scholarly journals Validation of the Major Depressive Disorder Subscale (MDDS) of the Revised Child Anxiety & Depression Scale (RCADS) in a Sample of Jamaican and Barbadian Elementary School Children Validation of the Major Depressive Disorder Subscale (MDDS) of the Revised Child Anxiety & Depression Scale (RCADS) in a Sample of Jamaican and Barbadian Elementary School Children

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian A. Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
School Children ◽  
Elementary School Children ◽  
Adolescent Depression ◽  
Child Anxiety ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
School Students ◽  
Major Depressive

Background: Research on depression among Caribbean children has been limited by the lack of valid and reliable screening measures of depression. Aims: This project explores the reliability and the validity of the Major Depressive Disorder sub-scale (MDDS) of the Revised Child Anxiety & Depression Scale (RCADS), in a group of students attending elementary schools in Jamaica and Barbados. Method: Students enrolled in grade six (n = 759; 50.9% females, 49.1% males; mean age = 10.7 years + 0.66) were administered the Revised Child Anxiety & Depression Scale -Major Depressive Disorder sub-scale (RCADS-MDDS) along with the Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale- 11 (KADS-11), the Adolescent Depression Rating Scale (ADRS) the Visual Analogue Scale – State Anxiety (VAS-SA) and the Visual Analogue Scale – Trait Anxiety (VAS-TA). The study cohort was divided into private and public elementary school students prior to analyses. A cross validation method was utilised to explore the psychometric properties of the scales by first, conducting analyses using the public school students’ responses and then replicated using those of their private school peers. Results: Overall, the RCADS-MDDS was found to have an acceptable level of internal consistency reliability (α = 0.70, public: α = 0.76, private). The scale also had good concurrent validity as evidenced by strong correlations with scores on the KADS-11 and the ADRS and acceptable discriminant validity as demonstrated by weak correlations with the VAS-SA and the VAS-TA scores. Conclusion: The RCADS-MDDS is a valid screening measure for depression among elementary school children in Jamaica and Barbados.

Fostering Communication in Elementary School Children on the Autism Spectrum Who Are Minimally Verbal

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (02) ◽  
pp. 103-113
Author(s):  
Jessica Steinbrenner
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
School Children ◽  
Elementary School Children ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Minimally Verbal ◽  
School Students ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Children With Asd

AbstractAround 30% of elementary school students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are considered minimally verbal, yet there is limited research addressing the needs of this group of students. Several recent studies have demonstrated successful improvement of the communication skills of elementary school students with limited verbal skills. Additionally, there are focused intervention practices that are evidence based and may be useful in targeting communication skills for children with ASD who are minimally verbal. This article will review existing information about interventions to target communication skills in elementary school children with ASD who are minimally verbal, identify potential target skills, and provide case examples of how to embed communication interventions in elementary school classroom settings from a pilot intervention study.

Validation of the Brief Edinburgh Depression Scale (BEDS) in a Mexican population with advanced cancer in a palliative care service

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (04) ◽  
pp. 436-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Rodríguez-Mayoral ◽  
Bárbara Rodríguez-Ortíz ◽  
Leticia Ascencio-Huertas ◽  
Adriana Peña-Nieves ◽  
Emma Verástegui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Advanced Cancer ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Case Finding ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Advanced Cancer Patients ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Palliative Patients

