Methods and the current impression of OT's in mental hospitals : Through a questionnaire directed to nursing personnel

作業療法 (以下OT) にとって看護部門との連携は欠かせないものであり、重要である。そこで看護からのOTへの期待をOT科にフィードバックするために、1次アンケートを施行した。これを基にOT患者のプログラムの再考を試みた。プログラムの内容は日常生活活動の基礎となる、休養、社会生活活動、コミュニケーション活動やOTの啓発活動の要素を取り入れ実施した。さらに、アンケートとして看護部門からみたOTプログラムを施行することによる患者の変化・効果を確かめた。その結果、2次アンケートではOTに対する不満が減少した。これは看護部門の期待を取り入れアプローチをした結果と考える。OT自身が効果を判別するのではなく、他職種である看護部門にOTの効果やOTを施行することによる対象者の変化・効果をあるいは、OT科の取り組み方や姿勢の変化をアンケートによって確かめたことが重要な点である。今回アンケートを実施したことによりOTへの問題点を焦点化することができ、今後の課題も見つけることができた。Cooperation with nursing personnel is indispensable, and important for the occupational therapist. We investigated via a questionnaire, the expectations of nursing staff in a mental hospital toward occupational therapy. This investigation's goal was to provide feed back to the OT department. New programs in occupational therapy were made based on this investigation. The features of these programs included advertisements concerning OT, social life activities, communications activities, and the rest. These are considered basic in daily life activity. In addition, the effect of the execution of the programs concerning change in patient's and OT's was confirmed through a second questionnaire to nursing personnel. Dissatisfaction with the OT department was found to have decreased after analyzing the second questionnaire. This change was a result of altered expectations from nursing personnel. An important aspect of this questionnaire is that nursing personnel judged the effects of OT's, but not the occupational therapist. The effects of OT's, the patient's change due to OT's, and the change in attitude toward OT's were confirmed by supplying the questionnaire to nursing personnel. It was important to have confirmed the effects of OT's, patient change due to OT's, the approach of the OT department, and the change in nursing personnel attitude by giving the questionnaire to nursing personnel. The problem's and the target's of OT's were found by providing the questionnaire this time

Contemporary Japanese Tea Ceremony and its Collective Creativity: Multiple Tea-worlds of Kanazawa City as Venues of Cultural Production

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Vegetacija in ekologija barij v Sloveniji

We confirmed infection of 2 patients with Borrelia miyamotoi in Japan by retrospective surveillance of Lyme disease patients and detection of B. miyamotoi DNA in serum samples. One patient also showed seroconversion for antibody against recombinant glycerophosphodiester phosphodiesterase of B. miyamotoi. Indigenous relapsing fever should be considered a health concern in Japan

Cd, Hg, Pb, and As in European species of wild growing forest landscape fungi : a review

