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The aim of this study was to clarify the current situation and problems of the exercise instruction in the sports facilities. In addition, the way of instructing exercise for persons with health problems and the role of nurses that connects the sports facilities and health care is to be considered. The survey by anonymous and self-completed questionnaire was conducted on exercise instructors of sports facilities in Miyazaki. A total of 88 subjects were obtained agreed with the study (age 19-65 years). As the current state of sports facilities, the use of the fifties and sixties, or the person who has high blood pressure and hip and knee pain became apparent that the exercise instruction was carried out. Implementation of disease-specific exercise instruction experience, the type of health promotion instructors than the instructors of the commercial type, significantly more respondents who have teaching experience and who have the disease. Exercise many of the instructors were worried about the conduct exercises for the troubled person musculoskeletal and cardiovascular health. They also felt the necessity of cooperation with medical institutions. Expectations for the role of nurses, "Providing the knowledge of disease symptoms", "information exchange", "health care users" were many answers. The facility safety measures, "the reference limit or stop movement of the user" and "Emergency Response Manual", a statistically significant difference was seen with or without facilities. Recently, there has been an increase in middle-aged to exercise to the making of health taking advantage of the sports facilities in community. However, among these, joint pain and other lifestyle-related diseases which includes their health risks. Therefore, we assume that, in the sports facilities we need to build a system to eliminate the risk and apply safe movement.

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This study was designed to evaluate the prevalence of burnout and the active condition of life-style among medical and pharmacy students. A self-administered questionnaire survey on the mentioned determinants was performed among 62 medical students (46 males and 16 females) and 131 pharmacy students (69 males and 62 females) of second year. The subjects were divided into two groups (Burnout group, subjects with burnout or clinically depressive state ; Non-burnout group, subjects with healthy mind and body or signs of burnout). The results obtained were as follows. 1. Prevalence of burnout group among the male medical students (13.3%) was significantly lower than that among the male pharmacy students (30.8%). On the other hand, there were no significant differences in the prevalence of burnout between the female medical students (31.3%) and pharmacy students (36.1%). 2. Among the male medical students, the values of age and study time in a day were significantly higher (p<0.05 or p<0.01), and the values of sleeping time and score of Morimoto's life-style were significantly lower (p<0.05), compared with the male pharmacy students. On the other hand, among the female medical students, study time in a day were significantly longer (p<0.01), and the scores of Morimoto's life-style were significantly lower (p<0.05), compared with the females pharmacy students. 3. Prevalence of drinking among male medical students (60.8%) was significantly higher than that among male pharmacy students (40.6%, p<0.05). On the other hand, there were no significant differences in the prevalence of any life-styles between the female medical students and pharmacy students. These results suggest that there are some differences in the prevalence of burnout and the life-style between medical students and pharmacy students.

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