Online English learning as an outcome of the rapid development of the Internet has got a wider and wider market in China. However, problems of varieties have also occurred along its way. People never stop thinking of ...Online English learning as an outcome of the rapid development of the Internet has got a wider and wider market in China. However, problems of varieties have also occurred along its way. People never stop thinking of better strategies either in designing online course wares or tutorials to help smooth the learning process. My experience as a tutor is that interaction of affective domain and higher levels of cognitive domain of Bloom's Taxonomy plays an important role in face-to-face tutorials of online English learning.展开更多
To understand citizens’awareness,trust and attitude towards Tradition Chinese medicine(TCM),to seek the best penetration path of TCM products and culture,to analyze their influencing factors,and to provide suggestion...To understand citizens’awareness,trust and attitude towards Tradition Chinese medicine(TCM),to seek the best penetration path of TCM products and culture,to analyze their influencing factors,and to provide suggestions and countermeasures,a non-probabilistic judgment sampling method was used to conduct a survey among 459 people online with the help of Questionnaire Star and 434 valid questionnaires were collected.The survey shows that residents have a high degree of recognition and identification of Chinese medicine;citizens are rational when choosing TCM products,and the recognition of the emerging TCM culture infiltration path is low.Different social and demographic factors affect citizens’awareness,trust and attitude towards TCM,as well as the choice of infiltration path(P<0.05).展开更多
with the vigorous development of education, the requirement to the higher education, especially to the improving college students’ physical quality, should be higher and strict in the new stage. In the improvement of...with the vigorous development of education, the requirement to the higher education, especially to the improving college students’ physical quality, should be higher and strict in the new stage. In the improvement of Sunshine Sports background, the institutes of higher learning began to spread Tai Chi widely, inheriting Chinese traditional culture and in the meanwhile, to improve students’ physical quality and healthy. However, according to their cognitive level and participation of Tai Chi, the limits still wide, which need a further improvement. Thus, this article will do analysis on the cognitive level and participation of Tai Chi in the institutes of higher learning, the main target people is these students. According to the reality, through various analysis method and calibration, we investigate the cognitive level and participation of Tai Chi in the higher education learners and confirm the defects and deficiency within. From this, we can see that cognitive level is not that high, and their participation is not enough, and the positivity to it is not so active. In a word, the wide and deep spread of Tai Chi will help their physical and metal both healthy,firming a base for the future.展开更多
Objective:To study the effect of mindfulness-based cognitive training on sleep quality and mindfulness cognitive level of college students who score below the critical value of sleep disorders.Methods:The subjects wer...Objective:To study the effect of mindfulness-based cognitive training on sleep quality and mindfulness cognitive level of college students who score below the critical value of sleep disorders.Methods:The subjects were freshmen of a university in Shanghai who had scored below the critical value of sleep disorders.They were divided into the control group and experimental group by a random number table method,with 35 students in each group.No intervention was provided in the control group,and the mindfulness-based cognitive training(1 hour per day,5 days per week for 8 consecutive weeks)was performed in the intervention group.Eight weeks later,the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index(PSQI)and Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire(FFMQ)scores were compared between the two groups before and after the intervention for changes in the sleep quality and mindfulness cognitive level.Results:The sleep quality and daytime dysfunction were significantly improved,the sleep latency was shortened,the sleep duration was prolonged(P<0.05),and the mindfulness level of the subjects was significantly improved(P<0.05)in the intervention group compared with the control group.Conclusion:Mindfulness-based cognitive training can significantly improve the sleep quality of college students who scored below the critical value of sleep disorders.Furthermore,its psychological mechanism may be associated with the improvement of the mindfulness level of college students.展开更多
Objective:To explore the advantages of continuous nursing based on the Omaha system for patients with oral cancer surgery.Methods:120 cases patients who were treated surgically for oral cancer from January 2020 to Jun...Objective:To explore the advantages of continuous nursing based on the Omaha system for patients with oral cancer surgery.Methods:120 cases patients who were treated surgically for oral cancer from January 2020 to June 2022 were selected for this study;the ages of patients ranged from 26-78 years old.The patients were divided into a control group(60 patients)who would undergo routine nursing and an observation group who would undergo continuous nursing based on the Omaha.Statistical analysis was carried out on the clinical data.Results:After nursing,the quality of life,degree of understanding towards the disease,total satisfaction,and total rate of effectiveness of the observation group were significantly higher than those of the control group,and the negative emotion scores were significantly lower in the observation group(P<0.05).Conclusion:Continuous nursing based on the Omaha system can not only improve the quality of life of oral cancer patients after surgery,but also alleviate the negative emotions of patients,expand the degree of understanding towards the disease,and improve their overall quality of life.Besides,high rates of nursing satisfaction and total effectiveness can promote the postoperative recovery of patients.展开更多
Questions can be classified from different perspectives: grammatical form, communicative value, content orientation and cognitive level. In language pedagogy, text-based questioning as both an attention drawing devic...Questions can be classified from different perspectives: grammatical form, communicative value, content orientation and cognitive level. In language pedagogy, text-based questioning as both an attention drawing device and a form of learning tasks serves text instruction. Therefore, language teachers preparing text-based questioning should take into consideration all dimensions of questions, especially cognitive requirement and communicative character. In addition, interaction between learner, text and the world can be achieved by the adoption of both about-the-text and beyond-the-text questions in teachers' text-based question construction.展开更多
Objective To investigate and analyze the residents’cognition and use of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)and put forward corresponding countermeasures for its existing problems.Methods A questionnaire survey was cond...Objective To investigate and analyze the residents’cognition and use of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)and put forward corresponding countermeasures for its existing problems.Methods A questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate the cognition and trust of TCM from 380 residents in Liaoning Province.Then,the differences of residents’way of purchasing TCM and gaining the knowledge of TCM.Finally,Polygonum multiflorum was taken as an example to analyze the problems in residents’cognition and use of Chinese medicinal materials,Chinese traditional decoction pieces,and Chinese patent medicine.Results and Conclusion A total of 402 questionnaires were collected,and 380 were valid.The effective rate was 94.53%.Residents’understanding of the top three TCM processing techniques were simmering(58.95%),baking(56.84%),and parching(45.00%).The top three best-known TCM for them were chrysanthemum(72.63%),tangerine peel(63.16%),and hawthorn(62.11%).The main factors influencing residents’willingness to purchase TCM were doctors’advice(52.63%),and experts or experienced people’s suggestion(54.21%).The top three ways of residents’gaining TCM knowledge were:TCM knowledge lecture(64.21%),health care knowledge(55.79%),and personal experience of Chinese medicine such as acupuncture and cupping(54.21%).However,due to the lack of professional knowledge of TCM,insufficient supervision and inconsistent standards,residents frequently took TCM by mistake.Residents have a high recognition of TCM,so its future development is optimistic.However,some residents’insufficient knowledge of TCM often leads to the misapplication of the medicine.Therefore,to improve residents’cognition of TCM,it is not only to actively publicize the professional knowledge of TCM,but also to improve the professional skills of practitioners,and the supervision standards and intensity of TCM market,so as to make residents feel at ease to buy safe and high-quality TCM products.展开更多
Objective:To investigate and analyze the cognition of menopause in women over 40 years old.Methods:Using the stratified sampling method,224 females,age ranging from 40 to 60,from our university staff(Xi’an Medical Un...Objective:To investigate and analyze the cognition of menopause in women over 40 years old.Methods:Using the stratified sampling method,224 females,age ranging from 40 to 60,from our university staff(Xi’an Medical University)and the surrounding communities were selected,and both online and offline questionnaires were distributed.Results:(1)224 questionnaires were recovered,with 204 valid questionnaires,among which 100 questionnaires were from our university staff(aged 42-60 years old)and 104 questionnaires from the surrounding communities(aged 40-60 years old);(2)the cognition of menopause among the surveyed population was found to be related to occupation and education level;the cognition of menopause among university staff(76%)was significantly higher than that of the surrounding communities(45.19%);(3)most people were able to accept menopausal hormone therapy;the degree of acceptance among the university staff(80%)was found to be higher than that among the surrounding communities(60.58%).Conclusion:According to the recovered data,women over the age of 40 have less than ideal cognition of menopause,and although the cognitive level of the university staff on menopause was found to be significantly higher than that of the surrounding communities,their cognitive level still requires improvement.展开更多
BACKGROUND At present,China has become the country with the largest number of individuals with diabetes mellitus(DM)in the world,with a total of approximately 140 million patients,the majority of whom have type 2 DM(T...BACKGROUND At present,China has become the country with the largest number of individuals with diabetes mellitus(DM)in the world,with a total of approximately 140 million patients,the majority of whom have type 2 DM(T2DM).Based on conven-tional nursing methods,community home care has important clinical significance in controlling blood sugar and disease progression.AIM To explore the impact of community public health nursing on treatment effect,health cognition,and self-management in patients with T2DM.METHODS One hundred patients with T2DM were selected as the research subjects.The patients were divided into either a conventional nursing group or community nursing(CN)group using the random number table method.The conventional nursing group(50 cases)received routine care,while the CN group(50 cases)received community public health