Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 47-06, page: 3557. Adviser: John R. Herbold. Includes bibliographical references.

Psichinę sveikatą sudaro 2 poliai: negatyvus ir pozityvus. Negatyvi psichinė sveikata yra suprantama kaip psichologinis distresas ir psichikos sutrikimai, o pozityvios psichinės sveikatos ištekliais yra laikoma vidinė darna, savigarba ir gebėjimas tinkamai įveikti stresines situacijas. Tyrimo tikslas yra išanalizuoti profesionalios karo tarnybos (PKT) karių psichinės sveiktos ir jos išteklių ypatumus. Tyrimo metu buvo siekiama patikrinti 3 hipotezes: 1) PKT kariai turintys aukštesnę vidinę darną ir aukštesnę savigarbą pasižymi mažesniu psichologiniu distresu ir mažesniu nerimastingumu.2) PKT karių psichologinį distresą ir nerimastingumą įtakoja vidinės darnos ir savigarbos stiprumas. 3) PKT karių streso įveikų naudojimas priklauso nuo vidinės darnos ir savigarbos lygio. Tyrime dalyvavo 193 profesinės karo tarnybos karių iš Vilniaus m. ir Jonavos raj. dalinių. Didžiausią dalį tiriamųjų (90,2%, t.y. 174 karių) sudarė vyrai. PKT karių psichologinis distresas buvo matuojamas taikant D. Goldberg (2001) General Health Questionnaire (GHQ 28), nerimas ir nerimastingumas tirtas N.S. Endler, J.M. Edwards, R. Vitelli (1991) Endler Multidimensional Anxiety Scales (EMAS) klausimynu. Pozityvi PKT karių psichinė sveikata tirta naudojant A. Antonovsky (1995) vidinės darnos trumpą klausimyno variantą ir M. Rosenberg (1965) savigarbos klausimyną. PKT karių taikomų streso įveikų stilių ypatumai matuojami naudojant Ž. Grakausko ir G. Valicko (2006) lietuvišką streso įveikų vertinimo metodiką... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The mental health combines two poles: negative and positive. Negative mental health is understood as psychological distress and mental disorder while positive mental health is sense of coherence, self-esteem and ability to cope with stressful situations. The purpose of this study is to analyze the mental health and its issues of military personnel. Three hypotheses are discussed: 1) Military personnel having better sense of coherence and more self-esteem show less psychological distress and are less trait anxiety. 2) Psychological distress and trait anxiety are impacted by the strength of sense of coherence and the strength of self-esteem of military personnel. 3) The way how military personnel use stress coping manners depends both on sense of coherence and self-esteem. 193 soldiers from Vilnius and the region Jonava were tested. Most of them were male (90,2%, it means 174 soldiers). The distress of military personnel was tested using D. Goldberg‘s (2001) The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ 28), state anxiety and trait anxiety with N.S. Endler‘s, J.M. Edward‘s, R. Vitelli‘s (1991) Endler Multidimensional Anxiety Scales (EMAS) questionnaire. The positive mental health was investigated using the short form of the sense of coherence questionnaire created by A. Antonovsky (1995) and the questionnaire of self-esteem composed by M. Rosenberg (1965). The Lithuanian version of the test created by Ž. Grakauskas and G. Valickas (2006) was used to measure the styles of stress coping... [to full text]

The sacrifices required of Navy families are substantial. In order to maintain readiness, the Navy must maintain high standards and retain well trained people. To retain experienced and productive service members, family life must be supported and enhanced as much as possible. This study examined deployment related stress as experienced by deployed staff of the SAS SCORPION and their spouses and the Command's responses in terms of alleviating such stresses. A qualitative research methodology was used employing an exploratory, descriptive strategy. The study made use of non-probability purposive sampling for all three samples. To ensure rich data semi-structured interviews were used for samples one and two. Data was collected by means of a workshop for sample three. Respondents from sample one and two indicated dissatisfaction in the areas of military support, crime, medical problems, military housing, crisis periods, unplanned trips, and prolonged sea service. Sample three responded by acknowledging hardships experienced by samples one and two. They agreed in principle that a deployment seminar be made compulsory for military families and an incumbent be employed as a Naval liaison officer to coordinate problems experienced by deployed members and their families. The findings of this research, indicated the need for support structures and preventative programmes. / Thesis (M.Soc.Sci.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1999.

Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, 2008. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 46-06, page: 3262. Adviser: John R. Herbold. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.W.)--Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Mass., 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-100).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Erskine Theological Seminary, 2007. / Abstract. Description based on Microfiche version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [108]-112).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-156).

Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-22T20:50:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-04-29. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2015-08-11T03:25:54Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 Publico-11753.pdf: 726554 bytes, checksum: eeead891085aba4318385e6bb1c44fc3 (MD5) / Introdução: A síndrome metabólica (SM) é um transtorno complexo que associa fatores de risco cardiovasculares bem estabelecidos. A ingestão alimentar tem sido associada a SM, no entanto, o papel da dieta em sua gênese não é bem compreendido. Objetivo: Verificar a prevalência de SM e seus componentes relacionando-os à ingestão alimentar em Policiais Militares da região oeste do Paraná. Métodos: Foi analisada a circunferência da cintura, a pressão arterial, a glicemia em jejum, o triacilgliceróis, o HDL-colesterol e a ingestão alimentar de 280 Policiais Militares, do gênero masculino, de 21 a 50 anos, do oeste do Paraná. A SM e seus componentes seguiram os critérios do NCEP-ATPIII adaptados pela IDBSM. Utilizou-se de três recordatórios alimentar de 24h para análise da ingestão dos carboidratos, proteínas, gorduras, fibras, vitaminas A, C, E, D, B12, B9 e cálcio. Comparou-se a média da ingestão de nutrientes entre os policiais com e sem SM e seus componentes. Resultados: Encontraram-se 69 (24,6%) casos de SM. Dentre os componentes da SM, os mais prevalentes foram a hipertrigliceridemia, HDL-colesterol baixo e hipertensão arterial. Houve alta prevalência de inadequação dos micronutrientes analisados. Policiais com circunferência da cintura aumentada ingerem mais energia (p<0,001), carboidratos (p=0,02), fibras (p=0,04), proteínas (p=0,002) e gorduras totais (<0,01). Policiais com SM apresentaram maior ingestão energética (p=0,03). A ingestão média de vitamina D foi menor nos grupos: circunferência da cintura aumentada (p<0,05), hipertrigliceridemia (p<0,05), hipertensão arterial (p=0,04) e presença de SM (p<0,05). Conclusão: Os policiais militares apresentaram ingestão deficiente dos micronutrientes estudados. Apesar da limitação do corte transversal do presente estudo, os resultados sugerem que a SM nesta população pode estar relacionada com ingestão excessiva de energia e baixa ingestão de vitamina D. É necessária maior atenção ao estado de saúde e ingestão alimentar desta população avaliada, que é responsável pela segurança da população brasileira. / Introduction: The metabolic syndrome (MetSyn) is a complex disorder that is related to well-established cardiovascular risk factors. The food intake has been associated with MetSyn, however, the role of diet in its origin is not well understood. Objective: To investigate the prevalence of MetSyn and its components relating them to the food intake of the Military Police Officers in the Western region of Paraná. Methods: We analyzed the waist circumference, blood pressure, fasting glucose, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and dietary intake of 280 military police officers, male, 21 to 50 years in Western Paraná. MetSyn and its components were defined by NCEP-ATPIII adapted by IDBSM. We used three 24-hour food recalls for analysis of intake of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, fiber, vitamins A, C, E, D, B12, B9, and calcium. We compared the nutrient intake average between officers with and without MetSyn and its components. Results: We found 69 (24.6%) cases of MetSyn. Among the components of MetSyn, the most prevalent ones were hypertriglyceridemia, low HDL-cholesterol and hypertension. There was a high prevalence of inadequacy in the analyzed micronutrient. Police officers with increased waist circumference eat more energy (p <0.001), carbohydrate (p = 0.02), fibers (p = 0.04), protein (p = 0.002) and total fat (<0.01). Police officers with MetSyn showed higher energy intake (p = 0.03). The intake average of vitamin D was lower in the groups: increased waist circumference (p <0.05), hypertriglyceridemia (p <0.05), hypertension (p = 0.04) and presence of MetSyn (p <0, 05). Conclusion: The military police officers had a poor intake of micronutrients. Despite the limitations of this cross-sectional study, the results suggest that MetSyn in this population can be related to excessive intake of energy and low intake of vitamin D. More attention should be paid to the health conditions and dietary intake of this studied population, who is responsible for providing security service for the Brazilian people. / TEDE / BV UNIFESP: Teses e dissertações

There has been a significant number of security concerns in recent times; as a result, security cameras have been installed to monitor activities and to prevent crimes in most public places. These analysis are done either through video analytic or forensic analysis operations on human observations. To this end, within the research context of this thesis, a proactive machine vision based military recognition system has been developed to help monitor activities in the military environment. The proposed object detection, recognition and re-identification systems have been presented in this thesis. A novel technique for military personnel recognition is presented in this thesis. Initially the detected camouflaged personnel are segmented using a grabcut segmentation algorithm. Since in general a camouflaged personnel's uniform appears to be similar both at