Objective To understand the current situation and influencing factors of kindergarten teachers\' participation in training for preschool sex education in Luzhou city,and provide a basis for improving the sex education literacy of kindergarten teachers in the future. Methods A multi-stage stratified cluster sampling method was adopted,and a questionnaire survey was conducted from December 2021 to January 2022 on the knowledge,attitude,and practice of preschool sex education among all the teachers in 24 kindergartens in Luzhou city. Results Among the 461 teachers,43.0% had participated in lectures/courses/training activities related to preschool sex education;99.1% hoped to participate in lectures/courses/training activities related to preschool sex education;82.6% learned about child sexual knowledge through school education;75.5% expressed the hope to learn about child sexual knowledge through expert training.The results of multivariate Logistic regression showed that except private kindergartens as an inhibiting factor (OR=0.57,95%CI=0.37-0.87,P=0.008),high monthly income (OR=3.52,95%CI=1.13-9.30,P=0.011),more ways to know about sex education knowledge (OR=2.87,95%CI=1.76-4.70,P<0.001),and social support (OR=1.58,95%CI=1.04-2.38, P=0.030) were promoting factors for teachers to participate in the training for preschool sex education. Conclusion The kindergarten teachers presented a participation rate but a high demand for the training for preschool sex education.They mainly obtain the sex education knowledge from school education.The nature of kindergarten,monthly income of teachers,social support situation,and ways of understanding sex education knowledge are the key factors influencing the teachers\' participation in the training for preschool sex education.
目的 了解泸州市幼儿园教师参与幼儿性教育培训现状及影响因素,为今后提升幼儿教师性教育素养提供参考依据。方法 采用多阶段分层抽样方法,于2021年12月至2022年1月对泸州市24所幼儿园内所有教学教师进行《教师幼儿性教育知信行及相关情况调查》问卷调查。结果 在461名教师中,有43.0%的教师参加过幼儿性教育相关讲座/课程/培训活动,99.1%的教师希望能够参加幼儿性教育相关讲座/课程/培训活动,82.6%的教师通过学校教育了解幼儿性知识,75.5%的教师表示希望通过专家培训了解幼儿性知识。多因素Logistic回归结果显示,除私立幼儿园是幼儿教师参与幼儿性教育培训的抑制因素外(OR=0.57,95%CI=0.37~0.87,P=0.008),幼儿教师月收入高(OR=3.52,95%CI=1.13~9.30,P=0.011)、了解幼儿性教育相关知识的途径多(OR=2.87,95%CI=1.76~4.70,P<0.001)、社会支持总分较好(OR=1.58,95%CI=1.04~2.38,P=0.030)均是幼儿教师参与幼儿性教育培训的促进因素。结论 教师参与幼儿性教育培训参与率较低而需求高,性教育知识来源途径主要为传统的学校教育,幼儿园性质、教师月平均收入、幼儿性教育相关知识的了解途径数目、社会支持情况是教师参与幼儿性教育培训的重要因素。.

The present study aimed to determine the variations between higher-order thinking skills (critical, creative, and empathetic thinking) of the teachers based on institution, branch, and professional seniority. The study data were collected from 345 teachers with the Critical Thinking Tendency Scale, Marmara Creative Thinking Aptitudes Scale, and Basic Empathy Scale, and confirmatory factor analysis was conducted on the data. The data were analyzed with discriminant analysis. The study findings demonstrated that there were significant differences between the critical, creative, and empathetic thinking skills of the teachers based on the institution of employment, their seniority, and their branch. The analysis of the discriminant functions revealed that the most discriminatory variables were empathy based on the institution and creative thinking based on seniority and branch. It was determined that the teachers employed in pre- and primary schools with less than 15 years of seniority scored higher in critical thinking skills, and teachers who were employed in middle schools with 16 years or more seniority scored higher in creative thinking skills. Foreign language teachers scored higher in both thinking skills. Finally, the mean empathy skill scores of the teachers employed in pre- and primary schools with 15 years or less seniority in the common branch were higher.

BACKGROUND: Burnout is usually defined as a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion that affects people in various professions (e.g. physicians, nurses, teachers). The consequences of burnout involve decreased motivation, productivity, and overall diminished well-being. The machine learning-based prediction of burnout has therefore become the focus of recent research. In this study, the aim was to detect burnout using machine learning and to identify its most important predictors in a sample of Hungarian high-school teachers.
METHODS: The final sample consisted of 1,576 high-school teachers (522 male), who completed a survey including various sociodemographic and health-related questions and psychological questionnaires. Specifically, depression, insomnia, internet habits (e.g. when and why one uses the internet) and problematic internet usage were among the most important predictors tested in this study. Supervised classification algorithms were trained to detect burnout assessed by two well-known burnout questionnaires. Feature selection was conducted using recursive feature elimination. Hyperparameters were tuned via grid search with 10-fold cross-validation. Due to class imbalance, class weights (i.e. cost-sensitive learning), downsampling and a hybrid method (SMOTE-ENN) were applied in separate analyses. The final model evaluation was carried out on a previously unseen holdout test sample.
RESULTS: Burnout was detected in 19.7% of the teachers included in the final dataset. The best predictive performance on the holdout test sample was achieved by random forest with class weigths (AUC = 0.811; balanced accuracy = 0.745, sensitivity = 0.765; specificity = 0.726). The best predictors of burnout were Beck\'s Depression Inventory scores, Athen\'s Insomnia Scale scores, subscales of the Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire and self-reported current health status.
CONCLUSIONS: The performances of the algorithms were comparable with previous studies; however, it is important to note that we tested our models on previously unseen holdout samples suggesting higher levels of generalizability. Another remarkable finding is that besides depression and insomnia, other variables such as problematic internet use and time spent online also turned out to be important predictors of burnout.

