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{"title":"Frustration in Seeking Information about Health Conditions and Health Insurance: Methodological Presentation of a Mind Genomics Cartography","authors":"S. Starke, G. Gabay, Glenn Zemel, A. Gere, Robert Sherman","doi":"10.31038/asmhs.2019343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31038/asmhs.2019343","url":null,"abstract":"The paper uses the emerging science of Mind Genomics to understand emotional responses (frustration) and prevention of decisions experienced when the respondent reads test vignettes describing websites which provide medical information (health) and/or medical insurance information (healthrelated finances). Respondents read and evaluated combinations of 2–4 messages (answers to questions), with the messages combined according to an experimental design. The ratings on a fivepoint scale provided an assessment of both estimated ‘frustration’ and estimated ‘difficulty to make a decision.’ The analysis related the presence/absence of the messages to both frustration and to inability to make a decision. Three mind-sets emerged, suggesting that the estimated frustration encountered in difficult web searches for healthcare information is not unidimensional. The three emergent mind-sets are: MS1 (moderate latent frustration), MS2 (little latent frustration but easily & strongly frustrated) and MS3 (a great deal of latent frustration, doing best with a very simple, direct search process). The paper concludes with the presentation of the PVI, personal viewpoint identifier, which allows the healthcare provider to understand the sensitivities of the prospect, in terms of what problems increase frustration for that prospect. The objective of the PVI is to improve the user experience by understanding the mind of the user. Introduction The use of the Internet for searching and finding health information is rising and is accompanied by the realization that the ‘experience’ itself must be made easier. We are no longer in the birthing years of the 1970’s – 1990’s, when simply having access to a large world of information sufficed, astonishing those who had grown up in a world where information was to be sought after, no matter what the difficulty [1]. Experts have been replaced by websites, by chat advisors, by guided searches, so much so that often there is no expert but rather guidance embedded in the software and the instructions emerging from the software. People often first search the internet for information about diseases, then talk to their friends, and then encounter the doctors [2]. For diseases such as cancer, in earlier days a death sentence for many has spawned an entire network of communications and information [3–5]. The same goes for diabetes [6] and for heart disease [7]. As a consequence, medical information, may be getting increasingly dense over time as medicine advances and the literature and alternative options become overwhelming, for example the “BELONG” community of cancer patients [8]. Much of this this transition and new world is contained within the words ‘user experience,’ a phrase which encompasses the range from one’s impression of the website to one’s experience with the website to achieve certain goals. In the previous generations of science this area would have been subsumed under the rubric ‘man-machine interaction’ in the world of","PeriodicalId":243213,"journal":{"name":"Ageing Science & Mental Health Studies","volume":"323 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115460604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"3-Dimensional Multiple Object Tracking Training Can Enhance Selective Attention, Psychomotor Speed, and Cognitive Flexibility in Healthy Older Adults","authors":"Caroline Spaner, Stela Musteata, Rebecca A Kenny, J. Gawryluk, Brian R. Christie","doi":"10.31038/asmhs.2019341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31038/asmhs.2019341","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives: The objective of this pilot study was to determine if a 3-dimensional multiple object tracking training (3D-MOT) intervention could improve performance on measures of attention, psychomotor speed, and cognitive flexibility in healthy older adults. Methods: Forty-six individuals aged 63–87 years old participated in the study. Twenty-five participants in the intervention group completed the Stroop task before and after intervention that consisted of seven training sessions with the Neurotracker, a 3D-MOT software program. Stroop test scores were examined for changes in selective attention, cognitive flexibility (CF), as well as psychomotor speed preand post-intervention. The 21 individuals in the control group completed the Stroop test at the pre-post interval, without completing the Neurotracker intervention. Results: The Neurotracker training intervention group showed significant improvements in both cognitive flexibility (M = 5.01, SE = 1.44, p = 0.002), and psychomotor speed and selective attention (M = 4.90, SE = 1.44, p = 0.002). Significant changes were also detected in a condition that measured psychomotor speed and cognitive flexibility together (M = 9.39, SE = 1.74, p < 0.001). No significant changes were detected in the control group. Conclusion: The current results suggest that the Neurotracker may be an effective tool for improving