the top and the bottom of the body, an image patch is initially extracted from the segmented foreground image and used as the region of interest. Subsequently the colour and texture features are extracted from each patch and used for classification. A second approach for personnel recognition is proposed through the recognition of the badge on the cap of a military person. A feature matching metric based on the extracted Speed Up Robust Features (SURF) from the badge on a personnel's cap enabled the recognition of the personnel's arm of service. A state-of-the-art technique for recognising vehicle types irrespective of their view angle is also presented in this thesis. Vehicles are initially detected and segmented using a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) based foreground/background segmentation algorithm. A Canny Edge Detection (CED) stage, followed by morphological operations are used as pre-processing stage to help enhance foreground vehicular object detection and segmentation. Subsequently, Region, Histogram Oriented Gradient (HOG) and Local Binary Pattern (LBP) features are extracted from the refined foreground vehicle object and used as features for vehicle type recognition. Two different datasets with variant views of front/rear and angle are used and combined for testing the proposed technique. For night-time video analytics and forensics, the thesis presents a novel approach to pedestrian detection and vehicle type recognition. A novel feature acquisition technique named, CENTROG, is proposed for pedestrian detection and vehicle type recognition in this thesis. Thermal images containing pedestrians and vehicular objects are used to analyse the performance of the proposed algorithms. The video is initially segmented using a GMM based foreground object segmentation algorithm. A CED based pre-processing step is used to enhance segmentation accuracy prior using Census Transforms for initial feature extraction. HOG features are then extracted from the Census transformed images and used for detection and recognition respectively of human and vehicular objects in thermal images. Finally, a novel technique for people re-identification is proposed in this thesis based on using low-level colour features and mid-level attributes. The low-level colour histogram bin values were normalised to 0 and 1. A publicly available dataset (VIPeR) and a self constructed dataset have been used in the experiments conducted with 7 clothing attributes and low-level colour histogram features. These 7 attributes are detected using features extracted from 5 different regions of a detected human object using an SVM classifier. The low-level colour features were extracted from the regions of a detected human object. These 5 regions are obtained by human object segmentation and subsequent body part sub-division. People are re-identified by computing the Euclidean distance between a probe and the gallery image sets. The experiments conducted using SVM classifier and Euclidean distance has proven that the proposed techniques attained all of the aforementioned goals. The colour and texture features proposed for camouflage military personnel recognition surpasses the state-of-the-art methods. Similarly, experiments prove that combining features performed best when recognising vehicles in different views subsequent to initial training based on multi-views. In the same vein, the proposed CENTROG technique performed better than the state-of-the-art CENTRIST technique for both pedestrian detection and vehicle type recognition at night-time using thermal images. Finally, we show that the proposed 7 mid-level attributes and the low-level features results in improved performance accuracy for people re-identification.

Introdução: As atividades e operações militares exigem mobilizações frequentes, sendo imperativo que seus membros permaneçam saudáveis física e mentalmente para o desempenho adequado de suas funções. Métodos: 473 alunos da Academia foram convidados a responder um questionário anônimo, autorresponsivo, referente ao consumo de tabaco e álcool, ao comportamento sexual e à saúde mental. O consumo de tabaco e álcool foi avaliado por questionário utilizado no Estudo Longitudinal de Saúde do Adulto - ELSA-Brasil, o comportamento sexual foi avaliado por questionário aplicado pelo Ministério da Saúde em conscritos do Exército Brasileiro e, para avaliação da saúde mental, foi usado o Self Report Questionnaire (SRQ-20). As variáveis categóricas foram expressas em porcentagem e comparadas usando qui-quadrado ou teste exato de Fisher, conforme apropriado. As variáveis numéricas foram expressas em média (desvio padrão) e comparadas pelo teste ANOVA com teste post hoc de Bonferroni. O nível de significância foi de 5,0%. Todas as análises foram realizadas com SPSS-16.0. Resultados: A amostra foi composta por 384 homens e 45 mulheres, a maioria de raça branca (76,2%), idade inferior a 30 anos, solteira, pertencente às classes sociais B1 e B2 (59,2%), paulista (99,1%) e com sustento próprio (75,5%). Verificou-se que 6,5% dos alunos oficiais eram fumantes (6,5% dos homens e 6,7% das mulheres, P=0,8), 69,7% dos alunos (71,9% dos homens e 51,1% das mulheres, P=0,02) ingeriam algum tipo de bebida alcoólica e 14,6% dos homens e 13,3% das mulheres (P=0,82) relatavam história prévia de doença sexualmente transmissível (DST). O uso