scholarly journals Design features of health information visualization for the purpose of efficacy perception about weight control among young adults: A mixed methods study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xing Huang
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Information Visualization ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Mixed Methods Design ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Perception Of Self

This study intends to find out the design features of health information visualization that can positively influence young adults’ perception of self-efficacy about weight control. An exploratory mixed methods design has been used by firstly collecting qualitative data in order to develop an information visualization intervention, which then followed with a quantitative phase to assess the design features. Three design features were generated - (1). Visualizing the comparison of intake and consumed calories; (2). Showing both the short-term and long-term predictions of weight; (3). Showing an ideal path of weight control.

Session 23: Maintaining Motivation

2016 ◽  
pp. 139-144
Author(s):  
Evan M. Forman ◽  
Meghan L. Butryn
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Healthy Behaviors ◽  
Weight Control Behaviors ◽  
Motivate Behavior ◽  
Do So

This chapter (Session 23) discusses how to maintain long-term motivation for weight control by focusing on the importance of values to motivate behavior, even if short-term reward of weight control behaviors is decreasing (e.g., weight loss is slowing, self-monitoring is becoming tiresome). Clients are encouraged to view the hard work of weight control as working toward their values and to use the skill of willingness to continue to engage in healthy behaviors, even when it is difficult uncomfortable to do so.

scholarly journals A Mixed Methods Design to Detect Adolescent and Young Adults' Impulsiveness on Decision-Making and Motor Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Queralt Prat ◽  
Juan Andueza ◽  
Berta Echávarri ◽  
Oleguer Camerino ◽  
Tiago Fernandes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Motor Performance ◽  
Mixed Methods Design ◽  
Adolescent And Young Adults

Coping among adolescents with long-term health conditions: a mixed-methods study

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (13) ◽  
pp. 762-769
Author(s):  
Nabeel Al-Yateem ◽  
Muhammad Arsyad Subu ◽  
Arwa Al-Shujairi ◽  
Intima Alrimawi ◽  
Hend Mohd Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
School Health ◽  
Stressful Events ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Mixed Methods Design ◽  
Care Environment ◽  
Psychological Comorbidities ◽  
Negative Coping

Background: Adolescents with long-term health conditions may be at risk of developing psychological comorbidities and adopting ineffective coping mechanisms if they are not adequately supported at home or school. Aim: To understand the strategies adolescents use when dealing with challenging health situations, and gain an in-depth understanding of the characteristics of their preferred care environment if they have unexpected health crises. Design: The study used a concurrent mixed-methods design, with data gathered between January and May 2019. Descriptive and non-parametric tests were used to analyse quantitative and qualitative data. Results: ‘Problem-focused disengagement’ was the most-often used coping strategy. The second and third most common strategies were ‘problem-focused engagement’ and ‘emotion-focused engagement’. Finally, girls tended to adopt more negative coping strategies than boys. The analysis revealed that most adolescents preferred home over school as the care environment because these caring agents were close and available, knew how to care for them and had the resources to provide or access care, and listened and understood them. Conclusion: Adolescents adopted disengagement and negative coping strategies early in their attempts to cope with stressful events before adopting more positive strategies. This is alarming, especially as school health services are not sufficiently supportive of adolescents at times of stress and illness. Adolescents often perceive school providers as unavailable and lacking knowledge about their health needs.

scholarly journals Retrospective Attention in Short-Term Memory Has a Lasting Effect on Long-Term Memory Across Age

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (8) ◽  
pp. 1317-1325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Strunk ◽  
Lauren Morgan ◽  
Sarah Reaves ◽  
Paul Verhaeghen ◽  
Audrey Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Short And Long Term

Abstract Objectives Declines in both short- and long-term memory are typical of healthy aging. Recent findings suggest that retrodictive attentional cues (“retro-cues”) that indicate the location of to-be-probed items in short-term memory (STM) have a lasting impact on long-term memory (LTM) performance in young adults. Whether older adults can also use retro-cues to facilitate both STM and LTM is unknown. Method Young and older adults performed a visual STM task in which spatially informative retro-cues or noninformative neutral-cues were presented during STM maintenance of real-world objects. We tested participants’ memory at both STM and LTM delays for objects that were previously cued with retrodictive or neutral-cues during STM order to measure the lasting impact of retrospective attention on LTM. Results Older adults showed reduced STM and LTM capacity compared to young adults. However, they showed similar magnitude retro-cue memory benefits as young adults at both STM and LTM delays. Discussion To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to investigate whether retro-cues in STM facilitate the encoding of objects into LTM such that they are more likely to be subsequently retrieved by older adults. Our results support the idea that retrospective attention can be an effective means by which older adults can improve their STM and LTM performance, even in the context of reduced memory capacity.

