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Robinson, Jake M., Paul Brindley, Ross Cameron, Danielle MacCarthy, and Anna Jorgensen. "Nature’s Role in Supporting Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Geospatial and Socioecological Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 5 (February 24, 2021): 2227. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052227.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented changes to human lifestyles across the world. The virus and associated social restriction measures have been linked to an increase in mental health conditions. A considerable body of evidence shows that spending time in and engaging with nature can improve human health and wellbeing. Our study explores nature’s role in supporting health during the COVID-19 pandemic. We created web-based questionnaires with validated health instruments and conducted spatial analyses in a geographic information system (GIS). We collected data (n = 1184) on people’s patterns of nature exposure, associated health and wellbeing responses, and potential socioecological drivers such as relative deprivation, access to greenspaces, and land-cover greenness. The majority of responses came from England, UK (n = 993). We applied a range of statistical analyses including bootstrap-resampled correlations and binomial regression models, adjusting for several potential confounding factors. We found that respondents significantly changed their patterns of visiting nature as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. People spent more time in nature and visited nature more often during the pandemic. People generally visited nature for a health and wellbeing benefit and felt that nature helped them cope during the pandemic. Greater land-cover greenness within a 250 m radius around a respondent’s postcode was important in predicting higher levels of mental wellbeing. There were significantly more food-growing allotments within 100 and 250 m around respondents with high mental wellbeing scores. The need for a mutually-advantageous relationship between humans and the wider biotic community has never been more important. We must conserve, restore and design nature-centric environments to maintain resilient societies and promote planetary health.
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Meilstrup, Charlotte, Vibeke Koushede, Robert J. Donovan, Steinar Krokstad, Magni Mohr, Eric Hall, and Ziggi Ivan Santini. "The Act-Belong-Commit ‘ABCs of Mental Health’ campaign for mental health promotion." Open Access Government 36, no. 1 (October 11, 2022): 182–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.56367/oag-036-10437.

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The Act-Belong-Commit ‘ABCs of Mental Health’ campaign for mental health promotion A simple research-based model for mental health promotion in practice could improve mental health and wellbeing in the whole population. With mental health declining in most Western countries, there is a need for population-wide strategies to promote and protect mental wellbeing. Whilst both universal mental health promotion and targeted prevention approaches have the potential to prevent deteriorating mental health, universal approaches may reach and impact larger segments of a population. However, universal mental health promotion strategies are scarce and not widely implemented.
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Wiezer, Noortje, Irene Niks, Maartje Bakhuys Roozeboom, and Heleen Wortelboer. "SS01-02 APPROACHES ON MENTAL HEALTH IN THE NETHERLANDS." Occupational Medicine 74, Supplement_1 (July 1, 2024): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqae023.0046.

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Abstract Introduction Psychosocial occupational risks cause human suffering and high costs for companies and society. Work-related stress is high in the Netherlands in sectors with high labour shortages (education, healthcare). All this makes it an important topic of OSH policy in the Netherlands. With its research programme, TNO supports the government and organisations in creating conditions that enhance employee health, wellbeing, and performance. Materials and Methods Four projects will be presented: 1) the Just In Time Adaptive Intervention (JITAI), aimed at supporting employees and teams in managing their daily psychosocial working conditions, 2) the Participatory Work Stress Prevention Approach, aimed at reducing psychosocial risks in organisations, 3) the Innovation in Workplace Wellbeing approach, a system dynamic approach to support employees and employers in increasing employee wellbeing and 4) DESTRESS aimed at recognizing stress signals at an early stage, both at organisational and individual levels. The interventions 1, 3 and 4 are still in development and being tested in practice. Intervention 2 is evaluated in a controlled trial. Results will be available at the presentation. Results First pilot studies have shown promising results. Interventions 1 and 3 are perceived useful and feasible. Evaluations of intervention 2 show positive effects on the intended outcomes. The quality of the implementation process is important in all interventions. Conclusions Based on the results of the studies we conclude that, to increase employee health and wellbeing, interventions at all levels (individual, team, leadership, organisation, and environment) are needed. In the coming years, the interaction between interventions at different levels will be examined.
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Seal, Erica, Julie Vu, Alexis Winfield, and Barbara Fenesi. "Impact of COVID-19 on Physical Activity in Families Managing ADHD and the Cyclical Effect on Worsening Mental Health." Brain Sciences 13, no. 6 (May 31, 2023): 887. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13060887.

