Problem-solving Communication Research Articles

Effectiveness of Gatekeeper Training for Families of People With Mental Disorders in Korea: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Given the high suicide risk among people with schizophrenia and other mental disorders and the significance of intervention in the daily life setting, tailored gatekeeper training is necessary for families of people with mental disorders. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a suicide prevention education program for families of people with mental disorders (SPEM-F), developed by the Korea Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Fifty-nine family members of people with mental disorders were recruited from eight community psychiatric rehabilitation centers in Korea and enrolled in a cluster randomized controlled trial. Four facilities were randomized to the experimental group (n=30) and four to the control group (n=29). The study parameters were measured at baseline, post-intervention, and 1-month follow-up; the effects of SPEM-F (90 minutes, conducted offline) were analyzed using repeated-measures analysis of variance. The dependent variables were suicide-related knowledge, attitude, self-efficacy, preventive behavioral intention, and family problem-solving communication. The experimental group showed significant increases in suicide-related knowledge (p<0.001), self-efficacy (p<0.05), and preventive behavioral intention (p<0.01) compared with the control group until the 1-month follow-up, including an upward trend in improved family problem-solving communication (p=0.069). The results confirm that SPEM-F is an effective evidence-based gatekeeper training program for families of people with mental disorders, as it focuses on knowledge, self-efficacy, preventive behavioral intention, and communication improvement. As families of people with mental disorders including schizophrenia, are both highly motivated and close to people at high risk for suicide, SPEM-F can effectively promote suicide prevention and gatekeeper activities.

Conceptos y consideraciones generales sobre la traducción

Translation is important in every society in the world, because it destroys language barriers between countries. Through translation we can communicate with others despite the difference in languages. The translation activity is a tool to solve communication problems and build bridges between heterogeneous cultural groups, which react to different social, religious, historical circumstances, etc. For this reason, translation has a communicative objective, which allows overcoming the obstacles established by the cultural linguistic differences found between the interlocutors. This study shows basic concepts about the translation process such as its classes, its strategies, its competencies, as well as the errors that are made when translating from one language to another.

IMPLEMENTATION OF TRANSLANGUAGING IN THE CONTEXT OF TEACHING MANDARIN IN INDONESIA IN HIGHER EDUCATION

As one of the many pedagogical strategies found in multilingual contexts, translanguaging can be a solution for learning foreign languages, especially Mandarin. It facilitates using multiple languages (outside the L2) for receptive and productive purposes. Its use can solve communication problems caused by students' language competence during teaching and learning. This study aims to determine the perceptions of Mandarin students at the higher education level in Indonesia regarding the application of translanguaging in class. The study was sequential explanatory design research using mixed research methods. Data collection was carried out in two stages: collecting quantitative data using a questionnaire and then collecting qualitative data through Group Interviews (GI). The distribution of the questionnaire was targeted at 100 students. GI was carried out on five students who had previously participated in filling out the questionnaire. This study shows that learning Mandarin at the tertiary level focuses on the monolingual-traditional learning model, oriented only to L2. Translanguaging is ideologically considered as a form of language incompetence. The higher the language skill, the less likely it is to find translanguaging. This study is expected to have implications for the development of learning Mandarin in a multilingual pedagogical context in Indonesia.

Family adaptation in families of individuals with Down syndrome from 12 countries.

Our current understanding of adaptation in families of individuals with Down syndrome (DS) is based primarily on findings from studies focused on participants from a single country. Guided by the Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation, the purpose of this cross-country investigation, which is part of a larger, mixed methods study, was twofold: (1) to compare family adaptation in 12 countries, and (2) to examine the relationships between family variables and family adaptation. The focus of this study is data collected in the 12 countries where at least 30 parents completed the survey. Descriptive statistics were generated, and mean family adaptation was modeled in terms of each predictor independently, controlling for an effect on covariates. A parsimonious composite model for mean family adaptation was adaptively generated. While there were cross-country differences, standardized family adaptation mean scores fell within the average range for all 12 countries. Key components of the guiding framework (i.e., family demands, family appraisal, family resources, and family problem-solving communication) were important predictors of family adaptation. More cross-country studies, as well as longitudinal studies, are needed to fully understand how culture and social determinants of health influence family adaptation in families of individuals with DS.

