title: [Feasibility Study of a One-Day Educational Program to Train Advance Care Planning Facilitators(ACPFs)in Regional Areas].
abstract: Promoting advance care planning in regional areas is important. Education For Implementing End-of-Life Discussion(EFIELD) is a two-day educational program for Advance Care Planning Facilitators(ACPFs)developed by the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology. Unfortunately, some trainers experience difficulties implementing the content of the program, and some trainees feel the program is too long for implementation in many regional areas. The purpose of the research is to clarify the feasibility of ACPFs education using a one-day program in regional areas. The methods involved documenting the process of a one-day program from implementation to evaluation from May of 2015 to March of 2016 and then evaluating the effectiveness of the program 3 months after the implementation using meeting minutes from 7 local hospitals. The results indicated a need for 5 steps from program implementation to evaluation as well as 5 categories for final evaluation. The most important finding is that E-FIELD challenged trainers to shorten and simplify their expressions in order to teach the content more efficiently. The second finding is that Group for Promoting Advance Care Planning & End Of Life Discussion in Chita(GACPEL) activities encouraged ACPimplementation within each hospital. The limitations of this research are related to small regional areas. In conclusion, a one-day regional ACPFs educational program is feasible.
authors.affiliation: National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology.
authors.forename: Mitsunori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nishikawa
authors.forename: Hisayuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Miura
authors.forename: Sanae
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oya
authors.forename: Tomonari
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authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nagae
authors.forename: Yoshiyuki
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authors.lastname: Osada
authors.forename: Tetsuya
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authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Sachiko
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authors.lastname: Matsuoka
authors.forename: Yasuro
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authors.lastname: Otsuka
authors.forename: Mie
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authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: Kazuko
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authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Katsutoshi
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authors.lastname: Kito
authors.forename: Hatsue
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authors.lastname: Ooi
authors.forename: Naoko
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authors.lastname: Suzuki
mesh_terms: D032722:Advance Care Planning; D019058:Community Networks; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education; D010348:Patient Care Team