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Physical activity supports symptom management in children with ADHD and reduces the mental health burden associated with caregiving for children with ADHD. Survey-based research shows that COVID-19 reduced physical activity among diverse populations. This study used a qualitative approach situated within a socioecological framework to (1) understand how COVID-19 impacted physical activity of children with ADHD and their caregivers, to (2) identify barriers to their physical activity, and to (3) identify potential areas of support. Thirty-three participants were interviewed between October 2020 and January 2021. Content analysis revealed that physical activity declined for children and caregivers; significant barriers were social isolation and rising intrapersonal difficulties such as diminishing self-efficacy and energy levels and increased mental health difficulties. Worsening mental health further alienated caregivers and children from physical activity, undermining its protective effects on ADHD symptom management and mental wellbeing. Participants identified needing community support programs that offer virtual, live physical activity classes as well as psycho-emotional support groups. There is vital need to support physical activity opportunities during high-stress situations in families managing ADHD to buffer against diminishing mental wellbeing. This will promote further physical activity engagement and allow families to reap the cognitive, psychological, and emotional benefits.
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Russo, Alessio. "Renaturing for Urban Wellbeing: A Socioecological Perspective on Green Space Quality, Accessibility, and Inclusivity." Sustainability 16, no. 13 (July 5, 2024): 5751. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su16135751.

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This perspective examines renaturing cities, the strategic reintroduction of nature, as a potential solution to the negative health impacts of rapid urbanisation. By utilising nature-based solutions to maximise ecosystem services and reintegrate human and natural systems, renaturing offers access to high-quality, accessible green spaces. Studies suggest such access is associated with reduced depression, high blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease risk. Renaturing also presents opportunities for physical activity and daily exposure to nature, which can further enhance well-being and happiness. However, challenges include ensuring equitable access to these spaces and avoiding gentrification. To achieve this equitable distribution and ensure the project truly benefits the community, a bottom-up approach involving residents in the planning process is crucial. Longitudinal studies and evidence from design projects are necessary to understand which types of nature-based solutions can most effectively improve wellbeing and happiness for disadvantaged groups. Further research is needed to better refine the renaturing concept, as it is sometimes used interchangeably with other similar but distinct approaches.
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Teng, Emmelin, Anthony Venning, Helen Winefield, and Shona Crabb. "Half Full or Half Empty: The Measurement of Mental Health and Mental Illness in Emerging Australian Adults." Social Inquiry into Well-Being 1, no. 1 (August 14, 2015): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.13165/siiw-15-1-1-01.

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Narrow approaches to the conceptualisation and measurement of ‘mental health’ are regularly but inconsistently adopted in research and practice. For example, an exclusive focus on the identification of mental illness or mental wellbeing runs the risk of failing to detect individuals with low or high levels of the other, and does nothing to represent an individual’s level of complete mental health (i.e., taking both mental wellbeing and illness into account). The current study compared three approaches to the measurement of mental health regularly applied in the literature - an exclusive mental wellbeing / an exclusive mental illness / and a complete mental health approach – to determine if they produce similar outcomes. South Australian emerging adults were recruited (N=117; M=24.4 years, SD=0.75) and categorised into four mental health groups according to the Complete State Model (CSM; Keyes & Lopez, 2002) of mental health: flourishing (complete mental health), languishing or struggling (incomplete mental health or illness), or floundering (complete mental illness) and categories were compared. Results showed that the ‘mental health’ of the sample differed depending on the measurement approach used, and lend support to a complete mental health approach to better inform, develop, and target health promotion strategies.
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Crawford, Allison, Brittany Graham, Arnârak Bloch, Alexis Bornyk, Selma Ford, David Mastey, Melody Teddy, and Christina Viskum Lytken Larsen. "Going Local to Global through Technology-Needs Assessment and Development of a Virtual Arctic Youth Wellbeing Network." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 20 (October 14, 2022): 13290. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013290.

