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School grades and educational attainments of adolescents and young adults born preterm

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    • School Physical Education Programs Could Play an Important Role in Reducing Kids’ Depression, New Research Suggests

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    Because physical activity is associated with a significant reduction in depression symptoms, physical education programs in primary and secondary schools can play a key role in improving the mental health of children and adolescents.

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    Research found that for adults, even relatively small doses of physical activity are associated with substantially lower risks of depression.

    Strong evidence points to physical activity as effective treatment for depression – the challenge is getting people to do it.

    The evidence that physical activity is effective medicine for mental health is robust; now we need to find ways to get people to take it.”

    — Eduardo E. Bustamante, PhD, University of Illinois Chicago

    WASHINGTON, DC, US, January 5, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — A rigorous, new study has confirmed a link between physical activity and significantly reduced depression symptoms in children and adolescents, with a greater benefit derived by teenagers and by those more severely depressed. A separate study last year found a similar association between exercise and depressed adults.

    Citing the fact that current clinical guidelines for treatment of depression in children and teens call for psychotherapy and psychiatric drugs, which have proven unworkable for many young patients, researchers from Hong Kong and the U.S. addressed what they termed “an urgent need to explore novel treatment approaches that can be safely, feasibly, and widely implemented in the daily routine of children and adolescents with depression.”

    They conducted a systemic review and meta-analysis of a wider range of studies than any previous study on the association between physical activity and depression in children and adolescents. They found that getting depressed kids to exercise more – three activity sessions a week for up to 12 weeks – was associated with a significant reduction in depression symptoms compared to those in control groups who did not receive the physical activity interventions. [1]

    The study findings, published in JAMA Pediatrics, also indicate that increased physical activity has greater benefits for more severely depressed children and adolescents and for depressed teens aged 13 years or older, an age range in which physical activity levels have been found to decrease and depressive symptoms increase.

    “The available evidence supports physical activity interventions as an alternative or adjunctive approach to alleviate depressive symptoms in children and adolescents, substantiating the beneficial influence of physical activity on the mental health of pediatric populations,” wrote lead author Francesco Recchia, MSc, of the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong.

    Most of the studies reviewed by the researchers involved increasing students’ participation in physical activities at school, ranging from simple aerobic exercises, such as running and jumping, to playing sports. The researchers suggested that schools could look to their physical education programs as a means to improve students’ mental health.

    “The findings of this systematic review and meta-analysis strengthen the role of physical activity for depressive symptom management and highlight the potential of structured physical education programs in primary and secondary schools for improving the mental health of children and adolescents,” the researchers wrote. They called for further investigation of the frequency, duration, and supervision of physical activity associated with this improvement.

    A companion editorial in JAMA Pediatrics urged research to find how to make physical activities more widely available and engage more children and teens in them, which is key to getting widespread public health benefits. “The evidence that physical activity is effective medicine for mental health is robust; now we need to find ways to get people to take it,” wrote Eduardo E. Bustamante, PhD, of the Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition at the University of Illinois Chicago. [2]

    Other research findings have found similar links between exercise and depression in adults. A 2021 systematic review and meta-analysis, published in JAMA Psychiatry, found that adults who are physically active have a lower risk of depression than those who do not exercise at all and that “relatively small doses of physical activity were associated with substantially lower risks of depression.” [3]

    Similar results were found when researchers analyzed data from 1.2 million American adults who took the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System survey in 2011, 2013, and 2015. The 2018 study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, found that all types of exercise – even walking – for an average duration of 45 minutes three times a week were “significantly and meaningfully” associated with fewer days of poor self-reported mental health by survey participants as compared to those who did not exercise. [4]

    Online health guidance from Harvard Medical School calls exercise “an all-natural treatment to fight depression.” “Pills aren’t the only solution. Research shows that exercise is also an effective treatment,” according to the Harvard Health Publishing website. [5]

    Currently, 45 million Americans are prescribed antidepressant drugs, whose side effects include sleep problems, emotional dulling, sexual dysfunction, anxiety, irritability, hostility, aggressiveness, loss of judgment, and the impulsiveness and mania that can lead to violence and suicidal thoughts and actions.

    Worse still, those who want to stop taking antidepressants risk serious withdrawal symptoms that can persist for a year or more. [6]

    The longer antidepressants are taken and the higher the dose, the more severe and prolonged the withdrawal symptoms may be, causing an untold number of users to give up trying and instead remain on a drug they no longer want.

