Kazuko Ishigaki
Chiba University
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Quality of Life Research | 2004
Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani; Kazuko Ishigaki; Midori Kuniyoshi; Noriko Kawahara-Maekawa; Kunihiko Hayashi; Kiyomi Hasegawa; Chieko Sugishita
Most family caregiving research has portrayed caregiving as a negative life experience for caregivers, but a broader perspective is necessary to examine its impact on the caregiver quality of life (QL). The role that positive appraisal of care plays in the caregiving experience among Japanese families of older adults was examined in relation to the caregivers subjective QL. Positive as well as negative appraisal of care was measured by a newly developed multi-dimensional scale, which included the domains of ‘relationship satisfaction,’ ‘role confidence,’ ‘consequential gain,’ ‘normative fulfillment’ (positive appraisal), ‘role exhaustion,’ ‘isolation,’ ‘relationship difficulty,’ and ‘symptom management difficulty’ (negative appraisal). Subjective QL was measured by WHO/QL-26. Altogether 337 Japanese family caregivers participated in this survey. Stepwise multiple regression analyses revealed that ‘role confidence,’ ‘normative fulfillment,’ and ‘role exhaustion’ had a significant independent impact on physical QL, while ‘role confidence’ and ‘role exhaustion’ on psychological QL. The association of ‘normative fulfillment’ with physical QL was negative while that of ‘role confidence’ was positive, despite the positive correlation between the two domains. The results underline the importance of considering positive as well as negative appraisal of care when examining subjective QL of the family caregivers.
Research in Nursing & Health | 2003
Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani; Kazuko Ishigaki; Noriko Kawahara-Maekawa; Midori Kuniyoshi; Kunihiko Hayashi; Kiyomi Hasegawa; Chieko Sugishita
Journal of Japan Academy of Nursing Science | 2008
Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani; Yuko Okamoto; Mayuko Tsujimura; Katsuko Kanagawa; Harue Masaki; Mizue Suzuki; Ritsuko Yamada; Ikuko Suzuki; Midori Nagano; Yasuko Ogata; Shinobu Okada; Akiko Honda; Tomoko Akanuma; Keiko Nemoto; Junko Fukada; Kazuko Ishigaki
Japan Journal of Nursing Science | 2008
Kazuko Ishigaki; Yuki Mochizuki; Harue Masaki; Misako Miyazaki
Journal of Japan Academy of Nursing Science | 2007
Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani; Kazuko Ishigaki
Journal of School of Nursing, Chiba University | 2006
Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani; Tomoko Akanuma; Mayuko Tsujimura; Xiuying Hu; Miyuki Ishibashi; Kazuko Ishigaki
Japan Journal of Nursing Science | 2004
Kazuko Ishigaki
老年看護学 : 日本老年看護学会誌 : journal of Japan Academy of Gerontological Nursing | 2000
Kazuko Ishigaki; Kiyomi Hasegawa; Kouko Matsumura; Hirome Saitou; Keiko Ohnaka; Haruko Shikimori
Journal of Japan Academy of Nursing Science | 2010
Junko Fukada; Tadashi Kitaike; Kazuko Ishigaki
老年看護学 : 日本老年看護学会誌 : journal of Japan Academy of Gerontological Nursing | 2008
Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani; Junko Fujita; Yuko Shinohara; Yoshimi Sonoda; Mayumi Ban; Katsuko Kanagawa; Kazuko Ishigaki