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Strengths-based approaches to suicide prevention and life promotion in circumpolar regions must engage youth participation and leadership given the impact of suicide on this demographic. We describe the development of a youth-engaged community of practice (CoP) across circumpolar regions, and adaptations to the ECHO model as a foundation for this virtual CoP. We describe youth priorities for learning in the area of mental health and wellbeing, identified through a learning needs assessment. A curriculum was developed to address key areas of interest, including: cultural approaches to mental wellbeing; language-based approaches to mental wellbeing; resilience; government and policy; and suicide prevention. We describe steps taken to adapt the ECHO model, and to introduce Indigenous pedagogical and knowledge sharing approaches into the CoP in order to meet youth learning interests. We conclude that this virtual CoP was a feasible way to create a learning community, and suggest that a priority future direction will be to evaluate the impacts of this virtual CoP on youth engagement, satisfaction and learning.
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Owens, Matthew, and Hannah L. I. Bunce. "Nature-Based Meditation, Rumination and Mental Wellbeing." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 15 (July 26, 2022): 9118. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159118.

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Novel approaches for children and young people (CYP) in the prevention and intervention of mental illness are needed and nature-based interventions (NBI) may be clinically useful. This proof-of-principle study tested the effects of a novel brief nature-based meditation on rumination, depressive symptoms and wellbeing in young people. Sixty-eight university students were randomised to one of three conditions: active control (n = 23), indoor meditation (n = 22) or nature-based meditation (n = 23). Participants completed self-report measures on state and trait rumination post intervention and depression and wellbeing at a 2-week follow-up. Depressive rumination significantly decreased post intervention in the nature condition and depressive symptoms improved for both intervention groups. Wellbeing only significantly improved at follow-up in the nature condition. Nature condition participants demonstrated one minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for wellbeing at follow-up. Depressive symptoms for this condition were below the clinically significant threshold for depression. The number needed to treat (NNT) analysis suggested that two to five young people would need to complete the intervention. Preliminary evidence suggests NBIs, such as the one in the present study, can reduce depressive rumination and symptoms and improve wellbeing. Replication with larger clinical samples is required to substantiate findings.
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Fisher, Jane, and Shelly Makleff. "Advances in Gender-Transformative Approaches to Health Promotion." Annual Review of Public Health 43, no. 1 (April 5, 2022): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-121019-053834.

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Gender is an important determinant of health, but explicit attention to gender is often missing in health promotion. We build on Pederson and colleagues’ gender-transformative framework for health promotion to propose four guiding principles for gender-transformative health promotion. First, health promotion must address gender norms directly if it is to improve health outcomes. Second, it should move beyond individual change to engage explicitly with structural and social determinants of health. Third, it should address underlying gender-related determinants in order to influence health outcomes. And fourth, it requires complexity-informed design, implementation, and evaluation. We provide background on key concepts that are essential for designing, implementing, and evaluating gender-transformative health promotion: gender norms, socioecological approaches, and the gender system. We give examples of the four principles in practice, using the case of postnatal mental health promotion in Australia and sexuality education in Mexico. These four principles can be applied to health promotion efforts across contexts and outcomes to address the harmful gender norms that contribute to poor health as a part of broader efforts to improve health and well-being.
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White, Ross G. "Mental wellbeing in the Anthropocene: Socio-ecological approaches to capability enhancement." Transcultural Psychiatry 57, no. 1 (August 3, 2018): 44–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363461518786559.