    Even the rationale for prescribing antidepressants – to correct a supposed chemical imbalance in the brain – has been questioned by researchers who conducted a comprehensive review, which for the first time integrated all relevant research, to evaluate whether scientific evidence supported the theory that a low level of the brain chemical serotonin caused depression.

    “The serotonin theory of depression has been one of the most influential and extensively researched biological theories of the origins of depression,” wrote lead author Joanna Moncrief in Molecular Psychiatry in July. “Our study shows that this view is not supported by scientific evidence. It also calls into question the basis for the use of antidepressants.” [7]

    The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) continues to raise public awareness of the risks of serious side effects and withdrawal symptoms from antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs, so that consumers and their physicians can make fully informed decisions about starting or stopping the drugs. CCHR supports safe and science-based non-drug approaches to mental health.

    CCHR also recommends a complete physical examination with lab tests, nutritional and allergy screenings, and a review of all current medications to identify any physical causes of depression or other unwanted mental and emotional symptoms, which might otherwise be misdiagnosed and incorrectly treated as a psychiatric disorder.

    WARNING: Anyone wishing to discontinue or change the dose of an antidepressant or other psychiatric drug is cautioned to do so only under the supervision of a physician because of potentially dangerous withdrawal symptoms.

    The Citizens Commission on Human Rights was co-founded in 1969 by members of the Church of Scientology and the late psychiatrist and humanitarian Thomas Szasz, M.D., recognized by many academics as modern psychiatry’s most authoritative critic, to eradicate abuses and restore human rights and dignity to the field of mental health. CCHR has been instrumental in obtaining 228 laws against psychiatric abuses and violations of human rights worldwide.

    The CCHR National Affairs Office in Washington, DC, has advocated for mental health rights and protections at the state and federal level. The CCHR traveling exhibit, which has toured 441 major cities worldwide and educated over 800,000 people on the history to the present day of abusive and racist psychiatric practices, has been displayed at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, DC, and at other locations.

    [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36595284/

    [2] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2799813

    [3] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2790780

    [4] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30099000/

    [5] https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/exercise-is-an-all-natural-treatment-to-fight-depression

    [6] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29758951/

    [7] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0.pdf

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    There’s not a chair to be found within Kate Kettler’s Ute Pass Elementary University home, with pupils alternatively having their destinations at assorted bean luggage by the door or on a carpet tucked powering bookshelves. That’s the place the day’s experience begins.

    Every single other week, pupils go on daring rescue missions with armored bears, board a magical and science-defying college bus or intrude on their wimpy friend’s diary.

    “It’s like they’ve disconnected with this reality and they’ve designed close friends with these fictional figures,” Kettler, the school’s art instructor and librarian, reported. “You escape to this total other earth, and it is magical.”

    And these days, Kettler’s learners mostly experience those worlds not by the switch of a webpage, but by the scroll of an iPad. 

    Manitou District 14 checks out extra e-textbooks per scholar than any other nearby university district, according to facts from OverDrive, a digital distributor of e-guides and e-audiobooks. Statewide, Manitou spots 3rd in e-ebook checkouts. 

    The around 1,400-student district study near to 7,000 e-publications last faculty year, averaging 5 books per pupil.

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    A adore of literature is embedded in the culture of Manitou, in accordance to Amy Bradbury, a technology trainer who also oversees the library at Manitou Springs Elementary College. She’s labored her good share of guide fairs and fundraisers by means of the a long time, she mentioned, and the local community has often pulled by when the library was in need to have.

    “I’ve hardly ever labored at a college like this prior to,” Bradbury claimed. “It’s compact-city incredible.”

    Little ones grew up with a effortless stroll down to Manitou Springs Library, which has prolonged served as the coronary heart of the local community. The general public library’s shut proximity produced it a natural associate for D-14 faculties. Their marriage recently took a new and modern move.

    Manitou worked with Pikes Peak Library District around the summer season to get library playing cards in the hands of any interested D-14 student. For the first time in the library district’s heritage, mothers and fathers could ditch the common paper kind in favor of an e-signature.

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    D-14 included an digital library software sort into this year’s annual student registration process, which every mother or father ought to do the job via on behalf of their kid. Additional than 1,000 dad and mom asked for a card.

    “One of our massive issues that we assume about a lot is how can we remove barriers to individuals using our products, so figuring out if we can use this e-type with an e-signature has truly been a new issue for us,” stated Joanna Rendon, director of younger grownup companies at the Pikes Peak Library District. 