AbstractObjectiveDepression in palliative advanced cancer patients is common, but often goes unrecognized. One of the first steps toward improving detection is the development of tools that are valid in the specific language and setting in which they are to be used. The Brief Edinburgh Depression Scale (BEDS) is a sensitive case-finding tool for depression in advanced cancer patients that was developed in the United Kingdom. There are no validated instruments to identify depression in Mexican palliative patients. Our aim was to validate the Spanish-language version of the BEDS in Mexican population with advanced cancer.MethodWe conducted a cross-sectional study with outpatients from the palliative care unit at the Instituto Nacional de Cancerología in Mexico City. The Mexican BEDS was validated against a semistructured psychiatric clinical interview according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition, classification criteria for major depressive disorder. The interviewer was blind to the BEDS score at the time of the assessment.ResultSeventy subjects completed the scale and interview. Women represented 71.4% of the sample and median age of subjects was 56.5 years (range, 20–85 years). The prevalence of major depressive disorder according to the psychiatric interview was 20%. The most valid cutoff for defining a case of depression was a score ≥5 of 18 on the Mexican BEDS, which gave a sensitivity of 85.7% and specificity of 62.5%. The scale's Cronbach's alpha was 0.71.Significance of resultsMajor depressive disorder is frequent in Mexican palliative patients. The Spanish-language Mexican version of the BEDS is the first valid case-finding tool in advanced cancer patients in this setting.

scholarly journals Implicit notions of a happy person in elementary school students

2021 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 04005
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Vladimirovna Komarova ◽  
Tatyana Viktorovna Slotina ◽  
Valery L. Sitnikov ◽  
Elena Fedorovna Yashchenko ◽  
Konstantin Pavlovich Zakharov
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
School Children ◽  
Elementary School Children ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Well Being ◽  
School Students ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Happy Person

The article is devoted to the substantiation and results of a study of implicit notions of a happy person in elementary school students. The methodological foundation is constructed by D.A. Leontiev’s two-level model of happiness, K. Riff’s concept of happiness as the basis of psychological well-being, and V.L. Sitnikov’s concept of the image of a person. The deployed research method is “SPI(H) — the Structure of a Person’s Image (Hierarchical)” (V.Sitnikov) including the verbal and non-verbal associative experiment with the subsequent content analysis. The novelty of the study lies in the comparison of the image of a happy person and self-image through the psychosemantic method including a comparative analysis of the notions of a happy person in children from complete and incomplete families. A happy person is associated by elementary school children with an emotionally positive attitude towards life, a responsible and caring attitude towards people, the presence of a family and active interaction with it, less often with success in educational and intellectual activity and material well-being, as well as the presence of friends. A happy person is idealized by younger students, however, their image is more abstract compared to children’s self-images. Elementary school students from complete families are characterized by greater conformity of the self-image with the image of a happy person whereas only half of the children from incomplete families show such correspondence. The predominant modality of both images is positive in all children. Social, bodily, and metaphorical characteristics are more common in the image of a happy person among children from incomplete families while the conventional social role characteristics dominate among children from complete families. The prospects for further study of the image of a happy person in elementary school children within the framework of family psychology are outlined.

Inpatients with major depressive disorder: Psychometric properties of the new Multidimensional Depression Scale

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 103-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Darharaj ◽  
Mojtaba Habibi ◽  
Michael J. Power ◽  
Farzaneh Farzadian ◽  
Maesoumeh Rahimi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Major Depressive

scholarly journals Development of a Violence Prevention Educational Program for Elementary School Children Using Empathy (VPEP-E)

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-433
Author(s):  
So Ra Kang ◽  
Shin-Jeong Kim ◽  
Jungmin Lee
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
School Children ◽  
Educational Program ◽  
Elementary School Children ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
School Students ◽  
Fifth Grade Students

Purpose: This study describes the development of a violence prevention educational program for elementary school children using empathy (VPEP-E) that teachers can use during class.Methods: Hoffman's theory of empathy and Seels and Richey's (1994) ADDIE model were applied to develop this program.Results: The developed program consisted of eight sessions: "Orientation/definition of violence and empathy", "Types and boundaries of violence", "Look into my feelings", "Say it with a facial expression", "Preventing non-empathic violence due to social prejudice", "Preventing physical violence", "Verbal and online violence prevention: empathic conversation", and "I can do well: review of the whole curriculum". The program was evaluated by 15 elementary school teachers, who considered it to be easily accessible to elementary school students. The final VPEP-E, which will be provided in eight times for 40 minutes each for fifth-grade students, will provide a basis for preventing violence by fostering empathy.Conclusion: We expect the developed educational program to be effective in preventing violence among elementary school students. However, further research involving children from various age groups is needed.

