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Assessing the Stiffness Perception of Acupressure Massage Beginning Learners: A Pilot Study

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العنوان: Assessing the Stiffness Perception of Acupressure Massage Beginning Learners: A Pilot Study
المؤلفون: Kouki Doi, Saito Sakaguchi, Takahiro Nishimura, Hiroshi Fujimoto, Shuichi Ino
المصدر: Sensors, Vol 21, Iss 7, p 2472 (2021)
بيانات النشر: MDPI AG, 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: LCC:Chemical technology
مصطلحات موضوعية: assessment material, stiffness perception, acupressure massage, visual impairment, beginning learner, Chemical technology, TP1-1185
الوصف: Visually impaired licensed therapists must have the ability to perceive stiffness through their fingertips in the school for the blind. The teachers strive to provide careful introductory education based on a quantitative assessment of new students’ basic stiffness perception. However, assessment materials to help teachers understand new students’ stiffness perception are lacking. This study aimed to develop suitable fundamental assessment materials that visually impaired licensed teachers could use to quantitatively assess the difference in the stiffness perception ability of beginning learners in the early stages of learning. They were asked to discriminate the presented materials one at a time, which consisted of thermoplastic elastomers with different degrees of stiffness. We used these materials to compare the beginning learners’ ability to perceive stiffness with that of teachers and found that teachers answered correctly at an overall significantly higher rate. Specifically, the teachers’ correct response rate (78.8%) for the stiffness perception of all presented stimuli was approximately 15% higher than the beginning learners’ correct response rate (64.2%). These results revealed areas of stiffness that are difficult for beginning learners to identify.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1424-8220
Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/7/2472; https://doaj.org/toc/1424-8220
DOI: 10.3390/s21072472
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/8f7fb287d7a64c06b9346ce20e1deaff
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.8f7fb287d7a64c06b9346ce20e1deaff
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:14248220
DOI:10.3390/s21072472