Good Emotional Health Research Articles

Age as a determinant of emotional health problems among secondary school teachers in Ilorin Metropolis

The study examined age as a determinant of emotional health problems among secondary school teachers in Ilorin Metropolis. The study adopted a descriptive survey of a correlation type. The researcher's instrument titled the Emotional Style Questionnaire from Kesebir et al. was used to collect the data for the study. The reliability coefficient of the questionnaire was reported to be 0.85. There was no significant relationship between ages and emotional health of secondary school teachers in Ilorin Metropolis; there was no significant relationship between ages and emotional health of younger secondary school teachers in Ilorin Metropolis; and there was no significant relationship between the ages and emotional health of older secondary school teachers in Ilorin Metropolis were postulated hypotheses of the study. These hypotheses were tested at a 0.05 level of significance. Pearson-Product Moment Correlation was the statistical method employed for this study. The finding of the hypotheses showed there were significant relationships between the ages and emotional health of secondary school teachers in Ilorin Metropolis. There was a significant relationship between the ages of young teachers and their emotional health in Ilorin Metropolis of Kwara State. It was also observed that there was a significant relationship between the ages of older teachers and their emotional health in the Ilorin Metropolis of Kwara State. The study recommended that counsellors should orientate teachers on how to maintain good emotional health irrespective of their age and gender.

Technology Focus: Health, Safety, and Environment (August 2023)

This year’s HSE Technical Focus feature showcases environmental sustainability. Offshore hybrid renewable power generation, electrically driven well abandonment in urban and natural settings, and the use of remotely controlled, low-carbon-footprint underwater intervention/inspection drones demonstrate HSE- and sustainability-conscious planning and successful implementation in the field. Environmental, social, and governance guidelines, as well as regulatory and sustainability-related frameworks, provide guidance to achieve the social license to operate. Risk management and stakeholder engagement practices help predict nontechnical risks and keep the community informed. In paper SPE 204901, which involves using renewable energy sources for offshore oil and gas platform power generation, one operator proposes harnessing wind energy in weak-wind areas by replacing gas-turbine generators with offshore wind turbines adapted to low-wind-speed regions, thereby lowering maintenance costs and carbon exposure. In paper OTC 31394, a service company, acting as project management lead, and an operator collaborate to use fully electrified equipment to abandon wells in sensitive areas such as urban and natural settings where smell and noise are significant issues. In paper OTC 32481, an operator advocates the use of underwater intervention/inspection drones for offshore projects and describes their advantages, including operational risk reduction, lower carbon footprint, lower costs, reduced intervention time, and improved quality and frequency of inspection data. One of the recommended-reading papers, SPE 210788, describes how an operator advocates for mental health or “mental hygiene,” a “preventive measure for sustaining good emotional health” to mitigate workers’ distress in the oil and gas industry and an indication of the growing emphasis upon total wellness. Many more examples of recent notable achievements in HSES can be found in the list of recommended additional reading and in the OnePetro online library. Knowledge sharing, on the local and global levels, encourages collaboration and solutions generation. See the SPE Health, Safety, Environment and Sustainability website for more information and to learn how you could be involved. Recommended additional reading at OnePetro: www.onepetro.org. SPE 210788 Shifting Paradigm of Mental Hygiene—A Novel Approach To Mitigate Workers’ Distress in the Oil and Gas Industry by Adeela Khalid, RPM, et al. SPE 212791 An Improved Work Flow in Mass-Balance Approach for Estimating Regional Methane Emission Rate Using Satellite Measurements by Jeffrey Y. Bian, University of Alberta, et al. SPE 210245 Insights From Benchmarking Methane Emissions of Oil and Natural Gas Production in the United States by Tom Curry, ERM, et al.

Influence of age and quality of life on emotional health of secondary school teachers in Ilorin metropolis

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of age and quality of life on Kamilu Olanrewaju Muraina emotional health of secondaryschool teachers in Ilorin metropolis, Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey method of a correlation type. The populationof this study comprised all secondary school teachers in Ilorin metropolis, Kwara state which was estimated to 9,298 while a sample of425 secondary school teachers were selected for the study. The sample was selected using random sampling technique. Questionnairetitled “Age, Quality of Life and Emotional Health Questionnaire” (AQLEHQ) was used. It was content validated and tested with reliabilitycoefficient of 0.85. Percentage was used for demographic data and research questions. Also mean, standard deviation and rank orderanalysis were used for research questions while two null hypotheses were tested using the Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation (PPMC)statistical tool. The findings revealed that the majority (72.3%) of the teachers in Ilorin metropolis had good emotional health and 57.5% ofteachers in Ilorin metropolis had a high level of quality of life. The finding of the hypotheses revealed that age has no significant influenceon the emotional health of secondary school teachers in Ilorin metropolis, Kwara state, but the quality of life has a significant influence onthe emotional health of secondary school teachers in Ilorin metropolis, Kwara state. The study recommended the need for school authoritiesto plan an excellent quality of work life programme that will further enhance the overall quality of life of secondary school teacherswith low quality of life.

