COVID-19 Committee on Nursing Research and Other Issues

Committee List

This committee was established with the approval of the Board of Directors to conduct time-limited activities (2 to 3 years) in order to put into practice what can be done under the circumstances of COVID-19, based on Article 2 of the Constitution of the Japanese Society of Nursing Science, which stipulates "to promote the development of nursing science, strive to exchange knowledge widely, and thereby contribute to the health and welfare of people" in a society whose lives have been transformed by the spread of new coronavirus infections. The Board of Directors approved the establishment of this organization to carry out activities on a time-limited basis (2-3 years) in order to put into practice what can be done under the circumstances of COVID-19.

First, we plan to conduct a questionnaire survey of the members of the Japan Academy of Nursing Science regarding their activities during the period of the emergency declaration, while ascertaining the current situation.

Activities, findings and reports

Announcement of the release of research data: Impact of the new coronavirus infection on the activities of nursing researchers and the support they seek: A longitudinal survey using a web-based questionnaire.

Considering the social significance and public interest aspects, we have deposited the data obtained in this study with the Center for Social Research and Data Archive Research, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, after anonymizing the data. This makes the individual data available for secondary use free of charge. The URL for the public access is as follows.

Publication URL:
Survey on the Impact of New Coronavirus Infections on the Research Activities of Members of the Japanese Association of Nursing Science (JANS) and the Support They Request from the Society, 2020 (1st Survey).
　https://ssjda.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Direct/gaiyo.php?eid=1563
Survey on the Impact of New Coronavirus Infections on the Research Activities of Members of the Japanese Association of Nursing Science (JANS) and the Support They Request from the Society, 2022 (2nd Survey).
　https://ssjda.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Direct/gaiyo.php?eid=1564

This secondary use data is available for academic research and educational purposes, and can be used by graduate students under the guidance of a researcher or faculty member of a university or public research institute. We hope you will make use of this data.

The data will be used for the following purposes: [Who is eligible to use the data and how do they apply to use it?
　The target users of this data are graduate students under the guidance of researchers and faculty members of universities or public research institutes in accordance with the rules set by the SSJ Data Archive. Non-members of the Japanese Society of Nursing Science can also use the data.

　To use this data, you must submit an application for use and receive approval.
　If you wish to use the data, please refer to the "Flow of Use" on the SSJ Data Archive website.
　Flow of Utilization:https://csrda.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/infrastructure/access/flow.html

Contact information for questions, etc.
　For use of deposited data, etc., please contact the Center for Social Research and Data Archive Research (SSJ Data Archive) affiliated with the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo.
　https://csrda.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/infrastructure/ssjda/

If you have any questions or concerns about this research, please contact us at the contact information below.
＜For general research inquiries, please contact
　Department of Life and Basic Nursing Science, School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki
　Chair, COVID-19 Committee on Nursing Research, etc., Japan Academy of Nursing Science
　Contact (Principal Investigator [Information Manager]): Naoki Yoshinaga
　E-mail:naoki-y@med.miyazaki-u.ac.jp

<Contact information for opt-out
　Japan Academy of Nursing Science Office
　E-mail:office@jans.or.jp

Report on "Survey on the Impact of the New Coronavirus Infection on the Research Activities of the Members of the Japanese Association of Nursing Science (JANS) and the Support They Need from the Society

In order to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on the research activities of JANS members and to examine the systems and support necessary for JANS members to conduct research in an emergency situation, the Committee conducted two online surveys of members and received cooperation from many members. Thank you again for your cooperation. We would like to thank them again for their cooperation.
The Committee has published a survey report on the Society's website to inform you of the impact of the Corona Disaster on the activities of nursing researchers and to share information with you.

