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Background@#The medical curriculum is one of the most stressful academic curricula worldwide. Studies indicate that great levels of stress, that encompass academics to personal life, may be connected to a number of worrying statistics for the mental health of Philippine medical students.@*Objectives@#To develop a validated stressor-coping style scale for students in a public medical school.@*Methods@#The study employed a sequential mixed-methods design. An open-ended questionnaire was used to determine the common stressors and coping styles through convenience sampling. A scale was constructed from this data and was statistically tested for concurrent validity and reliability from a random sample.@*Results@#Following thematic analysis, an initial six stressor domains and eleven coping mechanisms were identified. However, after item analysis and principal component analysis of responses, the scale was transformed to seven stressor domains and five coping mechanism domains. All of which are deemed internally consistent (α>0.6). Scores from the scale were also convergent with the scores of Brief COPE (r=0.5 to 0.9). @*Conclusions@#The developed stressor-coping style scale for medical students is a reliable and valid tool for Filipino medical students in a public medical school.
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Students, MedicalABSTRACT
@#<p style="text-align: justify;">The Volunteer Youth Leaders for Health-Philippine(VYLH- Philippines) is a national youth network established in 2009 as an model on how to organized young women and men into a national force that promotes self-learnings, independence,personal growth and sustained public health change from the grassroots level to up.Formed under the aegis of the University of the Philippines Manila and the department of health,the VYLH- Philippines has focused its activities in the past eight years on helping reduce mortality and disability from congenital disorder through awareness program and support for policy development.This paper describes in details the organization and extraordinary accomplishment of the VYLH- Philippines to date.</p>
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Humans , Male , Female , Philippines , Public Health , Organizations , Policy Making , Awareness , VolunteersABSTRACT
Electrokinetic behaviour of human lymphocytes was studied by photon correlation spectroscopy technique on laser IR-spectrometer. The electrophoretic mobilities (EPMs) were measured for peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) and CEM-C12 T cell line in 1:1 electrolyte at 22 degrees C. Plots of mobility vs ionic strength in the range 0.001-0.1 M were compared with theoretical curves calculated from (i) the Smoluchowsky formula, (ii) the simplified form of the Dukhin-Deryaguin equation which takes into account the fact that the mobility decreases due to the relaxation effect and (iii) the equation suggested by Donath and Pastushenko, which takes into account the influence of cell glycoprotein layer (GPL) on the EPM values. It has been found that the first two equations describe the experimental data with the assumption that surface charge density (sigma) decreases and width of the hydrodynamically immobile layer (L) increases with decreasing ionic strength; the relaxation effect turns out to be insignificant for the cell charges and sizes under consideration. In agreement with these findings, the third equation is approximately consistent with experimental data on the condition that GPL is allowed to expand with decreasing ionic strength, with simultaneous decrease of its full charge density (sigma(f)). The results are compared with relevant evidence for erythrocytes. The possible applications of the inferences arrived at in electrophoretic studies of cell behaviour are also discussed.