The purpose of this study was to identify important themes of educational methods in order to acquire relevant teaching skills for the use in basic nursing education through practical training utilizing 2 simulated patients who played part of diabetic patients. We investigated the reports written by sixty-six nursing students who attended the above practical training. Based on the results obtained, we considered that 1) nursing students tended to absorb the information regarding the treatment of diabetic patients and to sympathize with the patients regarding their emotional condition, and 2) nursing teachers need to plan a more useful educational program which will help students understand patients' lives and help students learn the theory behind motivating diabetic patients to maintain an appropriate lifestyle.

In uterine cervical cancer, the outcome of treatment has been evaluated by survival or response rate for anticancer drugs. Recently, evaluating subjective quality of life (QOL) has become one of the most important parameter of evaluating patient outcome. The purpose of this study is to make scales for evaluating subjective QOL common to patients with uterine cervical cancer and to examine the scales from a viewpoint of reliability and validity. The 124 items were collected for QOL questionnaire, and finally 28 items including femininity and sexual life domain were selected by gynecologic oncologists, gynecologic care nurses, sociologist and statistician. One hundred and seventy-six patients with cervical cancer were available for this study. Cronbach's α demonstrated good internal consistency, with the coefficient α equal to 0.85. Construct validity was assessed by correlating the CES-D self-recording type depression scale (Radloff, 1977) with this QOL score using Spearman's rank coefficient. The correlation between this QOL questionnaire and the CES-D self-recording type depression scale was r=.-657 (p<0.01). Four items were deleted because of deviation of answering “yes” (more than 90%) in two by simple tabulation, and poor item-total correlation in two. Then, total of 24 items were used for factor analysis. The number of the factors whose peculiar values were 1.0 or more is 5, and the versatility of QOL was suggested. We should add new items and perform test by the revised QOL questionnaire to improve this QOL questionnaire.