Sons al Balcó, a Citizen Science Approach to Map the Soundscape of Catalonia

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Xavier Baño ◽  
Pau Bergadà ◽  
Daniel Bonet-Solà ◽  
Alba Egea ◽  
Maria Foraster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Data ◽  
First Year ◽  
Design Tools ◽  
Objective Data ◽  
Noise Levels ◽  
Outdoor Activities ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Dynamic Collaboration ◽  
One Year

Sons al Balcó (Catalan for “Sounds of the balcony”) was a project born to study the effect that the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown caused on the perception of noise in Catalonia. One of the aims of the project was to combine the research activities—acoustic and image processing, urbanistic analysis and health and annoyance evaluation—with the dynamic collaboration with citizens and other stakeholders to create social and environmental impact, to raise awareness and design tools to improve citizenship development and empowerment. This first year of Sons al Balcó has shown that citizens are willing to participate in initiatives that work with their everyday life, because one year after the lockdown, a new soundscape map of Catalonia has been built with their collaboration and their perceptual impact from their balconies or windows. This has allowed the inclusion of other issues that enhance the final goal of describing and finding relationships between the annoyance caused by noise, and other factors as the environment (urban, suburban, rural) and the landscape, including the soundscape and noise levels in this evaluation. Objective measurements of LAeq have been conducted during the lockdown and in the months afterwards to describe the average noise and its possible link with outdoor activities. During this second collecting campaign, Sons al Balcó managed to gather more than 220 contributions. In this work, we detail the definitions of the metrics that include urbanistic and health-related environmental elements (water, trees, etc.), together with the socio-economic and demographic data that correspond to the answers of the questionnaires, and finally, the information extracted from the audios and the videos sent by the citizens. Preliminary results show encouraging dependencies between perception gathered with the questionnaires and the objective data collected, still in process of analysis, and a clear bias to a worse soundscape in 2021 in comparison to the 2020 campaign.

scholarly journals Duration of maternal mental health-related outcomes after an infant’s death: A retrospective matched-cohort study using linkable administrative data

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Wall-Wieler ◽  
Leslie Roos ◽  
James Bolton
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychotropic Medication ◽  
Maternal Mental Health ◽  
Medication Use ◽  
First Year ◽  
Death Of A Child ◽  
Health Related ◽  
One Year ◽  
Child's Death ◽  
Linkable Administrative Data

IntroductionMothers have increased mental illness such as anxiety and depression after the death of a child. Objectives and ApproachThe mental health of all mothers who experience the death of an infant (< 1 years old) in Manitoba, Canada between April 1, 1999, and March 31, 2011 (n = 534) is examined in the four years leading up to, and the four years following, the death of their child to determine how long increased levels of mental-health realted outcomes remain elevated after the death of an infant. Mental health-related outcomes of these mothers are compared with a matched (3:1) cohort of mothers who did not experience the death of a child (n = 1,602). ResultsCompared with mothers who did not experience the death of a child, mothers experiencing this event had higher rates of anxiety diagnoses and psychotropic prescriptions starting 6 months before the death. Elevated rates of anxiety continued for the first year and elevated rates of psychotropic prescriptions continued for six months after the death of the child. Mothers who experienced the death of a child had higher rates of depression diagnoses in the year after the death. Relative rates (RR) of depression (RR = 4.94), anxiety (RR = 2.21), and psychotropic medication use (RR = 3.18) were highest in the six months after the child’s death. Conclusion/ImplicationsElevated rates of depression, anxiety, and psychotropic medication use after the death of a child end within one year of the child’s death.

scholarly journals How gender-specific are predictors of post-MI HRQoL? A longitudinal study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Wlodarczyk ◽  
Urszula Ziętalewicz
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Male Survivors ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Mental Hrqol ◽  
Negative Role ◽  
One Year ◽  
And Coping

Abstract Purpose: Extant research shows that health-related quality of life (HRQoL) differs between female and male survivors of myocardial infarction (MI), but the reasons for this are not fully understood. We aimed to examine the differences in predictors of HRQoL in female and male survivors during the first year after MI. Methods: At timepoints 1 and 2, the sample comprised 222 MI survivors (59 women and 163 men; mean age 53.84 years, range 24–65) referred for in-patient cardiac rehabilitation. This number dropped to 140 participants (42 women and 98 men) at the third timepoint, approximately one year after the MI. We examined the gender differences in various predictors of physical and mental HRQoL: demographic factors (e.g., age, gender, marital status), disease-related factors (pre- and post-MI), personality and coping with stress. Results: Initially, both physical and mental HRQoL were lower in women than men, but the differences disappeared at timepoint 3. Stepwise regressions were performed to investigate how the HRQoL predictors varied in females and males. The factors shaping HRQoL differed between genders and they also changed over time. Substantially fewer factors predicted physical HRQoL in women than in men. Trait anxiety seems to play a similarly negative role in both genders. Conclusions: The psychosocial resources that influence HRQoL differ between women and men. There were also differences concerning predictors of HRQoL dimensions. Further studies with a different or broader range of predictors are needed, especially among women.

