To investigate subjective health status (SHS) and its relating factors, 1,212 subjects, residents of T city in Osaka prefecture, were asked to answer originally designed questionnaire.
As a result, "satisfaction for life", "non-stressful feeling", "no household medicine needed", "good condition for job" and "satisfaction for their own home" showed positive relationship to SHS. On the contrary, we found negative relationship between "falling any kinds of illness" and SHS.
It was suggested that SHS was more affected by one's recognition for health related factors rather than actual conditions.

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Atopic dermatitis in adult is a disease of chronic or chronically relapsing dermatitis and difficult to cure. The participants with atopic dermatitis in adult tend to change hospitals from place to place to test various cures. And they use various folk remedies including water, bath powder, soap, herbal medicine and health food.
The purpose of this study was to extract the categories that affect those behaviours of the participants.
This study was qualitative research, and data were generated rom semi-structured interview. 10 participants were selected: seven men and three women. The procedure of analysis from verbatim transcriptions of interviews and field notes contained six phases.
From the data analysis, 3 categories which included subcategories were extracted : Information consisted of getting from others and getting personally ; Circumstances reflected personal environment, hospital environment, availability of resources and costs ; Own judgement of the effect included better · no change · worse and instant relief from symptoms.

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The development of many equipments and supplies made Home Parenteral Nutrition (HPN) self-care possible. However, there was no assessment data available to evaluate whether self-care has been performed safely by the patients at home. This may be considered one of the reasons why medical members could not promote the HPN. Therefore, the goal of this study was to evaluate the selfcare by HPN patients in sanitary (also cleanliness or disinfection) procedures. There were two methods in this study. One method was the Omaha System: Problem Rating Scale For Outcomes (PRSFO). It measured the sanitary procedures performed by HPN patients. The PRSFO scores indicated that the comprehension, behavior and the state of sanitary care were all good. Another Method was the bacteriological examination on the site of catheter. After the sterilization performed on the site of catheter, the patient group had fewer germs than those of control group. On the other hand, the study indicated that there was the shortage of adequate medical supplies for some of the respondents. For this reason, it was conjectured that there is a hindrance in self-care safety.

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