Extraction of the specialty components of care workers

Based on the content analysis of free descriptions by teachers of care worker training schools

Abstract

  This study aimed to extract components of the specialty of care workers through a free description survey by teachers of care worker training schools. The investigation was conducted by means of a free description-style questionnaire survey for 276 care teachers of a four-year universities all over Japan, and care worker training schools of the Kanto area. I shortened the sentences of 65 respondents to achieve meaningful unity, coded them, and then categorized them based on the similarity and difference of the codes. I obtained 148 codes, which were classified into 17 sub-categories, and finally into 8 categories.

  I attempted to construct the mutual relations as components of the specialty of care workers. It was concluded that [the formation of relationships with the users] and [practice of the care process] were important components to practice [support for everyday life] and [support of worthwhile living]. In addition, it was suggested that [knowledge and technique], [ethics], [role recognition] and [cooperation] were indispensable factors as the base.