Research Interests

  • Evedence Generating evidence that contributes to primary prevention
  • Competency Building public health nursing techniques that advance primary prevention
  • Professional Developing competencies for public health nurses who lead primary prevention Primary application area: maternal and child health (parent–child health).

Keywords
Public health nursing, community health nursing, primary prevention, public health nurse, pre‑service education, in‑service education, reflection, maternal and child health

Competitively Funded Research Projects

Principal investigator indicated in bold.

  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) – Grants‑in‑Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI)

    • Foundational research toward longitudinal assessment of child maltreatment risk from the prenatal period using AI and toward building the corresponding system (2023–2026)
    • Integration of public health nursing techniques that leverage the “strengths” of communities and individuals, and development of teaching methods (2015–2019)
    • Development of a program for acquiring public health nursing practice competencies grounded in the utilization of research outcomes, healthy living, and reflection (2013–2017)

  • Nana‑ru Visiting Nursing Research Grant Project

    • Qualitative study of factors related to community coordination by home‑visit nursing stations necessary to improve the quality of life (QOL) of patients with hyperemesis gravidarum (2023)

  • Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Division of Health Sciences — Center for Borderless Design in Medicine Research Grant

    • Development of a scale to measure public health nursing practice competencies that strengthen community assets (2020)