Awareness of Substance Abuse and other Health-Related Behaviors among Preschool Children

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Forest S. Tennant
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Seat Belt ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Suitable Target ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Pictorial Representations ◽  
Very High

A group of forty-six preschool children, ages five and six, who were recipients of well-child examinations, were surveyed by a trained person without parents or teacher present. Subjects were shown eight pictorial representations of drug abuse, alcohol abuse, smoking, over-eating, tooth brushing, exercising, wearing a seat belt, and violence towards others. Each child was asked to identify each health-related behavior; explain its health implication; state whether they currently practiced or planned to engage in the behavior in the future; and identify their source of knowledge. All children could identify at least some of the behaviors and relate some health benefits or hazards of the behavior. Parents and television were the primary sources of knowledge. This study suggests that preschool children may be a suitable target population for substance abuse and other health-related education, since awareness of these behaviors was very high in the group of children studied here.

Impact of oral mucosal conditions on oral health-related quality of life in preschool children: a hierarchical approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Gonçalves Vieira-Andrade ◽  
Paulo Antônio Martins-Júnior ◽  
Patrícia Corrêa-Faria ◽  
Leandro Silva Marques ◽  
Saul Martins Paiva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Hierarchical Approach ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related

Toward a Trans* Method in Musicology

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Baitz
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Musical Structures ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
Way Of Knowing ◽  
Material Conditions

This chapter shows that the methods used to approach queer musical subjects cannot adequately account for transsexual ones. To show this, I distinguish queer methods from transsexual methods, while acknowledging a continuum between those extremes. Queer aesthetic and interpretive models highlight a transcending of bodily and other material structures; transsexuality invests in the body. Transsexual studies situate embodiment and material conditions as primary sources of knowledge (or forms of “counterknowledge”), thereby providing new ways for musicologists to consider the meaning that musical structures hold. Likewise, transsexual artists become legible within musicology through an application of transsexual studies (notably including phenomenology and new materialisms) to music. Ultimately, by integrating transsexual epistemologies with queer ones, a new way of knowing music (a “trans* method”) is suggested.

scholarly journals INFLUENCE OF FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES ON EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY: CASE OF SAFARICOM LIMITED, KENYA

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daisy Chepkoech ◽  
Hannah Bula
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Employee Productivity ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Spillover Theory ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Family Support Services

Social demands in our world today and pressures from employees have posed a challenging dilemma among employers. The employers have had to adopt strategies that will meet the needs of the employers in order to make sure that they retain the best talents while at the same time provide a work life balance thus ensuring a win-win situation for all parties. Lack of providing work life balances have led to metal ill health related disease, absenteeism to deal with family issues and finally loss of best talent to the competitors especially when they have favorable work life balance practices. The study therefore sought to establish the influence of family support practices on employee productivity Safaricom limited in Kenya. The study adopted spillover theory. The study adopted a descriptive survey with target population of 4972 employees of Safaricom limited Kenya. A sample size of 370 employees of the target population was considered using stratified sampling method. Quantitative data that resulted from this process was analyzed with help of SPSS version 21 and descriptive statistics such as frequencies, mean, percentages and standard deviation. From the findings, family support services significantly influence employee productivity at r=.598 p<0.005. Additionally, the findings concur with the theoretical foundation of the study that adoption of family support services spills over to the attitude and the motivation of the employees which results to increased productivity. JEL: J10; J24

scholarly journals A study of socio-demographic profile and pattern of drug use among substance abusers attending mind care de-addiction center in Ahmedabad

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 286
Author(s):  
Bhavesh B. Prajapati ◽  
Mihir R. Dedun ◽  
Harshdev S. Jalfava ◽  
Aparajita A. Shukla
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Substance Abusers ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Alcoholic Beverages ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Environmental Aspect ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Study Participants

Background: Substance abuse has emerged as a global phenomenon and prevalent throughout the world in all the cultures. Abuse of alcoholic beverages and tobacco are endemic in many societies, whilst the abuse of other psychoactive substances is growing concern in India. It has major impact on physical, psychological, social and environmental aspect of life.Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out amongst 100 persons attended at Mind Care de-addiction centre, Ahmedabad during the period of 1st January to 28th February 2018 with the help of pretested semi structured questionnaire.Results: Majority of the substance abusers were males (98%) and within the age group of 31 to 45 years (46%). Out of total abusers 28% were graduate and 47% doing skilled work. Majority of study participants were married (47%), belong to joint families (92%) and belongs to socio economic class I and II (50%). Most commonly used drug was alcohol (64%), followed by tobacco (20%), cannabis (12%) and opium (4%). Majority of users started to use it for social reasons (33%) and stress (26%). They got it for the first time from friends in 62% cases and 36% got by themselves. Health related changes were experienced in more than 50% of cases. Out of them, 84% feel improvement after visiting the centre.Conclusions: Drug use pattern is ever changing and has emerged as a global burden as it causes serious public health problems. There is a felt need for the assessment of the evolving trends of substance abuse. And suitable interventions for primary prevention should be considered. 

Health-related physical fitness is associated with total and central body fat in preschool children aged 3 to 5 years

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 468-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Martinez-Tellez ◽  
G. Sanchez-Delgado ◽  
C. Cadenas-Sanchez ◽  
J. Mora-Gonzalez ◽  
M. Martín-Matillas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Body Fat ◽  
Central Body ◽  
Health Related

scholarly journals Biomaterials for Drug Delivery: Sources, Classification, Synthesis, Processing, and Applications

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samson O. Adeosun ◽  
Margaret O. Ilomuanya ◽  
Oluwashina P. Gbenebor ◽  
Modupeola O. Dada ◽  
Cletus C. Odili
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Target Cell ◽  
Drug Carrier ◽  
Drug Carriers ◽  
Rehabilitation Process ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Suitable Target ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Health Rehabilitation ◽  
And Performance

A way to avoid or minimize the side effect that could result in drug delivery to cells with increased efficiency and performance in the health rehabilitation process is to use biocompatible and biodegradable drug carriers. These are essentially biomaterials that are metallic, ceramic, or polymeric in nature. The sources of these materials must be biological in its entire ramification. The classification, synthesis, processing, and the applications to which these materials are put are the essential components of having suitable target cell drug carriers. This chapter will be devoted to discussing biomaterials suitable as drug carrier for use in the health-related matters of rehabilitation.

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