Abstract

The research has two purposes. The first purpose is to clarify realities of social support for mothers whose children need medical care at home. The second purpose is to examine roles of nurses for those mothers. Result are as follows; 1) Most of major support resources for mothers, is her husband and her mother. The second is medical staff, the third is facility of kinder-garden staff, and the fourth is mother who has same situations for her child. 2) Her husband and her mother are key persons under care at home. 3) Details of support contents are, most types of supports are emotional, instrumental supports. Few types of supports are imformation, evaluation. Types of supports from medical related staff are ones mainly from emotion and information side. 4) Insufficient support are recognized as instrumental support. Especially we observed actual situation that family and relations cannot cope with problems occuring when their children need many kinds of medical cares. 5) It is indicated that nurses should compensate with support from points of information, evaluation, and medical care support.