Ayako IDE Okochi

Last Updated :2026/04/20

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Professor
Self-introduction

Nursing educator; B in Health Scis. and Nursing, U. Tokyo, 2000, M in Health Scis. and Nursing, 2004, PhD in Health Scis. and Nursing, 2011; Studied Anthropology, in MA U. Hawaii at Manoa, owing to Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship, 2003. RN PHN. Asst. prof. dept. nursing Ehime Nat. U. Faculty Medicine, Japan, 2008–13, assoc. prof. dept. cmty. health nursing Yokohama City U., 2013–18, prof. dept. cmty. health nursing Kumamoto U. Contbr. to profl. publs. Mem.: Internat. Sociol. Assn., Internat. Spinal Cord Soc. Achievements include research in spinal cord injury, developmental disability, social participation, rehabilitation, illness experience, self-care.

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2026/04, 9999
  • 2021/04, 2026/03
  • 2018/04, 2026/03, Kumamoto University, Faculty of Life Sciences, Division of Environmental and Sociomedical Sciences
  • 2013/04, 2018/03, Yokohama City University, Graduate School of Medicine, Graduate
  • 2011/11, 2013/03, Ehime University, Graduate School of Medicine
  • 2008, 2011/10

Academic Degrees

  • PhD, University of Tokyo
  • Master of Health Sciences, University of Tokyo
  • Bachelor, University of Tokyo

Research Keywords

  • children of concern
  • parenting program
  • multiprofessional cooperation
  • child maltreatment
  • developmental disability

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Examination of factors affecting insomnia in older victims of the Kumamoto earthquake, PeerJ, 14, e20584-e20584, 20260113
  2. Depression and related factors among public health nurses engaged in cases of child neglect-related abuse, International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 12(5), 454-461, 202508
  3. Development of an Individual and Organizational Readiness Assessment Scale for Public Health Nurses’ Decision-Making to Address Child Neglect, Journal of Japan Academy of Nursing Science, 44, 78-89, 202408
  4. Assessment of Sensory Processing Issues in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Experiences of Maltreatment, Children, 11(2), 216, 20240207
  5. Gender Differences in the Association between Psychological Distress and Sociability among Older Adult Survivors: Cross-Sectional Survey Four Years after the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake in Japan, The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2024
  6. Meaning of community activity participation for older adults in couple households, International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 10(4), 468-475, 202310
  7. Noncompliance with Hypertension Treatment and Related Factors among Kumamoto Earthquake Victims Who Experienced the COVID-19 Pandemic during Postearthquake Recovery Period, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(6), 5203, 20230315
  8. Factors Related to Physical Activity among Older Adults Who Relocated to a New Community after the Kumamoto Earthquake: A Study from the Viewpoint of Social Capital, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(5), 3995-3995, 20230223
  9. The Actual Situation of Students Wished to Become Public Health Nurses at the University with the Public Health Nursing Course Selection System, Journal of Japan Academy of Community Health Nursing, 25(2), 40-47, 202208
  10. Depression, Insomnia, and Probable Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Survivors of the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake and Related Factors during the Recovery Period Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(7), 4403, 202204
  11. A Preliminary Study of Assessing Gaze, Interoception and School Performance among Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: The Feasibility of VR Classroom, Children, 9(2), 250-250, 20220213
  12. Pediatric dentists’ perspectives of children with special health care needs in Japan: developmental disabilities, phobia, maltreatment, and multidisciplinary collaboration, BMC Pediatrics, 21(1), 202105
  13. Gaze measurement of children with developmental disabilities in a virtual school using VR device, 計測自動制御学会システムインテグレーション部門講演会(CD-ROM), 21st, 202012
  14. A review of interoception in developmental disabilities: Implications for visualizing subjective difficulties, 熊本大学医学部保健学科紀要(Web), 16(16), 19-26, 202002
  15. Factors that influence planning for physical activity among workers in small- and medium-sized enterprises, Preventive Medicine Reports, 10, 150-156, 20180601
  16. 地域・コミュニティレベルにおける高齢者の社会的孤立予防に向けた見守り活動 実証的研究と先駆的実践からの示唆, 保健師ジャーナル, 73(10), 836-844, 201710
  17. Population-based Study Exploring Gender Differences in Factors Related to Locomotive Syndrome among Community-dwelling Elderly in an Urban Area : The Yokohama Locomo Study, 20(1), 4-12, 201704
  18. Reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Community Integration Measure for community-dwelling people with schizophrenia, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEMS, 11, 201704
  19. Conditions and problems with aging-in place among the elderly living in urban housing complex, 10(1), 12-19, 201703
  20. The psychological characteristics of elderly mothers making decisions on future living arrangements for their adult children with intellectual disabilities after their own death, Journal of Japan Academy of Community Health Nursing, 19(3), 41-49, 201612
  21. A hybrid concept analysis of children of concern: Japanese healthcare professionals' views of children at a high risk of developmental disability, BMC PEDIATRICS, 16(171), 201610
  22. Development of a Scale of Social Activities among Community-dwelling Elderly People, Journal of Japan Academy of Community Health Nursing, 19(2), 4-11, 201608
  23. The Process of Enhancing Affirmative Feelings towards Childrearing in the Members of Self-help Groups of Mothers of Children with Developmental Disabilities, Journal of Japan Academy of Community Health Nursing, 19(2), 75-81, 201608
  24. Loneliness and related factors among people with schizophrenia in Japan: a cross-sectional study, JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC AND MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, 23(6-7), 399-408, 201608
  25. Relationship of Health Factors and Diet by Stage of Transtheoretical Model of Health Behavior Change among Urban Residents in the Meridian of Life, Journal of Japan Academy of Community Health Nursing, 18(1), 63-71, 201604
  26. Establishing self-management for chronic spinal cord injury patients: a qualitative investigation, Jpn J Public Health, 62(4), 190-197, 201504
  27. The usefulness of the concept of kininaru-kodomo (children of concern) in Japan when evaluating children with special health care needs, 201503
  28. Concept analysis of children with special health care needs: health care professionals' perception, Yokohama Journal of Nursing, 7(1), 1-8, 201403
  29. The meaning of self-care in persons with cervical spinal cord injury in Japan: a qualitative study, BMC Neurology, 13(1), 20130904
  30. Sufferings Derived from Social Relations and the Process toward Symbiotic Society Experienced among Persons with Cervical Spinal Cord Injury, Journal of Japan Academy of Community Health Nursing, 15(3), 12-22, 2013
  31. Characteristics and relationships between the factors of the difficulties in persons who experienced biographical disruption after sustaining cervical spinal cord injury, Japanese Journal of Health and Human Ecology, 79(2), 26-46, 2013
  32. Illness experience of adults with cervical spinal cord injury in Japan: a qualitative investigation, BMC PUBLIC HEALTH, 13, 201301
  33. An Analysis of the Condition of Partner Cooperation and Child Rearing among Caregivers of 19-month-old Infants in Respective Birth Ranking, Journal of Japan Academy of Community Health Nursing, 13(2), 69-76, 201103
  34. Social support networks and health-related behaviors among skid row residents utilizing facilities for the disabled in Kotobuki, Japan, Japanese Journal of Health and Human Ecology, 74(5), 250-66, 2008
  35. Future Research for Occupational Stress among Hospice/Palliative Care Nurses, The Japanese Journal of Health and Medical Sociology, 12(1), 152-8, 2001

