scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF GYMNASTIC EXERCISES IN THE QUALITY OF ADULT WOMEN’S LIFE

2020 ◽  
Vol 13(62) (2) ◽  
pp. 145-152
Author(s):  
C. GUGU-GRAMATOPOL
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Group Practice ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
Sports Activities ◽  
High Effort

The presence of women in all areas of contemporary life is a reality that generates many changes in their lifestyle. In the present study, we aimed to make a comparative analysis in two groups of women. The adults in the first group practice sports activities 2-4 times a week, but have sedentary professions, those in the second group have active professions, with medium to high effort, but do not participate in any sports class, with 3 exceptions. The results obtained show us better values recorded at body indices, and at indices related to health status, sleep quality in women in the second group. Our recommendation for adult women is to adopt a lifestyle with sports activities performed daily, with a medium to high effort to improve their quality of life

scholarly journals Health status, resilience and quality of life of first and fourth year nursing students

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Marques da Silva ◽  
Ana Lucia Siqueira Costa ◽  
Fernanda Carneiro Mussi ◽  
Fernanda Michelle Santos e Silva ◽  
Keila Cristina Félis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Poor Sleep ◽  
Cross Sectional

Objective: To compare the health status (stress, depressive symptoms and sleep quality), the resilience and quality of life in first and fourth year nursing students.Methods: This is a cross-sectional research conducted in 2016 with 86 students enrolled in first and fourth years of the nursing degree. We applied the instrument for Assessment of Stress in Nursing Students, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index, Wagnild and Young’s Resilience Scale; and the WHOQOL-BREF. ANOVA (Test F) was applied for data analysis.Results and conclusions: A total of 49 first-year and 37 fourth-year students were sampled for this study. Fourth- year nursing students showed higher levels of stress, lower intensity of depressive symptoms and higher quality of life and resilience levels. The poor sleep quality was prevalent in both groups. Conclusion: although the nursing education potentially contributes for students’ sickness, the experiences lived in this period may strength the resilience skills.Conclusions: Video indexing and retrieval are accomplished by using hashing and $k$-d tree methods, while visual signatures containing color, shape and texture information are estimated for the key-frames, by using image and frequency domain techniques. Experimental results with the dataset of a multimedia information system especially developed for managing television broadcast archives demonstrate that our approach works efficiently, retrieving videos in 0.16 seconds on average and achieving recall, precision and F1 measure values, as high as 0.76, 0.97 and 0.86 respectively.

Quality of life of patients after inguinal hernioplasty by endoscopic methods

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sh.D. Asutaev ◽  
A.N. Poborskiy
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Inguinal Hernioplasty ◽  
Endoscopic Methods

A comparative analysis of the indicators of 53 men who underwent inguinal hernioplasty using the TEP (n = 20) and TAPP (n = 33) methods was carried out. Quality of life was assessed using the international questionnaire EQ-5D on the 1st day, 1 month and 12 months after surgery. Monitoring of quality of life parameters showed differences in the assessment of their condition by patients who underwent TEP and TAPP, which were most pronounced on the first day after surgery. The presence of problems during this period for all components of the EQ-5D questionnaire, to a greater extent, was associated by patients with pain / discomfort in the operation area. The latter were maximally manifested in the majority of those who underwent TAPP (64%), which also affected their lower assessment of their health status. The revealed differences disappear within a month after the interventions and are absent 12 months after the operation. Key words: quality of life, inguinal hernioplasty, endoscopic methods.

Effects of Qigong practice in quality of life, fatigue, sleep, pain and epigenetic biomarkers in adult women with fibromyalgia

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 285-292
Author(s):  
G.B. Ricciardi ◽  
G. Dorneles ◽  
D. Pochmann ◽  
A. Peres ◽  
V.R. Elsner
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire ◽  
Good Alternative ◽  
The Body ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Epigenetic Biomarkers ◽  
At Home

Fibromyalgia is a syndrome mainly diagnosed through patient medical history. These individuals may present symptoms, such as sleeping disorders, migraines, and widespread pain through the musculoskeletal system, resulting in less quality of life. Treatment for fibromyalgia is based on pharmacological and non-pharmacological options. Mind-body practices, such as Baduanjin Qigong, have been described as promising alternatives to better multiple symptoms presented by individuals with the condition. Searching for non-pharmacological alternatives that significantly increase the quality of life of these individuals, this study evaluates the alterations in epigenetic markers in short- and long-term after the practice of Baduanjin Qigong. The participants took part in presential sessions of Baduanjin Qigong twice a week for 8 weeks, as well as being encouraged to practice at home for 4 weeks. The evaluation of the biomarkers was made through the collection of blood samples before the first session, after the sessions in person and after the 4 weeks of practice at home. Fatigue, sleep quality and chronic pain were evaluated before the first sessions and at the end of the process, through the application of self-reported instruments: Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ), Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness-Fatigue (FACIT), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and Multidimensional Pain Evaluation Scale (EMADOR). As a result, significant improvements were found in quality of life, and in the symptoms of fatigue, sleep disturbance and in chronic pain in some regions of the body. In spite of the clinical-functional improvements, no significant alterations were found in the activity of histone acetyltransferase (HAT) enzymes after the intervention. The practice of Qigong approved to be a good alternative to improve the main symptoms of fibromyalgia in women, without involving modulation of HAT activity.

Mental Health Status and Health-Related Quality of Life among Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Patients in Thailand: A Multi-Site Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 103 (11) ◽  
pp. 1185-1193
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Lupus Erythematosus ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Mental Health Status ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related

Background: The systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients oftentimes suffer from both physical and psychosocial challenges that may lead to low health-related quality of life (HRQoL). However, limited research has been done in this area. Objective: To examined mental health status and HRQoL among SLE patients in Thailand. Materials and Methods: The present study was a cross-sectional study conducted at the rheumatology clinic of four major hospitals in Thailand. The paper-based questionnaire consisted of demographic, health history such as depression, anxiety, stress Scale (DASS-21), and the Rosenberg self-esteem scale (RSE), and the disease-specific Lupus Quality of Life scale (LupusQoL). Depending on the variable’s level of measurement such as categorical or continuous, Spearman’s Rho or Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficients were used to explore the relationships among the variables. Hierarchical multiple regression was used to identify the predictors of LupusQoL. Results: Among the 387 participants, many might have experienced depression, anxiety, and stress (30%, 51%, and 29%, respectively). Self-esteem among the participants was good (31.8 out of 40). All eight domains of LupusQoL were affected with intimate relationship domain being impacted the most. The overall LupusQoL was significantly associated with the number of prescribed medications (r=–0.23), depression (r=–0.70), anxiety (r=–0.58), stress (r=–0.67), and self-esteem (r=0.59), p<0.001. Significant predictors of the overall LupusQoL were mental health status (depression, anxiety, and stress) and self-esteem, F (3, 81)=43.10, p<0.001, adjusted R²=0.60. Conclusion: SLE patients should be holistically assessed in both physical and psychological aspects. In addition to proper medical treatments, healthcare providers should use a multidisciplinary team approach to resolve the patients’ psychosocial issues, which in turn, may increase the patients’ quality of life. Self-care education may be necessary to help the patients manage the condition and decrease the number of medications. Keywords: Mental health, Quality of life, SLE, Thailand

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