    Rendon cannot very pinpoint what sets Manitou aside from other districts’ looking at behaviors, she mentioned. The district eliminated designated librarian positions in modern yrs, merging the job with that of the tech department or, in Kettler’s situation, the artwork teacher. Rendon seems to the staff modify as a probable solution.

    “They truly communicate about their e-textbooks and e-audiobooks a lot with their pupils, so they seriously know it’s available,” Rendon reported.

    The move instilled new lifestyle into the district’s library lifestyle: Cathrine Olimb, the director of know-how who has overseen Manitou’s changeover to e-publications and its library card initiative, mentioned OverDrive has built looking at a significantly extra accessible experience for pupils of all backgrounds and skills. 

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    Dyslexic pupils can decide on their font for relieve of studying. College students who never have the potential to maintain a guide can have them go through aloud and adjust the voice to in good shape their desire. Pupils who are studying English, or even individuals looking to enrich their vocabulary, can spotlight words and phrases to see their definitions and hear pronunciations.

    When Kettler notes e-publications are not a “silver bullet” to looking through — distractions are just a click on absent on an iPad, just after all — they are the most recent way of finding books in the hands of youthful audience, opening up far more worlds to their fingertips. 

    “I really don’t know what lifetime will be like in a hundred yrs,” Kettler said, “but I know that these days, looking through is vital.”

    Keller is city school system’s 2023 Teacher of the Year | Winchester Star

    WINCHESTER — Handley Higher School’s Jeff Keller has been named the 2023 Instructor of the 12 months for Winchester General public Faculties.

    Keller, who was main an Superior Placement U.S. Record course on Wednesday early morning when college technique officers frequented his classroom and stunned him with the award, has been training at Handley for 15 many years. His recent system choices also contain Entire world Historical past, Honors Planet Record and African American Heritage.

    “Mr. Keller is eager to do nearly anything that is requested of him in purchase to make the high college expertise better for our personnel and students,” Handley Principal Susan Braithwaite said in a media launch from Winchester Community Educational institutions. “He is relentless in regards to keeping large anticipations for each and every pupil. His perform ethic is definitely amazing. He is effective tirelessly to make John Handley Higher College a safe and sound place for all college students.”

    Keller acquired a bachelor’s diploma in secondary education and learning social research from Shepherd College and a master’s diploma in heritage from George Mason University. He is now pursuing a doctoral degree in training and trainer instruction from George Mason University.

    In the “philosophy of teaching” assertion he submitted immediately after remaining nominated for Instructor of the Year, Keller wrote about the worth of connecting with pupils on a particular degree in get to empower their drive to find out: “Students want to know that you know them outside of just a title on the roster. Making interactions like this usually means not only that I know my learners, but also that I know when and how to thrust pupils to move beyond surface-amount contemplating.”

    “His educational delivery engages students [by addressing] specific students’ learning models, and he incorporates technologies on a daily foundation,” Braithwaite wrote in her letter nominating Keller for Instructor of the 12 months. “Student voice and selection are noticeable in his classroom.”

    Outdoors of the classroom, Keller can normally be observed supporting students in Handley’s Black Pupil Union after school and at team occasions, the media launch states. He is also a chief with the school’s pupil equity attempts.

    Winchester General public Educational institutions began picking out a teacher of the yr in 2006. Each of the 7 educational institutions within just the division selects its possess teacher of the year, then all those instructors are nominated by their principals for the division-broad award.

    According to the release, nominees should post a narrative that includes their philosophy of training and do an in-human being interview with the division’s assortment committee, which involves a member of the Winchester Faculty Board, the faculty system’s government director of instruction, director of human assets and equity and family empowerment coordinator, a parent liaison and the reigning teacher of the year.

    In addition to Keller, this year’s nominees ended up:

    Andrew Divico — Frederick Douglass Elementary University

    Nicole Hobson — Quarles Elementary School

    Hannah Obitts — John Kerr Elementary College

    Troy Phillips — Virginia Avenue Charlotte DeHart Elementary University

    Morganne Mease — Daniel Morgan Intermediate School

    Angel Wood — Daniel Morgan Center College

    Now that Keller has been named Instructor of the Yr for Winchester Community Universities, the release states, he will be nominated by the college program for the Virginia Division of Education‘s 2024 Virginia Instructor of the Calendar year, which is expected to be declared this autumn.