Can the Internet Help Relieve Depression? | Chapter 12 | New Horizons in Education and Social Studies Vol. 9

Depression is a major issue in today's culture. It can have a negative impact on people in a variety of ways. Despite the efforts of many scientists to find effective ways to cope with depression, no final conclusions have been reached. This research uses data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to show that internet usage among older Chinese people (aged 45 and up) helps to alleviate depression symptoms. Combining this finding with China's increasingly increasing smartphone usage, it appears that developing specially designed APPs for older people to use smart phones might aid in the fight against depression in the country.

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Yizhe, Chen
Hangzhou Foreign Languages School China, Hangzhou, China.

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Educational Reforms and Well-being | Chapter 12 | Modern Perspectives in Language, Literature and Education Vol. 2

 The higher education sector in Ghana has undergone many reforms over the past two decades, ranging from deregulation and financial sustainability to major infrastructure investment. The goal of these reforms is to address school diversity, promote inclusive learning and increase access to quality tertiary education. The reforms involved improvements in work skills, job conversions, teaching and learning styles, self-consciousness and relocations of employees with a possibly consequent impact on employee well-being. These changes, however, failed to properly account for concerns of employee well-being. Therefore, there has been no commitment to personal improvements and support schemes to help workers keep pace with the changes. In public universities, we explored these trends to understand the well-being changes from the storylines of academic workers in higher education during the reforms. Using laddering interview methods focused on the principle of personal transformation, the study followed a qualitative research design to request storeys from 19 academic workers who have lived through the reforms. For the study of the interactions of academic workers, the Interpretative Phenomenology Method (IPA) of data analysis was used. In a developing world background, the research offers personal storeys expressed in real-life experiences and hinged on the eudemonic theory. The research found that during the time of organisational reforms, leadership, personal attitude changes and political intervention constitute a Change-Effect Model that shapes the well-being of academic workers. The results give organisational changes and employee well-being a new dimension and consider from a crucial point of view how a change-effect model can be implemented in the process of change management to facilitate employee well-being in locally relevant and productive ways.

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Dudley Ofori
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Hull, United Kingdom.

James Antwi
Royal Ann College of Health, P.O.Box KS 6253, Atwima, Manhyia-Ashanti Region, Ghana.

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Efficacy of Psycho Education on Parents of Children with Intellectual Disability | Chapter 6 | Challenges in Disease and Health Research Vol. 4

 The stresses that parents of children with intellectual disabilities often face and the resulting effects on family life have been well-documented. In order to assess the beneficial effects of the psycho-educational support programme for parents of children with intellectual disabilities, this research was carried out. The goal of the research was to reduce the burden on the family and improve the well-being of parents of children with intellectual disabilities. To determine the correlation between post-test scores on the general well-being of parents of children with intellectual disabilities, to determine the correlation between post-test scores on the perceived family strain of parents of children with intellectual disabilities. A total of 20 parents of intellectually disabled children were chosen by purposeful sampling and consent was obtained. They were split into control and experimental groups at random. It was pre- and post-study. Using the Family Burden Interview, data was collected Results revealed a statistically significant discrepancy between classes, 2.5 months after intervention, with participants in the programme showing less emotional distress than subjects in the control group. In parents of the study sample, the beneficial directions of behavioural and attitudinal findings were. Thus, a brief psycho-education curriculum and developing constructive thought skills and interpersonal communication skills have contributed to major improvements for parents with children with intellectual disabilities, enhancing well-being and reducing the sense of family stress.

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Ms. Bhagyashree Kar
Department of Clinical Psychology, Mental Health Institute (COE), SCB Medical College, Cuttack, Odisha, India.

Dr. Jashobanta Mahapatra
Department of Clinical Psychology, Mental Health Institute (COE), SCB Medical College, Cuttack, Odisha, India.

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