The impact of chronic comorbidities at the time of breast cancer diagnosis on quality of life, and emotional health following treatment in Canada.

Advances in breast cancer screening and treatment have led to an increasing number of breast cancer survivors. The objective of this study was to determine the impact of comorbidities on self-reported quality of life (QOL) and emotional health following a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. Women with a personal history of breast cancer (N = 3,372) were identified from the cross-sectional Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) Experiences of Cancer Patients in Transitions Survey. Multinomial (nominal) logistic regression was used to estimate odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for the relationship between burden of comorbidities and overall QOL and emotional health (very poor/poor, fair, good, very good). Of the 3,372 participants, 57% reported at least one chronic condition at the time of breast cancer diagnosis. As the number of chronic conditions at diagnosis increased, the odds of reporting worse quality of life and emotional health following treatment also increased. Specifically, compared to women reporting very good QOL, for each additional chronic condition, women reported significantly higher odds of reporting good (OR = 1.22, 95% CI: 1.12, 1.32), fair (OR = 1.76, 95% CI: 1.58, 1.96), or poor/very poor (OR = 2.31, 95% CI: 1.86, 2.88) QOL. Similarly, for each additional comorbidity, women reported significantly higher odds of reporting good (OR = 1.17, 95% CI: 1.07, 1.28), fair (OR = 1.63, 95% CI: 1.46, 1.82), or poor/very poor (OR = 2.17, 95% CI: 1.81, 2.60) emotional health, relative to very good emotional health. Breast cancer survivors coping with a high comorbidity burden experience worse overall QOL and emotional health following treatment. This highlights the importance of integrating information on comorbidities into survivorship care to improve the experience and overall outcomes of patients with complex needs.

Speech Emotion Recognition UsingConvolutional Neural Network and Long-Short TermMemory

Human-Robot interactions involve human intentions and human emotion. After the evolvement of positive psychology, the psychological research has a tremendous concentration to study the factors involved in the human emotion generation. Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging job due to the complexity of emotions. Human emotion recognition is gaining importance as good emotional health can lead to good social and mental health. Although there are different approaches for speech emotion recognition, the most advanced model is Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) using Long Short-term Memory (LSTM) network. But they also suffer from the lack of parallelization of the sequences and computation times. Meanwhile, attention-mechanism has way better exhibitions in learning significant feature representations for specific tasks. Based on this technique, we propose an emotion recognition system with relation aware, self-attention mechanism to memorize the discriminative features for SER, where spectrograms are utilized as input. A CNN with a relation-aware self-attention is modelled to analyse 3D log-Mel spectrograms to extract the high-level features. Different layers such as 3D convolutional layers, 3D Max-pooling layers, and LSTM networks are used in the model. Here, the attention layer is exercised to support distinct parts of emotion and assemble discriminative utterance-level representations for SER. Finally, the fully connected layer is equipped with the utterance level representations with 64 output units to achieve higher-level representations. The approach of relation-aware attention-based 3D CNN and LSTM model provided a better outcome of 80.80% on average scale in speech emotion recognition. The proposed model in this paper focuses on enhancement of the attention mechanism to gain additional benefits of sequence to sequence parallelization by improving the recognition accuracy.

Prioritizing young people's emotional health support needs via participatory research.

Introduction Youth mental health is a global concern. Emotional health promotes mental health and protects against mental illness. Youth value self-care for emotional health, but we need better understanding of how to help them look after their emotional health. Participatory research is relevant, since meaningful engagement with youth via participatory research enhances the validity and relevance of research findings and supports young people's rights to involvement in decisions that concern them. Aim We aimed to develop a participatory approach for involving youth in research about their emotional health support preferences. Method Our team included a young expert-by-experience. We developed a qualitative, participatory research design. Eleven youth (16-18years) participated in focus groups, followed immediately by a nominal group exercise in which they analysed the data, thus enhancing methodological rigour. Results This process highlighted youth perspectives on self-care strategies for emotional health. Discussion and implications for practice Our simple participatory research approach generated trustworthy and credible findings, which accurately reflect youth perspectives and are consistent with the literature, endorsing our method. Young people said that they want reassurances of quality and safety when accessing digital mental health resources. These findings can inform future development of youth-oriented digital mental health resources.

