Abstract
Introduction:
Sleep problems predict negative health outcomes, increase healthcare costs, and lower work productivity. Over 70 million persons in the U.S. report sleep insufficiency (lack of ...time asleep) and poor sleep quality. Lack of sufficient sleep impairs both physical and mental health. There are no published workplace wellness programs that address sleep insufficiency in the U.S. Based on local an employee survey data, Sleep Great!, an online challenge to raise awareness about the importance of good sleep hygiene, was created. The online tool used evidenced-based lifestyle practices to support adopting or maintaining habits that improve the length and quality of sleep. Employee spouses were also invited to participate. The purpose of this study was to describe the outcomes on eight campus sites for day shift, night shift, and spouse pairs who completed the 4-week challenge.
Methods:
Descriptive study of baseline and weekly outcome data of participants in the sleep wellness program. Descriptive statistics, including frequencies and percentages of the outcome data was used for data analysis.
Results:
Approximately 17,000 full-time employees and spouses were invited to complete the online sleep wellness program. A total of 893 day shift and 50 night shift employees and spouses started the challenge. At week 4, 492 day shift and 19 night shift completed. Improvements in sleep, energy levels, stress management, behavior change, and impact of behaviors on sleep will be reported. Initial impact shows that avoiding electronic device use at least 60 minutes before sleep and getting at least 7 hours of sleep had the greatest benefit to improving overall sleep quality.
Conclusion:
Results from this program demonstrate interest from employees to complete a sleep-focused wellness modular program. The data provides an example of how employers can integrate an evidenced-based program to improve sleep and related outcomes.
Support (If Any):
Data from this project was supported by the Healthy IU team.
Traditional herbal medicine is a heritage used for treatment and health maintenance in Indonesia. One is to improve physical fitness with ginger, free-range chicken eggs, palm sugar and honey. The ...purpose of this study is to determine the effect of herbal medicine on the physical fitness level of swimming athletes in Palopo to discover if traditional herbal drinks affect physical fitness levels. This study uses an experimental method with a one-group pretest-posttest research design with the number of samples in this study are 15 athletes combined into one group. This research was conducted for 16 meetings. The analysis was carried out in the University of Muhammadiyah Palopo campus; the groups were combined into one and given treatment in the form of herbal drinks after carrying out pretest activities with a dose of 250 ml. To measure the final data of the fitness test after consuming the herbal drink, a posttest was carried out, which later became a comparison of whether there was an effect of the herbal drink on the level of physical fitness. The results of this research show an improvement in physical fitness by drinking traditional herbal medicine the Palopo Swimming athletes. Thus, there is a significant relationship between consuming conventional herbal medicine and Palopo swimming athletes' physical fitness.
The global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has raised awareness of the importance of physical, mental and spiritual wellness, and many consumers (tourists) are turning to holistic ...approaches to their health and well-being. This study tests a new model of memorable wellness tourism experience by examining the effects of novelty, experience co-creation, experiencescape, refreshment and involvement. This study also examines the relationship between memorable wellness tourism experience, subjective well-being and revisit intention. Data were gathered from 272 tourists who had recently undertaken a holiday, whose main motivation to undertake this trip was wellness, and who participated in a wellness activity within the six months preceding the data collection period (January-June 2022). An online survey questionnaire was distributed through Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) in July 2022. This study's main contributions include the extension of the memorable tourism experience concept by including other key factors that influence tourists' memorable wellness tourism experiences. The relationship between memorable wellness tourism experience, subjective well-being and revisit intention was also shown to be significant.
The changes in the learning system during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia affected the psychological well-being of students. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of the ...wellness group counseling to improve students’ psychological well-being at the Madrasah Tsanawiyah in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia. Psychological well-being in this research is defined as the functioning of individual psychological aspects as indicated by self-acceptance, positive relations with others, autonomy, environmental mastery, purpose in life and personal growth. This research uses quantitative approach. It adopted quasi-experimental pre-test post-test control group design and the instrument was adapted from Ryff and Singer (1996). The population of the research is the 8th grade students of Madrasah Tsanawiyah Assa’idiyyah Cianjur Class of 2021/2022 academic year and 14 students as samples with purposive sampling. The research result showed that the wellness group counseling has a significant influence to improve the psychological well-being of the students.
In today’s technology-driven configuration of work and life systems, wellness imbalances underscore the need for time away from sources of stress in the workplace, school, and other living scenarios. ...Increasingly, consumers are turning to vacation travel for health and wellness enhancement. The tourism and hospitality industries can design experiences and services that support optimal health and wellness outcomes for consumers. Drawing from interdisciplinary perspectives, this study revisits tourism as a personal health and wellness resource and discusses opportunities for better leveraging design factors in delivering, communicating, and sustaining health and wellness benefits of tourism. This article proposes a traveler wellness–centered design framework and highlights the important role of tourism and hospitality providers in safeguarding human health and wellness.