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There is growing recognition that “human development” frameworks, such as the Capabilities Approach (CA) with its emphasis on the promotion of justice, offer promise for guiding efforts aimed at enhancing mental wellbeing. This article explores challenges that might arise when there is a need to arbitrate among the competing demands of different parties in their efforts to enhance capabilities. Particular tensions can arise when the efforts of particular individuals to enhance their capabilities exert pressure on scarce resources, or threaten the safety and security of people living in precarious environmental contexts. Consideration is given to the need for “an ethos of restraint” to balance the consumption of resources aimed at facilitating human development on the one hand, with the need to promote environmental justice on the other. The paper highlights research that has investigated how environmental factors can impact on mental wellbeing, including rapid urbanization, climate change related issues (such as weather systems, drought, food insecurity and rising sea-levels), and access to “green/blue spaces”. As such, the paper explores the important links that can exist between people and the ecosystems in which they live (including the way in which particular cultural beliefs and practices of indigenous groups can be tethered to the land). Elinor Ostrom’s “design principles”, derived from her work investigating the sustainable use of pooled resources, are presented as a helpful means of assisting members of communities to negotiate and apply “functioning constraints”, which can promote environmental justice whilst not compromising efforts aimed at promoting mental wellbeing.
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Books on the topic "Socioecological approaches to mental health and wellbeing"

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Davis, Sahaja Timothy, Tom Billington, Mary Chilokoa, and Claire-Marie Whiting. Relational Practice: New Approaches to Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools. London: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003451907.

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Null, Gary. The food-mood-body connection: Nutrition-based and environmental approaches to mental health and physical wellbeing. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000.

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Null, Gary, and Louise Bernikow. The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing. 2nd ed. Seven Stories Press, 2007.

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The food-mood connection: Nutritional and environmental approaches to mental health and physical wellbeing. 2nd ed. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2008.

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Null, Gary, and Louise Bernikow. The Food-Mood-Body Connection: Nutrition-Based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing. Seven Stories Press, 2000.

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Reupert, Andrea. Mental Health and Academic Learning in Schools: Approaches for Facilitating the Wellbeing of Children and Young People. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Reupert, Andrea. Mental Health and Academic Learning in Schools: Approaches for Facilitating the Wellbeing of Children and Young People. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Reupert, Andrea. Mental Health and Academic Learning in Schools: Approaches for Facilitating the Wellbeing of Children and Young People. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Reupert, Andrea. Mental Health and Academic Learning in Schools: Approaches for Facilitating the Wellbeing of Children and Young People. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Reupert, Andrea. Mental Health and Academic Learning in Schools: Approaches for Facilitating the Wellbeing of Children and Young People. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Gillam, Tony. "Creative Approaches to Learning and Leadership." In Creativity, Wellbeing and Mental Health Practice, 117–29. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74884-9_8.

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Demetriou, Paul. "Approaches to teachers' wellbeing." In Supporting the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Learners in Post-16 Education, 200–223. London: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003424376-9.

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Demetriou, Paul. "Whole college approaches to mental health and wellbeing." In Supporting the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Learners in Post-16 Education, 224–37. London: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003424376-10.

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Demetriou, Paul. "Approaches to effective college wellbeing systems." In Supporting the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Learners in Post-16 Education, 60–91. London: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003424376-4.

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Ventriglio, Antonio, Gurvinder Kalra, and Dinesh Bhugra. "Cultural Approaches to Mental Health Among Migrating Students." In Student Mental Health and Wellbeing in Higher Education: A practical guide, 84–102. 1 Oliver’s Yard, 55 City Road London EC1Y 1SP: SAGE Publications, Ltd, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529700435.n5.

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Chong, Mark David, Abraham P. Francis, Margaret Anne Carter, and Frank Darkwa Baffour. "Employing Humanistic Teaching Approaches to Promote Student Wellbeing in Higher Education." In Mental Health and Higher Education in Australia, 87–101. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8040-3_6.

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Dasgupta, Aparupa, and Soheli Datta. "Mental Wellbeing and the Kama Sutra: A Synergy Between Hedonic and Eudaimonic Approaches." In Psychology of Sexuality & Mental Health Vol. 1, 251–73. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0281-7_10.

