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Filter by:We created a curriculum based on clinical events with 360° camera on an interactive learning platform. We hypothesize that medical students will learn better and be motivated with the immersive 360 video and virtual reality headset during the clinical training.
The study aims to investigate how the inclusion of an animal into a trauma-focused group therapy program (TF-CBT) affects therapy motivation of children and adolescents suffering from post-traumatic stress. 80 children and adolescents aged 9 to 17 years are recruited for the study. Participants must have experienced at least one traumatic event leading to post-traumatic stress symptoms. Participants are randomly allocated to one of two groups: animal-assisted trauma-focused therapy (AA TF-CBT) or standard trauma-focused therapy (TF-CBT). Parallel to the groups the parents/guardians of the participating children and adolescents take part in three parent meetings. The results of the study help to gain insights into how the inclusion of animals in trauma-focused psychotherapy can contribute to children and adolescents attending therapy, being more motivated in therapy, and can successfully complete therapy.
The aim of the study is to investigate the needed extent and the way a dog is integrated into psychotherapeutic interventions for them to be motivating and alliance building for children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders aged 9 to 17 years old. Specifically, we want to elaborate if the dog needs to be integrated into the therapy in a form that it is part of the therapeutic context or if the presence of the dog without being part of the therapeutic context per se is beneficial.
The aim of this study is to adapt the Cravings for Rest and Volitional Energy Expenditure (CRAVE) scale to Turkish society and to make its validity and reliability in Turkish. The CRAVE scale developed by Stults-Kolehmainen et al assesses the intrinsic motivation required for sedentary behavior and participation in physical activity. It has 13 questions. CRAVE scale questions and questions in the data collection form will be prepared through the google surveys and will be sent to the participants via Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram and e-mail. Participants will fill out the survey forms online. 130 participants will be included in the study. In order to evaluate the validity of the CRAVE, the Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire-2 (BREQ-2), which can measure exercise behaviors and intrinsic motivation and has been validated in Turkish, will be used. Scales will be repeated after 15 days to assess test-retest reliability.
The study's aim is to better understand motivation and value-based decision making in Parkinson's patients through neurophysiology using Medtronic's Percept PC DBS device.
Depression is a major public concern associated with profound distress, intense suffering, and impairment in social, professional and familial functioning. Among the numerous symptoms defining depression, fatigue and motivation are not only frequent but also highly associated with poor quality of life and resistance to conventional antidepressant. Recent data, mainly obtained in animals, suggest that these symptoms may be linked to inflammatory processes within the central nervous system. Yet access to the brain is too invasive for exploring this link in patients with psychiatric conditions. However, certain conditions in neurosurgery, such as aneurysm rupture, require external evacuation, over several days or weeks, of the fluid bathing the brain through a catheter directly inserted into it. Critically, these patients also exhibit extreme exhaustion and fluctuating motivation, allowing to investigate the involvement of neuroinflammation in lack of motivation and fatigue by carrying out repeated motivation assessments with short behavioral tests (around ten minutes), while performing an analysis of inflammation markers in the fluid evacuated from the brain. The identification of inflammatory mechanisms underlying lack of motivation and fatigue could lead to the development of treatments for both resistant depression and motivation deficits that largely hamper rehabilitation in neurosurgery.
Fundamental advancements in understanding successful aging are limited by the lack of causal, rather than just correlational methods to connect age-related changes in memory ability to changes in brain structure and function. In this study, non-invasive electric brain stimulation will be used as a tool to create causal links between successful memory function in aging and brain structures associated with motivation. Recently, it was shown that a group of elderly, dubbed "superagers", are indistinguishable from young adults in memory performance and the structure of cortical limbic regions. A key superaging region is mid-cingulate cortex (MCC), a brain structure associated with motivation and tenacity. The MCC is a hub region that synchronizes information flow between three core brain networks. The goal of the research is to explore the contribution of motivation to memory performance by modulating MCC connectivity with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to provide the first causal evidence that experimentally induced motivation can improve memory performance. Since MCC has not been stimulated with tDCS before, we will test three different stimulation protocols and compare against a placebo. The stimulation protocols were computationally optimized for this project. The primary aim is to find the stimulation protocol most successful at improving memory performance. In order to elucidate the mechanisms behind these changes, effects of stimulation on motivation and network connectivity will be investigated. If indeed memory can be improved by increasing motivation and effort via stimulating MCC, this study will generate new insights into the motivational mechanisms of successful aging.
The study aims to compare the efficacy of using gamification for oral hygiene in children at home environment.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an 8-week intervention based on implementation intention (motivation) in patients with multiple sclerosis on objectively measured physical activity.
During adolescence, the most common causes of morbidity and mortality are related to risky behaviors. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that adolescents be screened for these behaviors during primary care visits, but many adolescents do not receive the recommended risk behavior screening and counseling, in part because they are infrequently seen in primary care. The objective of this study is to evaluate if the electronic health screening tool, which includes an electronic health assessment with integrated personalized feedback, reduces risk behaviors in adolescents seen in the Emergency Department (ED).