Language：Japanese   Publisher：(一社)日本医学教育学会  

Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Springer Science and Business Media LLC  

Abstract

Background

People with disabilities (PWDs) tend to be disadvantaged in terms of receiving preventive medicine and medical checkups. About 7.6% of the Japanese population is estimated to have a disability. Although patient experience (PX) is an effective measure of patient-centeredness, little is known about the PX of PWDs. The present study aimed to compare the PX of PWDs with those of the non-disabled both quantitatively and qualitatively.

Methods

The present study involved a questionnaire survey and a free-response question on the survey form. The quantitative part of the study involved a comparison of JPCAT scores between PWDs and non-disabled participants. JPCAT is composed of five primary care principles: First contact, Longitudinality, Coordination, Comprehensiveness (service provided and service available), and Community orientation. Descriptive statistics were used to assess age, sex, years of education, self-rated health status, and type of disability (for PWDs). Multivariable analysis was performed using a linear regression model to detect differences between PWDs and non-disabled participants in total and domain-specific JPCAT scores. The model included the following confounding variables: age, sex, years of education, and self-rated health status. The qualitative part of the study involved a thematic analysis of answers to the free-response question.

Results

Data from 338 participants (169 PWDs and 169 non-disabled participants) were analyzed (response rate of 36% for PWDs). After adjusting for age, sex, years of education, and self-rated health status, PWD scores were significantly lower than those of non-disabled participants for the Longitudinality, Community Orientation, and Comprehensiveness (services available) domains of the JPCAT. Qualitative analysis yielded six themes, each of which was further divided to have Disability-Specific and General themes.

Conclusions

JPCAT scores in PWDs were significantly lower than those of non-disabled participants for the Longitudinality, Community Orientation, and Comprehensiveness (services available) domains. Qualitative analysis revealed that PWDs shared several themes with non-disabled participants, but also to face unique challenges due to disabilities, such as the lack of a health care provider familiar with disabilities and the insurance transition at age 65, a unique feature of the Japanese health care system.

Trial registration

The study was a non-interventional, observational research trial, and thus registration was not required.

DOI： 10.1186/s12875-022-01800-0

Other Link： https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12875-022-01800-0/fulltext.html

Authorship：Lead author   Language：English   Publisher：Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication  

<p>In the 19th century, Western medicine spread widely worldwide and ultimately diffused into Japan. It had a significant impact on previous Japanese medical practice and education; it is, effectively, the foundation of contemporary Japanese medicine. Although Western medicine seems universal, its elements and origins as it has spread to other countries show localized differences, depending on the context and time period. Cultural fusion theory proposes that the culture of a host and influence of a newcomer conflict, merge, or transform each other. It could shed light on how Japanese medicine and medical education have been influenced by and coevolved with Western medicine and culture. Cultural fusion is not assimilation or adaptation; it has numerous churning points where the traditional and the modern, the insider (indigenous) and the outsider (immigrant), mix and compete. In Japan, medicine has a long history, encountering medical practices from neighboring countries, such as China and Korea in ancient times, and Western countries in the Modern period. The most drastic changes happened in the 19th century with strong influence from Germany before World War II and in the 20th century from the impact of the United States after World War II. Recently, the pressure of globalization could be added as one influence. Since cultural fusion is ubiquitous in Japanese medical fields, examples showing how the host and newcomers interact and merge can be found among many aspects of Japanese medicine and medical education, such as curricula, languages, systems, learning styles, assessment methods, and educational materials. In addition, cultural fusion is not limited to influence from the West but extends to and from neighboring Asian countries. Examining cases and previous studies on cultural fusion in Japanese medicine and medical education could reveal how the typical notion that Japan pursued Westernization of its medicine and medical education concealed the traditions and the growth of the local education system. The people involved in medicine in the past and the present have struggled to integrate the new system with their previous ideals to improve their methods, which could be further researched.</p>

DOI： 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.984

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The ability of doctors to empathise with patients is a crucial concern in establishing humanistic medicine. Therefore, the cultivation of this ability has been discussed extensively in medical education. One theory suggests that the experience of patienthood can increase empathy among doctors. This theory is supported by previous research that published doctors' illness narratives. However, the concept of empathy has been ambiguously defined in academic fields, including medicine; therefore, analysing how doctors experience 'empathy' in their interactions with patients is difficult. Our research question is how doctors who became patients describe the relationship between their illness experiences and the interactions with patients after their illness. To this end, this paper initially tracks the debates on 'empathy' in medicine and other disciplines, to develop a lens for analysing doctors' illness narratives. Next, we conduct a narrative analysis of illness stories from 18 Japanese medical doctors who became patients. Our analysis supports the traditional idea that an illness can enable a doctor to become more empathetic. However, this is overly simplistic; how doctors experience and subsequently process their illness is more complex. Moreover, this notion can disregard doctors' suffering in these circumstances, and fail to represent the often-lengthy process of mastering 'empathy' based on their experiences. Therefore, our analysis deconstructed the concept of 'empathy', showing that it can appear in various ways. Further research is required to elucidate how empathy is cultivated during the process of transformation of doctors' illnesses, focusing on their communities and practices.

DOI： 10.1007/s10459-022-10143-5

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Authorship：Lead author   Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

DOI： https://doi.org/10.29060/taps.2019-4-3/pv2089

Authorship：Lead author   Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine  

DOI： 10.29060/taps.2019-4-3/pv2089

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Book review, literature introduction, etc.  

Language：Japanese   Publisher：日本医学教育学会  

DOI： 10.11307/mededjapan.54.1_93

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Language：Japanese   Publisher：Japan Society for Medical Education  

DOI： 10.11307/mededjapan.52.4_337

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Language：Japanese   Publisher：日本ヘルスコミュニケーション学会  

Language：Japanese   Publisher：(一社)日本女性医学学会  

Language：Japanese   Publisher：(一社)日本女性医学学会  

Language：Japanese   Publisher：公益社団法人 地域医療振興協会  

DOI： 10.60261/chiikiigaku.30.11_22

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