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White, Ross G., Andrew Bethell, Lewis Charnock, Stephen Leckey, and Victoria Penpraze. "Mindfulness- and Acceptance-Based Interventions for Performance and Mental Health Outcomes in Sport." In Acceptance and Commitment Approaches for Athletes’ Wellbeing and Performance, 37–65. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64942-5_2.

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Bamford, Amy. "What works to create a supportive relational culture that enhances staff wellbeing?" In Relational Practice: New Approaches to Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools, 125–36. London: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003451907-10.

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Calabrese, Joseph D. "Understanding Traditional and Other Culture-Based Approaches to Mental Illness in Lower- and Middle-Income Contexts." In The Routledge Handbook of International Development, Mental Health and Wellbeing, 97–108. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429397844-7.

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Conference papers on the topic "Socioecological approaches to mental health and wellbeing"

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Zdravković, Svetlana, and Slobodan Jovičić. "PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES IN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND HEALTH TOURISM DURING COVID 19 PANDEMIC." In The Sixth International Scientific Conference - TOURISM CHALLENGES AMID COVID-19, Thematic Proceedings. FACULTY OF HOTEL MANAGEMENT AND TOURISM IN VRNJAČKA BANJA UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52370/tisc21535sz.

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the psychological approaches in both psychotherapy and health tourism have kept their essence and importance, but the experts are being confronted with challenges that demand changes. The goal of the paper is to examine newly established circumstances caused by COVID-19 pandemic as well as their influence on psychotherapy and health tourism - areas of great value for maintaining mental and physical health and the wellbeing. The modifications in the psychological approach could be connected with: the use of new technologies, spending time outdoor with an obligatory social distancing, the reduction and lack of the physical contact, etc. The use of creativity in psychotherapy and health tourism, expressed, among other valuable ways, by the use of active imagination, a well known method of analytical psychology, is being discussed and the hermeneutic method has been applied for analyzing the positive effect and benefits on individuals` wellbeing and health.
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Duca, Gabriella. "A fresh glance at environmental ergonomics: a systematic review of human-environment interaction concepts and approaches." In 15th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2024). AHFE International, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1005278.

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The WHO's European Charter on Environment and Health emphasizes the importance of a clean and harmonious environment for good health and wellbeing, considering various factors such as physical, psychological, social, and aesthetic elements. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the role of physical space in relation to people's wellbeing and tasks, highlighting the impact of the environment on psychophysical health and human-system interactions. It focuses on the concept of environmental ergonomics, which analyzes how environmental features can support or hinder human activities and the wellbeing of its inhabitants. The paper also discusses the shift in the understanding of how spatial and environmental qualities influence wellbeing over time, emphasizing the need for clarity on various factors such as satisfaction, aesthetics, ergonomics, and performance. Furthermore, it outlines a twofold approach to assessing and designing people-centered physical spaces, considering both technical variables and spatial experience. The paper provides a systematic review of key concepts to build a sort of tool kit for the environmental ergonomist, ranging from affordance and usability, mental models and wayfinding, urban landscape, topophilia and placemaking, Post Occupancy Evaluation, multisensory, biophilia, neuroarchitecture. Finally, practical examples of environmental ergonomics application are presented, such as: healing environments, buildings for people with specific needs, environments to reduce human error, buildings to move in, emergency evacuation, smart buildings and smart cities, environments for healthy living, environments for learning and creativity.
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Dobri, Mirona Letitia, Alina-Ioana Voinea, Constantin Marcu, Eva Maria Elkan, Ionuț-Dragoș Rădulescu, and Petronela Nechita. "MINDFULNESS: A PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC METHOD OF ACCEPTANCE AND CENTERING OF THE MENTAL FRAMEWORK." In The European Conference of Psychiatry and Mental Health "Galatia". Archiv Euromedica, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.35630/2022/12/psy.ro.29.