What do expectant fathers expect of antenatal care in Sweden? A cross-sectional study

BackgroundIn Sweden expectant fathers are now assumed to be active participants in pregnancy and birth, but few studies have focused on fathers' expectations of antenatal care. Knowledge of expectant fathers' views about what is important in antenatal care will enable the design of care that is more inclusive and meets the expectant fathers' needs. ObjectivesTo identify expectant fathers' expectations regarding the content of antenatal care during pregnancy and to examine associations between expectations and social factors. MethodsThe current study uses data from a quasi-experimental trial that took place from 2009 to 2010, in which 627 expectant fathers were recruited from different parts of Sweden. ResultsChecking the health of the baby (85.3%) and the mother (80.8%) were rated highest in importance by expectant fathers, whereas attending parent classes (14.9%), becoming acquainted with other expectant parents (7.0%) and paying attention to their own emotional well-being (6.9%) were rated lowest. Furthermore, less than half of the expectant fathers had a very high expectation of being treated in a way that made them feel involved (38.5%).First-time fathers, young fathers and fathers with very good emotional health had higher expectations about most aspects of antenatal care. ConclusionExpectant fathers had low expectations of receiving support or of meeting other parents as they thought that antenatal care should have a medical focus. First-time fathers, young fathers and fathers with very good emotional health had higher expectations of antenatal care in most areas.

El efecto de un programa de ejercicios basado en Pilates sobre el estado de ánimo en adultos mayores Mexicanos (Effects of a Pilates-based exercise program on mood states in older adults in Mexico)

El propósito del estudio fue determinar el efecto de un programa de acondicionamiento físico basado en el método Pilates sobre variables del estado de ánimo en adultos mayores del Estado de Durango, México. Se diseñó un estudio experimental con un grupo control (GC) y un grupo experimental (GE) y mediciones iniciales (pre-test) y finales (post-test). Participaron 10 adultos mayores en cada grupo, cuyas edades estaban entre los 60 y 80 años. La duración del programa fue de 12 semanas, con 3 sesiones por semana de 50 min cada una. Para evaluar el estado de ánimo se utilizó el Profile of Mood States (POMS). Los datos se analizaron por medio de ANOVA de 2 x 2. Se encontró una interacción significativa entre mediciones y grupos en las dimensiones de tensión (p = 0.001), cólera (p = 0.030), fatiga (p= 0.002) y el puntaje total (p ≤ 0.0001). No se encontró una interacción significativa en la dimensión de depresión (p = 0.065) ni vigor (p = 0.125). Un programa de acondicionamiento físico de 12 semanas basado en el método Pilates mejora algunas variables del estado de ánimo, las cuales pueden ser relevantes para el logro de la buena salud emocional en el adulto mayor.Abstract. The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of a Pilates-based fitness program on mood variables in older adults from Durango State, Mexico. An experimental design study was designed with a control group (CG), experimental group (EG), initial (pre-test), and final (post-test) measurements. Ten older adults participated in each group, whose ages were between 60 and 80 years. The program duration was 12 weeks with three sessions per week, each of 50 min. The Profile of Mood States (POMS) was used to assess mood. Data were analyzed by 2 x 2 ANOVA. Significant interactions between measurements and experimental groups were found for tension (p = 0.001), anger (p = 0.030), fatigue (p = 0.002) and the total score (p ≤ 0.0001). No significant interactions were found for depression (p = 0.065) and vigor (p = 0.125). A 12 week fitness program based on the Pilates method improved some but not all mood variables, which may be relevant to the achievement of good emotional health in the elderly.

Self-regulation and Study-Related Health Outcomes: A Structural Equation Model of Regulatory Mode Orientations, Academic Burnout and Engagement Among University Students

Previous studies have shown that self-regulation is closely related to psychological well-being. However, as two types of self-regulation process, little is known about how the regulatory mode relates to good emotional health in academic settings. The purpose of this research was to investigate the role that the regulatory mode plays in college students’ academic engagement and burnout. 301 university students were recruited from two Chinese universities, and a structural equation model showed a negative relationship between the locomotion mode and academic burnout, and a positive one between the locomotion mode and academic engagement. In contrast, the assessment mode was negatively associated with academic engagement, yet showed a positive correlation with academic burnout. Implications for the mechanism of how the regulatory mode influences academic engagement and burnout in college students are discussed.

The relationship between parents' poor emotional health status and childhood mood and anxiety disorder in Florida children, national survey of children's health, 2011-2012.

