Qualitative studies have been made on the motives for rehabilitation of post-CVA 14 clients at homes by semi-constitutional questions. As a result, rehabilitating motives were classified into 8 influential factors such as prospects for future, sense of satisfaction for living, change in sense of self personality, change in personal relations, change in family-relation, attitude towards the post-CVA symptom, emotional mainstay, sense of health, and composing factors as with positiveness, voluntariness and subjective individuality. The contents of the influential factors and number or the manners of connections were characteristic of individuals. Among them, 4 factors such as change in family-relation, change in personal relations, change in sense of self-personality, sense of satisfaction for living have constituted the attitudes towards relation between oneself and the other after falling into the sickness. In order to elevate the motives for rehabilitation of clients at homes, it is necessary to enhance the affirmative influential factors by making assessment of influential factors and constituting factors of individual motives in a sense of individual subjects, and also, the assistance is necessary to make negative influential factors on the motives related affirmatively.

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The Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (MHLC) scales have been widely used as a measurement of health beliefs in child populations.
Studies were conducted with healthy and chronic physically ill children aged 10-12 (primary school, 4th-6th grade) and 13-15 (junior high school, 1st-3rd grade) to develop an instrument to measure childrens's health locus of control.
An eight week study provided evidence that the MHLC has acceptable levels of reliability, (test-retest reliability, r=.74), internal consistency, (coefficient a ranging from.73 to.78) and construct validity.
Item analysis and factor analysis were performed to determine item effectiveness and existence of significant subscales.
The main results concerning validity were as follows: Health behavior of healthy children was positively correlated with internal factors.
Self-report with self-care behavior of children with bronchial asthma was positively correlated with internal factors.
The results were discussed in reference to previous studies.

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Most of the patients under home oxygen therapy (HOT-patient) tend to stay inside because of their poor cardiopulmonary function, change of the physical and the cosmetic appearances brought about by oxygen supply apparatuses and weakening of the muscle power. Daily decrease in the physical activities possibly causes sleeplessness, further reduction of the cardiopulmonary function and depressive feeling. In order to solve these interrelating problems, it is necessary to help HOT-patients go out of home and gain some social roles. In this regard, elevation of the physical activities of patients themselves and family supports to encourage them are important.
The present study was performed to elucidate the relation between daily physical activities as measured by a pedometer and family function and psychosocial factors including depressive state and emotional supports. The depressive state was assessed using Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) and the family function was measured by Family APGAR score. Pedometer score was recorded everyday for a month and the values were averaged. The averaged score was assumed to represent the patient's physical activity. Six-minutes walking test was done on the plain isle in hospitals. CES-D score was well correlated with pedometer score, i. e., more depressive patients had less pedometer scores. Patients with longer six-minute walking distance had more pedometer scores. Physical activity had nothing to do with Family APGAR score in this study.
It was demonstrated that the physical activity was related with depressive state as well as with cardiopulmonary function assessed from six-minute walking distance. The result suggests that supports to expand the HOT-patients' territory of action may improve their depressive state and inhibit cardiopulmonary function from deteriorating.

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The purpose of this study is the development of effective clinical teaching methods of nursing education using touching in hospital nursing care. The clinical teaching-learning process was designed based on the Steinaker, N. W. & R. Bell's experiential learning model (1979), in which teaching-learning process was divided into five steps-exposure, participation, identification, internalization, and dissemination.
Three hypotheses were postulated as follows:
1-1. Guidance given to nursing students to use touching in nursing care will make them conscious of the efficiency of touching.
1-2. Nursing students will grasp the efficiency of their nursing action by “cause and effect” relations.
2-0. Guidance given to nursing students to use touching in their nursing care will allay and soften their anxiety and tension toward such nursing practices.
3-0. Nursing intervention by touching will heighten the clinical judgement ability of nursing students.
The teaching-learning plan was carried out in a nursing school in Kitakyushu-shi. Fifteen nursing students studied by this plan. The results was as follows:
a. Hypotheses 1-1, 1-2, 2-0, were confirmed.
b. Hypothesis 3-0, was not confirmed.

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