scholarly journals Sons al balcó: Soundscape Map of the Confinement in Catalonia

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Rosa Ma Alsina-Pagès ◽  
Ferran Orga ◽  
Roger Mallol ◽  
Marc Freixes ◽  
Xavier Baño ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Noise Levels ◽  
Communication Campaign ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Rural Environments ◽  
Scientific Hypothesis ◽  
On Line ◽  
Line Test ◽  
Dynamic Collaboration ◽  
The One

In this project, we aim to study the effect that the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic has caused on the perception of noise in Catalonia. In Sons al Balcó, the research activities cohabit with the dynamic collaboration with citizens and other stakeholders to create social and environmental impact, to widen awareness and design tools to improve citizenship development and empowerment. The initial scientific hypothesis is that the annoyance coming from outdoor noise, minimized by the lockdown effect, could be associated with better perception of the soundscape by people. Sons al Balcó allows validating this hypothesis in two different ways. On the one hand, by means of subjective questionnaires conducted to people living in pre-defined diverse acoustic areas (urban, suburban and rural environments), and on the other hand, by the use of objective measurements of the noise levels, and the study of the soundscape in these areas, using short pieces of video collected by citizens. For this purpose, we designed an on line test to be conducted by any citizen aiming to contribute to this wide study for all the territory of Catalonia, both from rural areas and from cities. A communication campaign was conducted to reach a significant participation. During the lockdown, more than 350 questionnaires and videos were collected, and a first map of the soundscape of the confinement in Catalonia was depicted.

scholarly journals How gender-specific are predictors of post-MI HRQoL? A longitudinal study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Wlodarczyk ◽  
Urszula Ziętalewicz
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
First Year ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Male Survivors ◽  
Myocardial Infraction ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Mental Hrqol ◽  
One Year ◽  
And Coping

Abstract Purpose Extant research shows that health-related quality of life (HRQoL) differs between female and male survivors of myocardial infraction (MI), but the reasons for this are not fully understood. We aimed to examine gender differences in predictors of HRQoL in survivors during the first year after MI.Methods At timepoints 1 and 2 the sample comprised 222 MI survivors (59 women and 163 men; M age 53.84 years, SD = 6.71; range 24-65) referred for in-patient cardiac rehabilitation. This number dropped to 140 participants (42 women and 98 men) at the third timepoint, approx. one year after MI. We examined gender differences in various predictors of physical and mental HRQoL: demographic factors (age; gender identity; marital status; education), disease-related factors (pre- and post-MI), personality and coping with stress.Results Stepwise regressions were performed to investigate how the relationships between the four groups of predictors and HRQoL varied with gender. Initially both physical and mental HRQoL were lower in women than men, but the differences disappeared at timepoint 3. We captured gender differences in factors shaping HRQoL at all timepoints. Substantially fewer factors predicted physical HRQoL in women than in men. The role of predictors also changed over time.Conclusions The psychosocial resources that influence HRQoL differ substantially between women and men; however trait anxiety predicted HRQoL in both genders. Further studies with a different or broader range of predictors are needed.

scholarly journals How gender-specific are predictors of post-MI HRQoL? A longitudinal study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Wlodarczyk ◽  
Urszula Ziętalewicz
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Male Survivors ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Mental Hrqol ◽  
Negative Role ◽  
One Year ◽  
And Coping

Abstract Purpose: Extant research shows that health-related quality of life (HRQoL) differs between female and male survivors of myocardial infarction (MI), but the reasons for this are not fully understood. We aimed to examine the predictors of HRQoL in female and male survivors during the first year after MI. Methods: At timepoints 1 and 2, the sample comprised 222 MI survivors (59 women and 163 men; mean age 53.84 years, range 24–65) referred for in-patient cardiac rehabilitation. This number dropped to 140 participants (42 women and 98 men) at the third timepoint, approximately one year after the MI. We examined the gender differences in various predictors of physical and mental HRQoL: demographic factors (e.g., age, education, marital status), disease-related factors (pre- and post-MI), personality and coping with stress. Results: Initially, both physical and mental HRQoL were lower in women than men, but the differences disappeared at timepoint 3. Stepwise regressions performed separately for men and women revealed that the factors shaping HRQoL were different in both genders; they also changed over time. Substantially fewer factors predicted physical HRQoL in women than in men. Trait anxiety seems to play a similarly negative role in both genders. Conclusions: The psychosocial resources that influence HRQoL were different for women and men. There were also differences concerning predictors of HRQoL dimensions. Further studies with a different or broader range of predictors are needed, especially among women.

