[Analysis of factors that influence the desire to use public health nursing visit and visiting nursing agencies' service].
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to forecast the demand for public health nursing visit and visiting nursing agencies' service, and to obtain basic information on public policy after the Long-term Care Insurance Project Plan starts.


METHODS
8,940 randomly sampled subjects aged 65 and over, and 7,984 aged 64 and below, were selected for the surveys and mailed the questionnaire. A total of 5,775 aged 65 and over and 4,774 aged 64 and below responded to the questionnaire.


RESULTS
2,474 (42.8%) aged 65 and over and 1,643 (34.4%) aged 64 and below knew the name 'public health nursing visit', and the service provided, 1,635 (28.3%) aged 65 and over and 1,073 (22.5%) aged 64 and below, were aware of the visiting nursing agencies' service. The percentage of those who desired to use the service was significantly higher among the respondent aged 65 and over than among those aged 64 and below. It was also significantly higher among those who had already experienced the service previously.


CONCLUSIONS
Awareness of the service and the number of those who use the visit will increase, as those aged 64 and below become more the elderly. We therefore can expect that service demand will increase in the future.
Nakayama
Ayako
A
Mitsukaidou Health Service Center, Ibaraki Prefectural Government.
Yanagi
Hisako
H
Minato
Kouji
K
Tomura
Shigeo
S
D000368:Aged; D018672:Community Health Planning; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires