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Mental health benefits of replacing social media with exercise – Medical News Today

Social media use exploded with COVID-19s lockdowns and contact restrictions. Millions turned to Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and other platforms to escape feelings of isolation, anxiety, and hopelessness.

However, excessive screen time has led to addictive behaviors, stronger emotional attachment to social media, and deeper mental anguish for many people.

Researchers at the Ruhr-Universittt in Bochum, Germany investigated the effects of reducing social media use (SMU) and increasing physical activity, or both, on emotional well-being and tobacco consumption.

Julia Brailosvskaia, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the universitys Mental Health Research and Treatment Center, led the two-week experiment.

Brailosvskaia and her team observed that the interventions they suggested may have helped enhance participants satisfaction with life. At a 6-month follow-up, the subjects continued to report spending less time on social media, maintaining physical activity, feeling happier, and smoking fewer cigarettes.

The Journal of Public Health recently published these findings.

The studys authors noted that mental health consists of two interrelated but separate dimensions: positive and negative.

With this paradigm, they hypothesized that the positive dimension of their intervention would increase life satisfaction and subjective happiness. The negative dimension would decrease depression symptoms and addictive tendencies of SMU.

Medical News Today discussed this study with Dr.Sheldon Zablow, an author and nutritional psychiatrist. He was not involved in the research.

When asked about the effects of social media on mental health, Dr. Zablow asserted:

If activities interfere with customary basic age-appropriate milestones of economic self-sufficiency, socialization, or health maintenance, then they are detrimental. The activities could be alcohol use, substance use, dietary choices, exercise choices, or entertainment choicesspecifically social media.

Dr. Zablow warned that excessive social media use weakens social interpersonal bonds, which can negatively impact mental health.

MNT also spoke with Dr. David A. Merrill, adult and geriatric psychiatrist and director of the Pacific Neuroscience Institutes Pacific Brain Health Center at Providence Saint Johns Health Center in Santa Monica, CA, regarding the present study. He was not involved in the research.

Dr. Merrill argued that the term social media is a misnomer thats almost like a bait and switch, designed to increase user engagement.

Too much social media use, he said, could end up exacerbating mental issues for people with behavioral health conditions or addictive vulnerabilities.

Theres the brain reward system that you get from clicking or scrolling or maintaining the use of the social media, Dr. Merrill said.

I think [that the authors are] demonstrating causally that you both need to have a conscious awareness of the need to limit the self-soothing aspect of social media use, and you also need to have alternatives, so you need to have some other way to bring joy into your life, and especially during the pandemic.

As a psychiatrist, Dr. Zablow emphasized that the essential part of any treatment program recommended is exercise. Psychotherapy and, when indicated, medication, will not work well if a person does not exercise.

Dr. Zablow added that exercise increases the production of neurotransmitters, the brains natural antidepressants and antianxiety molecules.

Consequently, more exercise can build mental health, while less activity due to social media overuse can curtail healthy brain chemistry.

Dr. Brailosvskaia and her colleagues reasoned that a conscious and controlled reduction of time spent on SMU as well as an increase of time spent on physical activity could causally reduce negative mental health consequences of the COVID-19 situation. They also believed that combining both interventions might amplify this effect.

The professor mentioned that the methods can easily fit into everyday life with little cost, effort, or risk of violating COVID-19 protocols.

Further, the scientists expected their experiment to reduce stress caused by COVID-19 and diminish smoking behavior.

The researchers recruited 642 healthy adult social media users and placed them in 4 experimental groups.

The social media (SM) group had 162 individuals, the physical activity (PA) group of 161, a combination group of 159, and a control group of 160.

Over 2 weeks, the SM subjects reduced their daily SMU time by 30 minutes and the PA group increased their daily physical activity by 30 minutes. The combination group applied both interventions, while the control did not change their behaviors.

Following the World Health Organizations physical activity recommendations for adults, the first three groups increased their exercise time by 30 minutes.

The participants completed online surveys and daily compliance diaries at the start of the trial, 1 week later, and after the 2-week period. They also submitted follow-up surveys at 1, 3, and 6 months post-experiment.

Dr. Brailosvskaia and her team concluded that their interventions helped people decrease the time they spend with SM.

Even 6 months after the experiment, the participants had reduced their daily initial SM time by about 37 minutes in the SM group, by about 33 minutes in the PA group, and by about 46 minutes in the combination group.

Moreover, participants reported having a decreased emotional bond with social media.

All the interventions encouraged more physical activity as well. Six months later, our participants had enhanced their initial weekly physical activity time for 26 minutes in the SM group, for 40 minutes in the PA group, and for 1 hour 39 minutes in the combination group, the authors wrote.

Even the control group increased their activity by 20 minutes.

Dr. Merrill was impressed with the studys striking findings with the combination of reducing social media with increasing physical activity. He agreed with the notion that SMU restrictions need a complementing activity that brings joy or a sense of achievement.

According to the studys authors, the experimental longitudinal design of their present research allowed them to establish causality.

However, the study population lacked diversity. All the participants were young, female, German, Caucasian, and highly educated.

Dr. Merrill felt that, while it would be interesting to replicate this investigation in the United States with a more diverse group, the results would likely be similar.

The study did not consider which form of SMU the subjects were using or specify which type of physical activity the participants engaged in. The researchers hope that future work will focus more on these factors.

Dr. Brailosvskaias research suggests that modest changes in SMU and physical activity could help protect and enhance mental health conveniently and affordably.

The professor and her team recognize how SMU can minimize isolation and help spread information.

From time to time, it is important to consciously limit ones online accessibility and to go back to the human roots [] a physically active lifestyle to stay happy and healthy in the age of digitalization, the researchers wrote.

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Tighter Focus on Nursing Home Infection Control Offers More Effective Patient Safety – HealthLeaders Media

Infection control tended to be part of a list of responsibilities in most nursing homes, but now that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is requiring facilities to have at least a part-time infection preventionist on-site, that focus on patient safety will make a difference, an industry leader said.

"Prior to COVID, I would venture to say there were some types of plans in place. Some places probably had better plans than others, and I know that there are places that reached out and got external expertise to try and guide their plans," said Linda Dickey, president of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). "But having someone on site, at a facility, watching practices, is really important."

Before the CMS requirement, if someone was in charge of infection prevention, it was one of many responsibilities they carried, without any dedicated time or expertise, Dickey said, adding that an infection preventionist increases the focus on patient safety.

Duties of an on-site infection preventionist would include gathering and reporting data on different infections to the state and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and doing rounds through the facility to observe direct care practices, providing coaching and feedback if necessary. If a resident had previously been treated for an infection, the preventionist would follow up with them.

They also are charged with trainingstaff to ensure they understand the importance of basic practices, such as getting flu shots, not just for their own safety but for the residents safety as well.

If there is an outbreak, the infection preventionist is responsible for coordinating with public health investigations on how those transmissions occurred, as well as performance improvement to change practices and behaviors.

Adding an infection preventionist to a facility's staff won't be a quick or easy fix. The post-acute sector is struggling alongside other parts of the industry to hire during a staffing shortage, further exacerbated by the pandemic. Dickey noted that a large number of infection preventionists have begun retiring, and because it isn't a well-known profession, there's not a large pipeline from which to choose.

"Of the infection preventionists that are out there, there's not a huge number that specialize in long-term care," she added. "That may be part of what they know, but it isn't their sole focus."

There is currently no job code for the role of infection preventionist, and APIC is reaching out the nation's department of labor to correct that. A job code will help with salary benchmarking so that facilities can begin to market the role and its responsibilities.

To help with the lack of qualified talent, APIC has developed an internship program that would give healthcare professionals an introduction into what infection preventionists do. The program framework APIC provides has the worker reviewing topics and information over the course of 10 weeks, with the organization able to lay it out in a way that best suits their employees.

APIC also plans to partner with colleges and universities, and begin reaching out to high schools to introduce students to the career path. They're also developing academic pathways focusing on infection prevention that can be imbedded in nursing, public health, lab, or microbiology programs.

"There are programs out there and internship programs for infection prevention," Dickey said. "But they're not, I don't think, widely known. And there aren't a lot of degree programs where you can specialize in infection prevention, so that's what we're trying to bolster."

Typically, an individual has a degree in nursing, public health, or laboratory discipline prior to getting the infection prevention and control certificate (CIC) and must have at least two years of experience. While there's no specific medical degree required to pursue the certification, Dickey notes that most facilities won't hire someone unless they have a background in some sort of health-related degree.

"I don't think its just a money thing for these organizations. They want to do a good job and I think that they will see that there's value in infection prevention and doing it well," Dickey said. "It will save money, it will improve care, it will help care, and it will help people move more gracefully toward the end of life."

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Both individual investors who control a good portion of Storytel AB (publ) (STO:STORY B) along with institutions must be dismayed after last week’s…

To get a sense of who is truly in control of Storytel AB (publ) (STO:STORY B), it is important to understand the ownership structure of the business. The group holding the most number of shares in the company, around 35% to be precise, is individual investors. Put another way, the group faces the maximum upside potential (or downside risk).

While institutions who own 26% came under pressure after market cap dropped to kr2.7b last week,individual investors took the most losses.

Let's take a closer look to see what the different types of shareholders can tell us about Storytel.

See our latest analysis for Storytel

Institutions typically measure themselves against a benchmark when reporting to their own investors, so they often become more enthusiastic about a stock once it's included in a major index. We would expect most companies to have some institutions on the register, especially if they are growing.

We can see that Storytel does have institutional investors; and they hold a good portion of the company's stock. This can indicate that the company has a certain degree of credibility in the investment community. However, it is best to be wary of relying on the supposed validation that comes with institutional investors. They too, get it wrong sometimes. When multiple institutions own a stock, there's always a risk that they are in a 'crowded trade'. When such a trade goes wrong, multiple parties may compete to sell stock fast. This risk is higher in a company without a history of growth. You can see Storytel's historic earnings and revenue below, but keep in mind there's always more to the story.

We note that hedge funds don't have a meaningful investment in Storytel. Looking at our data, we can see that the largest shareholder is Roxette Photo NV with 13% of shares outstanding. Meanwhile, the second and third largest shareholders, hold 11% and 8.4%, of the shares outstanding, respectively.

We also observed that the top 6 shareholders account for more than half of the share register, with a few smaller shareholders to balance the interests of the larger ones to a certain extent.

Researching institutional ownership is a good way to gauge and filter a stock's expected performance. The same can be achieved by studying analyst sentiments. Quite a few analysts cover the stock, so you could look into forecast growth quite easily.

While the precise definition of an insider can be subjective, almost everyone considers board members to be insiders. Company management run the business, but the CEO will answer to the board, even if he or she is a member of it.

I generally consider insider ownership to be a good thing. However, on some occasions it makes it more difficult for other shareholders to hold the board accountable for decisions.

Our information suggests that insiders maintain a significant holding in Storytel AB (publ). It has a market capitalization of just kr2.7b, and insiders have kr408m worth of shares in their own names. It is great to see insiders so invested in the business. It might be worth checking if those insiders have been buying recently.

With a 35% ownership, the general public, mostly comprising of individual investors, have some degree of sway over Storytel. While this size of ownership may not be enough to sway a policy decision in their favour, they can still make a collective impact on company policies.

With a stake of 11%, private equity firms could influence the Storytel board. Sometimes we see private equity stick around for the long term, but generally speaking they have a shorter investment horizon and -- as the name suggests -- don't invest in public companies much. After some time they may look to sell and redeploy capital elsewhere.

Our data indicates that Private Companies hold 13%, of the company's shares. Private companies may be related parties. Sometimes insiders have an interest in a public company through a holding in a private company, rather than in their own capacity as an individual. While it's hard to draw any broad stroke conclusions, it is worth noting as an area for further research.

It's always worth thinking about the different groups who own shares in a company. But to understand Storytel better, we need to consider many other factors. Consider risks, for instance. Every company has them, and we've spotted 1 warning sign for Storytel you should know about.

Ultimately the future is most important. You can access this free report on analyst forecasts for the company.

NB: Figures in this article are calculated using data from the last twelve months, which refer to the 12-month period ending on the last date of the month the financial statement is dated. This may not be consistent with full year annual report figures.

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Putin Isn’t Going Anywhere, Even if He Loses the Russia-Ukraine War – Foreign Policy

There is a growing cottage industry among Russia watchers and international relations experts focused on the political demise of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Its an understandable wishbut one that so far is rooted more in optimism about karmic justice than in reality. Virtually every Kremlin setback gets framed as the beginning of the end of Putin and his regime. The Russian Armed Forces recent disorganized retreat and regrouping in the face of a dramatic Ukrainian offensive have unleashed yet another wave of premature speculation about Putins impending doom, unbalanced by any consideration of the sources of his political resilience and stability, which have kept him in power through one political crisis after another.

The end-of-Putin genre is nothing new and includes (ultimately false) prognostications by all manner of respected journalists, academics, Russian opposition politicians, and even Western leaders. The predictions of Putins imminent demise have been around for almost the entirety of his rule.

After succeeding Boris Yeltsin as president in 2000, Putins popularity was bolstered by the dramatic growth of the Russian economyan average of 7 percent per year for nearly a decadebut the tragically bungled government responses to both the 2002 Moscow theater siege and the 2004 Beslan school attack led to premature political eulogies for Putin.

Everything changed in 2008, when Putins invasion of Georgia, the global financial crisis, and the collapse in world oil prices wiped out $1 trillion in Russian stocks and led to an 8 percent contraction in GDP. More political obituaries heralded the end of the Putin era: Now that the dynamic Russian economy on which Putins legitimacy was based was dead and buried, surely his political career would be next. Yet thanks to sound economic policymaking, the Kremlin withstood the storm.

Still emerging from the Great Recession in 2011-12, the pro forma reelection of Putin and his United Russia party was rocked by anti-corruption protests in Moscow and across Russia. Billed as the greatest threat to Putins power to that point, experts, opposition politicians, and foreign leaders yet again united in dubbing it the beginning of the end of Putin. Using a combination of carrots and stickselectoral transparency measures and selective repressionthe furor subsided, and Putin endured.

The rhetoric ratcheted up once again in response to Ukraines Euromaidan Revolution in 2013-14, as Putins subsequent annexation of Crimea and proxy war in the Donbas would surely be the end of Vladimir Putin. Or Western economic sanctions and Russias crumbling economy would be his undoing. But on the contrary, Putins nationalist turn toward legitimacy through identity rather than economic performance seems to have solidified his rule even more.

When that furor subsided, it was the rising challenge of the anti-corruption crusader Alexey Navalny that prompted prognostications of the end of Putin in 2017. By 2018, pension reform would be the beginning of [the] end of Putins regime. In 2019, it was the election of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that may be Vladimirs downfall. By 2020, both Russias dissatisfied youth and the Kremlins mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic were on deck to topple Vladimir Putin.

Putins escalation into a full-scale war of aggression in Ukraine this February unleashed an absolute tidal wave of end-of-Putin prognostications, most notably whenin his Warsaw speech in March meant to galvanize European unityU.S. President Joe Biden ad-libbed: For Gods sake, this man cannot remain in power. Perhaps it was a gaffe saying the quiet part out loud, but Western leaders, experts, and Russian dissidents largely agreed: The invasion would be Putins undoing. Or maybe it would be the war crimes and atrocities in Bucha that would end Putin.

Add to that a telling flurry of claims that Putin was sick or dyingnot based on any actual intelligence but long-distance diagnosis-by-photo. This was the ultimate form of punditry as karmic hope: a wish that the universe itself was punishing the Russian leader for his sins.

So it is not at all surprising thatas news of the haphazard retreat of Russian forces from the Kharkiv front pours inwere seeing ever more installments in the end-of-Putin literature. Foremost among them is a recent piece in the Atlantic by the acclaimed journalist and historian Anne Applebaum: Its Time to Prepare for a Ukrainian Victory.

While the piece begins with a levelheaded and persuasive consideration of the scale of Ukrainian advances and the surprising lack of fight in the retreating Russians, it veers into the end-of-Putin genre by surmising that Russias lackluster performance on the battlefield will topple Putin, somehow. The problem here is the same as it is for every article in this literature: The absence of causal mechanismsthe whos, whys, and hows of revolutionis ignored in favor of handwaving and passive voice. A Ukrainian victory is certainly possible. But that alone wont spell Putins end. After all, plenty of dictators, from Saddam Hussein after the Iran-Iraq conflict and the first Gulf War to Vladimir Lenin after Russias botched invasion of a newly independent Poland, have survived losing wars they started.

Applebaum argues that Putin has gone all in on his so-called special military operation as the basis for his ruling legitimacy. And when Russian elites finally realize that Putins imperial project was not just a failure for Putin personally but also a moral, political, and economic disaster for the entire country, themselves included, then his claim to be the legitimate ruler of Russia melts away. We must expect that a Ukrainian victory, and certainly a victory in Ukraines understanding of the term, also brings about the end of Putins regime.

She adds: To be clear: This is not a prediction; its a warning.

Is this the thing that truly, finally dooms Putin? Only time will tell. But 20 years worth of Putin outliving his supposed demise should give us pause. He has survived economic depression, international isolation, mismanagement of a deadly pandemic, botched terrorist responses, and an intelligence fiasco that led Russia into a bungled warand hes still here.

The lynchpin in most end-of-Putin arguments is the famously nebulous concept of legitimacy. As Applebaum writes: It is inconceivable that [Putin] can continue to rule if the centerpiece of his claim to legitimacyhis promise to put the Soviet Union back together againproves not just impossible but laughable.

During the first decade of Putinism, it was Russias stellar economic performance that gave Putin popular legitimacy. But once growth gave way to stagnation with the global economic crisis and ensuing Western sanctions, we were told that his position was tenuous due to a lack of legitimacy. So Putin pivoted to nationalism and legitimacy through identitymaintaining popular support as defender of the Russian nationan image that endures despite an increasingly disastrous political and economic track record.

As a concept, ruling legitimacy rests on the fundamental premise of Western democracy that sovereignty ultimately lies with the people, as expressed through elections. A democratic leader without popular support is of questionable legitimacy and likely faces perilous future political prospects. Yet both in theory and practice, simply applying legitimacy as it applies in democracies to nondemocratic contexts such as Putins Russia has been a recipe for disaster.

While popular legitimacy can indeed bolster an autocratic regime, autocrats have other mechanisms of control that democratic leaders do not: They can repress the opposition, co-opt dissent, and monopolize the media landscape to maintain power. Yet a common pathology of the end-of-Putin literature is that a disproportionate focus on popular legitimacy marginalizes consideration of the repression, co-option, and media control that modern autocracies are increasingly built on.

So even beyond the question of whether Putin is considered legitimate by his own people and whether his sky-high approval ratings are indicative of such legitimacytheres no mechanism by which a loss of legitimacy offers a clean end to his power. Indeed, both Russian history and global history are full of autocrats of questionable legitimacy who endured for decades because they could rely on repression, co-optation of rival elites, and propaganda and control of information to bolster their rule.

The first Soviet dictator, Lenin, had a keen eye for regime weaknessnot least because he was a former revolutionary. Both in Russia under the tsars and across Europe, hed seen enough windows for political change open and then close again to realistically recognize that a revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation [but] it is not every revolutionary situation that leads to revolution. For Lenin (unlike Karl Marx), revolutions didnt just happen spontaneously; they had to be made. Whether for communist revolutions or any political change, human agency is necessarythe whos, whys, and howsregardless of ruling legitimacy or other constructs.

The end-of-Putin genre is notoriously lax about how exactly political change happens and what role human agency plays in it. Pundits assume economic sanctions necessarily weaken the regime. Historians assume revolutions and coups in Russias past will repeat, that it is just a matter of which one. Security scholars point out that bad things have historically happened to dictators whose wars turn out badly, but again they are mum on specific causes.

Since Putins declaration of war, Western pundits have fantasized about the Russian people rising up en masse and overthrowing Putin. But the flurry of anti-war protests in February and March were crushed, protest criminalized, and opposition leaders have largely been imprisoned or have fled abroad, making scenarios of mass revolution against a leader still enjoying approval ratings above 80 percent seem awfully farfetched.

Another favored Western scenario for the end of Putin is a palace coup by Kremlin insiders, unnamed elites, or the military (despite the efforts of both Ukrainian and Russian experts in downplaying such expectations). But rather than rising up against Putin over the last six months of war, Russian elites have fallen into line. Instead of dreaming of greener pastures in the West, Russias oligarchs and political elites are increasingly resigned to the fact that their fates are tied to Putin and his regime: As one source at a sanctioned Russian state company told journalist Farida Rustamova, They will not overthrow anyone, but will build their lives here.

Nevertheless, this is Applebaums prognostication, too: Russian soldiers are running away, ditching their equipment, asking to surrender. How long do we have to wait until the men in Putins inner circle do the same? Anything is, of course, possible. But based on current evidence, or the lack of it, Westerners hoping for unnamed loyalists to plot to overthrow Putin will likely be waiting quite a while indeed.

In the end, trying to predict events of world-historical significance is a tough business, for pundits, politicians, intelligence analysts, and even well-read experts such as Applebaum. Were all making causal inferences about an inherently unknowable future based on a necessarily incomplete reading of the past, all overlaid with our own cognitive biases. Even among experts in their fields, successful predictions are rare and failures far more numerous, as weve seen regarding the forever-impending political demise of Putin.

Then we add to that our own confirmation and hindsight biases, which color our predictions based more on what we want to see happen in a supposedly just world than on what is more likely to happen in an inherently unjust one. When it comes to foretelling the end of Putin, that would require tempering our hopes for comeuppance for the atrocities and injustices he has visited on Ukraine, with a broader consideration of the sources of autocratic stabilityrepression, co-optation, and media controlwhich are not reliant on our Western conceptions of legitimacy.

In confronting the repeated failures of the end-of-Putin literature, Im reminded of the wisdom of the foremost demographer of Russia and the old Soviet Union, Murray Feshbach, who was both a mentor and a true friend. Relying on the old adage that demography is destiny, all manner of journalists asked him to foretell what the future held for Russia.

Yet he always demurred, noting that in Dante Alighieris Inferno theres a special place in the eighth circle of hell reserved for sorcerers, seers, and prognosticators, with their heads wrenched around backward, forever looking back on their false prophecies. Its a type of damnation we would all do well to avoid.

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Dassault Systmes Acquires Diota, Bringing Augmented Reality and Field Control Technology to Its Manufacturing and Operations Customers – Dassault…

Dassault Systmes has acquired Diota, developer of assembly assistance and quality control software solutions for manufacturing and operations. The acquisition will expand Dassault Systmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform with actionable virtual twin experiences on the shop floor, enabling customers in the aerospace and defense, industrial equipment, and transportation and mobility industries to optimize the performance of complex industrial processes and boost their operational efficiency.

Founded in 2009 in France, Diota provides software solutions for digital-assisted operations and digital-based robotics inspection that help industrial companies enter a new era of digital transformation. Cutting-edge technologies such as interactive 3D, AR, computer vision, AI, and deep learning connect back office engineering and on-site operations in charge of production and maintenance of manufactured products for greater productivity, improved product quality and enhanced workforce guidance and safety. Its solutions are used by more than 100 companies in 16 countries including BAE Systems, Dassault Aviation, Iveco, Latcore, Naval Group, ORANO, Safran, Stellantis and Thales Alenia Space.

Dassault Systmes will integrate Diotas solutions into its DELMIA applications, which are used to collaboratively and virtually model, optimize, and execute manufacturing, supply chains, logistics, and services with new levels of intelligence and decision-making. This combination will enhance the use of digital mock-ups and their associated digital processes for manufacturing operations by delivering interactive, operations-level solutions that connect a virtual twin with real-world data in the field. Customers will be able to perform very complex operations right-first-time, as well as use the virtual twin as a quality referential to adopt continuous improvement methods, improve traceability and capitalize on intellectual property.

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