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Mindfulness as a term comes from Buddhist traditions, translating as awareness, concentration or remembrance. Western neuroscientists define mindfulness practices as a combination of emotional and attentional training regimes that help cultivate physical and psychological well-being and improve emotional regulation while noting neurobiological changes in the brain. The formal introduction of oriental ways of thinking into western philosophy, psychology and medicine happened decades ago, generating a large spectrum of discussions and scientific works concerning the therapeutic applications of mindfulness practice. Basing our presentation on a thorough study of scientific papers, we propose a synthesis of the theoretical aspects related to mindfulness and a new perspective regarding its applications in clinical psychiatric care. The modern occidental approaches of the practice are adapted into methods used in cognitive therapy based on mindfulness. The benefits of formal practice proven from the neurological perspective are the result of a less reactive autonomic nervous system. Regulation of attention, body awareness, regulation of emotions, increased capacity of adaptation is just a few of the mechanisms involved. Therefore, it is integrated into western psychotherapy as an adjunctive or alternative method of treatment for several psychiatric disorders among which are depression, anxiety, substance use, smoking cessation, insomnia. In conclusion, mindfulness has shown to have great promise in clinical application, and the hope is to be used in the future with the purpose of improving mental and physical wellbeing and quality of life.
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Ahmed, Hanaa, Sana Elashie, and Lily O'Hara. "Evaluating the Impact of a brief Health at Every Size-Based activity on body positivity and internal weight-based oppression." In Qatar University Annual Research Forum & Exhibition. Qatar University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.29117/quarfe.2020.0188.

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Introduction: Internal weight-based oppression WBO is the internalized negative attitudes, values and beliefs people hold about body weight, and is associated with depression, anxiety, body image disturbance, disordered eating, avoidance of physical activity, and increased calorie consumption. Conversely, body positivity encompasses body acceptance, body appreciation, and body love, and adaptive approaches protective of health and wellbeing. The objective of the study was to evaluate the impact of the brief activity on body positivity and internal WBO in female students at Qatar University. Methods: The study used a quasi-experimental pre-post evaluation design, with quantitative assessment of body positivity and internal weight-based oppression before a brief activity (pre), immediately afterwards (post), and 10 weeks later (follow up), and qualitative assessment at the 10-week follow up. Love your Body, a Health at Every Size-based activity, was developed and delivered by public health students as part of the Mental Health Festival. The 10- minute activity involved Yay scales, positive affirmation stickers, photography, postcards, and gratitude writing. Evaluation measures used were the Body Appreciation Scale 2 (BAS-2), Modified Weight Bias Internalization Scale (M-WBIS), Fat Attitudes Assessment Toolkit Size Acceptance (FAAT-SA) and Self Reflection (FAAT-SR) subscales, and an open-ended questionnaire. Results: A total of 35 female undergraduate students completed assessments at all time points. Self-reflection and body appreciation increased significantly after the activity. All measures showed a trend towards improvement from pre to post assessment, but a return to baseline or near baseline status after 10 weeks. Qualitative results suggested that improvements were sustained at follow up. Conclusion: The activity had a positive effect on participants’ body appreciation and self-reflection in the short term, but these improvements were not sustained over the longer term. The high number of missing responses compromised the potential to determine findings that are more robust.
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Wang, Zhehao, Hussain Jobarah, and Zouhair Kaaki. "Response, Retune, Revive: The Duty of Producing Never Ceases in Pandemic." In SPE Annual Caspian Technical Conference. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/207051-ms.