scholarly journals Development of educational programs through comprehensive learning aimed at improving the health and physical fitness of elementary school students

Impact ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-52
Author(s):  
Isao Kambayashi
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Physical Fitness ◽  
School Children ◽  
Elementary School Children ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Educational Programme ◽  
School Students ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Quality Sleep ◽  
Good Nutrition

Technological advances and innovations have inadvertently promoted a more sedentary lifestyle. Lifestyles of this kind tend to involve a lack of good quality sleep and poor nutrition. This is a particularly worrisome trend in children and it is important to encourage an active lifestyle and good nutrition among this generation and instill them with positive habits. Indeed, research has found that more and more Japanese children are waking with a low basal body temperature, which can be associated with poor physical fitness. Professor Isao Kambayashi, Hokkaido University of Education (HUE), Japan, and Koji Sugo, Sapporo Elementary School, Japan, which is affiliated with HUE, are looking into the extent of the issue and what can be done to improve it, with a focus on better education. At present, little time is dedicated to the health education of elementary school children, which is not helping the situation. As such, Kambayashi and Sugo are surveying students in order to establish a better understanding of the situation and they will implement an educational programme designed to improve the health and fitness of elementary school children. The idea is that implementing the educational programme will improve the fitness levels of children as well as improving their nutrition, resulting in improved lifestyles overall. Ultimately, this should have a widespread positive impact, curbing rising sedentary lifestyles and increasing levels of obesity, with the potential for similar programmes to be introduced throughout Japan and, indeed, the world.

scholarly journals Abnormalities in Electroencephalographic Microstates Among Adolescents With First Episode Major Depressive Disorder

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuqiong He ◽  
Qianting Yu ◽  
Tingyu Yang ◽  
Yaru Zhang ◽  
Kun Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
First Episode ◽  
Hamilton Depression Scale ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Hamd Score ◽  
Eeg Changes ◽  
Microstate Analysis

Background: Recent studies have reported changes in the electroencephalograms (EEG) of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). However, little research has explored EEG differences between adolescents with MDD and healthy controls, particularly EEG microstates differences. The aim of the current study was to characterize EEG microstate activity in adolescents with MDD and healthy controls (HCs).Methods: A total of 35 adolescents with MDD and 35 HCs were recruited in this study. The depressive symptoms were assessed by Hamilton Depression Scale (HAMD) and Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), and the anxiety symptoms were assessed by Chinese version of DSM-5 Level 2-Anxiety-Child scale. A 64-channel EEG was recorded for 5 min (eye closed, resting-state) and analyzed using microstate analysis. Microstate properties were compared between groups and correlated with patients' depression scores.Results: We found increased occurrence and contribution of microstate B in MDD patients compared to HCs, and decreased occurrence and contribution of microstate D in MDD patients compared to HCs. While no significant correlation between depression severity (HAMD score) and the microstate metrics (occurrence and contribution of microstate B and D) differing between MDD adolescents and HCs was found.Conclusions: Adolescents with MDD showed microstate B and microstate D changes. The obtained results may deepen our understanding of dynamic EEG changes among adolescents with MDD and provide some evidence of changes in brain development in adolescents with MDD.

scholarly journals Program Agroschooling pada Siswa Sekolah Dasar SD 01 Manang untuk Meningkatkan Minat terhadap Bidang Pertanian

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Wahyu Adhi Saputro ◽  
Fachruddin Edi Nugroho Saputro
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Agricultural Education ◽  
Elementary School Children ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
School Students ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Impact

