The purpose of this research was to investigate the gender differences of the influential factors on the mental health condition among university teachers in the A university in Japan. A questionnaire survey was mailed to 924 university teachers in Japan, with a survey return rate of 43.8% (N=405). The General Health Questionnaire 28 (GHQ-28), Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support ...

BACKGROUND Eating self-regulatory capacity can help individuals to cope with the obesogenic environment and achieve, as well as maintain, a healthy weight and diet. At present, there is no comprehensive, reliable and valid questionnaire for assessing this capacity and measuring change in response to self-regulation interventions in adults. This paper reports the development of the Self-regulati...

AIM To examine factors associated with family caregivers' choice of care setting (own home vs. nursing home) for their relatives with dementia. METHODS Cross-sectional study involving caregivers recruited from a tertiary hospital dementia clinic and the local Alzheimer's association. Caregivers completed a questionnaire containing demographics of the person with dementia (PWD) and caregiver, ...

Disturbances of the circadian timing system following daylight saving time (DST) may influence the symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). To address this question, we compared the severity of motor fluctuations and non-motor symptoms both before and after the time change. Total daily "off-time" based on diaries, excessive daytime sleepiness (Epworth Sleepiness Scale), depressive symptoms (Beck D...

Since the dawn of life on Earth some four billions of years ago, gravity has been a more or less stable environmental factor thus influencing the phylogenetic development of all living organisms. On the one side, gravity represents a factor of physical restriction, which compelled the ancestors of all extant living beings to develop basic achievements to counter the gravitational force (e.g., e...