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Filter by:The negative impacts on physical and psychological health brought by COVID-19 seem to perpetuate in the post-pandemic era. It is estimated that there will be an impending mental health crisis in the general population in the aftermath of the pandemic due to the delayed negative impacts of COVID-19 and the associated non-pharmaceutical public health interventions such as social distancing, quarantining, and lockdown. Smart Health, defined as the provision of medical and public healthcare services by using mobile technologies, is a cost-effective and easily operated intervention that can provide various functions and can bring significant changes in people's health behaviour, such as prompting them to adopt a physically active lifestyle. Despite the rapid growth of digital health technology, most of them were developed during pandemic with a focus on delivering non-systematic, general virtual healthcare to people. The aim of this study is 1) to develop a Health Apps for Post-Pandemic Years (HAPPY) driven by the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping Theory, and 2) to evaluate its efficacy of alleviating people's physiological and psychosocial distress during post-pandemic era. A total of 814 eligible participants, both COVID-19 victims and non-COVID-19 victims exhibiting physiological and/or psychosocial distress during post-pandemic era, will be recruited and randomized to either the experimental or the waitlist control group. The experimental group will receive a 24-week intervention combined with an 8-week regular supervision phase plus a 16-week self-help phase. Participants will receive different coping strategies, namely physical training, energy conservation techniques and mindfulness-based coping in the intervention hub at Level 2 based on participants' assessments at Level 1, and enhance self-management at Level 3. Participants' physical activity levels will be measured using commercial wearable sensors. The waitlist control group will receive materials on the promotion of physical and psychological health during waiting period and receive the same intervention as the experimental group in week 25. It is hypothesized that the experimental group will exhibit milder symptoms of physiological and psychosocial distress, and have a more positive appraisal mindset, greater self-efficacy, and more sustainable self-management ability than participants in the waitlist control group.
Stress and pain control are vital for newborns, especially preterm babies. While painful procedures cause physiological changes in the short term, they negatively affect brain development in the long term. Non-pharmacological interventions with proven efficacy include: fetal position, sucrose, breastfeeding, breast milk, maternal presence, non-nutritive sucking, swaddling (wrapping) and skin-to-skin contact, as well as developmentally supportive positioning. Evaluating the effectiveness of nursing practices to be performed on babies, scientifically proving the most beneficial application that will both alleviate pain and increase their comfort in painful procedures such as aspiration and being more beneficial to babies are among the most basic benefits. Thanks to these applications, it is predicted that your baby will experience less pain and provide more comfort. Therefore, this study aim to comparison the effects of facilitated tucking, swaddling and prone position applied during endotracheal aspiration on pain, comfort and physiological parameters in preterm infants.
To investigate surgical mask use and high-intensity interval exercise across different environmental conditions.
This study aims to test the central hypothesis that adding to the diet daily yogurt provides beneficial effects on digestive health and subjective mood in healthy adults.
Increased stress levels are a significant problem for many students and represent a risk factor for impaired mental and physical health as well as academic performance. Stress levels are particularly high during the preparation phase for major exams. There is good evidence that light therapy is an effective treatment option to improve mood in affective disorders. The present study aims at investigating the psychophysiological effects of a 3-week morning bright light exposure in reducing stress and stress-related problems in students preparing for major exams.
The study purposes are to compare the effects of different combinations of sensory interventions on newborns' pain responses, physiological distress (heart rate and oxygen saturation), and crying event during heel stick procedures.
This pilot study aims at investigating short-term effects of clown visits by RED NOSES Clowndoctors Austria in children and adolescents in psychiatric care without control group. It is assumed that children and adolescents involved in an interaction with the clowns will experience a shift in their focus. Individual attention and distraction from painful emotions have the ability to redirect their attention to the current pleasurable moment and increase their level of energy. Scientific evidence has shown that the distraction and switch to positive emotions associated with healthcare clowning can decrease the level of stress and pain (Vagnoli et al., 2005; Dionigi et al., 2014). The study examines subjective and physiological stress levels of participants receiving clown visits in a group setting on a weekly basis. Using a non-controlled pre-/post-test design, the level of salivary cortisol and self-reported stress and mood will be measured before and after each clown visit over four consecutive weeks. Additionally, effects on care staff at the health facilities will be assessed based on a questionnaire after each clown visit within the same time period of four weeks. The sample will consist of approximately 40 children and adolescents in inpatient or outpatient psychiatric care. The examined intervention, i.e. clown visits by RED NOSES Clowndoctors Austria, is an integral part within the selected psychiatric health care institutions. The study hypotheses are: 1. Children and adolescents will report a reduced subjective stress level and better mood states in the three assessed dimensions (good - bad mood; alertness - tiredness; calmness - restlessness) after the experience of a clown visit (post-test) compared to before the clown visit (pre-test) independent of age and gender. 2. Children and adolescents will display a reduced cortisol level after the experience of a clown visit (post-test) compared to before the clown visit (pre-test) independent of age and gender. 3. The more frequently children and adolescents experience the weekly clown visits over the course of the four-week study, the stronger the stress-reducing and mood-enhancing effects in the pre-/post-comparison will be over time. 4. Self-reported perceptions of care staff at the health facilities will indicate a positive effect of the clown visits on their own individual moods, the atmosphere within the care team, and the patients' well-being.
The study aims to investigate, through serial measurements of some biomarkers, the potential mechanisms through which yoga impacts on QOL and fatigue.
This research intervention aims to examine the effects of prebiotic consumption on changes in behavioral and biological measures of cognition and stress among adults.
In this study, we investigate the role that deep sleep plays in the prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder after someone has been exposed to a trauma by boosting deep sleep with two drug conditions compared to placebo condition. Each volunteer in the study goes through all three conditions. The quantity of intrusive memories of the trauma will be compared between the three conditions.