[Relation between self-evaluation of skills and learning strategy in the acquisition of the hygienic nursing skills].

The purpose of this study is to investigate which learning strategies nursing students use to acquire the nursing skills of cleanliness. The investigation of 71 first-year nursing students consists of self-evaluation of shampooing and bed-bath/foot-bath/changing the night-clothes (19 questions each) and learning strategies (15 questions). To compare the difference between 2 groups in the acquisition of learning strategies, we used the Mann-Whitney U test to calculate the average evaluation of each skill, the self-evaluation, and the total scores of each of cognitive domain, psychomotor domain and affective domain, categorizing the students into higher evaluation and lower evaluation.

[An investigation of factors affecting job satisfaction among psychiatric nurses--focussed on stress-coping and a character tendency].

The relation between stress, stress coping behavior and job satisfaction was investigated for psychiatric nurses who work in the northern part of Kyushu and the Chugoku district of Japan. As a result, the people with high job satisfaction had a tendency for the stress coping ability to be high, the daily stress of the people with low job satisfaction was high, and a relation with the character which is the individual characteristic was also seen. In the relation between stress management factor and job satisfaction, those who can have change of action by a hobby, amusement, etc.

The effect of lemon fragrance on simple mental performance and psychophysiological parameters during task performance.

The purpose of this study is to effectively utilize fragrance in order to form a comfortable working environment, for which we obtained necessary data. The subjects were 14 female students. We made them do addition work in laboratories with and without lemon fragrance, and investigated their task performances, physiological changes and mood conditions.

[Relationship between bone metabolism and effects of lifestyles after gastrectomy].

The aim of this study was to examine the effects of bone metabolism impairment after a gastrectomy, as well as the effects of dietary life and physical activity on bone density, in order to obtain basic information on lifestyles that prevent osteoporosis. The study subjects were 27 male patients who had been diagnosed as having gastric cancer at a university hospital and had received a gastrectomy. All subjects gave their informed consent.

A very low level of magnetic field exposure does not affect a participant's mental fatigue and stress as much as VDT work.

Exposure to Magnetic Fields (MF) may affect the health of workers in an occupational environment. However, there is no clear evidence that the emission of MF from the visual display terminals (VDT) affects workers'mental status or induces stress in office environments. The purpose of our study was to investigate whether exposure to the MF during VDT work affects mental fatigue or induces stress related to psycho-physiological changes in workers.

[Changing of emotions by the stimulation of visual and auditory senses--an analysis of heart rate variability (HRV)].

The purpose of this study was to clarify the effect of visual and auditory stimulation on emotions and autonomic nervous systems. Four kinds of video films, which themes were humor, discomfort, fear or gentleness were presented to 14 subjects. Spectral analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) was observed as the autonomic nerve responses.