Creating an AI-Enhanced Morse Code Translation System Based on Images for People with Severe Disabilities.

(1) Background: Patients with severe physical impairments (spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) often have limited mobility due to physical limitations, and may even be bedridden all day long, losing the ability to take care of themselves. In more severe cases, the ability to speak may even be lost, making even basic communication very difficult. (2) Methods: This research will design a set of image-assistive communication equipment based on artificial intelligence to solve communication problems of daily needs. Using artificial intelligence for facial positioning, and facial-motion-recognition-generated Morse code, and then translating it into readable characters or commands, it allows users to control computer software by themselves and communicate through wireless networks or a Bluetooth protocol to control environment peripherals. (3) Results: In this study, 23 human-typed data sets were subjected to recognition using fuzzy algorithms. The average recognition rates for expert-generated data and data input by individuals with disabilities were 99.83% and 98.6%, respectively. (4) Conclusions: Through this system, users can express their thoughts and needs through their facial movements, thereby improving their quality of life and having an independent living space. Moreover, the system can be used without touching external switches, greatly improving convenience and safety.

소통의 관점에서 공동체 문제 인식과 참여를 위한 소설 읽기 교육

This study proposes reading Lee Cheong-jun’s Your Heaven from the perspective of communication as a way of reading novels to learn the meaning and requirements of communication, which are crucial in forming a desirable community for learners.&#x0D; From the perspective of literary education, this text approaches the problem of communication through conflict between characters, allowing us to recognize the meaning and importance of communication. Furthermore, from the standpoint of communication, it is possible to deal with the issues of silence; the absence of communication, the recognition of differences between oneself and others, and the acceptance of existence as an individual. Additionally, it can serve as a learning tool to approach and understand the concepts of freedom and love presented as a practice to solve communication problems and move forward as a single community.&#x0D; The exploration of the problematic approaches, requirements, and practices of communication revealed in Your Heaven can move toward recognizing the meaning and importance of communication today and exploring the requirements for forming a desirable community based on this. Accordingly, the educational plan for reading Your Heaven from the perspective of communication proposed in this article consists in helping learners develop an attitude of participating in the community as its members by understanding and internalizing the requirements for true communication and solidarity.

Barriers and facilitators to the participation and engagement of primary care in shared-care arrangements with community mental health services for preventive care of people with serious mental illness: a scoping review

BackgroundPeople with serious mental illness die about 20 years earlier than the general population from preventable diseases. Shared-care arrangements between general practitioners and mental health services can improve consumers’ access to preventive care, but implementing shared care is challenging. This scoping review sought to describe current evidence on the barriers and facilitators to the participation and engagement of primary care (specifically general practitioners) in shared-care arrangements with community mental health services for preventive health care of this population.MethodsWe searched Medline, Embase, CINAHL, Scopus, APA PsychINFO and EBM Reviews from 2010 to 2022. Data was extracted against a Microsoft Excel template developed for the review. Data was synthesised through tabulation and narrative methods.ResultsWe identified 295 records. After eligibility screening and full-text review, seven studies were included. Facilitators of engagement included a good fit with organisation and practice and opportunities to increase collaboration, specific roles to promote communication and coordination and help patients to navigate appointments, multidisciplinary teams and teamwork, and access to shared medical/health records. Barriers included a lack of willingness and motivation on the part of providers and low levels of confidence with tasks, lack of physical structures to produce capacity, poor alignment of funding/incentives, inability to share patient information and challenges engaging people with severe mental illness in the service and with their care.ConclusionOur results were consistent with other research on shared care and suggests that the broader literature is likely to be applicable to the context of general practitioner/mental health services shared care. Specific challenges relating to this cohort present difficulties for recruitment and retention in shared care programs. Sharing “goals and knowledge, mutual respect” and engaging in “frequent, timely, accurate, problem-solving communication”, supported by structures such as shared information systems are likely to engage primary care in shared care arrangements more than the traditional focus on incentives, education, and guidelines.