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Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every facet of global society. It has become evident that the impacts of this pandemic will be far-reaching and long lasting. The abstract showcases how producing entities can stand up to pandemic by initiating manpower demographical study, working schedule adjustment, communication protocol and reinforcing online job training to proactively manage the workforce in a COVID-19 impacted working environment. Entities should take systematic approaches to handle the crisis. To help employees achieve well-being in work and personal life, management can motivate employees to join Emotional Wellbeing Roadshow, and launch multiple COVID-19 campaigns to improve awareness. To support workforce continuity, an analyst can perform a workforce demographical study. Administrative staff have the option to work remotely at home, especially for senior or those with chronic illness. Working schedules can be adjusted to minimize the travelling for employees from areas with high COVID-19 rates. It is highly recommended to vaccinate employees and eligible family members. For international entities with thousands of employees and contractors, the workforce is from multiple countries. The diversification of nationality, age, educational background and working experience can create challenges for workforce management. The optimal result for entities is to minimize the extent to which employee is negatively impacted by pandemic, while meeting the business target. Zero employee fatalities caused by COVID-19 and retaining key personnel are the ultimate goals of workforce management during pandemic. During lockdown, staff might continue their career development through e-learning. The workforce could also take online assessments to renew work licenses or maintain job accreditation. Gathering and face-to-face meetings are to be replaced by video conferences. If approval is obtained, employees and eligible family members should have the option to take the COVID-19 vaccination. Due to successful planning, labor cost can be within the budget, and might generate cost savings due to reduced travelling. Due to controlling spread of the virus largely benefited from workforce management, the entity can successfully pass the COVID-19 Compliance Audit conducted by business line, corporate or local government agency. Entity should proactively respond to COVID-19 pandemic by providing support to workforce using developed tools and resources. In addition, mental health is treated equally as important as physical well-being. Furthermore, work style is retuned to recognize that virtual meeting and working from home could be successful and productive. Therefore, the workforce is always fully revitalized and the duty of producing never ceases in pandemic.
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Wang, Zhehao, Hussain Jobarah, and Zouhair Kaaki. "Response, Retune, Revive: The Duty of Producing Never Ceases in Pandemic." In SPE Annual Caspian Technical Conference. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/207051-ms.

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Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every facet of global society. It has become evident that the impacts of this pandemic will be far-reaching and long lasting. The abstract showcases how producing entities can stand up to pandemic by initiating manpower demographical study, working schedule adjustment, communication protocol and reinforcing online job training to proactively manage the workforce in a COVID-19 impacted working environment. Entities should take systematic approaches to handle the crisis. To help employees achieve well-being in work and personal life, management can motivate employees to join Emotional Wellbeing Roadshow, and launch multiple COVID-19 campaigns to improve awareness. To support workforce continuity, an analyst can perform a workforce demographical study. Administrative staff have the option to work remotely at home, especially for senior or those with chronic illness. Working schedules can be adjusted to minimize the travelling for employees from areas with high COVID-19 rates. It is highly recommended to vaccinate employees and eligible family members. For international entities with thousands of employees and contractors, the workforce is from multiple countries. The diversification of nationality, age, educational background and working experience can create challenges for workforce management. The optimal result for entities is to minimize the extent to which employee is negatively impacted by pandemic, while meeting the business target. Zero employee fatalities caused by COVID-19 and retaining key personnel are the ultimate goals of workforce management during pandemic. During lockdown, staff might continue their career development through e-learning. The workforce could also take online assessments to renew work licenses or maintain job accreditation. Gathering and face-to-face meetings are to be replaced by video conferences. If approval is obtained, employees and eligible family members should have the option to take the COVID-19 vaccination. Due to successful planning, labor cost can be within the budget, and might generate cost savings due to reduced travelling. Due to controlling spread of the virus largely benefited from workforce management, the entity can successfully pass the COVID-19 Compliance Audit conducted by business line, corporate or local government agency. Entity should proactively respond to COVID-19 pandemic by providing support to workforce using developed tools and resources. In addition, mental health is treated equally as important as physical well-being. Furthermore, work style is retuned to recognize that virtual meeting and working from home could be successful and productive. Therefore, the workforce is always fully revitalized and the duty of producing never ceases in pandemic.
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Almer, Alexander, Anna Weber, Florian Haid, Lucas Paletta, Michael Schneeberger, Stefan Ladstätter, Dietmar Wallner, et al. "Real-time remote stress monitoring based on specific stress modelling considering load characteristics of different military forces." In 14th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2023). AHFE International, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1003977.