care in addition to routine care as that for the conventional nursing group.The rate of excellent and good blood glucose control,fasting blood glucose before and after care,2-h postprandial blood glucose,health cognition,and self-management ability,and patient satisfaction were compared between the two groups.RESULTS The CN group had a higher rate of excellent blood sugar control than the conventional nursing group(88%vs 70%,P<0.05).Before care,there was no significant difference in fasting blood glucose or 2-h postprandial blood glucose between the two groups of patients(P>0.05).After nursing,fasting blood glucose and 2-h postprandial blood glucose were reduced to varying degrees in both groups,and both blood glucose levels in the CN group were lower than those of the conventional nursing group(P<0.05).Compared with the scores before care,the cognitive level score for diabetes and self-management ability score improved after care in both groups.The cognitive level and self-management ability of patients in the CN group were higher than those of the conventional nursing group(P<0.05).The overall satisfaction of the CN group was better than that of the conventional nursing group(98%vs 86%,P<0.05).CONCLUSION Community public health care based on conventional care of T2DM can achieve better blood sugar control,and improve patients’health cognitive level and self-management ability.展开更多
Tourists are the main body of tourism activities,and studying the environmental cognition of tourists is beneficial for the environmental management of scenic spots.In this article,data obtained by questionnaire were ...Tourists are the main body of tourism activities,and studying the environmental cognition of tourists is beneficial for the environmental management of scenic spots.In this article,data obtained by questionnaire were used to compose a data matrix of 169×10 dimensions,and the cognitive level of ecotourists for the tourism environment was measured by two-way indicator species analysis(TWINSPAN)and detrended correspondence analysis(DCA)in Luya Mountain Nature Reserve.This analysis revealed three main points.(1)TWINSPAN divided all the samples into the strict environment protection type,the ordinary environment protection type,the occasional environment protection type,and the natural enjoyment type.Both the strict and ordinary environment protection types agreed with biocentrism and had a consciousness regarding the protection of nature,but the former advocated that tourism activities should be restricted in nature reserves,while the latter did not agree with restrictions on tourism activities.The occasional environment protection types denied biocentrism;on the one hand,they thought that nature should serve human beings,but on the other hand,they showed a tendency toward environmental protection.The natural enjoyment type argued that natural resources should be maximized to meet human needs.(2)There were significant correlations between the first axis of the DCA and gender,age,education,number of trips,and cognition of nature reserve function,and the second axis of DCA was significantly correlated with gender,age,and education level.Under the impact of all the factors in the DCA figure,ecotourist types transitioned gradually from the first type to the second,the third,and the fourth types along the diagonal line,and accordingly,their cognitive level for the tourism environment was reduced slowly.(3)For nature reserves,the strict environment protection type had 74 people,who was the most popular.The ordinary and occasional environment protection types had 43 people and 31 people,respectively,who should be strived to raise environmental awareness.The natural enjoyment type had 21 people,who must be systematically educated.展开更多
This paper presents cognitive awareness levels of ecosystem services and their consumption by farmers in Guyuan City, which lies in the Jinghe watershed. Household Surveys and Participatory Rural Assessment (PRA) we...This paper presents cognitive awareness levels of ecosystem services and their consumption by farmers in Guyuan City, which lies in the Jinghe watershed. Household Surveys and Participatory Rural Assessment (PRA) were used to determine differences in farmers cognitive awareness levels. The household survey results showed that farmers have a cognitive awareness of 11 ecosystem services: food supply, air purification, environmental purification, soil and water conservation, clean water supply, natural disaster minimization, increasing income, fuel wood supply, aesthetic recreation, fodder supply and sand stabilization. The job-related requirements of a farmers’ daily life, their direct consumption of ecosystem services and the importance of ecosystem services to them all influence their cognitive awareness of ecosystem services. Through group interviews the PRA method can provide the opportunity for information exchange and discussion. The process can help farmers to gain more cognitive awareness of ecosystem services. Large changes in ecosystem services have been observed in the study area. Food production and fuel wood supply have decreased markedly, yet incomes have increased. Spatial and temporal variables, changes in ecosystem services and the level of income all have an impact on farmers’ food supply and resource consumption. Overall, the total consumption of food (cereal and potato) and fuel wood declines for most farmers and consumption of vegetables, meat, coals and gas have increased.展开更多
文摘Online English learning as an outcome of the rapid development of the Internet has got a wider and wider market in China. However, problems of varieties have also occurred along its way. People never stop thinking of better strategies either in designing online course wares or tutorials to help smooth the learning process. My experience as a tutor is that interaction of affective domain and higher levels of cognitive domain of Bloom's Taxonomy plays an important role in face-to-face tutorials of online English learning.