Application of Incoherent Multi-Frequency Signals for Information Transmission in a Nonstationary Hydroacoustic Environment

A class of digital incoherent methods of information transmission based on multi-frequency signals for mobile underwater complexes is presented, which does not require regular and accurate estimation of channel parameters and is a priori resistant to various types of interference in nonstationary hydroacoustic communication channels, and is oriented to solving communication and navigation problems for underwater robotic complexes. The limitation of spectral efficiency of such multi-frequency systems of information transmission by the value of 0.5 bits/s/Hz in various frequency ranges, nonstationary hydrological conditions, with achievement of the maximum range at acceptable levels of error probability during information decoding is shown. The operability of the proposed class of multi-frequency multiplexing methods was confirmed by numerical and in situ sea experiments on the shelf at distances from 2.5 to 7 km with the mutual drifting of ships and with sea waves of up to 3 points.

Simulation of the dependence of the radiation pattern of a digital active phased array antenna on the main destabilizing factors

As for today digital active phased array antennas (DAPAA), based on the principle of functioning using digital diagram formation, are actively used as part of spacecraft and unmanned aerial vehicles in solving radio communication and radar problems. At the same time, for the purposes of radar, DAPAA allows you to perceive all the information contained in the structure of spatiotemporal electromagnetic fields in the opening of the array and transform it into data on the presence and parameters of objects, providing deep compensation for broadband interference signals, which, combined with the expansion of the dynamic range when accumulated during spatiotemporal processing, provides high noise immunity of radar stations. To solve communication problems, DAPAA allows you to form several beams simultaneously, which allows you to simultaneously serve several areas at once with the possibility of dynamically changing the bandwidth in the channels due to variations in partial power.

The Association of Relational Coordination and Faculty Members' Burnout and Job Satisfaction: A Preliminary Cross-Sectional Study

Introduction. The relational coordination theory describes the interaction between effective communication and high-quality relationships critical for coordinating and accomplishing tasks when multiple individuals and groups are involved. Review of Literature. Relational coordination is associated with improved worker performance, increased job satisfaction, and reduced burnout. The purposes of this paper were to examine the differences in physical therapist education program (PTEP) core faculty members' perceived relational coordination with other PTEP faculty members, staff, and administration and to examine the associations between PTEP core faculty members' perceived relational coordination and its subscales and their perceived burnout and job satisfaction. Subjects. Entry-level PTEP core faculty members. Methods. An online survey that included the Relational Coordination Survey, Oldenburg Burnout Inventory, and Job Satisfaction Survey was used. A 1-way analysis of variance was conducted to test whether there were differences in PTEP core faculty members' perceived relational coordination with other PTEP faculty members, staff, and administration. Several simple linear regressions were conducted to test the associations between PTEP core faculty members' perceived relational coordination and its subscales and their perceived burnout and job satisfaction. Results. A total of 103 responses were analyzed. The PTEP core faculty members' mean perceived relational coordination with core faculty members was significantly higher than the mean relational coordination with associated faculty members, administration, and staff. Physical therapist education program core faculty members' perceived relational coordination and all its subscales were negatively associated with perceived disengagement. Perceived problem-solving communication and mutual respect were negatively associated with perceived exhaustion. Physical therapist education program core faculty members' perceived relational coordination and all its subscales were positively associated with perceived job satisfaction. Discussion and Conclusion. The quality of communication and relationships between and among core faculty members, administrators, and staff may affect PTEP core faculty members' perceived burnout and job satisfaction.

The Use of Code-Switching and Code-Mixing in English Learning for Children:

The research aimed to determine the types of communication applied in an intercultural family. They had diverse nationalities, customs, values, and beliefs. The researchers viewed communication as the main issue that could occur in an intercultural family. One of the examples of an intercultural family was Aprillia, a Makassarese woman married to Shawn Mullins, a U.S Military. They caused code-switching and code-mixing, types of code-switching and code-mixing applied in the family, children’s communication process, and strategies to solve communication problems in the intercultural family. The research’s finding was gathered from April’s family using an in-depth interview. By applying a qualitative approach, the researchers found the type of code-switching, code-mixing, and communication processes applied in April’s family. Furthermore, the researchers discover that techniques for resolving communication problems and linguistic barriers include avoiding ethnocentrism, challenging prejudices, recognizing differences, adjusting communication, equality, and a balanced split. Consequently, the most effective technique for resolving communication issues within an intercultural family is to remember that every individual has a distinct perspective. To avoid miscommunication during a conversation, individuals must learn to adapt to the capacity of the person with whom they are communicating.