The purpose of this study was to examine how parents' emotional health relates to childhood mood and anxiety disorder among Florida children in the 2011-2012 National Survey of Children's Health. Analyses were restricted to 1,241 Florida children 6-17 years of age. Childhood mood and anxiety disorder was defined as a parent-reported diagnosis of current depression or anxiety. Parents' emotional health status was a composite measure of the lowest reported emotional health of any parent in the household. To assess the association between parents' emotional health and childhood mood and anxiety disorder, bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed. Nearly 5 % of Florida children had a mood or anxiety disorder in 2011-2012. Children living with a parent in poor emotional health were significantly more likely to have a mood or anxiety disorder compared to children living with a parent in good emotional health (OR 5.01; 95 % CI 1.89, 13.29). After adjusting for covariates, this association remained substantial and significant (aOR 4.33; 95 % CI 1.49, 12.57). Findings presented here are consistent with national findings and emphasize the strong link between parents' emotional health status and childhood mood and anxiety disorders. To address the mental health of children in the state of Florida, Florida public health initiatives should consider family processes and child level characteristics.

Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive power of the “Brief Risk‐resilience Index forSCreening,” a brief pan‐diagnostic web screen for emotional health

Few standardized tools are available for time-efficient screening of emotional health status across diagnostic categories, especially in primary care. We evaluated the 45-question Brief Risk-resilience Index for SCreening (BRISC) and the 15-question mini-BRISC in identifying poor emotional health and coping capacity across a range of diagnostic groups – compared with a detailed clinical assessment – in a large sample of adult outpatients. Participants 18–60 years of age (n = 1079) recruited from 12 medical research and clinical sites completed the computerized assessments. Three index scores were derived from the full BRISC and the mini-BRISC: one for risk (negativity–positivity bias) and two for coping (resilience and social capacity). Summed answers were converted to standardized z-scores. BRISC scores were compared with detailed health assessment and diagnostic interview (for current psychiatric, psychological, and neurological conditions) by clinicians at each site according to diagnostic criteria. Clinicians were blinded to BRISC scores. Clinical assessment stratified participants as having “clinical” (n = 435) or “healthy” (n = 644) diagnostic status. Receiver operating characteristic analyses showed that a z-score threshold of −1.57 on the full BRISC index of emotional health provided an optimal classification of “clinical” versus “healthy” status (sensitivity: 81.2%, specificity: 92.7%, positive predictive power: 80.2%, and negative predictive power: 93.1%). Comparable findings were revealed for the mini-BRISC. Negativity–positivity bias index scores contributed the most to prediction. The negativity–positivity index of emotional health was most sensitive to classifying major depressive disorder (100%), posttraumatic stress disorder (95.8%), and panic disorder (88.7%). The BRISC and mini-BRISC both offer a brief, clinically useful screen to identify individuals at risk of disorders characterized by poor emotion regulation, from those with good emotional health and coping.

Predictors of outcome after decompressive lumbar surgery and instrumented posterolateral fusion

There has been no agreement among different authors on guidelines to specify the situations in which arthrodesis is justified in terms of results, risks and complications. The aim of this study was to identify preoperative predictors of outcome after decompressive lumbar surgery and instrumented posterolateral fusion. A prospective observational study design was performed on 203 consecutive patients. Potential preoperative predictors of outcome included sociodemographic factors as well as variables pertaining to the preoperative clinical situation, diagnosis, expectations and surgery. Separate multiple linear regression models were used to assess the association between selected predictors and outcome variables, defined as the improvement after 1 year on the visual analog scale (VAS) for back pain, VAS for leg pain, physical component scores (PCS) of SF-36 and Oswestry disability index (ODI). Follow-up was available for 184 patients (90.6%). Patients with higher educational level and optimistic preoperative expectations had a more favourable postoperative leg pain (VAS) and ODI. Smokers had less leg pain relief. Patients with better mental component score (emotional health) had greater ODI improvement. Less preoperative walking capacity predicted more leg pain relief. Patients with disc herniation had greater relief from back pain and more PCS and ODI improvement. More severe lumbar pain was predictive of less improvement on ODI and PCS. Age, sex, body mass index, analgesic use, surgeon, self-rated health, the number of decompressed levels and the length of fusion had no association with outcome. This study concludes that a higher educational level, optimistic expectations for improvement, the diagnosis of "disc herniation", less walking capacity and good emotional health may significantly improve clinical outcome. Smoking and more severe lumbar pain are predictors of worse results.

