In order to know the situation on nurses' current mental health, this study is planned to analyze the results of the survey on their job-stress, job-satisfaction, egogram and the correlations between the three factors above. The questionnaires to 333 nurses in the hospital "A" were recovered from 252 nurses (75.7%).
The following results were obtained :
1. 72.2% of the total subjects have perceived job-stress, 50.4% having developed stress symptoms, especially aged 20-29 and 55-59 nurses have perceived than the other ages.
2. The job-satisfaction was counted 114 scores out of the total 228 (50%), especially aged 30-34 nurses who had the roles of various activities of the committee were counted lower scores than the other ages.
3. On the patterns of the egogram, N-type b,i.e. 'mother' type, was ranked as the first place, N-type' c,i.e. 'workholic' type, as the second one. On the egogram-scale 'AC', the young were counted high scores. While the more they had the roles and ages, the more their egogram-scale 'CP' and 'A'.
4. There were some significant correlations between job-stress, job-satisfaction and egogram. Stress was a possible factor to lessen job-satisfaction. Egogram was a clue to foresee possible stress development and affected on job-satisfaction.
In order to improve the mental health of nurses, we found it might be useful to understand the correlations between these three factors.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the changes in accumulated fatigue (Cumulative Fatigue Symptoms Index) experienced by a primary caregiver who stopped providing care to an elderly person at home and the number of years that have passed since the elderly person's death, and to determine the degree of satisfaction from the involvement in care among primary caregivers. Of the 82 caregivers who used the home care service located in Shizuoka City in 1993, the subjects of this study were 39 caregivers who stopped providing care to an elderly person in 1999. The following results were obtained.
1) The responses to the questionnaires were collected from 55 caregivers; 39 of them (70.9%) had stopped providing care to an elderly person.
2) The irritability alone experienced by caregivers, less than one year after the elderly person's death, significantly decreased compared with that experienced by them while providing care (Level of significance: p<0.05). The irritability, anxiety (p<0.01), depressive feeling, general fatigue, and chronic tiredness (p<0.05) experienced by caregivers, more than one year or more but less than three years after the elderly person's death, significantly decreased compared with those experienced by them while providing care. The irritability, anxiety, general fatigue, chronic tiredness (p<0.001), depressive feeling (p<0.01), and physical disorders (p<0.05) experienced by caregivers, three years or more after the elderly person's death, significantly decreased compared with those experienced by them while providing care.
3) Regarding the question concerning the degree of satisfaction from their involvement in care, 32 subjects (82.1%) said that they were satisfied with their involvement in care, and seven subjects (17.9%) indicated that they might have given more care to the elderly persons than they actually did. No statistically significant differences were observed among subjects on this question in terms of the number of years that have passed since the elderly person's death.

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The purpose of this study was to clarify on the based of the conceptual framework of the factors influencing maternal or paternal affection reflecting nurturance in children in the puberty. For this study, we used quantification Method I.
A total of 564 junior high (290 boys and 274 girls) and 613 senior high students (315 boys and 298 girls) from public and private schools in Osaka Prefecture took part in this study with their informed consent from October 15, 1996 to March 10, 1997. The questionnaire consisted of three parts: trust and intimacy in human relations, sexual identity, and nurturance. Affection towards babies by children in the puberty was evaluated by means of the Scale of Affection towards Babies developed by Hanasawa (1992).
In the case of senior high students, it was found that good human relations in terms of trust and intimacy resulted in enhancement of positive affection. In the case of junior high students, however, poor human relations tended to result in nega-tive affection towards babies.

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In recent years, the importance of rehabilitation nursing education is increasing. However, even the role and the definition of the rehabilitation nursing in Japan is not evident yet. First of all, this study tried to reveal the role of rehabilitation nursing. The concrete 16 items of "The role of rehabilitation nursing'" were extracted from the dissertation in the past. These were classified into the groups of the help to the patient, the help to the family and the communication and the adjustment with other occupation by the object that rehabilitation nurses exert. The role of the rehabilitation nursing that the nursing student learned with the field trip practice in a day were extracted from their reports. These were compared with "the role of the rehabilitation nursing" that made this time. As a result, the help of a social aspect were not recognized at all, although the help to the independence of the patients, the magnification of ADL and the help to the psychic aspect were recognized well. The communication and the adjustment with other occupation was lacking in concrete contents. The contents that the student was able to learn with the field trip practice in a day were limited. The device of the education method is necessary and the improvement on the institution of the rehabilitation nursing education is hoped.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate how play, as a nursing intervention, changes child inpatients' feeling of uneasiness and self-efficacy, or health locus of control. The object is ten children hospitalized in the pediatric ward. Approving of the purpose of this study, they can cooperate in this study by answering the questions.
The method is to play with children for approximately 30 minutes a day, which is conducted for 4 days. Children's feeling of uneasiness and self-efficacy, or health locus of control are measured by the existing scale.
The result of this study is as follows : Children's uneasiness, though not so strong before nursing intervention, becomes weaker after nursing intervention : Health locus of control, powerful others externality was admitted before, becomes weaker for a while, but a week later it returns to the previous level : Self-efficacy tended to be high, and after nursing intervention self-efficacies itself and in learning become much higher : Self-efficacies in friendship and physical exercises become lower.

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We investigated whether nursing directors' instructions affect the change frequency of nurses' uniform using questionnaires for nursing directors (n=15) and employed nurses (n=1,381) in 15 medium-scale (150-200 inpatient beds) hospitals in the Chiba prefecture.
It was shown that conceptual instructions for nurses' uniform change did not influence the change frequency, and that the change of each uniform was more frequent in the hospitals where concrete instructions for uniform change frequency in days were given, even if supply numbers of uniforms were average. Uniform numbers owned by each nurse or cleaning frequencies in each hospital did not influence the change frequency of nurses' uniforms, aprons and protecting gowns, but influenced wearing periods of nurses' caps.

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The "non-affected-side approach" is a widely used principle of transfer activities for hemiplegic patients； the object of transfer is set on the non-affected side. On the other hand, the "affected- side approach" sets the object on the patient's affected side. We conducted motion analysis using the non-affected-side approach, and the affected-side approach of transfer in order to investigate the effects on patients.
The subjects consisted of 6 patients who were hemiplegic after stroke. The lateral shifts of center of gravity on the affected-side approach were significantly (p<0.05) larger than those on the non-affected-side approach. The lengths of the anterior-posterior locus of the center of gravity on the non-affected-side approach were significantly (p<0.05) longer than those on the affected-side approach. Median times for transferring on the non-affected-side approach and the affected-side approach in 2 patients whose affected legs were Brunnstrom Stage II were 8.8 sec and 12.3 sec, and they had shorter times for transferring and felt more comfortable using the non-affected-side approach. In four patients whose affected legs were Brunnstrom Stage III, there was no significant difference in transfer times between the non-affected-side approach, and they also felt more comfortable using the affected-side approach. These findings suggest that, with some degree of support, the affected-side approach for hemiplegia is safe and comfortable for patients.

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