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current trend of “the earlier the better” raises issues on the effects of early formal schooling
experiences on children’s optimal development. However, very little is known about young
children’s early schooling experiences in Taiwan. This study takes a phenomenological approach
to explore the perspectives and experiences of Taiwanese mothers and others regarding young
children’s early schooling involvement. The results of this pioneering study provide new light for
future research.
5083.80 Study on non-intellectual development of minorities’ children in SW China, Zhang
Weiwen 1 , Janet Horn 1 , Jinzhi Fu 1 , Ringo Wong 2 , 1 School of Educational Science, Yunnan
Normal University, China., 2 Dept.of Educational Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
China
With the help of Questionaire on the investigation of non-intellectual factors among minorities'
students in middle schools and elementary schools in SW China, researches are done to 398
students: Nu nationality; Lisu Nationality and Jinpo nationality. Researchers discussed and
analyzed the divergences among these minorities' children's non-intellectual development based
on differences of their ages, developmental phases and sexes. And researchers discovered that
there are obvious differences of non-intellectual factors exist in these minorities' children, which
quite different with most common Chinese people. Thus, researchers try to offer some effective
references for minorities' elementary education in SW China.
5083.81 Strategies for family in the development of environmental conservation behaviors in
Thai children, Boonprakob Pannee, Wiladlak Chuawanlee, Manat Boonprakob, The
Behavioral Science Research Institute, Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand
The objectives of this research are to survey formats of family activities that encourage
development of environmental conservation behaviors in childhood years; to study effects of
factors in aspects of bio-social, psycho-social, and development in family on environmental
conservation behaviors; and to develop manual for parent in the development on environmental
conservation behaviors in children. The subjects are 157 2nd year primarily level students. The
results were found that some independent bio-social, psycho-social variables have relationship to
environmental conservation behaviors in children on development of environmental conservation
behaviors in children.
5083.82 Anxiety and depression among young adults presenting with chest pain, Shahid
Muhammad 1 , Rifat Rehmani 2 , Murad Moosa Khan 3 , 1 Section of Emergency Medicine, Aga
Khan University Hospital Karachi Pakistan, Pakistan, 2 Assistant Professor Section of Emergency
Medicine Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi Pakistan, 3 Professor of Psychiatry Aga Khan
University Hospital Karachi Pakistan
The objective of the study was to estimate the frequency of anxiety and depression in patients less
than 40 years of age reporting with chest pain in Emergency Department (ED).Conducted at ED of
Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi. Fifty young patients with chest pain in whom an ECG was
normal were included. The Aga Khan University Anxiety and Depression Scale (AKUADS) were
used as the assessment to out of 50 patients, 29 (58%) patients had a score of 19 or above. 16 were
females and 13 were males. Anxiety and depression should be looked in young patients presenting
to ED with chest pain after evaluation and is negative for cardiac disease.
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