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Establishing an Early Nursing Intervention System with Practitioner Participation for Preventing Oral Frailty in Community-Dwelling Older Adults, 2025/04/01, 2030/03/31
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  2. 2025/04/01, 2029/03/31
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  3. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Standerdization and arrengements of empowerment theories and the sense of coherence in Nursing, 2024/04, 2029/03
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  4. 2023/04, 2027/03
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  5. 2022/04, 2027/03
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  6. 2021/04, 2026/03
  7. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Elucidation of difficulties due to sensory coordination disorder in adolescent girls with developmental disabilities and development of a model to support self-regulation., 2021/04, 2026/03
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  8. 2022/04/01, 2025/03/31
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  9. 2024/04, 2025/03
  10. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2021/04, 2025/03
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  11. 2019/04, 2025/03
  12. 2022/08, 2024/03
  13. 2020/04, 2023/03
  14. 2021/04, 2022/03
  15. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), 2017/04, 2022/03
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  16. 2020/07, 2021/03
  17. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Development of program to prevent social isolation and alleviate loneliness for mothers live in urban area, 2017/04, 2021/03
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  18. Development of a community-participatory childcare support system to prevent family violence, 2016/04, 2021/03
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  19. 2019/04, 2020/03
  20. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Development of a standardized program and evaluation tool for preventing social isolation among community-dwelling older people in an urban community, 2013/04, 2018/03
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  21. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, The multidisciplinary assessment scale of children of concern based on the spectrum concept, 2015, 2018
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  22. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, A hybrid model of the concept analysis of the multidisciplinary professionals' kininaru-kodomo toward effective collaboration, 2012, 2014
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  23. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Development of a community life support model for children with developmental disability from early age until school child age toward the prevention of child abuse, 2011, 2013
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  24. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), The follow-up study of the needs for childrearing support to parents with a child from one-year-old to three-year-old to make a supporting policy, 2008, 2010
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