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The relationship between types of depressive changes and suicidal thoughts in middle-aged Korean males [PDF]

Journal of Men's Health, 2023
In this study, we explored the issue of depression and suicide ideation among middle-aged men in South Korea over a five-year period, focusing on an often overlooked yet pressing concern.
Kyuhyoung Jeong, Bokyung Kim, Sungeun Kim, Heeran J. Cho, Sunghee Kim   +4 more
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Living in single person households and the risk of isolation in later life

International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 2009
Data from the International Social Survey Programme (2001) was used to analyse the social networks of older people and whether living in single person households increased the risk of isolation. When comparing respondents with one or more adult children,
Michael Hill, Laura Banks, Philip Haynes
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Household characteristics of persons with complex care needs in the community: A preliminary study

Nursing Open, 2021
Aim To identify the characteristics of households of persons with complex care needs and clarify the care period length required to resolve their primary health issues. Design A descriptive cross‐sectional study design.
Kyoko Yoshioka‐Maeda, Hitoshi Fujii
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Emotional responses to virtual reality-based 3D spaces: focusing on ECG Response to single-person housing according to different plan configurations

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2020
The purpose of this study was to use Virtual Reality(VR) and electrocardiograms (ECGs) to analyse differences in autonomic nervous responses affected by the plan configuration.
Jeeyeon Myung, Hanjong Jun
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Needs to Change Behaviour in Households Producing Lots of Food Waste

International Journal of Food Studies, 2023
The purpose of this research was to investigate avoidable food waste among households of students studying in higher education in Sein¨ajoki. The focus was to quantify the avoidable food waste in different-sized households.
Margit Narva, Jarmo Alarinta, Gun Wirtanen   +2 more
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Vacant wall, versatile screen, and personal gateway: design implications for the impact of smartphone use on the domestic spaces of single-person student households

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2023
Recently, there has been a phenomenon wherein smartphones have begun to serve as substitutes for televisions in domestic spaces. However, there have been few studies of investigating the relationship between smartphone use and domestic spaces.
Hoyoung Kim
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Transformation of the Housing Market in Tokyo since the Late 1990s: Housing Purchases by Single-person Households

Asian Studies, 2011
This study aims to clarify the correlation between the transformation of the Japanese housing market and the increasing number of single-person households in Japan, with a special focus on the supply of compact condominiums.
Tomoko Kubo, Yoshimichi Yui
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Convergence and persistent contrasts in the determinants of working-age women in Sweden and Japan living alone since the 1990s

Genus, 2023
The increase in one-person households (OPHs) in the developed world is often seen as the result of a trend in which individualistic values and behaviors are replacing family solidarity.
Glenn Sandström, Mojgan Padyab, Haruko Noguchi, Rong Fu   +3 more
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Living alone and depression in a developing country context: Longitudinal evidence from South Africa

SSM: Population Health, 2021
In South Africa, single-person households were a household type enforced by apartheid legislation, designed to restrict the “influx” of Africans into “white” and typically urban areas of the country.
Dorrit Posel
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Living arrangements and metabolic syndrome: a national cross-sectional study in the Republic of Korea [PDF]

Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives
Objectives This study investigated the relationship between living arrangements and metabolic syndrome (MetS) risk in the adult population in the Republic of Korea.
Junghyun Kim, Aeree Sohn
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