■ Reported on the following program at the 2020 Annual Meeting.
Program:
Moderator: Junko Sugama
Presentation 1: Purpose of the Survey and Overview of the Survey
　　　　Junko Sugama (COVID-19 Nursing Research Task Force Committee)
Presentation 2: Overall summary of the first survey results, differences between younger and senior respondents
　　　　Naoki Yoshinaga (COVID-19 Nursing Research Task Force Committee)
Presentation 3: Influences and background factors on faculty research activities
　　　　Gojiro Nakagami (COVID-19 Committee on Nursing Research)

■ Reported at the following exchange meeting at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Nursing Science (December 7, 2024).
As a joint project with the Research and Academic Promotion Committee, an exchange meeting titled "Research and Academic Promotion Based on the Research Results from the Activities of the COVID-19 Committee on Nursing Research and Other Issues" was held.
A summary of the day's slides and general discussion is available below.

• Exchange Meeting_Slides of Presentations and Summary of General Discussion

Survey on the Impact of New Coronavirus Infections on the Research Activities of Japanese Academy of Nursing Science (JANS) Members and the Support They Need from the Society

Impact of New Coronavirus Infections on the Activities of Nursing Researchers and the Support They Seek -A Longitudinal Survey Using a Web-Based Questionnaire
Notice of Change in Policy on Use of Data for Academic Research and Educational Purposes

We would like to inform you that the following research conducted as part of the activities of the Japan Academy of Nursing Science (Principal Investigator: Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki) has decided to change the research plan for data use.
Considering the social significance and public interest aspects of this research, we have decided to provide the data to the Center for Social Research and Data Archive Research affiliated with the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo, as described below, in a state in which individuals cannot be identified (anonymized). This will allow secondary use of the data for academic research and educational purposes only. Approval for this change has been obtained from the Ethics Committee of the University of Miyazaki Faculty of Medicine (O-0733).
We appreciate your understanding of the purpose of this research and your cooperation.

• public documents

Research Section Title:The impact of the new coronavirus infection on the activities of nursing researchers and the support they seek: A longitudinal survey using a web-based questionnaire.

1. Purpose and outline of the research
The purpose of this survey was "to understand how members of the Japanese Society of Nursing Science are affected by the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in nursing researchers, and to consider how the society can support them in the future", and the survey was conducted by the Society's COVID-19 The survey was conducted as an activity of the Society's Committee on Nursing Research and Other Related Matters (Chair: Junko Sugama).
The survey was conducted twice, from July 1 to August 10, 2020 and from March 1 to March 31, 2022, and the survey report is available on the JNSS website (committee page).
https://www.jans.or.jp/committee/covid-19/

2. research period
The study will run from June 29, 2020 to March 31, 2024.

3. subject
The information provided is intended for members of the Japanese Society of Nursing Science who have responded to the survey on "Impact of the New Coronavirus Infections on the Activities of Nursing Researchers and the Support They Seek: A Longitudinal Survey via Web Questionnaire".

4. content of information to be provided
The following information on the subject person will be provided for academic research and educational purposes.
To protect the privacy of the subject person, personal information will be replaced with numbers and symbols.

<Information to be provided
The information to be provided is limited to the questions in the survey that were answered by the respondents in a choice format.
The personal information contained in the information to be provided must be processed in such a way that it cannot be immediately determined which research subject's response data is being used.
Free response statements that could potentially identify individuals will not be included in the data provided.

<About the institution providing the service
This research data will be provided to the following organizations, which will use the anonymized data for academic research and educational purposes.
Name of Institution: Center for Social Research and Data Archive, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
(SSJ Data Archive)*1
Name of the person in charge of the facility: Yushi Genda, Director of the Center
Type of information to be provided: Survey data *2

1: What is SSJ Data Archive?
It is an institution established within the University of Tokyo to collect and store labor and social survey individual data (the contents of individual survey form entries. It is an institution that collects and stores labor and social survey data (individual survey forms, microdata), prevents their dissemination, and provides them for secondary use for academic purposes.
https://csrda.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/infrastructure/ssjda/
*2: Survey data from the questionnaire
The survey form at the time the survey was conducted is available on the website of the Japanese Society of Nursing Science.
https://www.jans.or.jp/committee/covid-19/

