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Filter by:Complementary medicine is widely practiced in Germany and worldwide. The aim of this study is to explore how many people use complementary medicine methods in Germany, for which health-related issues they do and for which they would not.
The current study aims to explore a range of possible pathways by which BSCU1 could beneficially modulate the immune system, in three target populations representing the general population.
In recent years, nature and forest therapy has increasingly become the focus of medical research. Recent scientific findings indicate overall positive effects of nature and forest therapy on physical and mental health. In Asia and Australia, it has already been implemented as a public health concept of prevention and health promotion. The aim of the project is to replicate the experience gained in Asia over the last three decades on the physical and psychological effects of nature/forest therapy in the context of the German forest and to investigate it further scientifically.
New technologies are changing the way of approach for many concepts that used to be quite established in the past. The Internet, and especially online videogames where people can create a customizable character to serve as their avatar on a virtual environment, seems to have a great impact on the way people construe their identity. People may use online gaming as a means to experience an enhanced version of their self that matches more accurately the attributes and traits they often relate to their ideal self or even other alternative selves. With this project, the researchers aim to study the role that new technologies have on the way people build their identity nowadays. More specifically, the researchers intend to study how people use videogame avatars as a means to explore different alternative identities. The rebelieve that, it is possible for people to manifest entirely different versions of themselves through their online videogame characters. Sometimes, those alternative identities may even be a projection of what the player considers to be an ideal version of themselves. Other variables may increase or hinder that capacity to project the ideal self on a customizable "virtual self"; some are inherent to the person, such as cognitive complexity, their current level of psychological distress or their main motivation for playing, while others may be more related to the specific game they play, such as the degree of immersion experienced while playing. The researchers will use the repertory grid technique to explore online videogame players' personal construct systems and how an ideal version of themselves and their perceived self-image may help to understand their need to explore alternative identities through their videogame characters. They will also administrate other instruments to measure people's experienced immersion when playing the game, the aspects of it that are more appealing to them, and their degree of subjective psychological distress in order to assess how these variables, among others extracted from the repertory grid, may affect this identity exploration.
France has been put on a lockdown for 8 weeks to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus between 17/03/2020 and 11/05/2020. During this lockdown, which is likely to have psychopathological repercussions on the population, the public authorities and the media informed the population about the number of deaths occurring each day. While the functioning of autobiographical memory following traumatic events remains a debate in the literature, the impact of the daily announcement of mass deaths on the memory system in the general population and the relationship between long-term memory and delusional thinking in certain psychopathologies have yet to be explored in the literature. The investigators wish to demonstrate that self-reported recall of recorded deaths may represent this distortion of perception, symptomatic of these pathologies by an on-line questionnaire.
Participants will be randomly allocated to one of two experimental conditions: social exclusion or social inclusion. Participants, but not experimenters will be blind to the assignment. Pre- and post-tests will be administered. Participants will be offered 7 euros in compensation for participating.
A recent review indicated that sedentary behavior has been associated with increased morbidity and mortality but the intervention studies frequently focus only on changing sedentary behavior (reducing sedentary time) without measuring health-associated outcomes. Elevated cortisol (related to stress) has been linked with health risks. Improved physical fitness has been linked with improved cortisol responses to psychosocial stressors. In addition, increased physical activity induced favorable effects upon low density lipoprotein, high density lipoprotein, and total cholesterol. Previous study also indicated that increasing daily steps have positive effect on blood glucose in people with impaired glucose tolerance. Ultimately, the investigators think that sedentary intervention and stress management may have benefits on these health indicators. As such the investigators will examine whether sedentary intervention or stress management can have positive effect on human health by measuring salivary cortisol, blood lipid profile, fasting blood glucose, blood pressure, resting energy expenditure, and body composition.
The aim of this study is to analyze the efficacy of several variations of an already validated Positive Psychology Intervention (PPI) called Best Possible Self, using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in general population. Participants are randomly assigned to one of 4 conditions: BPS PAST condition, BPS PRESENT condition, BPS FUTURE condition, and CONTROL condition (daily activities).
Objective: To confirm the psychometrics properties of the Intestinal Gas Questionnaire (IGQ) in subjects with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) diagnosis and General population both complaining of Gas-Related Symptoms (GRS). IGQ has been developed previously simultaneously in UK English, French and Spanish through qualitative research with subject interviews. The conceptual framework of the IGQ assesses both GRS and their impact on daily life. Similar concepts were identified for both subjects with IBS diagnosis and general population and complaining of gas-related symptoms. The IGQ consists of a 24-hour recall symptom diary assessing 7 gas-related symptoms (17 items) and a 7-day recall questionnaire which assesses the impact of those symptoms (26 items)
Breath analysis is a non-invasive procedure to detect and monitor diseases and it is particularly attractive for patients who have to routinely check biomarkers, such as diabetics (blood glucose) or end-stage renal disease patients (creatinine). Preliminary data in a small study with healthy subjects showed a high correlation between blood glucose levels and acetone. Therefore, the objective of this study is to correlate biomarkers (glucose level and creatinine, respectively) with the corresponding target breath components (acetone and NH3, respectively) detected by portable gas sensors in the general population and to assess possible predictive models for biomarker estimations from the corresponding target breath component and predictive models to estimate abnormal biomarker concentrations.