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An ongoing challenge for the Military Task Forces is the management of personnel to optimise and maintain performance, whilst also ensuring ongoing health and wellbeing. In the course of intensive training and exercises as well as in real operational scenarios, soldiers often suffer physiological and psychological borderline stresses and also injuries during physical and combat-related training, with overuse injuries often occurring here. Innovative developments and research projects for the physiological monitoring of soldiers arise, based on innovative developments in the field of biosensor technology. Soldiers are at the center of deployed sociotechnical systems despite major innovations in the field of autonomous systems and artificial intelligence (Swiss, 2020). These are aspects and development approaches that are of great interest to military as well as civilian task forces. Motivation and Requirements: Military training and exercise missions as well as real deployment scenarios are often associated with a high degree of physical stress and responsibility and require a high level of mental performance and concentration. Reduced concentration and reaction cause delayed or possibly even wrong decisions, which can have fatal consequences. The research project VitalMonitor therefore focuses on the development of a (i) real-time monitoring system, which analyses changes in physiological parameters from heart rate, heart rate variability, skin conductance, core body temperature, etc., (ii) decision support tool for mission commanders to determine optimal work-rest-cycles preventing physical overstraining in trainings and missions (iii) personalized physical fitness training for soldiers to control their individual stress situation in a targeted manner avoiding poor performance. Methods and Results: In order to be able to make concrete statements about a current, individual stress situation for the soldiers of different task forces, it is necessary to characterize the work stress and to develop specific load and stress models. Basically, here is a relevant difference in the stress models if we compare e.g. CBRN group, light infantry forces and special military forces in the operational loads. In a first step, an attempt was made to create a so-called expert model for the load characteristics on the basis of extensive expert knowledge and measured values collected in the context of various stress tests with various military task forces. The focus was initially on the CBRN task force and further extensive tests were carried out as part of the VitalMonitor project.The basis for the creation of a specific stress model is the comprehensive analysis of the scenario-related work conditions, the psychological and cognitive stress as well as the physiological stress and the interrelationships that occur. The use of an available innovative bio-sensor technology must enable the remote measurement of vital values of the soldiers in the different deployment scenarios. Conclusion and Outlook: Soldiers are at the center of deployed sociotechnical military systems, while requirements in the physiological and cognitive field have increased significantly. Therefore, optimized capability and performance development for soldiers is a key focus for military organizations. Innovative biosensor technology, which is currently available on the commercial market, enables the monitoring of physiological parameters during physical strain and thus basically also during different military deployment scenarios. A targeted use for military tasks, which provides soldiers, executives and medical personnel with meaningful, real-time situation-relevant information, requires an intelligent analysis of the sensor data. These analysis methods take into account, on the one hand, the load characteristics of the operational scenarios and, on the other hand, the individual fitness and stress situation of the persons.
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Reports on the topic "Socioecological approaches to mental health and wellbeing"

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Bermingham, Rowena, and Eleanor Shipton. Developing Non-Academic Skills. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, August 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.58248/pn583.

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Non-academic skills exist alongside academic knowledge and abilities, and can include empathy, communication, and resilience. They have also been called 'life', 'non-cognitive' or 'essential' skills. Non-academic skills are associated with a range of positive outcomes across education, work, health and wellbeing, such as higher academic attainment, improved employability, and better physical and mental health. This POSTnote reviews evidence on the outcomes associated with non-academic skills and effective educational approaches to developing these skills in and out of the school environment.
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Roundtable on Advancing multisectoral and life-course approaches in mental health research. Academy of Science of South Africa, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2023/0088.

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The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and the UK Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) jointly hosted a workshop in November 2022 on Advancing multisectoral and life-course approaches in mental health research and have produced a proceedings report capturing the deliberations and recommendations. The outcomes of the workshop were discussed at the ASSAf/AMS roundtable as part of the SA Mental Health Conference. The need for multisectoral and interdisciplinary approaches to research aimed at improving the mental health and wellbeing of citizens in Africa was highlighted. The Roundtable session provided an important opportunity to network and discuss the research that would best achieve this. The purpose of the Roundtable was to share the findings of the ASSAf/AMS proceedings report (November 2022), to deliberate on the key findings of this report as they pertain to the current state of mental health research in South Africa, to identify challenges, and to determine key stakeholders needed to address these challenges. It also aimed to encourage debate with delegates on practical ways to translate available research findings into action which improve the lives of citizens across the region.
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