5. if you wish to refuse to provide your data
If you wish to opt out of the SSJ data archive and future secondary use of the data you provided in this survey, please do not hesitate to contact the JNSS office listed under .
When a request is received, the JNI office, which maintains a table of membership numbers and subject IDs, identifies the subject ID of the person who made the request, and only that ID is given to the principal investigator (information manager), so that the researcher does not know who made the request. The researcher will not know who made the refusal. After that, the researcher will delete the data of the person in question before providing the data this time.
However, data may not be removed after data analysis or presentation at a conference.

6. contact information for questions, etc.
If you have any questions or concerns about this study, please contact us at the address below.

＜For general research inquiries, please contact
　Department of Life and Basic Nursing Science, School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki
　Member, COVID-19 Committee on Nursing Research, Japan Academy of Nursing Science
　Contact (Principal Investigator [Information Manager]): Naoki Yoshinaga
　E-mail:naoki-y@med.miyazaki-u.ac.jp

<Contact information for opt-out
　Japan Academy of Nursing Science Office
　E-mail:office@jans.or.jp

Conference-driven research projects (designated project type and open-ended project type) for analysis of acquired survey data and writing of papers

The Japan Academy of Nursing Science (JANS) has recruited research participants to analyze and write a paper on the data obtained from the "Survey on the Impact of New Coronavirus Infections on the Research Activities of Members of the Japan Academy of Nursing Science (JANS) and the Support They Need from the Academy". The data obtained in this survey was not acquired on the assumption that it would be open-sourced, and since this data itself cannot be open-sourced, it will be conducted within the framework of a shared research project. In the first phase, two designated research projects and four open-ended research projects were selected, and in the second phase, four open-ended research projects were selected, and the research group is working to generate new knowledge. This project will be conducted in two phases: the first survey (survey period: July 1 to August 10, 2020) and the second survey (March 1 to March 10, 2022). The project will use data acquired in the first survey (survey period: July 1 to August 10, 2020) and the second survey (March 1 to March 31, 2022). The data obtained from the first survey (survey period: July 1 to August 10, 2020) and the second survey (March 1 to March 31, 2022) will be analyzed based on research objectives from a variety of perspectives. In presenting the results of the analysis by each research group at the conference or submitting an article for publication, sufficient discussion will be held among the members of this committee and the research group as a whole to avoid duplicate or salami publication, as well as to ensure that the results of the analysis are not duplicated, Recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)The Company will take the utmost care to comply with the following

Project members (Phase 1)

role	identity	belong to
Designated Issue Type (1) Representative	Kana Kazawa	Hiroshima University
	Yoko Shimpuku	Hiroshima University
Designated subject type (2) Representative	Koji Tanaka	Kanazawa University
	Yuya Asada	Kanazawa University
	Kyoko Nagata	Kanazawa University
	Hirotaro Takahashi	Kanazawa University
Free assignment type (1) Representative	Yen Inoue	Miyazaki University, Curtin University, Kagawa Nutrition University Royal Perth Hospital
	Hideo Tohei	Miyazaki University, Curtin University, The University of Western Australia
	Manami Matsubara	Kansai International University
Free assignment type (2) Representative	Fumino Takeuchi	Chuo University
	Shinichiro Yokota	The University of Tokyo
	Ai Tomotaki	Tokai University
Free assignment type (3) Representative	Kaoru Amano	St. Christopher's University
	Hiroshi Morimoto	Nagoya City University
	Rio Watanabe	Nagoya City University
	Koji Sato	Kariya Toyota General Hospital
Free assignment type (4) Representative	Jin Jun Lee	Kansai Medical University
	Hiroko Sakai	Kansai Medical University
	Yuki Kawasaki	Kansai Medical University
	Fusako Takahashi	Kansai Medical University

