scholarly journals A One-Year Prospective Follow-Up Study on the Health Profile of Hikikomori Living in Hong Kong

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 546 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Yuen ◽  
Victor Wong ◽  
Wilson Tam ◽  
Ka So ◽  
Wai Chien
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Health Profile ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Intervention ◽  
Health Domains ◽  
One Year

Background: A prospective cohort study was conducted to follow-up on 104 participants on their changes of social, psychological and physical health as exposed to the hikikomori lifestyle. Methods: Participants were interviewed at baseline, 6 months and 12 months by administering a set of questionnaires and anthropometric measurements. Results: All three health domains of hikikomori were significantly improved over the follow-up period as evidenced by: (1) increased social network scores from 2.79 ± 1.80 to 3.09 ± 1.87, (2) decreased perceived stress scores from 21.18 ± 5.87 to 20.11 ± 5.79, and (3) reduced blood pressure levels from 118/75 to 115/71 and waist-to-hip ratios. Almost half of the participants have recovered from hikikomori by returning to the workforce in society; however, the health improvements were dominant in those that remained as hikikomori and were associated with the gradual swapping of exercise practices from light to moderate level strength. Conclusions: With intended exposure to social worker engagement, physical assessments of the cohort study triggered the social workers to encourage participants to do more exercises, which in turn enhanced their awareness of health modification towards a better health. Engagement of social workers could be considered as part of the intended exposure for all participants, which suggested social work intervention was effective in helping hikikomori recovery.

scholarly journals A One-Year Prospective Follow-Up Study on the Health Profile of Hikikomori Living in Hong Kong

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Yuen ◽  
Victor Wong ◽  
Wilson Tam ◽  
Ka-Wing So ◽  
Wai-Tong Chien
Keyword(s):  
Estimating Equation ◽  
Moderate Intensity ◽  
Health Profile ◽  
Equation Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Intervention ◽  
One Year ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

Background: A prospective study was conducted to follow-up how the living lifestyle of hikikomori could change the social, mental and physical health profile. Methods: A cohort consisted of 104 young people living as Hikikomori were interviewed at baseline, 6 months and 12 months by using the same set of questionnaires and anthropometric measurements. Results: Besides the high attrition of 30% in wave 2 and 25% in wave 3, almost half of the participants have recovered from hikikomori by returning to the workforce in society. The three domains of health profile of hikikomori were significantly improved over the follow-up period by: 1) increasing the social network scores from 2.791.80 to 3.091.87, 2) decreasing the perceived stress scores from 21.185.87 to 20.115.79, and 3) reducing blood pressure levels from 118/75 to 115/71 and waist-to-hip ratios. Those variables were also predictable by lifestyle living with the hikikomori according to the Generalized Estimating Equation analysis, whereas the participants of current study had increased the practice of moderate-intensity exercises. Conclusion: Social work intervention was effective in helping the recovery of hikikomori while physical assessments followed by encouragement from social workers to do more exercises might enhance their awareness in health modification towards a better health.

Factors Predictive of Outcome in Neurosis

1975 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Sims
Keyword(s):  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Treatment Service ◽  
Material Management ◽  
Early Environment ◽  
Initial Information ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
One Year ◽  
Methods Of Treatment

SummaryA follow-up study was conducted on 146 patients, all the first admissions of one year with the diagnosis of neurosis, admitted as in-patients and day-patients to a hospital giving a general psychiatric early treatment service in Birmingham. Tracing exceeded 97 per cent. Various methods of treatment had been used. Patients were followed up with an interview at their home 12 years after discharge. There were two interviewers, a social worker and a psychiatrist. Assessment at follow-up was on a five-point graded scale in which contributions to the total outcome were made by the social and symptomatic state of the ex-patient.Twenty-six statistically significant predictive factors were found from the detailed initial information when a graded rating for total outcome at follow-up was compared with presence or absence of the factor. When individual factors were combined, unsatisfactory marital and sexual relationship, poor material management, unsatisfactory social state, and unsatisfactory early environment were predictive of poor outcome. Tests for validity and reliability of the method were carried out.