UNASSIGNED: Adolescents are vulnerable to mental health problems, and this vulnerability may be enhanced in situations such as the present COVID-19 pandemic. Online mental health literacy (MHL) education may help adolescents maintain/improve their mental health, especially in situations where face-to-face education is difficult.
UNASSIGNED: To evaluate the effects of a teacher-led \"online Short MHL Program (o-SMHLP)\" delivered online to grade 10 students in their classrooms.
UNASSIGNED: Students (age 15-16) were randomly assigned to an o-SMHLP group (n = 115 (3 classes)) or a control group (n = 155 (4 classes)) at the class level. The program consisted of a 20-minute session which included an animated video. The students completed a self-report questionnaire pre- and post-intervention assessing outcomes including: \"Knowledge about mental health/illnesses\", \"Recognition of necessity to seek help\", \"Intention to seek help\", and \"Unwillingness to socialize with people having mental illness\". Mixed effects modeling was employed for analyses.
UNASSIGNED: All outcomes were significantly improved in the intervention group compared to the control group post-intervention, except for \"intention to seek help\".
UNASSIGNED: The present study shows the effectiveness of an online MHL intervention while identifying the need for the development of effective online programs targeting adolescents\' \"intention to seek help\".

George L. Bakris passed away on 15 June 2024 at the age of 72 years. This obituary aims at honouring his life and career by describing the stages in his personal and professional pathway, presenting some of his many remarkable accomplishments, and highlighting his exceptional clinical skills, mentorship, and friendship.

The increasing concern over adolescent suicide necessitates suicide prevention training for school teachers, as students spend a significant portion of their time at school. This study\'s objective is to develop a suicide prevention program tailored for teachers.
The program was developed by a multidisciplinary research team, drawing on a review of both domestic and international suicide prevention programs, related scholarly articles, and Korean psychological autopsy interviews of adolescents. This was complemented by a survey of teachers to assess the program\'s practicality and usability.
The developed program comprises three parts, consistent with other versions: Careful Observation, Active Listening, and Risk Evaluation and Expert Referral. Careful Observation focuses on training teachers to recognize verbal, behavioral, and situational warning signs of suicidal ideation in students; Active Listening involves strategies for encouraging students to express their suicidal thoughts and techniques for being an empathetic and attentive listener; Risk Evaluation and Expert Referral provides instruction on how to assess suicide risk and assist students safely.
It is anticipated that this program will equip teachers with valuable knowledge and skills, contributing to a reduction in adolescents suicide rates.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) students, LGBTQ+ staff and LGBTQ+ parents report schools can be unsafe and unwelcoming environments. Yet few studies have explored LGBTQ+ student, LGBTQ+ staff and LGBTQ+ parent perceptions of the school climate simultaneously or adopted person-centered perspectives. The present study sought to identify LGBTQ+ related strategies adopted by schools, and whether these were differentially related to perceptions of school safety and community. Data were collected in 2021 via online sampling of the current Australian school (1,937) students, (124) staff and (75) parents. Four distinct inclusion strategy profiles were identified via latent class analysis: Comprehensive Inclusion, Curriculum & Pedagogical Inclusion, Extracurricular Inclusion and Limited Inclusion. Just under half (48.2%) of schools lacked LGBTQ+ strategies, with participants from these schools reporting greater safety concerns. Our findings suggest that curriculum and pedagogical strategies are likely the most effective and should be a key focus for improving the school climate. Schools that employed LGBTQ+ affirming practices and included LGBTQ+ resources and activities, like Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs), saw improved perceptions of safety and community.

Repetitive practice can become an exploratory activity where instruction and discovery are linked, allowing instruction and guidance through tasks that help to construct and acquire the knowledge and skills that make up the content. (1) Background: The aim of the study was to show how a teaching method based on guided discovery would affect the teaching of children\'s aquatic competence in schoolchildren with different levels of competence. (2) Methods: An observational study was conducted with 385 schoolchildren (195 boys and 189 girls) aged 3-5 years belonging to a charter kindergarten, using an Instrument for the Measurement of Aquatic Competence in Children (SMACC) consisting of 17 items grouped into three dimensions: socio-affective, cognitive, and motor. (3) Results: After measuring aquatic competence, all age groups and all variables (motor, cognitive, and socio-affective) showed differences between pre- and post-scores and a high magnitude of effect size. When the teaching intervention was analyzed according to the level of aquatic competence of the age group, improvements were found in all variables in both the low and high-competence groups. (4) Conclusions: This study describes how guided discovery instruction has equal effects at different levels of proficiency. Furthermore, when this type of instruction was used, aquatic competence was explained not only by the motor and socio-affective dimensions but also by the cognitive variable.

BACKGROUND: The number of students with food allergies is on the increase, while the problems and burdens of school teachers and staff are not yet clear. Our study was designed to identify the unmet needs of school teachers and staff dealing with food allergy in school lunches.
METHODS: A written questionnaire was sent by mail to 600 elementary and junior high schools in Miyagi Prefecture.
RESULTS: Responses were received from 169 schools. The prevalence of food allergy was 5.6% and the EpiPen possession rate was 0.36%. The most common problems perceived by teachers and staff were the \"increase in the number of students with food allergies\" and the \"diversification of causative foods\". Other problems included \"uncertainty of foods to be removed\" and \"insufficient collaboration among teachers, guardians, and doctors,\" which could be improved by the medical providers. In the free descriptions, many respondents complained of an excessive workload and the mental burden of never making a mistake or missing anything.
CONCLUSIONS: Our survey revealed that while there is a public demand for safe school lunches, the teachers and staff dealing with this demand are under considerable strain. It is necessary to consider reducing the burden, and a sustainable system needs to be established.

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