• Title/Summary/Keyword: Learning stress

Search Result 449, Processing Time 0.029 seconds

Development of a Smoking and Drinking Prevention Program for Adolescents using Intervention Mapping (Intervention Mapping 설계를 통한 중학생 대상 흡연음주예방 교육프로그램 개발)

  • Kye, Su-Yeon;Choi, Seul-Ki;Park, Kee-Ho
    • The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
    • /
    • v.12 no.3
    • /
    • pp.1-15
    • /
    • 2011
  • Objectives: We describe the development of a smoking and drinking prevention program for adolescents, using intervention mapping. Methods: The study sample consisted of 1,000 high school second-grade students from 6 high schools in Seoul. The PRECEDE model was applied for the needs assessment. We carried out a social diagnosis by assessing the factors such as the quality of life, happiness level, and satisfaction with school life; an epidemiological diagnosis on the perceived health status, stress levels, and priority of health issues; a behavioral diagnosis on the smoking and drinking rate and the intention to smoke and drink; and an educational diagnosis on knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, self-efficacy, outcome expectations, social norms and life skills. Results: The development process included a needs assessment, identifying factors that influence smoking and drinking among adolescents. Intention, knowledge, perceived norms, perceived benefit, perceived cost, perceived susceptibility, self-efficacy, and life skills were identified as determinants. Three performance objectives were formulated to describe what an individual needs to do in order to avoid smoking and drinking. Subsequently, we constructed an intervention matrix by crossing the performance objectives with the selected determinants. Each cell describes the learning objectives of the smoking and drinking prevention program. The program used methods from the transtheoretical model, such as consciousness raising, outcome expectations, self-reevaluation, self-liberation, counterconditioning, environmental reevaluation, and stimulus control. The program deals with the effects of smoking and drinking, self-improvement, decision making, understanding advertisements, communication skills, social relationships, and assertiveness. Conclusions: By using the process of intervention mapping, the program developer was able to ensure a systematical incorporation of empirical and new data and theories to guide the intervention design. Programs targeting other health-related behavior and other methods or strategies can also be developed using this intervention mapping process.

  • PDF

Experiences on Block System Class in Nursing Students (간호대학생의 블록제 수업경험)

  • Kim, Young-Sook
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
    • /
    • v.17 no.6
    • /
    • pp.629-641
    • /
    • 2016
  • This study analyzed the use of the phenomenological method proposed by Colaizzi (1978) in order to understand the meaning of block system class experiences in nursing students. Furthermore, this study provides primal data to improve curriculum efficiency. The data were collected from 18 participants who were students at a nursing university in the city of G from 20th of June to 10th of July 2015. This study investigated nursing student's block system class experience. The study results show six theme clusters consisting of 'Discomfort', 'Unsystematic study', 'Holding back an urge', 'Ever intensifying relationship', 'New discovery', and 'Chance for development', 17 themes, and 42 sub themes, which are included in those clusters in 58 configured meanings. This demonstrates that nursing students could reestablish their resolve for personal betterment and realize the importance of managing time by finishing the procedure with their best efforts although they suffer from physical and psychological inconvenience due to massive amounts of learning and assignment. These results indicate the need for development of stress management and an emotional support program based on the experience of nursing students.

Review on Science and Invention-gifted Students Having Social and Emotional Problem (사회-정서적 어려움을 겪고 있는 과학영재에 대한 고찰)

  • Lyu, Eun-Joo;Kim, Jung-Eun;Paik, Seoung-Hey
    • Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
    • /
    • v.21 no.3
    • /
    • pp.659-682
    • /
    • 2011
  • The objective of this research is to search the solution for the difficulties of science and invention gifted middle school students with social and emotional problems that they are faced. The result of this research has shown that the gifted students were feeling difficulties of low self-esteem in their peer relationships, communication and cooperation skills. They were feeling less confident in their stress processing capacity and their multi-processing capacity. Some were also troubled with the intense expectations from their environment and theirselves which led them to feel confusion in their identities and their future. Therefore, instead of education focused on academic achievement and cognitive activity, present education for the gifted must focus on helping to solve the student's social and emotional problems and to strengthen social and emotional skills they need. To achieve this, the education for the gifted students should include a social-emotional learning program, and it should also run a continued and personalized consultation program for gifted students.

