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Pattern of Daily Living Environment of the Mental Disorders in Community

Takae MORITA, Hideo YAMAZAKI, Minako DANBARA and Soichi SAKABE （Yamaguchi University / Soka University）

Abstract:
The purpose of the present study was to extract a pattern of community environment based on the assessment index, Morita’s Community-Environmental Index (MCEI), and to reveal its characteristics regarding daily living of the mental disorders from a practical viewpoint of public health nursing. To examine the characteristics of community environment by population scale in municipalities based on the nationwide data, the amount of change of mean deviation with respect to current environmental conditions was represented in a histogram with five bars. Forty-five graphs according to combination for each item of the current environmental conditions were drawn. The questionnaire consisted of all the graphs was carried out to 20 subjects in order to investigate into a pattern. The quantification method of the fourth type was performed to the data which were converted into the matrix of similarity in order to distinguish patterns as a shape. The change was classified into three patterns based on the population scale of the two-dimensional space in light of daily living of the mental disorders.

Key Word:
community environment, MCEI, daily living, the mental disorders, the quantification method of the fourth type

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