[13-3] The structure of home care service coordinator's vocational identity
Presentation language：Japanese
Background
In Japan’s Long-term Care Insurance System, importance is given to medical and care team approaches as part of care management. For the coordinator, having a professional identity is important in coordinating with healthcare.
Objectives
This study aimed to clarify the structure of Home Care Service Coordinator’s Vocational Identity.
Method
Using the database WAMNET, 800 home-visit care centers registered with this system and located in randomly selected prefectures were targeted as potential study facilities. A mail questionnaire survey was conducted, involving a Home Care Service Coordinator (HC) of each potential study facility within the period between March 20 and April 20, 2015. Excluding missing values, responses from 134 (valid response rate:16.7%) were analyzed. For 12-related Vocational Identity items, factor analysis was performed using the major factor method involving Promax rotation. The reliability of each item was examined using Cronbach’s alpha.
Result and conclusion
Through analysis, the following 3 factors were extracted: 1. The competence of HC (α=0.840); 2. The acquisition of job as a HC(α=0.848); 3.The ambiguous about the purpose of HC occupation(α=0.734).
HC’s Vocational Identity was configured 3 keywords(“competence”, “ acquisition”, “ambiguous”).