Department of Early Childhood Educare, Wu Feng University, Chiayi 62153, Taiwan.
Department of Photonics and Communication Engineering, Asia University, Taichung 41354, Taiwan.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Jul 3;17(13):4780. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17134780.
The attentional problems of school children are a crucial topic due to abundant information in this digital era. There are five attention dimensions for children: focused attention, sustained attention, selective attention, alternating attention, and divided attention. Focused training is a traditional method of improving attention ability. Subjects are required to focus on a fixed point for an extensive period without blinking and to perceive small objects as large. This study investigates which types of attention indicators are influenced by focus training. Eighty-two grade five and six elementary school students (45 experiment group, 37 control group) were involved. The experiment group underwent focus training for 12 weeks. The training was conducted once per week, and the Attention Scales for Elementary School Children were used before and after the training to examine the children's attention. The percentile rank scores of five attention dimensions and the total attention scale were evaluated. The results gave difference data, defined as post-test results minus the pretest results, where significant differences occurred for the total scale ( < 0.05), focused attention ( < 0.05), and selective attention ( < 0.01). Participants also noted that the training helped them improve concentration during school lessons (54.15%), fall asleep (29.1%), and relax the body (8.4%).
儿童注意力问题是当今数字时代信息量巨大背景下的一个重要话题。儿童的注意力有五个维度：集中注意力、持续注意力、选择性注意力、交替注意力和分散注意力。集中训练是一种提高注意力能力的传统方法。要求被试者长时间固定在一个点上，不眨眼，把小物体看成大物体。本研究旨在调查集中训练对哪些注意力指标有影响。共有 82 名五六年级的小学生（实验组 45 名，对照组 37 名）参与了该研究。实验组接受了 12 周的集中训练。每周进行一次训练，在训练前后使用《儿童注意力量表》对儿童的注意力进行测试。评估了五个注意力维度和总注意力量表的百分等级分数。结果给出了差异数据，定义为后测结果减去前测结果，总量表（<0.05）、集中注意力（<0.05）和选择性注意力（<0.01）均有显著差异。参与者还指出，训练帮助他们提高了在学校上课时的注意力（54.15%）、入睡（29.1%）和放松身体（8.4%）。