AbstrakJumlah penduduk yang semakin meningkat diikuti dengan selarasnya kebutuhan pangan namun tidak diikuti dengan peningkatan sektor pertanian di Indonesia ditunjukkan dengan semakin berkurangnya minat anak muda di bidang pertanian. Permasalahan mengenai penurunan minat anak muda di pertanian hakikatnya menjadi perhatian khusus dari berbagai pihak karena menjadi faktor penghambat pertumbuhan pembangunan pertanian. SD Negri 01 Manang merupakan mitra yang tepat untuk diberikannya kurikulum pendidikan anak yang diselipkan arti penting pertanian sehingga dari masa kanak-kanak potensi pertanian untuk masa depan tertanam dalam pola pikir mereka. Solusi mengenai model edukasi pertanian sejak dini dirasa sangat tepat menarik minat anak-anak dan disesuaikan dengan kebutuhan, kemampuan dan kesenangan setiap anak sehingga dampaknya dapat meminimumkan dampak ketidaktertarikan generasi muda terhadap bidang pertanian. Program Agroschooling memiliki tujuan untuk mengenalkan kepada anak-anak sekolah dasar mengenai pentingnya dunia pertanian dan pengelolaan lingkungan alam sekitar. Metode yang diberikan dalam program agroschooling anak-anak SD menonton secara virtual video tentang pertanian, kemudian ditanyai dengan beberapa pertanyaan di kuesioner dengan bantuan mahasiswa mengenai cita-cita dan kesukaan di bidang pertanian. Acara dilanjutkan dengan penanaman tanaman di ikuti dengan pertanyaan kuesioner untuk menanyai apakah ada yang ingin berganti cita-cita setelah mengikuti program Agrochooling. Data-data tersebut di analisis menggunakan linkert dan diinputkan dalam rating scale. Selain itu digunakan analisis before dan after untuk melihat peningkatan anak-anak yang ingin bekerja di sektor pertanian sebelum dan sesudah diadakan program Agroshcooling. Survei awal membuktikan bahwa sebanyak 0% dari siswa dan siswi SD yang bercita-cita ingin bekerja di sektor pertanian. Peningkatan persentase keinginan bekerja para siswa dan siswi di SD 01 Manang di bidang pertanian terjadi sebanyak 15,38% setelah diadakannya program Agroschooling. Persepsi para siswa dan siswi terhadap kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat mengenai agroschooling masuk ke dalam kategori� baik. Harapannya akan adanya kelanjutan pengabdian dengan survey ketertarikan siswa terhadap pertanian. �Kata kunci: Pertanian; Agroschooling�AbstractIncreasing population followed by harmonious food needs but not followed by an increase in the agricultural sector in Indonesia is shown by the decreasing interest of young people in agriculture. The problem regarding the decline of young people's interest in agriculture is of particular concern to various parties because it is a factor inhibiting the growth of agricultural development. SD Negri 01 Manang is the right partner for child education curriculum which is tucked in the importance of agriculture so that from childhood childhood the potential of agriculture for the future is embedded in their mindset. The solution regarding the agricultural education model from the beginning is felt to be very appropriate to attract the interests of children and adapted to the needs, abilities and enjoyment of children so that the impact can minimize the impact of the young generation's disinterest in agriculture. The method given in the agroschooling program for elementary school children watched a virtual video about agriculture, then was asked a number of questions in the questionnaire with the help of students about their ideals and preferences in agriculture. The program was followed by planting plants followed by questionnaire questions to ask if anyone wanted to change their goals after joining the Agrochooling program. The data is analyzed using linkert and entered in the rating scale. Also used before and after analysis to see the increase in children who want to work in the agricultural sector before and after the Agroshcooling program was held. The Agroschooling Program aims to introduce elementary school children about the importance of agriculture and the management of the surrounding natural environment. Initial survey prove that as many as 0% of elementary school students want to work in the agricultural sector. The increase in the percentage of students wanting to work at SD 01 Manang in agriculture occurred as much as 15.38%. The perception of students and students of community service activities regarding agroschooling into the good category. The hope is that there will be continued service by surveying student�s interest in agriculture �Keywords: Agriculture; Agroschooling

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