Wild areas provide a wide array of recreational opportunities in nature, including informal camping. We examined the potential for land degradation associated with campsites accessible by vehicle on margins wild country Central Plateau Tasmania, where alpine and sub-alpine ecosystems numerous glacial periglacial wetlands sit within Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. There were no integra...

During the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, South Korean men exhibited greater affective risk perceptions than women, displaying anxiety and fear of COVID-19 infection as well emotional distress. Such negative psychological states can be reduced through exposure to natural environments. Natural settings often provide restorative environments promoting individual mental health, stab...

This study aims to understand how youth living with serious illness retrospectively value their therapeutic recreational (TR) based camp experience. We focus primarily on they learned accept health condition, what consider the most valuable outcome from camp, and through which mechanisms contributed these outcomes. The applied a mixed-method online survey measuring learning outcomes in sample o...

OBJECTIVE To implement a planned nutrition education program aiming to promote healthy eating and consumption of a variety of foods in a residential camp setting for Australian girls aged 9-15 years. METHODS 1,600 girls attending a seven-day residential camp in Queensland (2000) participated in a program involving the provision of healthy, tasty foods based on the Australian Dietary Guideline...

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BACKGROUND Approximately one fifth of school-aged children spend a significant portion of their year at residential summer camp, and a growing number have chronic medical conditions. Camp health records are essential for safe, efficient care and for transitions between camp and home providers, yet little research exists regarding these systems. OBJECTIVE To survey residential summer camps for...

BACKGROUND The principals of therapeutic recreation underpin a camping program for children and adolescents living with chronic disease. This study aimed to evaluate the campers' health-related quality of life (HRQoL) before and after the program. METHOD We used the Hungarian version of Kidscreen-52 questionnaire to assess HRQoL. The study sample (n = 115) consisted of children and adolescent...

This study examined the validity of the contact hypothesis by evaluating the efficacy of the Creativity for Peace summer camp. Creativity for Peace applies the principles of the contact hypothesis in order to reduce the prejudicial attitudes between Israeli, Palestinian, and Israeli Arab young women. To determine the camp’s ability to reduce explicit prejudice, a mixed design was utilized, in w...

PURPOSE To describe the reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) after attending an IBD summer camp. METHODS A prospective analysis of quality of life was completed at an overnight camp that was exclusively for patients with IBD, which was sponsored by the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America. The IMPACT-II question...

1114 isolate 4 as donor, transconjugants were selected on MacConkey agar with 2 mg/L cefotaxime and 50 mg/L nalidixic acid. Both types of bla CTX-M-14-carrying plasmids proved to be conjugative (Figure 1a) and harboured the bla CTX-M-14 gene on an EcoRI-fragment of ∼18 kb. All three S. Enteritidis isolates showed closely related XbaI-PFGE-patterns, determined as previously described. 2 The only...