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This paper reports on the development and evaluation of the Depression Self-Management Workshop (DSMW) that aims to empower participants to implement self-management behaviours in their daily lives in order to improve their mental health and prevent relapse. The 10-session intervention was delivered to 46 adults with depression who completed pre-, post- and follow-up structured interviews and questionnaires. Depressive symptoms were significantly reduced at the end of the intervention and at follow-up. Improvements in participants’ knowledge about depression, self-management behaviours and self-efficacy were also observed. These results were corroborated by the participants’ strong convictions regarding the DSMW’s usefulness.

International audienceA new integral equation formulation is introduced for solving, in the frequency domain, the problem of electromagnetic scattering by an impedant (IBC) or perfect electric/magnetic (PEC/PMC) 3D body of arbitrary shape. It is based firstly, on a special application of the equivalence principle [2] where the 0-field exterior domain is filled with another impedant medium and, secondly, on the widely used PMCHW (Poggio, Miller, Chang, Harrington and Wu) formulation which forces field continuity through the scatterer surface [3]. Unlike other IBC formulations such as [4], this one also applies to PEC/PMC. Furthermore, in this last case, it appears to stabilize the numerical scheme in the vicinity of eigen frequencies. We will provide proofs and conditions of the wellposedness of the problem for impedant as well as for PEC/PMC bodies

We present experimental results on 9 reduced-scale fuel assemblies arranged in a network of 3 by 3, subjected to an axial flow. The objective is to analyse the fluid force induced by the motion of the central fuel assembly on the others fuel assemblies. The displacement of the central fuel assembly is imposed, while the others are fixed. Fluid forces acting on fuel assemblies are measured with force sensors. We observed that the coupling between fuel assemblies increases with the fluid velocity, and that the coupling in the transverse direction is not negligible compared to the coupling in the direction of excitation. We also observe that the fluid flow induces a stiffening of the central fuel assembly.