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Objective: 1) To study the relationship between psychological capital and study strategies and 2) to find the components of psychological capital that can predict study strategies of upper secondary school students in Bangkok. Materials and Methods: The samples consisted of 453 upper secondary school students who were studying in coeducational high schools from Santiratwittayalai School, Chinorotwittayalai School, Sarawittaya School, and Yannawate Wittayakom School, using a simple random sampling method. The data collection instrument consisted of a 3-part questionnaire: the student's general questionnaire, the Thai Psychological Capital Inventory [TPCI], and the study strategies test. Frequency, percentage, means, standard deviation [SD], independent samples t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple linear regression analysis were used for data analysis. Results: The samples included 453 upper secondary school students where they were 170 male students (37.5%) and 283 female students (62.4%). The results revealed that their levels of psychological capital and study strategies were moderately high. The result of the comparison of study strategies between genders showed that female students have better study strategies than male students with a statistical significance at 0.01 level. In consideration of grade levels, twelfth grade students had better study strategies than eleventh grade students and tenth grade students with a statistical significance at the 0.01 level. In addition, psychological capital and its components hope, self-efficacy, resilience and optimism were positively correlated to study strategies with a statistical significance at the 0.01 level. Hope and optimism can predict study strategies approximately 16.5%. Conclusion: Psychological capital was positively related to study strategies. The components of psychological capital that could predict study strategies of the sample group were hope and optimism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To study forgiveness among vocational students in Bangkok area as well as evaluation of overall forgiveness and its subscales classified by year and department. Materials and Methods: The 240 participants were students who studied in vocational college for whom data was collected using a Forgiveness Scales for Teenagers Questionnaire. Results: The results indicated that the categories of overall forgiveness, situational forgiveness and forgive others were ranked in 'indifference to forgive' while self-forgiveness was ranked 'slightly forgive'. When comparing the total scale and subscale scores of forgiveness by year, 1st-year students had higher scores than the 2nd-year students with significance level at 0.05. However, both total scale and sub-scale scores of the students from various departments did not illustrated statistical differences. Conclusion: The findings reflected the characteristics of forgiveness in vocational certificate level students which provide vital information in planning to promote forgiveness quality in order to minimize violence when resolving conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to compare drug adherence behaviors during the sixth week between patients with first diagnosed major depressive disorder who received the Drug Adherence Enhancement Program and those who received only the usual care. A randomized clinical trial, post-test only design was conducted in the outpatient-unit of a medical school hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. The experimental and control groups consisted of 30 and 26 participants respectively. Participants in the experimental group exhibited significantly higher drug adherence behaviors than the control group. This is important for nurses in promoting adherence to antidepressant drugs for patients with first diagnosed major depressive disorder. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]