Economic strain and quality of life among families with emerging adult children: The contributions of family rituals and family problem-solving communication.

Young people and their families around the world are especially vulnerable to macroeconomic hard times. This study sought to provide a more comprehensive view on how families with emerging adult children can successfully overcome economic distress. Specifically, we examined the links between economic strain-that is, the subjective perceptions of one's current and future financial situation-family ritual meaning, family problem-solving communication, and quality of life, as reported by emerging adults and their parents. Data were collected from 1017 individuals nested in 334 families living in Portugal in 2016/2017. Results from multilevel modeling provided evidence for a negative impact of economic strain on family members' quality of life (β = -0.30, p < 0.001); and for the role of family ritual meaning (β = 0.01, p = 0.022), but not family problem-solving communication, as a buffer against the negative effect of economic strain on quality of life. Findings also suggested that the subjective evaluations that family members formulated about their financial situations played a greater role than objective economic conditions (e.g., income) in establishing a deeper understanding on the impact of economic demands on individuals and families' lives in today's complex financial world. This study provides a significant contribution to family economic stress research, advancing family ritual meaning as a key family dynamic contributing to positive adaptation to economic distress. The implications of these findings for clinical interventions include the potential benefits of symbolic forms of family communication in the work carried out with economically stressed family members.

Developing Relational Coordination: A Qualitative Study of Outpatient Mental Health Teams.

Previous studies have shown Relational Coordination improves team functioning in healthcare settings. The aim of this study was to examine the relational factors needed to support team functioning in outpatient mental health care teams with low staffing ratios. We interviewed interdisciplinary mental health teams that had achieved high team functioning despite low staffing ratios in U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers. We conducted qualitative interviews with 21 interdisciplinary team members across three teams within two medical centers. We used directed content analysis to code the transcripts with a priori codes based on the Relational Coordination dimensions, while also being attentive to emergent themes. We found that all seven dimensions of Relational Coordination were relevant to improved team functioning: frequent communication, timely communication, accurate communication, problem-solving communication, shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect. Participants also described these dimensions as reciprocal processes that influenced each other. In conclusion,relational Coordination dimensions can play pivotal roles in improving team functioning both individually and in combination. Communication dimensions were a catalyst for developing relationship dimensions; once relationships were developed, there was a mutually reinforcing cycle between communication and relationship dimensions. Our results suggest that establishing high-functioning mental health care teams, even in low-staffed settings, requires encouraging frequent communication within teams. Moreover, attention should be given to ensuring appropriate representation of disciplines among leadership and defining roles of team members when teams are formed.

Komunikācijas barjeru pārvarēšana mūsdienu studiju procesā

The need for quality education and the acquisition of objective information is a prerequisite for the development of modern society. Recent changes in politics, economy, education, thinking, and language influence each individual’s mind, causing a deeper understanding of the human potential in the social environment, the people around us, and the world in general. Education goes hand in hand with public processes; therefore, in the main stages of education and further education, the requirement arises to change the operational objectives, emphasizing human autonomy, openness, and variability in susceptibility and formation. The increasing requirements for the professionalism of employees, academic skills, communication quality, language competence, loyalty, and responsibility, which are essential components of professional competence, stress coexistence, acceptance of diversity, tolerance, dialogue, and cooperation. When different cultures meet, it becomes necessary to solve communication problems and understand universal values, as well as various languages, cultures, and ways of communication. The data obtained in the empirical study show that insufficiently developed subject-specific communicative skills determine the communicative barrier in LSP language, motivation, inadequate stereotypes, specifics of communication culture, inability to set goals and achieve desired results, level of motivation, and inadequate self-assessment of acquired language skills.

