As mentioned previously, all of the respondents from survey 1 (the survey designed to provide base acculturation levels) were divided into two groups, with the first group (group A) acculturating as they would normally without the assistance of the ubiquitous system.
The first stage of our research strategy consisted of a survey given to post-graduate students at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) to quantitatively assess base acculturation levels (assimilation, integration, marginalization, and separation), language ability, and also the time duration spent in Japan/the post-graduate university.
This survey, given before system implementation, provided base acculturation balance levels of all students, thus creating a point of reference with which to compare the impact of the ubiquitous system itself.
The first survey was given to provide base acculturation balance levels of all participants and also obtain information pertaining to duration of stay and language ability, before implementation of the ubiquitous system.
Develop a P-MFH care strategy based on an evaluation of: ○ Needs of PMs, parents and siblings, human resources, interpreters; ○ Key challenges: language/cultural differences, time limitations, acculturation levels of PM/-parents; ○ Opportunities (e.g., human resources' variety and motivation, migrant families and interpreters).
The acculturation level of most of the subjects in this study was low.
In this study, most of the adult child caregivers in the Italian, Greek and Chinese groups showed an acculturation level of "integration".
Survey 1, as mentioned in previous sections, was designed to assess base acculturation balance levels (assimilation, marginalization, integration, and separation) of all participating post-graduate students, thus providing a point of reference in relation to all students before implementation of the ubiquitous system.
After obtaining base acculturation balance levels, all respondents were then divided into two groups with one group using the ubiquitous technology, and one group acculturating unassisted.
These surveys were based on existing instruments in the field of acculturation and were used to analyze the acculturation balance levels of the individuals taking part in the study.
