Classical music tends to relax the body and may stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system. These results suggest music therapy as an intervention for stress reduction.

BackgroundA lifestyle characterized by poor eating habits and physical inactivity is a risk factor for multiple lifestyle diseases in young adults. This study assessed the effects of implementing an intensive 10-day health promotion program combining diet and physical activities on body composition, physical fitness, and biochemical parameters of young adults.Material/MethodsIn this randomized pilot study, 30 female undergraduate students were randomly allocated to an intervention and a control group. The health promotion program consisted of unlimited amounts of vegetarian food; aerobic, flexibility, and strength exercises (3 hours/day); lectures on health (3 hours/day); massage practice (2 hours/day); and healthy cooking practice (1 hour/day). The effects of the intervention were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test.ResultsThe intensive 10-day health promotion program significantly reduced body weight, body mass index, triglyceride, total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, blood glucose, and the homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance. At the same time, participants demonstrated increased back muscle, leg muscle, and grip strength; waist and shoulder flexibility; balance; and cardiorespiratory endurance.ConclusionsThe intensive 10-day health promotion program is a viable intervention for improving body composition, physical fitness, glycemic control, and blood lipid levels in young adults.

INTRODUCTIONHaving a respectful death is an important aspect of human need. Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual [1]. Some countries such as Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, have well-developed home care nursing services. The general practitioners and home care nurses are responsible for primary medical care while the hospice facilities in the community care for the emergency symptoms of the patients. On the other hand, in South Korea, many terminal patients are treated in the wards of the general hospitals by nurses who do not have professional education in palliative care [2].The hospice care services in South Korea were started by the hospice "Mary's Little Sisters" established in the 1960s [3] and has been provided mainly by hospitals or organizations owned and/or run by religious groups. With the increased interest in the quality of life, the government has launched a medical project concerning cancer management. Palliative care is becoming an increasingly larger area for clinical practice. In the medical field, palliative care has not been established as a specialty, but in the nursing field, several institutions are providing professional palliative care education for nurses, and Master's degree programs for specialized nursing training. Yeun,Young-Ran·Kwon,Min·Lee,Kyoung-Soon palliative care is broad, however, not every nurse can afford to enroll in a six-month to one-year program for professional education, or in a Master's degree program. As such, a short palliative care professional education program is highly necessary.Nurses represent the largest sector of the health care workforce and provide most of the formal palliative care [4]. The nurses who deliver palliative care should excel at providing physical, mental, and spiritual care to patients. They ought to provide symptom management and communicate with the patients to satisfy their needs, and help the patients to achieve a good death. The physical care that most hospitals offer cannot fulfill the requirements of the needs for palliative care professionally and efficiently [5]. Nurses, who have difficulties caring for patients with untreatable diseases, cannot be expected to help such patients and their families accept the prospect of death [2]. According to a study conducted on the nurses at general hospitals who had cared for terminal patients, 70% of those nurses did not have an education relating to palliative care, and the level of recognition of a good death was moderate in both the general nurses and the intensive care unit (ICU) nurses [6]. The necessity of palliative care education is great, because a study reported that the nurses with a higher recognition of a good death showed positive attitudes and much better performances ...

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