A Methodology to Design Quantized Deep Neural Networks for Automatic Modulation Recognition

Next-generation communication systems will face new challenges related to efficiently managing the available resources, such as the radio spectrum. DL is one of the optimization approaches to address and solve these challenges. However, there is a gap between research and industry. Most AI models that solve communication problems cannot be implemented in current communication devices due to their high computational capacity requirements. New approaches seek to reduce the size of DL models through quantization techniques, changing the traditional method of operations from a 32 (or 64) floating-point representation to a fixed point (usually small) one. However, there is no analytical method to determine the level of quantification that can be used to obtain the best trade-off between the reduction of computational costs and an acceptable accuracy in a specific problem. In this work, we propose an analysis methodology to determine the degree of quantization in a DNN model to solve the problem of AMR in a radio system. We use the Brevitas framework to build and analyze different quantized variants of the DL architecture VGG10 adapted to the AMR problem. The evaluation of the computational cost is performed with the FINN framework of Xilinx Research Labs to obtain the computational inference cost. The proposed design methodology allows us to obtain the combination of quantization bits per layer that provides an optimal trade-off between the model performance (i.e., accuracy) and the model complexity (i.e., size) according to a set of weights associated with each optimization objective. For example, using the proposed methodology, we found a model architecture that reduced 75.8% of the model size compared to the non-quantized baseline model, with a performance degradation of only 0.06%.

Internet of Things-Based Home Education Interactive System and Parent-Teacher Relationship Cultivation

In today’s society, young parents have no time to take care of their children under the pressure of life and leave their children to their own parents, resulting in less and less interaction between parents and children. At present, the main problem with family education is that the education method is unscientific. The family education interactive system refers to building a platform for parents and children through the Internet to solve communication problems, improve parents’ educational concepts, and improve the overall level of family education. The level of tacit understanding between parents and teachers has a profound impact on children’s learning. Parents and teachers keep the same educational ideas and form a joint force, which makes students’ subjective learning willingness stronger and effectively avoids negative psychology such as confusion and weariness. Compared with the traditional education model, the new education model is more information-based and digital. The Internet of Things is the product of the expansion and extension of the Internet, which refers to the connection of various information-sensing devices with the Internet to form a broader network system. This study takes parents, students, and teachers as the research objects, mainly applies the embedded system technology in the Internet of Things, and aims to solve some problems in family education and poor communication between parents and teachers. This not only improves the original interactive system of family education but also effectively improves the communication efficiency between parents and teachers by using the Internet of Things technology. Overall satisfaction with the improved home education system increased by 19 percent, and communication efficiency between parents and teachers increased by 8 percent. It has practical reference significance for the research on the Internet of Things in family education. At the same time, the structural family therapy model is used to expand the family’s construction of the problem, obtain a family interaction model to maintain symptoms, and explore the influence of family members’ past on the present and the related changes in family members. In the process of implementation, explore and evaluate the structure of the family, create a situation that changes the family structure, and transform the family system.

An ethnographic study of multilingual language policy localization with a focus on the resolution of communication problems in international Non-governmental Organizations (INGOs)

Taking the China Office of an international Non-governmental Organization (INGO) as its site of study, this article analyzed how an international multilingual language policy was localized by focusing on the solving of communication problems. It was found that overt and covert language policies work together to form a talent pool of potential language broker and language node, who functioned in solving communication problems in planned and unplanned scenarios. The emergence of language broker and language node in INGOs demonstrates on one hand, the exercise of individual and institutional agency in solving communication problems; on the other hand, the interaction of language policy at different layers (international-national-institutional) in shaping individual’s language practice. The article contributes to the study of language policy in post-modern era by providing a conceptualization of language policy localization process that centers around solving communication problems in INGO work places.

Do spouse burden of care, family resilience, and coping affect family function in gynecologic cancer in Korea?: a cross-sectional study.

