Objective: This study aimed to clarify parents’ feelings about the supportive rearing of children who stutter.

Methods: We conducted semistructured interviews with 10 parents of children who stuttered in their early childhood or school age. From the interview data, we generated categories based on the codes’ similarity in meaning and analyzed this information using inductive and qualitative methods.

Results: We extracted nine categories from the interview data, including parents’ expectation of their children to overcome stuttering, their concern for their children’s suffering caused by stuttering, their concern for their children’s future because of the disorder, their feeling of being responsible for their children’s stuttering, their need for the assistance of a stuttering expert, and their feeling of security alongside people who understand stuttering.

Discussion: Because of the parents’ close involvement in supporting their children with stuttering, they were concerned about their children’s daily hardship caused by their disability. In addition, stuttering symptoms may change in the future, so parents are also worried about their children’s future and expect them to overcome the disorder.

Objective: To describe the experiences of individuals with schizophrenia who were violent against their parents.

Methods: Individual interviews were conducted with eight men and one woman who committed violence against their parents. They discussed the background of events leading to and during their violent acts, their feelings after committing such acts, and so on. Data then underwent descriptive and qualitative analysis.

Results: The participants with schizophrenia who were violent toward their parents experienced increased pain, adversarial relationships with their parents, unreleased pain, confusion on whether to express resentment, release from pain, pleasure that then became regret, settled resentment, a rethinking of the situation, and strengthened relationships with their parents.

Discussion: To prevent violence, healthcare professionals need to encourage and support healthy energy and help parents and children manage their relationships with each other. The hope remains for professionals to consider that the onset of violence may trigger eventual recovery.

Objective: To examine the relation between mothers’ competency regarding their practical skills of Information Use and their children’s clinical emergency visits.

Methods: We recruited 615 mothers, from nine municipalities across a western prefecture of Japan, who brought their three-year-old children to regular health checkups. They were asked to complete questionnaires regarding how well they make practical skills of Information Use, how frequently they brought their children to clinical emergency visits from birth to the date of their health checkup (i.e., until age 3), and sociodemographic characteristics including educational attainment, order of children, family structure, and childrearing support. We used a multiple regression model to evaluate the relationship between mothers’ competency regarding their practical skills of Information Use and their children’s emergency clinical visits, and we also calculated beta coefficients and 95% confidence intervals.

Results: Of 615 participants, 405 completed the questionnaire, and 360 were included in the final analysis. On the basis of both total scores and six subscale scores, we found no clear association between mothers’ competency regarding practical skills Information Use and pediatric clinical emergency visits. Educational attainment (graduate school) and the presence of support for childrearing were associated with fewer clinical emergency visits.

Discussion: Despite the perceived importance of information literacy, mothers’ competency regarding practical skills of Information Use was not found to be associated with their children’s clinical emergency visits. This suggests that other factors, such as maternal anxiety and knowledge and practice concerning their children’s urgent conditions affect pediatric clinical emergency visits.

Objective: To describe midcareer public health nurses perceptions of the general community and their experiences that influence such perceptions.

Methods: We conducted semistructured interviews with nine midcareer public health nurses who worked in the local government and whose professional experiences span 10–15 years. The collected data underwent qualitative and descriptive analysis.

Result: We divided perceptions of the general community into eight categories, some of which included “capturing individuals and families including local resources,” “seeing the community from the residents’ perspective,” and “starting to see issues in the community through statistical data and individual support.” Meanwhile, we zeroed in on 10 categories of experiences that significantly affected such perceptions, including “experience of being reminded of the basics of the work of public health nurses,” “experience of envisaging the role model of public health nurses based on senior colleagues,” and “experience of being aware of the degree of specialization of public health nurses working for the government.”

Discussion: The above categories summarized how public health nurses perceive communities as well as the degree to which such perceptions are shaped by their experiences of interacting with a large number of residents and closely integrating these experiences with their own lives.