基金2020 Shenyang Philosophy and Social Science Planning Fund project SZ202001L.
文摘To understand citizens’awareness,trust and attitude towards Tradition Chinese medicine(TCM),to seek the best penetration path of TCM products and culture,to analyze their influencing factors,and to provide suggestions and countermeasures,a non-probabilistic judgment sampling method was used to conduct a survey among 459 people online with the help of Questionnaire Star and 434 valid questionnaires were collected.The survey shows that residents have a high degree of recognition and identification of Chinese medicine;citizens are rational when choosing TCM products,and the recognition of the emerging TCM culture infiltration path is low.Different social and demographic factors affect citizens’awareness,trust and attitude towards TCM,as well as the choice of infiltration path(P<0.05).
文摘with the vigorous development of education, the requirement to the higher education, especially to the improving college students’ physical quality, should be higher and strict in the new stage. In the improvement of Sunshine Sports background, the institutes of higher learning began to spread Tai Chi widely, inheriting Chinese traditional culture and in the meanwhile, to improve students’ physical quality and healthy. However, according to their cognitive level and participation of Tai Chi, the limits still wide, which need a further improvement. Thus, this article will do analysis on the cognitive level and participation of Tai Chi in the institutes of higher learning, the main target people is these students. According to the reality, through various analysis method and calibration, we investigate the cognitive level and participation of Tai Chi in the higher education learners and confirm the defects and deficiency within. From this, we can see that cognitive level is not that high, and their participation is not enough, and the positivity to it is not so active. In a word, the wide and deep spread of Tai Chi will help their physical and metal both healthy,firming a base for the future.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(NO.81673911).
文摘Objective:To study the effect of mindfulness-based cognitive training on sleep quality and mindfulness cognitive level of college students who score below the critical value of sleep disorders.Methods:The subjects were freshmen of a university in Shanghai who had scored below the critical value of sleep disorders.They were divided into the control group and experimental group by a random number table method,with 35 students in each group.No intervention was provided in the control group,and the mindfulness-based cognitive training(1 hour per day,5 days per week for 8 consecutive weeks)was performed in the intervention group.Eight weeks later,the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index(PSQI)and Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire(FFMQ)scores were compared between the two groups before and after the intervention for changes in the sleep quality and mindfulness cognitive level.Results:The sleep quality and daytime dysfunction were significantly improved,the sleep latency was shortened,the sleep duration was prolonged(P<0.05),and the mindfulness level of the subjects was significantly improved(P<0.05)in the intervention group compared with the control group.Conclusion:Mindfulness-based cognitive training can significantly improve the sleep quality of college students who scored below the critical value of sleep disorders.Furthermore,its psychological mechanism may be associated with the improvement of the mindfulness level of college students.
基金Natural Science Foundation of China:Analysis of the Current Situation of Waterway Pollution in Dental Units and Preliminary Study on the Effect of New Intervention Measures(Fund Number:201801D121343)。
文摘Objective:To explore the advantages of continuous nursing based on the Omaha system for patients with oral cancer surgery.Methods:120 cases patients who were treated surgically for oral cancer from January 2020 to June 2022 were selected for this study;the ages of patients ranged from 26-78 years old.The patients were divided into a control group(60 patients)who would undergo routine nursing and an observation group who would undergo continuous nursing based on the Omaha.Statistical analysis was carried out on the clinical data.Results:After nursing,the quality of life,degree of understanding towards the disease,total satisfaction,and total rate of effectiveness of the observation group were significantly higher than those of the control group,and the negative emotion scores were significantly lower in the observation group(P<0.05).Conclusion:Continuous nursing based on the Omaha system can not only improve the quality of life of oral cancer patients after surgery,but also alleviate the negative emotions of patients,expand the degree of understanding towards the disease,and improve their overall quality of life.Besides,high rates of nursing satisfaction and total effectiveness can promote the postoperative recovery of patients.
