Kyoto University · Medicine
Professor Yosuke Yamamoto's research lab focuses on the intersection of geriatric health, palliative care, and psychological well-being in older adults and chronic disease populations. Key research directions include the longitudinal impact of sleep quality and depressive symptoms on health outcomes, such as falls and pruritus, as well as the role of psychological stress and religious beliefs in advance care planning. The lab emphasizes patient-centered approaches, particularly in promoting end-of-life discussions and improving care planning through cultural and spiritual factors.
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Subjective poor sleep quality, as measured by the PSQI, is longitudinally associated with greater risk of experiencing falls in community-dwelling older adults.
Our results suggest that depressive symptoms measured by MHI-5 may predict the future risk of developing severe pruritus in patients on HD.
Our results suggest that frequency of pruritic symptoms is associated with psychological stress in the general population.
The majority of patients are willing to begin discussion before their health is severely compromised; about one out of five patients are unwilling to begin until clearly facing death. To promote advance care planning, healthcare providers must be mindful of patients' preferences and factors associated with acceptance and reluctance to initiate advance care planning.
The results suggest that holding religious beliefs, especially in Japanese Buddhism and Christianity, facilitates advance care planning discussions among Japanese adults, and thus, may help health-care providers identify those prioritized for facilitating engagement in advance care planning, especially in palliative and spiritual care settings.
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