Effect of Beta-Asarone on Impairment of Spatial Working Memory and Apoptosis in the Hippocampus of Rats Exposed to Chronic Corticosterone Administration

  • Lee, Bombi;Sur, Bongjun;Cho, Seong-Guk;Yeom, Mijung;Shim, Insop;Lee, Hyejung;Hahm, Dae-Hyun
    • Biomolecules & Therapeutics
    • /
    • v.23 no.6
    • /
    • pp.571-581
    • /
    • 2015
  • ${\beta}$-asarone (BAS) is an active component of Acori graminei rhizoma, a traditional medicine used clinically in treating dementia and chronic stress in Korea. However, the cognitive effects of BAS and its mechanism of action have remained elusive. The purpose of this study was to examine whether BAS improved spatial cognitive impairment induced in rats following chronic corticosterone (CORT) administration. CORT administration (40 mg/kg, i.p., 21 days) resulted in cognitive impairment in the avoidance conditioning test (AAT) and the Morris water maze (MWM) test that was reversed by BAS (200 mg/kg, i.p). Additionally, as assessed by immunohistochemistry and RT-PCR analysis, the administration of BAS significantly alleviated memory-associated decreases in the expression levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and cAMP-response element-binding protein (CREB) proteins and mRNAs in the hippocampus. Also, BAS administration significantly restored the expression of Bax and Bcl-2 mRNAs in the hippocampus. Thus, BAS may be an effective therapeutic for learning and memory disturbances, and its neuroprotective effect was mediated, in part, by normalizing the CORT response, resulting in regulation of BDNF and CREB functions and anti-apoptosis in rats.

Measuring and Modeling the Spectral Attenuation of Light in the Yellow Sea

  • Gallegos, Sonia-C.;Sandidge, Juanita;Chen, Xiaogang;Hahn, Sangbok-D.;Ahn, Yu-Hwan;Iturriaga, Rodolfo;Jeong, Hee-Dong;Suh, Young-Sang;Cho, Sung-Hwam
    • Journal of the korean society of oceanography
    • /
    • v.39 no.1
    • /
    • pp.46-56
    • /
    • 2004
  • Spectral attenuation of light and upwelling radiance were measured in the western coast of Korea on board the R/V Inchon 888 of the Korean National Fisheries Research and Development Institute(NFRDI) during four seasons. The goal of these efforts was to determine the spatial and temporal distribution of the inherent and apparent optical properties of the water, and the factors that control their distribution. Our data indicate that while stratification of the water column, phytoplankton, and wind stress determined the vertical distribution of the optical parameters offshore, it was the tidal current and sediment type that controlled both the vertical and horizontal distribution in the coastal areas. These findings led to the development of a model that estimates the spectral attenuation of light with respect to depth and time for the Yellow Sea. The model integrates water leaving radiance from satellites, sediment types, current vectors, sigma-t, bathymetry, and in situ optical measurements in a learning algorithm capable of extracting optical properties with only knowledge of the environmental conditions of the Yellow Sea. The performance of the model decreases with increase in depth. The mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of the model is 2% for the upper five meters, 8-10% between 6 and 50 meters, and 15% below 51 meters.

A Study on the Development of a Parent Education Program for Cerebral Palsied Child (뇌성마비아의 부모교육 프로그램 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Hong-Cheul;Soe, Gyu-Won;Kang, Jung-Koo
    • Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Science
    • /
    • v.2 no.3
    • /
    • pp.623-631
    • /
    • 1995
  • The parents of cerebral palsy children are identified as special individual with responsibilities and roles beyond those of other parents. Physical therapist often direct their attention to the cerebrel palsy child without supporting. teaching or appreciating the parent. As parents are the most influential factor in the child's development and because parents generally have a need to be incorporated in their child's treatment and education. education regarding treatment is essential for the parent. Parents tend to seek information about their child's disability and desire accurate. Straight foreward and complete information about their child. Parent groups are advantageous organizations in that they provide mutual support and emotional and social outlets. While learning to accept a disabled child. parents must deal with additional stressful events which occur when community involvement with the cerebral palsy child begins. The parents are immediately thrust into new roles as they come into contact with medical specialists, physical therapist or other parents of disabled children. These events contribute to a psychological stress. sense of loss and lowing of selfesteem.

