学生が地域で運営する健康サロンにおける学習と気づき

Students obtaining awareness and knowledge through managing a community health salon

要旨：学生が地域高齢者を対象に運営する健康サロンを紹介するとともに継続実践を通じた学習と気づきについて考察することを目的とした．対象は作業療法学専攻3年生24名（平均年齢21.1±0.7歳）で健康サロン運営開始11ヵ月後に調査を実施した．結果，95.8％の学生が健康サロンの運営は学びの場となったと肯定的であった．自由記述では，健康サロン運営で良かった点として【参加者との交流】，【運営の準備への理解】など，反省点は【準備と計画立案】，【サロン実施時の行動】など実務面であった．学生による健康サロンの継続運営は地域作業療法で求められている地域活動の展開や介護予防を見据えた卒前教育として，学生自身の気づきに有用なことが示唆された．

　This report considers the awareness and knowledge that students gained through managing a health salon for community-dwelling elderly. Subjects were 24 third-year occupational therapy students (21.1±0.7 years of age). The survey was conducted after 11 months of health salon management experience. Of the students, 95.8% felt positively about their involvement in the health salons. Open-ended questions revealed positive and negative aspects of managing a health salon, including “exchanges with elderly people” and “understanding preparation and management,” and “planning and preparation” and “behavior in the health salon,” respectively. Overall, student management of a health salon can be considered a useful part of undergraduate education in increasing both students' awareness of preventive care and their experience in planning community activities, both of which are skills that are required of community-based occupational therapy.