Mental health prevention in UK classrooms: the FRIENDS anxiety prevention programme

Childhood anxiety is a common condition which, if untreated, can cause considerable distress and impairment and increase the likelihood of mental health problems in adulthood. Developing good emotional health in children is therefore an important objective which has been emphasised in recent governmental initiatives and policies. In particular, schools have been identified as having an important role in promoting positive mental health in children. This paper summarises the different approaches, outcomes and shortfalls of school-based anxiety prevention programmes. One particularly encouraging programme based upon cognitive behaviour therapy, the FRIENDS for Life programme, is described. Outcomes from UK-based studies evaluating FRIENDS are summarised and the way the programme can be integrated within schools to complement other initiatives discussed. Finally, limitations of the current research are discussed and issues about the practical implementation of FRIENDS in schools highlighted.

Maternal mental health predicts risk of developmental problems at 3 years of age: follow up of a community based trial

BackgroundUndetected and untreated developmental problems can have a significant economic and social impact on society. Intervention to ameliorate potential developmental problems requires early identification of children at risk of future learning and behaviour difficulties. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of risk for developmental problems among preschool children born to medically low risk women and identify factors that influence outcomes.MethodsMothers who had participated in a prenatal trial were followed up three years post partum to answer a telephone questionnaire. Questions were related to child health and development, child care, medical care, mother's lifestyle, well-being, and parenting style. The main outcome measure was risk for developmental problems using the Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS).ResultsOf 791 children, 11% were screened by the PEDS to be at high risk for developmental problems at age three. Of these, 43% had previously been referred for assessment. Children most likely to have been referred were those born preterm. Risk factors for delay included: male gender, history of ear infections, a low income environment, and a mother with poor emotional health and a history of abuse. A child with these risk factors was predicted to have a 53% chance of screening at high risk for developmental problems. This predicted probability was reduced to 19% if the child had a mother with good emotional health and no history of abuse.ConclusionOver 10% of children were identified as high risk for developmental problems by the screening, and more than half of those had not received a specialist referral. Risk factors for problems included prenatal and perinatal maternal and child factors. Assessment of maternal health and effective screening of child development may increase detection of children at high risk who would benefit from early intervention.Trial registrationCurrent Controlled Trials ISRCTN64070727

Treatment Adherence Among Clients in AIDS Service Organizations

ABSTRACT For social workers in AIDS service organizations (ASOs), helping clients adhere to antiretroviral therapies is a priority, since non-adherence can significantly reduce drug efficacy and lead to drug resistance. This preliminary study examined treatment adherence among HIV-infected individuals receiving services from four ASOs in New York City. Adherence was suboptimal; more than one half of the sample had not taken their medications as prescribed within the past month and 20% had missed taking one or more pills the previous day. Clients who reported greater adherence considered themselves to be in good emotional health, had not used illegal drugs recently, and believed that their ASO was very helpful with regard to treatment adherence. Regular assessment of clients' treatment adherence is essential and social workers should continue to be involved with other health professionals in designing, implementing and evaluating interventions for promoting adherence among clients in ASOs.

A Longitudinal Study of Post-High-School Development in Gifted Individuals at Risk for Poor Educational Outcomes

Fourteen gifted late adolescents, considered at risk for poor educational outcomes because of underachievement, depression, or family situation, participated in a 4-year qualitative longitudinal study focusing on 4 developmental tasks: gaining autonomy, becoming differentiated, establishing career direction, and developing a mature relationship. The process of resolving conflict with parents generated the largest portion of narrative data. The majority of participants still lacked direction and a mature relationship at the end of the study, but most respondents had resolved conflict, felt autonomous, and reported good emotional health. Multiple task accomplishments were associated with being able to concentrate on academics.

Does Inpatient Interdisciplinary Geriatric Assessment Help the Family Caregivers of Acutely Ill Older Patients?

Comprehensive geriatric assessment has emerged as an effective strategy for improving outcomes for frail older patients in the hospital setting. Attention, however, has not been given to determining whether this process has any effect on their family caregivers. As part of a randomized controlled clinical trial designed to test the efficacy of early interdisciplinary geriatric assessment for acutely ill hospitalized patients 75 years of age or older, their family caregivers were studied to determine if the process had a positive effect on caregivers' self-reported health and emotional well-being. One hundred forty-two caregivers were approximately evenly distributed between experimentals (n = 69) and controls (n = 73). By three months after the patients' hospitalization, experimental caregivers were more likely to report good general health (81% vs 63%, P = .049) than were controls. The positive effect persisted after statistical adjustment for confounding variables. Experimental caregivers were not significantly more likely to have good emotional health at follow-up than were controls (65% vs 58%, P = .43), even after statistical adjustment. Although the findings are modest, they suggest that the acute hospital setting may be an ideal place to develop interventions designed to enhance family caregivers' well-being during the early months following hospitalization. This may be particularly true when the interventions with caregivers are coupled with a geriatric assessment and care plan process.