This study aimed to investigate family functioning among spouses of gynecologic cancer patients in Korea. McCubbin and McCubbin's Family Resilience Model (1993) guided the study focus on burden of care, family resilience, coping, and family functioning. An online survey collected data from 123 spouses of gynecologic cancer patients through convenience sampling from online communities for gynecologic cancer patients in Korea. Burden of care, family resilience (social support, family hardiness, and family problem-solving communication), coping, and family functioning were measured by self-report. The patients (44.7%) and their spouses (47.2%) were mostly in the 41 to 50-year age group. Stage 1 cancer was 44.7%, and cervical cancer was the most common (37.4%) followed by ovarian cancer (30.9%) and uterine cancer (27.6%) regarding the cancer characteristics of the wife. Family function, burden of care, family resilience, and coping were all at greater than midpoint levels. Family functioning was positively related with social support (r=.44, p&lt;.001), family hardiness (r=.49, p&lt;.001), problem-solving communication (r=.73, p&lt;.001), and coping (r=.56, p&lt;.001). Multiple regression identified significant factors for family functioning (F=25.58, p&lt;.001), with an overall explanatory power of 61.7%. Problem-solving communication (β=.56, p&lt;.001) had the greatest influence on family function of gynecologic cancer families, followed by coping (β=.24, p&lt;. 001) and total treatment period of the wife (β=.17, p=.006). Nurses need to assess levels of family communication and spousal coping to help improve gynecologic cancer patients' family function, especially for patients in longer treatment.

Hubungan Komunikasi Matematis Dengan Kemampuan Pemecahan Masalah Siswa SMPN 2 Kuripan Tahun Ajaran 2020/2021

This study aimed to determine the relationship between mathematical communication and problem solving skills and the level of mathematical communication skills and problem solving abilities of seventh grade students of SMPN 2 Kuripan for the academic year 2020/2021. This type of research was ex-post facto research with a quantitative approach. The population in this study were all seventh grade students of SMPN 2 Kuripan with a total of 126 students. The sampling technique used is a non-probability sampling technique with purposive sampling type. Collecting data used were tests to obtain mathematical communication data and problem solving ability data. Data analysis technique used was Pearson product moment. The results of this study indicated that the level of mathematical communication of class VII C students of SMP Negeri 2 Kuripan in solving math problems on the set material as a whole was in the medium category with an average of 12.3. it was found that 6 students had good communication skills or with a percentage (25%), 8 students had moderate communication skills or with a percentage (33.3) 10 students were less capable or with a percentage (41.7) Problem Solving Communication Level students of class VII C SMP Negeri 2 Kuripan in solving math problems on the set material as a whole was in the medium category with an average of 18.21. it was found that 5 students had good problem-solving abilities or with a percentage (20.8%), 10 students had moderate problem-solving abilities or with a percentage (41.7), 9 students had poor problem-solving abilities or with a percentage (37.5). While the results the hypothesis test was 0.337 indicating that there was no significant relationship between mathematical communication and problem solving abilities of class VII students of SMPN 2 Kuripan for the academic year 2020/2021.

Health system-related needs for healthy nutritional behaviors in adolescent girls with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS): a qualitative study in Iran

BackgroundPolycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine disorder among women. Given the prevalence of this disease in adolescent girls as well as its serious physical, psychological, and social consequences, the present study aimed to explore the health system-related needs for healthy nutritional behaviors in adolescent girls with PCOS.MethodsThis qualitative content analysis was conducted in Shiraz, Iran between November 2016 and October 2017. Eighteen Adolescent girls with PCOS and 15 healthcare providers (midwives, gynecologists, nutritionists, and endocrinologists) were selected through purposeful sampling with maximum variation strategy. Data were collected through individual in-depth and semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, and field note, and simultaneously analyzed using the conventional qualitative content analysis method.ResultsThree main categories that appeared included: 1) education and counseling on healthy nutrition and support for adolescent girls with PCOS with sub-categories of “empowering adolescent girls with PCOS to adopt healthy nutritional behaviors”, “providing services and education about healthy nutritional behaviors as a team”, and “the health team attention to the concerns of adolescent girls with PCOS and closely following the disease status, 2) solving communication problems with sub-categories of “proper interactions and building trust between health team members and adolescent girls” and “proper interactions between members of the health team”, and 3) developing the optimal structure for providing health services with sub-categories of “solving problems related to human resources, “promoting the position of health issues related to adolescent girls in the health system”, and “promoting policy-making in the field of nutritional health of adolescent girls”.ConclusionsBased on the results of the present study, necessary measures should be taken to educate and advise on healthy nutrition, and to support adolescent girls with PCOS. The desired structure should also be developed to provide health services to these girls. By solving communication problems and building trust between the members of the health team and these girls, one can guide them to adopt healthy nutritional behaviors.