scholarly journals Reasons for knitting blogging and its importance for crafting

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 48-62
Author(s):  
Katja Vilhunen ◽  
Sinikka Hannele Pöllänen ◽  
Harri Pitkäniemi
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Mixed Methods Design ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods

The purpose of this study was to describe the reasons for knitting blogging and the importance of blogging for the bloggers’ crafting. A multiphase mixed-methods study focusing on quantitative research methods was the methodological basis. Therefore, the study included both sequential and simultaneous investigation paths. In this study, the quantitative data were collected from the same group of Finnish knitting bloggers by two online surveys in 2008 (N= 501) and in 2013 (N= 212). The quantitative data focused on time-related changes in blogging, whereas the qualitative data, collected by essays (N=50) during 2013-2014, was used to explain the quantitative data. In quantitative analysis, the key features of reasons for knitting blogging were analysed by principal component analysis. The differences in the principal components for the background groups between the surveys were elucidated by means of 2-way analysis of variance. The qualitative data were analysed by data-driven content analysis. The results indicated that there were several reasons for knitting blogging. According to the results, the elements of knitting blogging were: 1) inspiration and materialization, 2) connecting and community support, 3) encouragement and 4) reflection and reminiscence. Knitting blogging has reshaped crafting by combining the material and tactile process of knitting with digital practices of life-streaming and with participatory activities in networked spaces. It appeared that knitting and blogging complemented each other, and that blogging supported development of the blogger’s crafting into a serious leisure activity with meaningful long-term activities and clear goals. Keywords: digital practices, knitting blog, leisure, mixed methods design, online communities

scholarly journals Childhood Adversity, Resilience, and Mental Health: A Sequential Mixed-Methods Study of Chinese Young Adults

2019 ◽  
pp. 088626051987603
Author(s):  
G. W. K. Ho ◽  
A. C. Y. Chan ◽  
M. Shevlin ◽  
T. Karatzias ◽  
P. S. Chan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Stress Disorders ◽  
Mixed Methods Design ◽  
Chinese Young Adults

Resilience is a key health protective factor for those with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), but little research has explored how it manifests in early adulthood or across cultures. The purpose of this study was to generate a fuller understanding of resilience and its contribution to the relationships between mental health problems and ACEs among Chinese young adults in Hong Kong. Using a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, 433 Chinese young adults aged 18 to 24 years were surveyed online to examine the relationships between ACEs, resilience, and mental health problems (depression, anxiety, maladjustment, and posttraumatic stress symptoms). Among them, 34 participants with ACEs were purposively selected and interviewed to explore cultural factors that influenced their resilience. Quantitative data were analyzed using multiple hierarchical regression analyses; qualitative data were analyzed using a qualitative descriptive approach. Higher cumulative ACE exposure was associated with higher severity of adjustment disorder and odds for screening positive for posttraumatic stress disorders, but not for symptoms of depression or anxiety. Resilience significantly contributed to explaining variances across all mental health outcomes over and beyond ACEs and in a protective fashion. Four themes emerged from qualitative interviews: (a) Privacy, emotional restraint, and “saving face”; (b) Conforming to preserve harmony; (c) A will to excel; and (d) Viewing adversity as a matter of luck. These findings suggest Chinese young adults’ resilience was influenced by cultural norms of restraint, conformity, competition, and superstition. The present study provides a model for future studies using a mixed-methods design to deeply examine resilience among younger people exposed to early adversities within sociocultural, historical, or geographical contexts.

Concurrent Group and Family Treatment for Young Adults

1981 ◽  
Vol 62 (10) ◽  
pp. 614-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Dublin
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Group Therapy ◽  
Treatment Method ◽  
Family Treatment ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Intensive Group

A treatment method that is uniquely suitable for young adults combines the use of long-term, intensive group therapy with short-term family treatment. This approach addresses clients' defects, builds on their strengths, and, finally, reconnects them in an improved and more mature fashion with their families.

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