consistente de proteção sexual com parcerias fixas foi de 17,4% nos homens e 33,3% nas mulheres (P=0,13), com parcerias casuais, foi de 64,2% nos homens e 60,0% nas mulheres (P=0,22), e com parcerias pagas, foi de 92,9% somente nos homens, considerando que apenas 14 homens valeram-se de tais parcerias. Aproximadamente 25,0% dos alunos acreditavam na transmissão de DST por meio do uso de banheiros públicos. A presença de transtorno mental comum (TMC) foi encontrada em 15,6% da amostra (sem diferença entre os sexos, P=0,98). Ao longo dos anos da Academia, notou-se um aumento médio do número de sintomas de TMC considerando a amostra toda com homens e mulheres (P de tendência = 0,02), somente homens (P de tendência = 0,003), somente homens que vieram da tropa (P de tendência = 0,053) e somente homens que vieram da vida civil (P de tendência = 0,02). Conclusão: A amostra tem menor prevalência de tabagismo em relação à população militar e civil dos EUA e à população civil brasileira. O consumo de álcool é semelhante ao da população brasileira e ao da população militar dos EUA. O uso de preservativos de forma consistente com parcerias fixas é menos frequente do que com parcerias casuais e parcerias pagas, o que se associou a uma maior frequência de doenças sexualmente transmissíveis na amostra. Os alunos oficiais mostram lacunas no conhecimento sobre a transmissão de doenças sexualmente transmissíveis. Encontra-se a presença de transtornos mentais comuns em 15,6% da amostra, com tendência de aumento no número médio de sintomas, mas não na frequência de transtorno mental comum ao longo do curso. Concluiu-se que o conhecimento sobre DST ainda precisa melhorar e que, apesar de todas as orientações, o uso de preservativos ainda está longe do ideal nessa amostra de alunos oficiais da Academia de Polícia. O número de sintomas que fazem parte do diagnóstico de transtorno mental comum aumenta durante o curso sem ultrapassar o limiar diagnóstico / Introduction: The activities and military operations require frequent mobilizations and it is imperative that its members remain healthy physically and mentally for the proper performance of their duties. Methods: 473 Academy students were invited to answer an anonymous self-responsive questionnaire about tobacco and alcohol use, sexual behavior and mental health. The consumption of tobacco and alcohol was assessed by questionnaire used in the Longitudinal Study of Adult Health - ELSA-Brazil, sexual behavior was assessed by questionnaire administered by the Ministry of Health in the Brazilian army conscripts and for mental health assessment was used the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ - 20). Categorical variables are expressed as percentages and compared using chi-square or Fisher\'s exact test, as appropriate. Numerical variables are expressed as mean (standard deviation) and compared using ANOVA with post hoc Bonferroni test. The significance level was 5%. All analyzes are performed using SPSS - 16.0. Results: The sample comprised 384 men and 45 women, mostly white (76.2%), under 30 years of age, unmarried , belonging to social classes B1 and B2 (59.2%), from the state of São Paulo (99.1%) and on own support (75.5%). It was found that 6.5% of military students are smokers (6.5% of men vs 6.7 % women, P=0,80), 69.7 % of students (71,9 % men vs 51.1 % women, P=0,02 ) drink some kind of alcoholic beverage and that 14.6% of men and 13.3% of women (P=0,82) reported previous sexually transmitted diseases (STD). Consistent use of protection with steady partners was 17.4% in men and 33.3% in women (P=0,13) with casual partners was 64.2% in men 60% women (P = 0,22), only 14 men had just paid partnerships and 92.9% protected themselves. Approximately 25% of students believe in STD transmission using public restrooms. The presence of common mental disorders (CMD) was of 15.6% of the sample (no gender difference, P=0,98). Over the years, the Academy has noticed an average increase in the number of symptoms of CMD considering the entire sample, men and women (P for trend =0,02), considering only men (P for trend =0,003), considering only men who came from troop (P for trend =0,053), and only men who came from civilian life (P trend =0,02). Conclusion: The sample has a lower prevalence of smoking in relation to military and civilian U.S. population and in relation to the Brazilian civilian population. Alcohol consumption is similar as consumption in Brazilian population and the military population of the U. S. Using condoms consistently with steady partners is less frequent than with casual partners and paid partnerships and this could explain the higher incidence of sexually transmitted diseases in the sample. The military students show gaps in knowledge about transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. We found the presence of common mental disorders in 15.6% of the sample, with an increasing trend in the average number of symptoms, but not in the frequency of common mental disorders throughout the course. We concluded that knowledge about STDs still needs to improve and that despite all the guidelines, condom use is still far from ideal in this sample of military students at the Police Academy. The number of symptoms that are part of diagnosis of the common mental disorder increased during the course without exceeding the threshold for diagnosis