health center, and local government office was necessary to protect children health.