[Factors in popularizing home nutritional therapy (HNT) in Japan-analysis of nurse's awareness].
Home nutritional therapy (HNT) is not popular in Japan as compared with American countries. The purpose of this study was to clarify the role of nurses in popularizing HNT. We sent out questionnaires to 469 nurses working at the O University affiliated Hospital, and got 265 responses. As a result, the following two factors were considered to affect the popularization of HNT. 1. Nurses had only a superficial knowledge of the activities of the nutrition support team (NST), and medical care by NST had not been spread. 2. In HNT, there were several gaps between ideals and the real role of nurses.
Fukita
M
M
Dept. of Maternal and Child Nursing, School of Allied Health Science, Faculty of Medicine, Osaka University.
Fukuda
S
S
Takagi
Y
Y
D001364:Awareness; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D018529:Nutritional Support; D016331:Parenteral Nutrition, Home / Q000592:standards*