Factors related to the provision of home-based end-of-life care among home-care nursing, home help, and care management agencies in Japan.

Autor: Igarashi A; School of Health Sciences and Nursing, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan. igarashi-a@umin.ac.jp., Kurinobu T; Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, 35-2 Sakae-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-0015, Japan. kurinobutakeshi@gmail.com., Ko A; Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8519, Japan. ayakoukou72@yahoo.co.jp., Okamoto Y; Faculty of Nursing, Japanese Red Cross College of Nursing, 4-1-3 Hiroo, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-0012, Japan. y-okamoto@redcross.ac.jp., Matsuura S; Department of Nursing, Faculty of Human Sciences, Sophia University, 7-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-8554, Japan. matsuura.shino@gmail.com., Feng M; Intensive Care Unit, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Xiang, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, China. jianr1027@126.com., Yamamoto-Mitani N; School of Health Sciences and Nursing, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan. noriko-tky@umin.ac.jp.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BMC research notes [BMC Res Notes] 2015 Sep 12; Vol. 8, pp. 434. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Sep 12.
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-015-1418-z
Abstrakt: Background: To promote home death, it is necessary to clarify the institutional barriers to conducting end-of-life (EOL) care and consider strategies to deal with this process. This study aims to clarify institution-related factors associated with the provision of home-based EOL care cases, and to compare them among three different types of home-care agencies.
Methods: We administered a cross-sectional survey throughout Japan to investigate the number and characteristics of EOL cases of home-care nursing (HN), home-help (HH) and care management (CM) agencies. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were performed for each type of agency to examine factors related to the provision of EOL care.
Results: 378 HN agencies, 274 HH agencies, and 452 CM agencies responded to the distributed questionnaire. HN agencies had on average 2.1 (SD = 4.0; range 0-60) home-based EOL cases in the last 3 months, while HH agencies had 0.9 (SD = 1.3; range 0-7) and CM agencies had 1.5 (SD = 2.2; range 0-18) in the last 6 months. In a multivariable analysis of HN agencies, a large number of staff (OR: 1.52; p < 0.001) and a large number of collaborating CM agencies (OR: 1.08; p = 0.008) were positively associated with the provision of EOL care; in HH agencies, accepting EOL clients in the agency (OR: 3.29; p < 0.001) was positively associated with the provision of EOL care; in CM agencies, the number of staff (OR: 1.21; p = 0.037), the number of collaborating HH agencies (OR: 1.07; p = 0.032), and whether home-care nurses and home helpers visit clients together (OR: 1.89; p = 0.007) were positively associated with the provision of EOL care.
Conclusion: The agency's size and the inter-agency collaborative system seemed most important among HN agencies and CM agencies, while institutional preparedness for EOL was most important for HH agencies. These findings represent important new information for targeting different effective strategies in the promotion of home-based EOL care, depending on the agency type.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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