selective attention, cognitive flexibility, and psychomotor speed in healthy older individuals.","PeriodicalId":243213,"journal":{"name":"Ageing Science & Mental Health Studies","volume":"123 3-4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114110222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A view of brief CBT for insomnia in Japan","authors":"Makie Nagai","doi":"10.31038/asmhs.2019335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31038/asmhs.2019335","url":null,"abstract":"However one out of twenty person is using a sleeping drug in Japan [3]. The Guideline of Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (2013) points out to problem that multiple and massive dose drug and long—term administration. It is important issue that improvement of life style in aged person with insomnia. Furthermore epidemiologic survey showed that deficiency of sleeping time increased risk of obesity [4] and concerned with prevalence and crisis rate of hypertension [5, 6]. Insomnia is important factor of lifestyle disease and influence to aging.","PeriodicalId":243213,"journal":{"name":"Ageing Science & Mental Health Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129702329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public Health Responding to the Epidemic of Alzheimers Disease","authors":"","doi":"10.31038/asmhs.2019334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31038/asmhs.2019334","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":243213,"journal":{"name":"Ageing Science & Mental Health Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130150809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Associations of Reactive Oxygen Metabolites and Biological Antioxidant Potentials with Related Factors in Healthy Youth","authors":"","doi":"10.31038/asmhs.2019332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31038/asmhs.2019332","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":243213,"journal":{"name":"Ageing Science & Mental Health Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126498655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Different Interactions and Different Selves: A Mind Genomics Exploration of Social Theory","authors":"A. Gere, Camilla Habsburg-Lothringen, H. Moskowitz","doi":"10.31038/asmhs.2019333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31038/asmhs.2019333","url":null,"abstract":"The study presents a cartography of the ‘self’ from the point of view of experimental psychology, applied to social theory. We explore how people describe themselves in their interactions with others, using experimentally designed vignettes of descriptive statements, constructed according to the prescriptions of Mind Genomics. The pattern of deconstructed responses to the vignettes and the weighting factors of the descriptive statement suggest that people divide into three mind-sets one group focusing on people, one group focusing on games, and one group hard to define. The study presents a tool, the six-question PVI, personal viewpoint identifier, which allows the researcher to assign a new person to one of the three mind-sets based upon the pattern of response to the six questions. The study failed to find a strong co-variation of age with membership in the mind-set, but does suggest that response time to the different descriptive statements may show the hypothesized relation of personality to age.","PeriodicalId":243213,"journal":{"name":"Ageing Science & Mental Health Studies","volume":"101 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125973130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Depression and Anxiety Analysis from Elder Population in A Beijing Rural Area","authors":"Yin Zhang, C. Shi, Yinyun Li","doi":"10.31038/asmhs.2019331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31038/asmhs.2019331","url":null,"abstract":"The paper aims to investigate the mental health status of elderly people in Beijing rural area, and look for possible factors that affect the depression and anxiety levels. 204 ordinary elderly residents over 60 years old without major diseases are randomly selected from a rural area of Beijing. The factors influencing the level of depression and anxiety of the sample are investigated by the Daily Living Ability Scale , the Marital Attachment Questionnaire and the Social Support Rating Scale. Our results show that the degree of depression is influenced by 12 factors (including age , marriage, education, monthly income, source of income, type of health care, daily living ability, number of chronic diseases, couple attachment , parent-child contact, social support and frequency of Internet use), among which the top three most significant factors are social support , marriage and couple attachment. The degree of anxiety is generally influenced by 10 factors (age , marriage, education, monthly income, source of income, daily living ability, number of chronic diseases, couple attachment , social support and frequency of Internet use), among which the top three most significant factors are the number of chronic diseases, age and daily living ability. Our results indicate that the depression level is affected by the relationship between oneself and other people; while the anxiety degree is mainly affected by the basic daily life and relationship between oneself. Our research