Purpose: This study aimed to review literature and clarify assessment items regarding fathers’ involvement in pregnancy and childcare.

Methods: This study analyzed 20 published articles using the review matrix method. These articles consisted of 4 Japanese articles and 16 foreign articles originally published between 1980 and 2020.

Result: Twenty-one scales were identified based on the 20 articles reviewed and were categorized into two periods: pregnancy (nine scales) and childcare (12 scales). Nine categories were extracted from the pregnancy scale, including “partner,” “childcare,” and “featation.” Another nine categories were extracted from the childcare scale, including “involvement in the home,” “father himself,” and “partner.”

Discussion: The assessment items related to fathers’ involvement in pregnancy and childcare comprised multiple categories that included not only childcare but also household affairs and relationships with partners. Items that reflected the culture of the country in which they were used, including religious ideas, were also noted.

Objective: This study aims to elucidate the characteristics of the process by which resident members of community organizations become aware of community issues and to obtain ideas for cooperation with public health nurses.

Methods: Group interviews were conducted with members of community organizations supported by the government. Statements related to awareness of community issues were extracted from the transcribed interview data and organized into categories.

Results: Eleven participants were from three community organizations who had a mean age of 71.5 years were included. Participants “were acquainted with the daily life of members of their communities for several years” and “evaluated issues from the perspective of daily life issues” focusing on older people and men. They also “investigated issues further to protect the lives of community residents” by focusing on older people who may have other troubles.

Discussion: The members of the community organizations are typical in that they evaluated and became aware of issues based on the framework that they developed from their experience with community residents’ problems while valuing mutual cooperation based on the relationships with community residents. We concluded that cooperation between community organization members and public health nurses needs to involve community issues relevant to peoples’ lives from the members’ perspective as well as professional evaluations of public health nurses.

Objective: This study aimed to clarify the relationship between the status of “action to show the results of activities” and the experience of the activities of public health nurses working for a municipal government.

Methods: The participants comprised public health nurses working in municipalities in five prefectures in Chugoku region, Japan. Basic attributes, action to show the results of activities, and experiences with activities (i.e., effort- related experience, experience with reflection, and experience with workplace support) were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis H tests.

Results: There was no relationship between years of experience and the organization responsible for establishment or that between job position and action to show the results of activities. A significant difference was observed in the score for action to show the results of activities between the group with effort-related experience and that with no experience, with regard to the five fields. Similarly, a significant difference existed regarding experience with reflection. Finally, a significant difference between reflection and mental support in relation to experience with workplace support was noted.

Discussion: For public health nurses working in a municipality to improve “action to show the results of activities”, it is necessary to carefully implement the plan-do-check-act cycle, to gain substantial experience with reflection, and to create a workplace support environment that incorporates reflection and mental support.

Objective: This study aimed to clarify the actual status of data and presentation methods used as the basis for the Regional Comprehensive Support Center’s business goals (annual activity targets planned by the center).

Methods: This study analyzed data reproduced from the community diagnosis records that were used as the basis for business goals. These data were classified into five frameworks based on the source and collection method and arranged according to qualitative and quantitative categories. Regarding the method of use, the data presentation method was described according to each data type, and a summary of the status of complementing quantitative and qualitative data was provided.

Results: Basic demographic and quantitative data for the area were collected using consultation forms and used as the basis for the business goals. Interviews and data from intentional observation of business participants had previously been collected as qualitative data; however, raw data had been used directly with no processing.

Discussion: It is desirable to examine a system that enables the commissioned center to effectively utilize data, such as an administration that provides the data collectively, so that it can be compared with the regions which you cover with other regions and used to support analytical methods.