  • PDF

Neuroprotective Effects of AMP-Activated Protein Kinase on Scopolamine Induced Memory Impairment

  • Kim, Soo-Jeong;Lee, Jun-Ho;Chung, Hwan-Suck;Song, Joo-Hyun;Ha, Joohun;Bae, Hyunsu
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
    • /
    • v.17 no.4
    • /
    • pp.331-338
    • /
    • 2013
  • AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), an important regulator of energy metabolism, is activated in response to cellular stress when intracellular levels of AMP increase. We investigated the neuroprotective effects of AMPK against scopolamine-induced memory impairment in vivo and glutamate-induced cytotoxicity in vitro. An adenovirus expressing AMPK wild type alpha subunit (WT) or a dominant negative form (DN) was injected into the hippocampus of rats using a stereotaxic apparatus. The AMPK WT-injected rats showed significant reversal of the scopolamine induced cognitive deficit as evaluated by escape latency in the Morris water maze. In addition, they showed enhanced acetylcholinesterase (AChE)-reactive neurons in the hippocampus, implying increased cholinergic activity in response to AMPK. We also studied the cellular mechanism by which AMPK protects against glutamate-induced cell death in primary cultured rat hippocampal neurons. We further demonstrated that AMPK WT-infected cells increased cell viability and reduced Annexin V positive hippocampal neurons. Western blot analysis indicated that AMPK WT-infected cells reduced the expression of Bax and had no effects on Bcl-2, which resulted in a decreased Bax/Bcl-2 ratio. These data suggest that AMPK is a useful cognitive impairment treatment target, and that its beneficial effects are mediated via the protective capacity of hippocampal neurons.

Development of Coupon System for Youth's Experiential Learning using QR Code (QR코드를 이용한 청소년 체험학습 쿠폰 시스템 개발)

  • Park, Soon-Ho;Kim, Yu-Doo;Moon, Il-Young
    • The Journal of Korean Institute for Practical Engineering Education
    • /
    • v.5 no.1
    • /
    • pp.52-57
    • /
    • 2013
  • Because of rapid spread of the PC, many users have been enjoying a variety of content as PC. Especially in recent years, young people has increased dramatically PC usage. Young people get more easily information using a PC. Especially they relieve their stress through online games and feel another fun of virtual reality. It is obviously a good effect that they contact IT culture with rapidly developed. But young people's perspective with world is narrow because of doing more indoor activities than outdoor. Therefore we built Spot experience voucher system using smart phone application. We hope that many young people act outdoor activities. And Our product offer hybrid device by developing HTML5-based app. Thus this app will give interest of spot-experience to young-people. So If young people use this app, they can have many experience and see diverse aspects.

  • PDF

An Inquiry of the Possibility of the Healing Function of Art Museums (미술관의 치유적 기능에 대한 가능성 탐색)

  • Kim, Eun-Jin
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
    • /
    • v.15 no.10
    • /
    • pp.56-65
    • /
    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study is to find out the possibility of the healing function of art museums in modern times with the precedent studies and to explore the healing potential specifically. There have been studies on the various healing programs regarding patients with Alzheimer, learning disability, seniors, etc. The researcher approached this study in three aspects, art appreciation, space, communication as healing potential of art museums. These findings will be able to draw more social attention on art museums. Therefore, this study will provide a new perspective on the art museums to people concerned art museums. And it will make the professionals, working for company workers, students and other people suffering under the modern stress, recognize the art museums as a place to look inside in the professionals' own mind and to heal as well as a place for culture and sophistication. These findings will be able to draw more social attention on art museums.

A Study on Information Literacy Education for Enhancing Computational Thinking (컴퓨팅 사고력 향상을 위한 정보소양교육에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Kyungmin
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
    • /
    • v.20 no.4
    • /
    • pp.59-66
    • /
    • 2017
  • In the fourth industrial revolution, the government has established a policy to cultivate the creative convergent talent with software literacy in order to cultivate human resources leading the economy. Therefore, software education based on computational thinking is being adopted in liberal arts courses in universities. However it would be damaged the fundamental objectives for increasing computational thinking by a weighted stress of students to learn programming of software education. In this paper, we proposed a teaching method that can improve computing thinking through information literacy education which can be directly applied in practice as a way to reduce the burden on the programming learning of software education. Through this paper, it was found that information literacy education can improve the computing thinking as well as the computing ability by making it possible to construct enough knowledge, analysis and efficient procedures for problems.