Purpose
Genetic wellness programs (GWPs) are a highly innovative workforce wellness product. Recently marketed to U.S. employers by at least 16 vendors, GWPs take advantage of low-cost DNA sequencing ...to detect genetic risk factors for an increasing array of diseases. The purpose of this research is to understand perceptions, concerns, and barriers related to GWPs, among employees from Black, White, and Asian backgrounds and different income levels.
Approach
Qualitative study with 3 focus groups (FGs).
Setting
Employees of large high-technology companies (deemed likely early GWP adopters).
Respondents
21 individuals recruited online through User Interviews.
Method
FG guide developed via literature review and landscape analysis, and pre-tested. FGs led by a trained moderator and audio-recorded. Transcripts content analyzed for key themes.
Results
Nearly all respondents saw potential benefits to GWP participation for themselves or their families. However, there were profound differences in perceptions of risks to GWP participation between Black and White/Asian respondents. These differences surfaced in three broad areas: privacy and discrimination risks; family impact risks; and feelings about the employer. Willingness to participate in a GWP also varied between Black employee respondents and White and Asian employee respondents (including low-income White employees). Only 27% of Black employees would participate in GWP, compared to 90% of the other employees.
Conclusion
Most employees appear likely to support employer adoption of GWPs. However, Black employees report significant concerns regarding participation. Addressing these concerns through program design would benefit all employees, and could increase trust and uptake of GWPs.
Development of the counselor wellness competencies Gibson, Donna M.; Pence, Cheryl; Kennedy, Stephen D. ...
Journal of counselor leadership and advocacy,
07/03/2021, Letnik:
8, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Foundational to counseling, wellness and counselors' attention to the integration of wellness-related counseling assessments and interventions are preventative and unique to the profession. This ...manuscript presents the process of delineating counselor wellness competencies based on evidence-based research, professional ethics, and educational and practice standards. Nine specific competencies of counselor, professional and client-centered wellness are discussed.
The purpose of the study is to track the dynamics of the motor potential of students in the establishment of a Wellness culture1 . The subject of the analysis are indicators in establishing the ...dynamics of the motor potential in tracked cognitive periods. Object of research - the pedagogical process of establishing the Wellness culture in the subject of physical education and sports through the application of current educational tools, promoting the health and well-being of students, building motor skills - a basis for Wellness in school. In a one-year period of the academic year 2021/22, motor potential was measured at the initial stage of the educational degree. A regression analysis based on mathematical-statistical processing in deriving correlation and variation coefficients was applied to derive a relationship between the motor indicators.
By 2019, there will be an estimated 4.68 billion mobile phone users globally. This increase comes with an unprecedented proliferation in mobile apps, a plug-and-play product positioned to improve ...lives in innumerable ways. Within this landscape, medical apps will see a 41% compounded annual growth rate between 2015 and 2020, but paradoxically, prevailing evidence indicates declining downloads of such apps and decreasing "stickiness" with the intended end users.
As usability is a prerequisite for success of health and wellness mobile apps, this paper aims to provide insights and suggestions for improving usability experience of the mobile health (mHealth) app by exploring the degree of alignment between mHealth insiders and consumers.
Usability-related major themes were selected from over 20 mHealth app development studies. The list of themes, grouped into 5 categories using the Nielsen usability model, was then used as a framework to identify and classify the responses from mHealth expert (insider) interviews. Responses from the qualitative phase were integrated into some questions for a quantitative consumer survey. Subsequently, categorical data from qualitative mHealth insider interviews and numerical data from a quantitative consumer survey were compared in order to identify common usability themes and areas of divergence.
Of the 5 usability attributes described in Nielsen model, Satisfaction ranked as the top attribute for both mHealth insiders and consumers. Satisfaction refers to user likability, comfort, and pleasure. The consumer survey yielded 451 responses. Out of 9 mHealth insiders' top concerns, 5 were similar to those of the consumers. On the other hand, consumers did not grade themes such as Intuitiveness as important, which was deemed vital by mHealth insiders. Other concerns of the consumers include in-app charges and advertisements.
This study supports and contributes to the existing pool of mixed-research studies. Strengthening the connectivity between suppliers and users (through the designed research tool) will help increase uptake of mHealth apps. In a holistic manner, this will have a positive overall outcome for the mHealth app ecosystem.
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