scholarly journals Working out of health related power lifting training program for first year students with muscular skeletal apparatus affections

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
Qiang San Zhen
Keyword(s):  
Motor Skills ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
First Year ◽  
Functional Fitness ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Health Related ◽  
One Year ◽  
General Physical ◽  
Working Out

Purpose: substantiation and working out of program for health improvement of first year students with muscular skeletal apparatus affections by power lifting means. Material: in experiment, which lasted one year, 24 first year students with muscular skeletal apparatus affections participated (two groups, 12 persons in each). The students’ age was 18-20 years old. Results: optimal correlation of specific and non-specific loads - 60%:40% was found. The worked out complex of exercises for training of bench press barbell technique includes the following: special warming up exercises, exercises on special simulators and exercises with weights. As general physical training it is recommended to use complex of commonly accepted exercises. Conclusions: application of the worked out program ensures formation of steady interest to physical exercises’ practicing, strengthening of health, replenishment of motor skills’ base, training of motor qualities and functional fitness. Besides, it facilitates more effective students’ social adaptation in collective.

Health-related quality of life one year after surgical treatment of the type I chronic aortic dissection

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oksana Kamenskaya ◽  
Asya Klinkova ◽  
Irina Loginova ◽  
Alexander Chernyavskiy ◽  
Dmitry Sirota ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Surgical Treatment ◽  
Aortic Dissection ◽  
Type I ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Chronic Aortic Dissection ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related ◽  
One Year

An Analysis of Dental Implants Survival and Success

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (9) ◽  
pp. 2465-2466
Author(s):  
Iustin Olariu ◽  
Roxana Radu ◽  
Teodora Olariu ◽  
Andrada Christine Serafim ◽  
Ramona Amina Popovici ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Medical History ◽  
Retrospective Cohort Study ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Retrospective Cohort ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Kaplan Meier ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Health Related

Osseointegration of a dental implant may encounter a variety of problems caused by various factors, as prior health-related problems, patients� habits and the technique of the implant inserting. Retrospective cohort study of 70 patients who received implants between January 2011- April 2016 in one dental unit, with Kaplan-Meier method to calculate the probability of implants�s survival at 60 months. The analysis included demographic data, age, gender, medical history, behavior risk factors, type and location of the implant. For this cohort the implants�survival for the first 6 months was 92.86% compared to the number of patients and 97.56% compared to the number of total implants performed, with a cumulative failure rate of 2.43% after 60 months. Failures were focused exclusively on posterior mandible implants, on the percentage of 6.17%, odds ratio (OR) for these failures being 16.76 (P = 0.05) compared with other localisations of implants, exclusively in men with median age of 42 years.

scholarly journals Health-related quality of life in different trimesters during pregnancy

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huailiang Wu ◽  
Weiwei Sun ◽  
Hanqing Chen ◽  
Yanxin Wu ◽  
Wenjing Ding ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related

Abstract Background Pregnant women experience physical, physiological, and mental changes. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is a relevant indicator of psychological and physical behaviours, changing over the course of pregnancy. This study aims to assess HRQoL of pregnant women during different stages of pregnancy. Methods This cross-sectional study was performed using the The EuroQoL Group’s five-dimension five-level questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L) to assess the HRQoL of pregnant women, and demographic data were collected. This study was conducted in a regional university hospital in Guangzhou, China. Results A total of 908 pregnant women were included in this study. Pregnant women in the early 2nd trimester had the highest HRQoL. The HRQoL of pregnant women rose from the 1st trimester to the early 2nd trimester, and dropped to the bottom at the late 3rd trimester due to some physical and mental changes. Reports of pain/discomfort problem were the most common (46.0%) while self-care were the least concern. More than 10% of pregnant women in the 1st trimester had health-related problems in at least one dimension of whole five dimensions. In the whole sample, the EuroQoL Group’s visual analog scale (EQ-VAS) was 87.86 ± 9.16. Across the gestational stages, the HRQoL remained stable during the pregnancy but the highest value was observed in the 1st trimester (89.65 ± 10.13) while the lowest was in the late 3rd trimester (87.28 ± 9.13). Conclusions During pregnancy, HRQoL were associated with gestational trimesters in a certain degree. HRQoL was the highest in the early 2nd trimester and then decreased to the lowest in the late 3rd trimester due to a series of physical and psychological changes. Therefore, obstetric doctors and medical institutions should give more attention and care to pregnant women in the late 3rd trimester.

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