Kadmij (Cd), živo srebro (Hg), svinec (Pb) in arzen (As) so kovine, ki se naravno ali kot posledica človekove dejavnosti pojavljajo v okolju, tudi v gozdni krajini, kjer so rastišča številnih evropskih vrst gliv. Namen članka je bil pripraviti pregled vrst in količin izbranih kovin v trosnjakih gliv terprimerjati lastne raziskave, opravljene v različno onesnaženih območjih v Sloveniji (Zgornja Mežiška, Šaleška in Poljanska dolina), s podatki evropskih raziskav. Vsebnosti kovin v trosnjakih gliv iz neonesnaženih območij pravilomanajdemo v naslednjih intervalih: <0,5 mg/kg suhe teže (Cd), < 0,5 mg/kg do 10 mg/kg suhe teže (Hg), < 0,5 mg/kg do 5 mg/kg suhe teže (Pb) in < 0,5 mg/kg do 1 (2) mg/kg suhe teže (As). Na podlagi pregleda vsebnosti izbranih kovin v trosnjakih gliv ugotavljamo, da sta problematični kovini predvsem Cd in Hg. Omenjeni kovini lahko dosegata velike vsebnosti celo v glivah, ki rastejo v neonesnaženih območjih. Za vse analizirane kovin je značilno, da v trosnjakih gliv iz močno onesnaženih območji dosegajo velike, celo ekstemne vsebnosti, ki nekajkrat prekoračujejo vsebnosti iz neonesnaženih območij. Upoštevaje primerjavo z evropskimi raziskavami ugotavljamo, da je Zgornja Mežiška dolina obremenjena s Pb in Cd, Šaleška dolina pa s Cd in As.Metals, which originate from anthropogenic and natural activities, frequently occur in forest landscape with habitats of many European species of wild growing fungi. The presented review focuses on cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), lead (Pb), and arsenic (As) levels in fruiting bodies of wild growing European species of fungi of forest landscape. Furthermore, a comparison with studies of this kind performed in Slovenia was made with the aim to assess themetals levels in fungi from differently polluted areas in Slovenia (the Upper Meža Valley, the Šalek Valley, the Poljana Valley). The usual reported levels for most species grown in unpolluted areas are in the following ranges:Cd: < 0,5 mg/kg - 5 mg/kg dry weight (dw), Hg: < 0,5 mg/kg - 10 mg/kg dw, Pb: < 0,5 mg/kg - 5 mg/kg dw, As: < 0,5 mg/kg -1 (2) mg/kg dw (As), respectively. The presented data reveal that cadmium (Cd) and mercury (Hg) have probably been the most detrimental trace elements in fruiting bodies, which can reach increased levels even in unpolluted areas. It is evident for all analyzed trace elements that values can considerably increase in fungi picked in severely polluted areas. According to data regarding Slovene studies and comparison with other European studies, it is obvious that the Šalek Valley is enriched with Cd and As, while the Upper Meža Valley is considerably polluted with Pb and Cd

Measurement and comparison of individual external doses of high-school students living in Japan, France, Poland and Belarus -- the "D-shuttle" project --

Twelve high schools in Japan (of which six are in Fukushima Prefecture), four in France, eight in Poland and two in Belarus cooperated in the measurement and comparison of individual external doses in 2014. In total 216 high-school students and teachers participated in the study. Each participant wore an electronic personal dosimeter "D-shuttle" for two weeks, and kept a journal of his/her whereabouts and activities. The distributions of annual external doses estimated for each region overlap with each other, demonstrating that the personal external individual doses in locations where residence is currently allowed in Fukushima Prefecture and in Belarus are well within the range of estimated annual doses due to the background radiation level of other regions/countries

Genetic Diversity of Staphylocoagulase Genes (coa): Insight into the Evolution of Variable Chromosomal Virulence Factors in Staphylococcus aureus

. Although SCs have been classified into 10 serotypes based on the differences in the antigenicity, genetic bases for their diversities and relatedness to chromosome types are poorly understood. type except for the cases of CC1 and CC8, which contained two and three different SC types, respectively. loci, resulting in the carriage of the combinations of allotypically different important virulence determinants in staphylococcal chromosome

Antibody survey on avian influenza viruses using egg yolks of ducks in Hanoi between 2010 and 2012

In Vietnam, numerous surveillance programs are conducted to monitor the prevalence of avian influenza (AI) viruses. Three serological methods-the agar-gel immunodiffusion test, hemagglutination inhibition (HI) test, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay-are well established for detection of AI virus antibodies in poultry sera. Several recent reports have validated egg yolk as an alternative source for detection of AI virus antibodies. In this study, we investigated AI virus antibodies in ducks by HI testing using egg yolk. Ten duck eggs were collected every month from 10 randomly selected markets in Hanoi from April 2010 to March 2012. The HI test was performed using low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) viruses (H3, H4, H6, H7, H9, and H11 subtypes) and highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses (H5N1 clade 2.3.4 and 2.3.2.1) as antigens. HI testing for H3, H6, and H9 was 29% positive in November 2010, 50% positive in October and November 2010, and 12% positive in June 2011. These results indicated that several epidemics of LPAI viruses had occurred during the study period. In addition, antibodies against H7 were negative. The results of HI testing for H5N1 showed that the reactivity of the dominant HI antibody shifted from H5N1 clade 2.3.4 to clade 2.3.2.1. In conclusion, egg yolk is useful for long term monitoring of AI virus antibodies and the use of egg-based antibody detection may contribute to improvements in animal welfare