Figure and Table | Family Issues in Japanese Clinics: Concordance between Patients’ and Physicians’ Views

Table 1. Characteristics of This Study.

Subjects	429
Registrants	341
Participants	272
* Valid response rate (Participants/Subjects) = 63.4%
Of the participants, Gender
Gender
Male	117
Female	155
Mean age	64.3 years (SD 14.4)
Average number of family members	3.0 (SD 1.5)

Table 2. Family Life Cycle Stages of Participants and Contents of Family Life Cycle Issues.

Family lifecycle stages (n = 272)		Family lifecycle issues (n = 23)
Couples	2	Marriage issues	7
Newly married	4	Childbirth issue	1
Perinatal family	4	Childcare issues	5
Families with small children	9	Issues with advancing to higher learning	3
Families with school-aged children	9	Issues with adolescence	2
Families with young adolescents	11	Issues with retirement or career change	2
Middle-aged families without offspring	1	Aging issue	1
Families with older children that had left home	34	Caregiving issue	2
Aged family	113
Widowhood	60
Unmarried	3
Non-responder	22

Table 3. Comparison between This Research and Previous Ones.

Table 4. Contents of Family Issues from the Perspective of Doctors in Charge.

	(n = 32)
Health problems with family member	15	Family life cycle issues	10
Care for the partner	3	Death of family members	6
COPD, Depression, Unknown reason		(husband 3, wife, mother, son)
Care for the parent (Three mother and one father)	4	Aging issues	2
Cerebral infarction, Unknown reason		Sharing child care issues	1
Care for the son	2	Issues regarding a successor for farms	1
Depression, Unknown reason		Issues in family dynamics	5
Care for the grandchild	1	Discord between couples	2
Congenital abnormality		Parent-child discord	1
Terminal care	1	Divorce of a family member	1
Prevention of nosohusial infection of common cold	1	Sharing housework	1
Non-adherence (Hospitalization, Alcohol)	2	Employment of a son	1
Allergic constitution	1	Solitude/No care-giver	1

Table 5. Inconsistency.

			(n = 31)
Patients acknowledged family issues, but Physicians didn’t (18 cases)		Physicians acknowledged family issues but patients didn’t (13 cases)
Health problems of family members	5	Health problems of a family member	4
Issue in Family dynamics	4	Poor adherence	2
Discord	3	relating to alcohol	1
Divorce	1	Refusal of hospitalization	1
Family lifecycle issues	3	Caregiving fatigue	1
Occupation-related issues	2	Allergic constitution	1
Waste of money by a family member	1	Family lifecycle issues	3
Unable to answer	3	Death of family members	2
No answer	1	Lack of a successor for farms	1
		Issue in Family dynamics	2
		Discord	1
		Divorce	1
		No answer	4