Evaluation of a stress prevention program for young high-performance athletes

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Dallmann ◽  
C. Bach ◽  
H. Zipser ◽  
P.A. Thomann ◽  
S.C. Herpertz
Keyword(s):  
Prevention Program ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Stress Prevention

Alterations in DNA methylation of FKBP5 following a stress prevention program

2017 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Martin Stoffel ◽  
Elena Gardini ◽  
Ulrike Ehlert ◽  
Beate Ditzen
Keyword(s):  
Dna Methylation ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Stress Prevention

scholarly journals Evaluation of Undergraduate Students’ Responsiveness to a 4-Week University-Based Animal-Assisted Stress Prevention Program

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (18) ◽  
pp. 3331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Pendry ◽  
Stephanie Kuzara ◽  
Nancy R. Gee
Keyword(s):  
Stress Management ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Behavioral Change ◽  
Academic Stress ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Stress Prevention ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Human Animal Interaction ◽  
Animal Interaction

An increase in the prevalence of stress among college students is compromising their mental health and academic success. One approach to stress prevention that has seen a surge in implementation is the use of university-based Animal Visitation Programs (AVPs). Despite their popularity and promising causal findings, program evaluations on students’ responsiveness (e.g., enjoyment, attendance, perceptions on usefulness and behavioral change) have yet to be conducted. Using a mixed methods approach, this study reports results of a program evaluation embedded in a randomized controlled trial examining the efficacy of incorporating various levels (0%, 50% or 100%) of Human Animal Interaction (HAI) into a four-week long university-based stress prevention program resulting in three conditions: (1) Evidence-based Academic Stress Management content only (0% HAI), (2) Human Animal Interaction with therapy dogs only (100% HAI) and (3) equal combinations of Academic Stress Management and HAI (50% HAI). Responsiveness (e.g., enjoyment, usefulness, recommendation and behavioral change) was assessed quantitatively and qualitatively using self-reported survey data collected immediately following the program and again six weeks later. The results suggest that combining evidence-based content presentations with HAI was associated with higher levels of enjoyment, perceived usefulness, and likelihood of recommendation compared to presenting content presentation or HAI alone, although doing so did not result in differences in perceived behavioral change by condition. Themes of students’ perceptions on the role of HAI in shaping program enjoyment, usefulness, recommendations and behavioral change were described.

scholarly journals A Multimodal Stress-Prevention Program Supplemented by Telephone-Coaching Sessions to Reduce Perceived Stress among German Farmers: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (24) ◽  
pp. 9227
Author(s):  
Marita Stier-Jarmer ◽  
Cornelia Oberhauser ◽  
Dieter Frisch ◽  
Götz Berberich ◽  
Thomas Loew ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Primary Outcome ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Management Intervention ◽  
Stress Prevention ◽  
Telephone Coaching

This study compared the effectiveness of a 12-day stress-prevention program (SGS) supplemented by individualized, structured, four-session telephone-coaching to that of an SGS without telephone-coaching in entrepreneurs from the green professions presenting with increased stress levels. All participants went through the SGS before being randomized either to the telephone-coaching group (TC) or to the control group without telephone-coaching (noTC). SGS included four key therapeutic elements: stress-management intervention, relaxation, physical exercise, and balneotherapy. The primary outcome was the current degree of subjectively experienced stress assessed with the Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) at a 9-month follow-up. Secondary outcomes included burnout symptoms, well-being, health status, sleep disorders, expectation of self-efficacy, depression, anxiety, ability to work, pain, and days of sick leave. Assessments were conducted at baseline, 12 days (end of program), and 1 (start telephone-coaching), 3, 6 (end of telephone-coaching), and 9 months. Data from 103 adults (TC = 51; noTC = 52), mostly fulltime farmers, were available for analysis (mean age: 55.3; 49.1% female). Participants experienced significant immediate improvement in all outcome measurements, which declined somewhat during the first three months after the end of SGS and then remained stable for at least another six months. While within-group changes from baseline to 9 months showed significant improvements at medium to large effect sizes for all target variables (PSQ-total, TC: −13.38 (±14.98); 95%-CI: (−17.68; −9.07); noTC: −11.09 (±14.15); 95%-CI: (−15.11; −7.07)), no statistically significant differences were found between the groups at any time and for any target variable (between-group ANCOVA for PSQ-total at 9 months, parameter estimator for the group: −1.58; 95%-CI: (−7.29; 4.13)). The stress-prevention program SGS is a feasible, effective, and practical way to reduce perceived stress and improve participants’ resources. Four subsequent telephone-coaching sessions do not seem to contribute to a further improvement in the results.

A High Performance Energy Analyzer for Use in Electron Scanning Microscopy

1969 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 14-15
Author(s):  
A. V. Crewe ◽  
M. Isaacson ◽  
D. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Vertical Plane ◽  
Median Plane ◽  
Electron Gun ◽  
Uniform Field ◽  
Loss Mechanism ◽  
Electron Scanning Microscopy ◽  
Sector Type ◽  
Double Focusing ◽  
Electron Energy Loss

A double focusing magnetic spectrometer has been constructed for use with a field emission electron gun scanning microscope in order to study the electron energy loss mechanism in thin specimens. It is of the uniform field sector type with curved pole pieces. The shape of the pole pieces is determined by requiring that all particles be focused to a point at the image slit (point 1). The resultant shape gives perfect focusing in the median plane (Fig. 1) and first order focusing in the vertical plane (Fig. 2).

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