Resilience experienced by university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative exploration based on focus-group interviews.

Purpose: University students have been one of the most affected groups worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic, having experienced increased stress, anxiety, and depression. Resilience is reported as the most predictive factor in decreasing the impact of the threats of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, university students' resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic has not received much attention; this is a research gap that this study aimed to address.

Stress, and coping strategy of university students during COVID-19 in Korea: The mediating role of ego-resiliency.

We aimed to identify the level of stress, ego-resiliency (ER), and coping strategies of university students during the onset of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and examine the mediating role of ER in the relationship between stress and coping strategies (e.g., problem-solving, social support seeking, and avoidance).

Association between Cigarette Smoking Frequency and Health Factors among Korean Adults.

Background: Recently, there has been a trend that cigarette smoking rate in Asian and Africa adults has increased while the age group to start smoking has decreased gradually. This study aimed to investigate the relationships between lifetime smoking and hypertension, diabetes, obesity, waist measure, fasting blood pressure and food consumption, in order to look into health status depending on smoking status in Koreans.

Methods: Totally, 1075 men and 697 women with no disease participated in this study, in which one-way ANOVA was conducted by using SPSS version 18.

The effect of a scalp massage on stress hormone, blood pressure, and heart rate of healthy female.

[Purpose] A scalp massage was conducted on female office workers divided into a 15 minute group and 25 minute group and its effect on stress hormone, blood pressure and heart rate was analyzed in order to provide a theoretical rationale to apply scalp massage as stress therapy. [Subjects and Methods] A scalp massage was applied to 34 female office workers twice a week for a total of 10 weeks; the subjects were classified into 15 min., 25 min.

Two-photon absorption properties of cationic 1,4-bis(styryl)benzene derivative and its inclusion complexes with cyclodextrins.

Two-photon absorption properties of 1,4-bis{4'-[N,N-bis(6''-trimethylammoniumhexyl)amino]styryl}benzene tetrabromide (C1) and its inclusion complexes (ICs) with cyclodextrins (CDs) have been studied. Upon complexation with CDs, the absorption spectra of C1 showed a slight red shift, whereas the emission spectra showed a blue shift with concomitant increase in the fluorescence quantum efficiency. A Stern-Volmer study using K(3)Fe(CN)(6) as a quencher revealed significant reduction in the photoinduced charge transfer quenching, in accord with the IC formation.

[The effects of aerobic exercise on hormones, blood lipids and body composition in middle-aged obese women according to beta 3-adrenergic receptor gene polymorphisms].

Purpose: This research was conducted to provide basic information about the effects of aerobic exercise on physiological change in middle-aged obese women according to differences of beta 3-adrenergic receptor polymorphisms.

Method: Twenty-nine middle aged obese women with over 30%BMI were divided into three groups according to beta 3-adrenergic receptor gene polymorphism [Variable Group (VG):9, Normal Group (NG):10, Control Group (CG):10]. The VG and NG groups performed walking at 50% exercise intensity for 30 minutes a day, 4 days a week, for 12 weeks.