results suggest that, the society shall focus on especially the vulnerable elderly groups with poor daily living ability and many chronic diseases, and efforts should be made to optimize primary medical care services for the aged population; family and society emotional support for the elderly should be strengthened to relieve the depression level.","PeriodicalId":243213,"journal":{"name":"Ageing Science & Mental Health Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122877373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Young Americans Reacting to Statements about Palestine & Israel: A Mind Genomics Exploration","authors":"A. Gere, Petraq Papajorgji, H. Moskowitz","doi":"10.31038/asmhs.2019324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31038/asmhs.2019324","url":null,"abstract":"Listening and reading to the partisan politics surrounding the ongoing conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis, one gets the impression that this topic is all-consuming. A study using the science of Mind Genomics reveals that most respondents from a sample of young respondents do not care about the topic, nor are engaged by anything said in the media. The Mind Genomics study combined messages, policy statements, issued by the US government, presenting small vignettes, almost as news stories. The strategy prevents the respondent from responding in a politically-correct manner. The data suggest that most of the young respondents are not interested in the topic, when the data from the total panel is reported. Two mind-sets emerged, one feeling that stability and hope will be achieved through force, the other feeling that stability and hope will be achieved through economic development. The study presents a PVI (personal viewpoint identifier) to assign new people to one of the two mind-sets. The paper finishes with a discussion of the contribution of Mind Genomics to a deeper understanding of political thought and the emerging discipline of counter-factual history.","PeriodicalId":243213,"journal":{"name":"Ageing Science & Mental Health Studies","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125766139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Estimating the Feelings of Prisoners Regarding Hope vs Despair: A Mind Genomics Exploration","authors":"A. Gere, Ryan Zemel, Petraq Papajorgji, D. Moskowitz, H. Moskowitz","doi":"10.31038/asmhs.2019322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31038/asmhs.2019322","url":null,"abstract":"Prisoners are often thought to harbor thoughts about suicide, with sensationalized stories about the despair in prisons touching the hearts of listeners and readers. We explore the degree to which ordinary people, non-prisoners, feel that there is despair versus hope among prisoners. Through experimentally designed vignettes, we describe who the prisoner IS, what the prisoner FACES, what the OTHER PRISONERS are like, and what preparatory efforts are in place regarding RELEASE. Each respondent read a unique set of 24 vignettes, comprising different elements, and for each vignette rated the degree to which the prisoner would be likely to think of committing suicide versus be hopeful. The analysis reveals the specific contribution of each element in the vignette as a driver of projected suicide versus hopes, and the numbers of tenths of second required to ‘process’ the element before making the decision. The study suggests two mind-sets, one focusing on the prisoner, the other focusing on the surrounding, each as a driver of despair, as represented by the phrase ‘contemplates suicide.’","PeriodicalId":243213,"journal":{"name":"Ageing Science & Mental Health Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133907672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Caring for Confused Community Dwelling Seniors: Contributing and Obstructing Factors in Daily Care for Healthcare Assistants in District Nursing","authors":"C. Bosma, N. Ketelaar, M. Rouwette-Witting","doi":"10.31038/asmhs.2019321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31038/asmhs.2019321","url":null,"abstract":"Older people with confused behavior, have behavioral problems due to dementia, mental problems or social problems. For the Healthcare Assistant (HA) in district nursing, it is a daily challenge to care for older people with confused behavior. Aim of this research is to achieve an insight in the strategies the HA uses to deal with the daily care for older people with confused behavior. It is also the aim to have insight in factors which contribute to the daily care in a positive or negative way. Method: a qualitative explorative research. 17 HA’s in district nursing participated in semi-structured interviews. All respondents had experience with caring for older people with confused behavior. The most important influencing factors are the experienced relationship between HA and the client and the experienced support by the team. Particularly behavioral problems due to mental problems can impede a relationship with the client. Further research is recommended to study the level of knowledge and competences of all levels of employees in district nursing.","PeriodicalId":243213,"journal":{"name":"Ageing Science & Mental Health Studies","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117246341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}