文摘Questions can be classified from different perspectives: grammatical form, communicative value, content orientation and cognitive level. In language pedagogy, text-based questioning as both an attention drawing device and a form of learning tasks serves text instruction. Therefore, language teachers preparing text-based questioning should take into consideration all dimensions of questions, especially cognitive requirement and communicative character. In addition, interaction between learner, text and the world can be achieved by the adoption of both about-the-text and beyond-the-text questions in teachers' text-based question construction.
基金the project:Shenyang Philosophy and Social Science Planning Foundation Project(SZ202001L).
文摘Objective To investigate and analyze the residents’cognition and use of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)and put forward corresponding countermeasures for its existing problems.Methods A questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate the cognition and trust of TCM from 380 residents in Liaoning Province.Then,the differences of residents’way of purchasing TCM and gaining the knowledge of TCM.Finally,Polygonum multiflorum was taken as an example to analyze the problems in residents’cognition and use of Chinese medicinal materials,Chinese traditional decoction pieces,and Chinese patent medicine.Results and Conclusion A total of 402 questionnaires were collected,and 380 were valid.The effective rate was 94.53%.Residents’understanding of the top three TCM processing techniques were simmering(58.95%),baking(56.84%),and parching(45.00%).The top three best-known TCM for them were chrysanthemum(72.63%),tangerine peel(63.16%),and hawthorn(62.11%).The main factors influencing residents’willingness to purchase TCM were doctors’advice(52.63%),and experts or experienced people’s suggestion(54.21%).The top three ways of residents’gaining TCM knowledge were:TCM knowledge lecture(64.21%),health care knowledge(55.79%),and personal experience of Chinese medicine such as acupuncture and cupping(54.21%).However,due to the lack of professional knowledge of TCM,insufficient supervision and inconsistent standards,residents frequently took TCM by mistake.Residents have a high recognition of TCM,so its future development is optimistic.However,some residents’insufficient knowledge of TCM often leads to the misapplication of the medicine.Therefore,to improve residents’cognition of TCM,it is not only to actively publicize the professional knowledge of TCM,but also to improve the professional skills of practitioners,and the supervision standards and intensity of TCM market,so as to make residents feel at ease to buy safe and high-quality TCM products.
基金supported by the 2021 College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program Project(No.:121521116).
文摘Objective:To investigate and analyze the cognition of menopause in women over 40 years old.Methods:Using the stratified sampling method,224 females,age ranging from 40 to 60,from our university staff(Xi’an Medical University)and the surrounding communities were selected,and both online and offline questionnaires were distributed.Results:(1)224 questionnaires were recovered,with 204 valid questionnaires,among which 100 questionnaires were from our university staff(aged 42-60 years old)and 104 questionnaires from the surrounding communities(aged 40-60 years old);(2)the cognition of menopause among the surveyed population was found to be related to occupation and education level;the cognition of menopause among university staff(76%)was significantly higher than that of the surrounding communities(45.19%);(3)most people were able to accept menopausal hormone therapy;the degree of acceptance among the university staff(80%)was found to be higher than that among the surrounding communities(60.58%).Conclusion:According to the recovered data,women over the age of 40 have less than ideal cognition of menopause,and although the cognitive level of the university staff on menopause was found to be significantly higher than that of the surrounding communities,their cognitive level still requires improvement.
