Traditional Chinese art practices such as brush painting and calligraphy are thought to promote self-development through holistically engaging both physical and mental health. This pilot study investigated the beneficial effects of a community-based self-help group incorporating Chinese art practices as a culturally adapted bereavement intervention. Twenty-six Chinese parents aged over 49 years and who had lost their only child participated in a 20-session Chinese brush painting group over a 6-month period. Ten bereaved parents from the same community who did not participate in the art course but received living support were recruited as a control group. Compared with the control group, the art practice group exhibited a pre-post intervention effect in terms of promoting positive affect and preventing deterioration of prolonged grief symptoms, particularly through the improvement of accessory grief symptoms (e.g., "emotional numbness due to the loss", and "feeling that life is unfulfilling, empty or meaningless after the loss"). No effect was found on negative affect. These findings indicate that a culturally adapted community-based art group may be an effective means of improving grief-related health.
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Materials (Basel)
November 2024
Faculty of Materials, Metallurgy and Recycling, Technical University of Kosice, Letna 1/9, 042 00 Kosice, Slovakia.
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Textile Technology Innovation Center, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China.
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November 2024
Advanced Institute for Wildlife Conservation, Tamil Nadu Forest Department Vandalur Chennai Tamil Nadu 600 048 India
Mongoose hair is used to prepare fine brushes, which increases the demand for mongooses to be poached from the wild and brutally bludgeoned to death. Mongooses were listed as Schedule I species under the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972. Species identification of wildlife case-related samples is necessary to convict a person under this legislation.
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Faculty of Mechanic, Electronic and Biomedical Engineering, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Carrera 7 N 21-84, Tunja 150001, Boyacá, Colombia.
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November 2024
Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
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