Purpose: This study aimed to describe support provided by public health nurses from welfare offices for female welfare recipients.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four public health nurses in municipal welfare offices. The data were categorized using a qualitative descriptive method.

Results: The core category was “collaborating with women aiming for a stable household.” Other extracted categories included “engaging in a way that makes the woman identify the public health nurses as supporters,” “anticipating the risks that family poverty poses to children and supervising them,” “connecting the weak points of contact with society while coordinating support for multiple problems,” “accepting the experience of being born and raised in poverty to search for the most appropriate approach,” “providing health awareness and support in small steps,” and “cultivating a sense of self-efficacy that was unattainable while growing up.”

Conclusion: Public health nurses from welfare offices serve as social contacts for women while building trusting relationships and comprehensively supporting their health.

Objective: To examine novice public health nurses’ experiences developing emotional attachments to their local communities.

Methods: Data from semi-structured interviews with 12 novice public health nurses in municipalities were analyzed qualitatively and inductively.

Results: Eight categories were extracted describing the experiences of novice public health nurses that led to the emotional attachment to local communities. These categories included “I go to the community daily,” “I understand the community,” “I worked with people who think about the community,” “I feel a connection with the local residents,” “I imagine the ideal goal of community,” “I take charge of the community and deploy PDCA,” “I feel that I can contribute to the community’s health promotion,” and “I have time to think about the community.”

Discussion: The eight categories of novice public health nurses formed and strengthened their emotional attachment to the community. The findings of this study suggest that a support system is necessary to reduce the anxiety of novice public health nurses engaging in these experiences.

Purpose: To identify disaster prevention behavior and related factors in after-school daycare facilities using information from facility staff.

Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted in 888 daycare facilities in 10 prefectures in Japan. Logistic regression analysis was performed on 159 (17.9%) facilities with five disaster prevention behaviors as dependent variables.

Results: The implementation rate of disaster prevention behavior included the implementation of seismic reinforcements (39.0%), facility maintenance (59.7%), stockpiling for disasters (45.9%), conducting disaster prevention drills with child participation (84.9%), and conducting disaster prevention drills with family participation (15.1%). A relationship was found between “implemented seismic reinforcements” and facility ownership, ”between “facility maintenance” and establishing families’ awareness of the facilities’ disaster prevention measures,” and between “having stockpiled for disasters” and “economic leeway.” There was a relationship between “having conducted disaster prevention drills with child participation” and the length of staff service, and between “having conducted disaster prevention drills with family participation” and the number of full-time employees.

Consideration: It is important to support disaster prevention measures, provide financial support, and create a cooperative system with families to promote disaster prevention behavior.

Objective: This study examined factors facilitating resilience among older adult survivors of natural disasters when reconstructing their lives. The study considers post-disaster effective and consistent support that should be provided to them in the medium and long term.

Methods: Participants included 22 adults aged 65 years or older who had lived through the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. These were individuals who had lost their homes in a city in the Tohoku region. First, a questionnaire survey was administered using the Bidimensional Resilience Scale, followed by semi-structured interviews.

Results: Four factors were identified as the basis for the reconstruction of the daily lives of the participants. These factors included interactions and living situations that provide mutual support, recognizing internal power, being true to self, and finding meaning in life as earthquake survivors.

Discussion: It is vital to provide opportunities for older adult disaster survivors to share their experiences, facilitate resilience during the life reconstruction process, and help restore their daily routines. Furthermore, the community must be provided with various opportunities to increase interest in active involvement and a sense of connectedness among members.