文摘BACKGROUND At present,China has become the country with the largest number of individuals with diabetes mellitus(DM)in the world,with a total of approximately 140 million patients,the majority of whom have type 2 DM(T2DM).Based on conven-tional nursing methods,community home care has important clinical significance in controlling blood sugar and disease progression.AIM To explore the impact of community public health nursing on treatment effect,health cognition,and self-management in patients with T2DM.METHODS One hundred patients with T2DM were selected as the research subjects.The patients were divided into either a conventional nursing group or community nursing(CN)group using the random number table method.The conventional nursing group(50 cases)received routine care,while the CN group(50 cases)received community public health care in addition to routine care as that for the conventional nursing group.The rate of excellent and good blood glucose control,fasting blood glucose before and after care,2-h postprandial blood glucose,health cognition,and self-management ability,and patient satisfaction were compared between the two groups.RESULTS The CN group had a higher rate of excellent blood sugar control than the conventional nursing group(88%vs 70%,P<0.05).Before care,there was no significant difference in fasting blood glucose or 2-h postprandial blood glucose between the two groups of patients(P>0.05).After nursing,fasting blood glucose and 2-h postprandial blood glucose were reduced to varying degrees in both groups,and both blood glucose levels in the CN group were lower than those of the conventional nursing group(P<0.05).Compared with the scores before care,the cognitive level score for diabetes and self-management ability score improved after care in both groups.The cognitive level and self-management ability of patients in the CN group were higher than those of the conventional nursing group(P<0.05).The overall satisfaction of the CN group was better than that of the conventional nursing group(98%vs 86%,P<0.05).CONCLUSION Community public health care based on conventional care of T2DM can achieve better blood sugar control,and improve patients’health cognitive level and self-management ability.
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(41571141)The Planning of Philosophy and Social Sciences in Shanxi Province(2018B072,2020YY118)The Research Project on Graduate Education Reform in Shanxi Province(2019JG129,2020YJJG168)。
文摘Tourists are the main body of tourism activities,and studying the environmental cognition of tourists is beneficial for the environmental management of scenic spots.In this article,data obtained by questionnaire were used to compose a data matrix of 169×10 dimensions,and the cognitive level of ecotourists for the tourism environment was measured by two-way indicator species analysis(TWINSPAN)and detrended correspondence analysis(DCA)in Luya Mountain Nature Reserve.This analysis revealed three main points.(1)TWINSPAN divided all the samples into the strict environment protection type,the ordinary environment protection type,the occasional environment protection type,and the natural enjoyment type.Both the strict and ordinary environment protection types agreed with biocentrism and had a consciousness regarding the protection of nature,but the former advocated that tourism activities should be restricted in nature reserves,while the latter did not agree with restrictions on tourism activities.The occasional environment protection types denied biocentrism;on the one hand,they thought that nature should serve human beings,but on the other hand,they showed a tendency toward environmental protection.The natural enjoyment type argued that natural resources should be maximized to meet human needs.(2)There were significant correlations between the first axis of the DCA and gender,age,education,number of trips,and cognition of nature reserve function,and the second axis of DCA was significantly correlated with gender,age,and education level.Under the impact of all the factors in the DCA figure,ecotourist types transitioned gradually from the first type to the second,the third,and the fourth types along the diagonal line,and accordingly,their cognitive level for the tourism environment was reduced slowly.(3)For nature reserves,the strict environment protection type had 74 people,who was the most popular.The ordinary and occasional environment protection types had 43 people and 31 people,respectively,who should be strived to raise environmental awareness.The natural enjoyment type had 21 people,who must be systematically educated.
基金National Basic Research Program of China (2009CB421106)the Knowledge Innovation Program of CAS (KZCX2-EW-306)+1 种基金Special Funds for Sino-EU Cooperation of MOST (0813)National Key Project of Science and Technical Supporting Programs of China (2008BAK50B05)
文摘This paper presents cognitive awareness levels of ecosystem services and their consumption by farmers in Guyuan City, which lies in the Jinghe watershed. Household Surveys and Participatory Rural Assessment (PRA) were used to determine differences in farmers cognitive awareness levels. The household survey results showed that farmers have a cognitive awareness of 11 ecosystem services: food supply, air purification, environmental purification, soil and water conservation, clean water supply, natural disaster minimization, increasing income, fuel wood supply, aesthetic recreation, fodder supply and sand stabilization. The job-related requirements of a farmers’ daily life, their direct consumption of ecosystem services and the importance of ecosystem services to them all influence their cognitive awareness of ecosystem services. Through group interviews the PRA method can provide the opportunity for information exchange and discussion. The process can help farmers to gain more cognitive awareness of ecosystem services. Large changes in ecosystem services have been observed in the study area. Food production and fuel wood supply have decreased markedly, yet incomes have increased. Spatial and temporal variables, changes in ecosystem services and the level of income all have an impact on farmers’ food supply and resource consumption. Overall, the total consumption of food (cereal and potato) and fuel wood declines for most farmers and consumption of vegetables, meat, coals and gas have increased.