Social Music

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-346
Author(s):  
Douglas A. Kowalewski ◽  
Taylor M. Kratzer ◽  
Ronald S. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Music Perception ◽  
Experimental Social Psychology ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Demand Characteristics ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Response Biases ◽  
Core Features

Integrating methods from experimental social psychology and music perception, we tested the hypothesis that when listeners personally like a musician, they will be more inclined to experience his or her music as both provoking movement and as subjectively pleasurable, the two core features of perceived groove. In Experiment 1, participants were exposed to a set of moderately-syncopated, high-groove drum-breaks which they were led to believe were either produced by a relatively likable or unlikable musician. In line with predictions, participants led to find the musician more versus less likable rated the same drum-breaks as more evocative of both the urge to move and of feelings of pleasure. When participants in a follow-up study (Experiment 2) were administered the exact same manipulation of likability, but exposed to highly-syncopated, low-groove drum-breaks, these effects were eradicated, suggesting that the results of Experiment 1 were not merely due to demand characteristics or response biases. Together, these findings support the notion that listeners are more responsive to “participating in the music” when they are relatively motivated to affiliate with the musician(s). Methodological limitations and directions for future research on the social psychological underpinnings of groove are discussed.

Hormonal factors and type 2 diabetes risk in women: a 22 year follow-up study on more than 83 000 women from the E3N cohort study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sopio Tatulashvili ◽  
Gaelle Gusto ◽  
Beverley Balkau ◽  
Emmanuel Cosson ◽  
Fabrice Bonnet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Diabetes Risk ◽  
Hormonal Factors ◽  
Follow Up Study

Frequency of drug consumption and falls in a one-year follow-up study among the inhabitants of nursing homes

2008 ◽  
Vol 149 (43) ◽  
pp. 2053-2059
Author(s):  
Mária Bényi ◽  
Zsuzsanna Kéki ◽  
Péter Rákos-Zichy ◽  
Vilmosné Panics ◽  
Ivett Honvéd
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Drug Consumption ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
One Year

Az időskori esések egészségügyi, szociális, gazdasági terhe igen jelentős napjainkban is. A demográfiai változások következtében a problémával továbbra is számolni kell. Európa-szerte nagy figyelem hárul az időskori balesetek megelőzésére. A szerzők egy európai uniós program keretében kutatást végeztek a szociális otthoni körülmények között élők esési gyakoriságáról, illetve annak okairól. Cél: A kutatás célja az volt, hogy az esések gyakoriságán kívül azok háttere is feltárásra kerüljön, különös tekintettel a gyógyszerfogyasztásra. Adatok, módszer: Egységes kérdőív alapján két szociális otthonban, amelyeknek együtt 1016 lakója van, egyéves vizsgálat történt. A munka során az ápolószemélyzet rögzített minden esést és azok körülményeit, következményeit. Az okok között kiemelt helyen szerepeltek a környezeti tényezők mellett a fogyasztott gyógyszerek. Ez utóbbiakat az elnevezésük alapján tovább vizsgáltuk, a hatásukat és az elesést okozó mellékhatásukat illetően. Az adatfeldolgozás SPSS 14.0 programmal történt. Eredmények: A szociális otthonok lakói között 1013 esés történt a 12 hónap során. Az esetek kétharmadában valamilyen egészségügyi ellátást igényelt az elesett személy. A leggyakrabban horzsolás, zúzódás, illetve bőrsérülés jött létre (20–24%). Combnyaktörés 3%-ban, egyéb törés 1,8%-ban következett be. Szinte minden lakó fogyaszt gyógyszert: 19% háromfélét vagy annál kevesebbet, a többség ennek a többszörösét. Az egy főre jutó maximális gyógyszerfogyasztás 19 volt, az átlag 6. Az esést okozó mellékhatások tekintetében a maximum 43 volt, az átlag 14. Az egyes mellékhatások gyakoriságát, halmozódását külön is bemutatjuk. Következtetések: Az időskori esések száma, aránya jelentős a szociális otthonban élők körében. Ennek egyik oka lehet az igen nagy mennyiségű gyógyszerfogyasztás, amelynek mellékhatása következtében nő az elesés rizikója.

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