Project members (Phase 2)

role	identity	belong to
Free assignment type (1) Representative	Miwa Mitomi Toma	Hyogo Medical University
Free assignment type (2) Representative	Wataru Ohashi	Aichi Medical University
	Chie Taniguchi	Aichi Medical University
	Yuko Sato	Yokkaichi College of Nursing and Medical Care
Free assignment type (3) Representative	Azumi Hara	Japanese Red Cross College of Nursing, Saitama School of Nursing
Free assignment type (4) Representative	Tomoko Nagai	Mejiro University
	Ayaka Sasaki	Mejiro University
	Hitomi Anzai	Mejiro University

Published Papers

• Yoshinaga N, Nakagami G, Fukahori H, Shimpuku Y, Sanada H, Sugama J.
  Initial impact Initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on time Japanese nursing faculty devote to research: Cross-sectional survey.
  Japan Journal of Nursing Science. 2022;19(1):e12454.
• Kaoru Amano, Hiroshi Morimoto, Rio Watanabe, Koji Sato, Hiroki Fukahori, Yoko Shimpuku, Naoki Yoshinaga.
  COVID-19Exploring the inhibitors and facilitators of nursing research activities in an expanded context
  Journal of the Japanese Academy of Nursing Science. 2021;41:656-664.
• Kazawa K, Shimpuku Y, Yoshinaga N.
  Characteritics of early-career nurse researchers negatively impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study.
  BMJ Open. 2022;12:e059331
• Inoue M, Tohira H, Yoshinaga N, Matsubara M.
  Propensity-matched comparisons of factors negatively affecting research activities during the COVID-19 pandemic between nursing researchers working in academic and clinical settings in Japan
  Japan Journal of Nursing Science. 2022;19(4):e12491
• Takeuchi A, Yokota S, Tomotaki A, Fukahori H, Shimpuku Y, Yoshinaga N.
  Relationship between research activities and individual factors among Japanese nursing researchers Relationship between research activities and individual factors among Japanese nursing researchers
  PLOS ONE. 2022;17(8):e0271001.
• Nagata K, Tanaka K, Takahashi Y, Asada Y, Shimpuku Y, Yoshinaga N, Sugama J.
  Support Nursing researchers' need from academic societies during COVID-19: A cross-sectional survey
  Nursing and Health Sciences. 2022;24(4):871-881
• Inoue M, Fukahori H, Matsubara M, Yoshinaga N, Tohira H.
  Latent Dirichlet allocation topic modeling of free-text responses exploring the negative impact of the early COVID-19 pandemic on research in nursing.
  Japan Journal of Nursing Science. 2023;20(2):e12520
• Lee K, Takahashi F, Kawasaki Y, Yoshinaga N, Sakai H.
  Prediction models for the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on research activities of Japanese nursing researchers using deep learning
  Japan Journal of Nursing Science. 2023;20(3):e12529
• Mitoma M, Tanaka M, Shimpuku Y, Yokota S, Yoshinaga N.
  Nursing researchers' concern about research activities during the COVID-19 pandemic: A secondary analysis of longitudinal survey data in Japan survey data in Japan
  Research in Nursing and Health. 2024;47(5):522-531.
• Azumi Hara, Mari Ikeda, Hiroki Fukahori, Kana Kazawa, Naoki Yoshinaga.
  Positive Changes in Research Activities of College of Nursing Faculty in the COVID-19 Expansion Situation: a Qualitative Content Analysis of Free Statements in a Web-based Survey.
  Journal of the Japanese Academy of Nursing Science. 2024;44:442-451.
• Kazawa K, Yoshinaga N, Tomotaki A, Yokota S, Nakagami G, Fukahori H, Shimpuku Y, Ikeda M, Tanaka M, Sugama J.
  Changes in research activity and obstructive factors among nursing researchers during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study study.
  Journal of International Nursing Research. 2025;4(1):e2023-0039.