Japan’s aging rate (ratio of elderly aged 65 and older to total population) has exceeded 20%. The aim of this study was to clarify the relationships between Health Related Quality of Life, Body Mass Index (BMI), and ...Japan’s aging rate (ratio of elderly aged 65 and older to total population) has exceeded 20%. The aim of this study was to clarify the relationships between Health Related Quality of Life, Body Mass Index (BMI), and sleep quality. Subjects were 51 adults over 55 years old with chronic disease who living in the community. Instruments and structured interviews were used giving due consideration to privacy. Interviews were conducted within 10 - 20 minutes at the out-patient department. The evaluation instruments included bodymass index, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL), and Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14). A significant positive correlation (ρ = 0.321, p < 0.05) between PSQI and QOL (OHIP-14) scores was confirmed with sleep quality being lower with lower QOL scores. A negative correlation (ρ = ?0.339, p < 0.05) between physical health component summary scores (PCS) and mental health component summary scores (MCS) of HRQOL was confirmed, demonstrating that PCS was low, and the level of MCS was high. Sleep quality was found lower among those with lower oral health-related QOL scores. Moreover, in subjects with lower MCS scores, the PCS scores were found to be higher. Accordingly, it was considered appropriate that dental treatment and care, support the maintenance of activities and sleep, and mental health promotion which are likely requisites critical for elderly persons’ maintenance of independent lifestyles in their familiar community.展开更多
Background and Purpose: Quality of life as an important factor in health is very important. This study is looking for an appropriate and effective treatment for improving quality of life. This research aims to study t...Background and Purpose: Quality of life as an important factor in health is very important. This study is looking for an appropriate and effective treatment for improving quality of life. This research aims to study the psychological effect of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on quality of life of adult women suffering from obesity. Methods and Materials: This research is a kind of half-trail, with pattern of pre-test, post-test and group control. Statistical population includes all over-weight women with body mass index (BMI) range (30 - 40) who participated in family training sessions held in Shahin Shahr city. 40 patients who had the characteristics for sampling were selected and randomly placed in test and control groups (each group 20 people). Participants in each group before and after intervention quality of life questionnaire with 100 question sample World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL)-100 were evaluated. 12 sessions of acceptance and commitment therapy in group was used. The obtained data were analyzed with the use of Sciences Statistical Package for the Social (SPSS) 18 statistical software and methods of analysis of covariance. Findings: After selection of adult women having a BMI between 30 and 40 based on availability who had attended the meeting of family education, by invitation and voluntary, they were randomized into experimental and control groups. Intervention was done for experimental group. Due to the result of covariance analysis on the post-test stage, examination group showed significant improvement in variants physical health dimensions, level of independence in social and environmental relationships and spirituality (p < 0.01). Conclusion: According to the findings of this research based on the impact of acceptance and commitment intervention on promotion and improving in quality of life, this treatment can be used for improving the variants in women suffering from over-weight and obesity.展开更多
Thermal environment may affect sleep quality and sleeping thermal comfort at the same time.Up to now,there is no direct evidence or physiological theory can prove the idea that thermal comfort equal to good sleep qual...Thermal environment may affect sleep quality and sleeping thermal comfort at the same time.Up to now,there is no direct evidence or physiological theory can prove the idea that thermal comfort equal to good sleep quality,but how to balance the relationship between them is often ignored when designing thermal environment.This review took body temperature distribution as a bridge for the connection of sleep quality and sleeping thermal comfort.At first,we reviewed the quantitative relationships among thermal environment,body temperature,sleep quality and sleeping thermal comfort,and then based on the idea of reverse derivation,a recommended design process for bedroom thermal environment was proposed.Each step of the process corresponded to the impact mechanism described above.The review results showed that,body temperature distribution was closely related to both sleep quality and thermal comfort,and thus it was suitable to be used as a bridge between them;body temperatures fluctuated dynamically during sleep,and thus heat transfer and thermal regulation models should be used to describe them;most current sleep researches regarded skin temperature as the representative value of body temperature distribution,yet core body temperature needs to be paid more attention on in the future because it was more closely related to sleep rhythm;furthermore,in addition to young people,subjects of more age groups should be tested to enrich China’s sleep research database.In general,it’s theoretically possible to guarantee both sleep quality and sleeping thermal comfort,and this review can be used as a reliable reference for bedroom thermal environment design.展开更多
文摘Japan’s aging rate (ratio of elderly aged 65 and older to total population) has exceeded 20%. The aim of this study was to clarify the relationships between Health Related Quality of Life, Body Mass Index (BMI), and sleep quality. Subjects were 51 adults over 55 years old with chronic disease who living in the community. Instruments and structured interviews were used giving due consideration to privacy. Interviews were conducted within 10 - 20 minutes at the out-patient department. The evaluation instruments included bodymass index, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL), and Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14). A significant positive correlation (ρ = 0.321, p < 0.05) between PSQI and QOL (OHIP-14) scores was confirmed with sleep quality being lower with lower QOL scores. A negative correlation (ρ = ?0.339, p < 0.05) between physical health component summary scores (PCS) and mental health component summary scores (MCS) of HRQOL was confirmed, demonstrating that PCS was low, and the level of MCS was high. Sleep quality was found lower among those with lower oral health-related QOL scores. Moreover, in subjects with lower MCS scores, the PCS scores were found to be higher. Accordingly, it was considered appropriate that dental treatment and care, support the maintenance of activities and sleep, and mental health promotion which are likely requisites critical for elderly persons’ maintenance of independent lifestyles in their familiar community.
文摘Background and Purpose: Quality of life as an important factor in health is very important. This study is looking for an appropriate and effective treatment for improving quality of life. This research aims to study the psychological effect of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on quality of life of adult women suffering from obesity. Methods and Materials: This research is a kind of half-trail, with pattern of pre-test, post-test and group control. Statistical population includes all over-weight women with body mass index (BMI) range (30 - 40) who participated in family training sessions held in Shahin Shahr city. 40 patients who had the characteristics for sampling were selected and randomly placed in test and control groups (each group 20 people). Participants in each group before and after intervention quality of life questionnaire with 100 question sample World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL)-100 were evaluated. 12 sessions of acceptance and commitment therapy in group was used. The obtained data were analyzed with the use of Sciences Statistical Package for the Social (SPSS) 18 statistical software and methods of analysis of covariance. Findings: After selection of adult women having a BMI between 30 and 40 based on availability who had attended the meeting of family education, by invitation and voluntary, they were randomized into experimental and control groups. Intervention was done for experimental group. Due to the result of covariance analysis on the post-test stage, examination group showed significant improvement in variants physical health dimensions, level of independence in social and environmental relationships and spirituality (p < 0.01). Conclusion: According to the findings of this research based on the impact of acceptance and commitment intervention on promotion and improving in quality of life, this treatment can be used for improving the variants in women suffering from over-weight and obesity.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFC3803201)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52078291).
文摘Thermal environment may affect sleep quality and sleeping thermal comfort at the same time.Up to now,there is no direct evidence or physiological theory can prove the idea that thermal comfort equal to good sleep quality,but how to balance the relationship between them is often ignored when designing thermal environment.This review took body temperature distribution as a bridge for the connection of sleep quality and sleeping thermal comfort.At first,we reviewed the quantitative relationships among thermal environment,body temperature,sleep quality and sleeping thermal comfort,and then based on the idea of reverse derivation,a recommended design process for bedroom thermal environment was proposed.Each step of the process corresponded to the impact mechanism described above.The review results showed that,body temperature distribution was closely related to both sleep quality and thermal comfort,and thus it was suitable to be used as a bridge between them;body temperatures fluctuated dynamically during sleep,and thus heat transfer and thermal regulation models should be used to describe them;most current sleep researches regarded skin temperature as the representative value of body temperature distribution,yet core body temperature needs to be paid more attention on in the future because it was more closely related to sleep rhythm;furthermore,in addition to young people,subjects of more age groups should be tested to enrich China’s sleep research database.In general,it’s theoretically possible to guarantee both sleep quality and sleeping thermal comfort,and this review can be used as a reliable reference for bedroom thermal environment design.
