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Objective To investigate the effect of cluster nursing on quality of life and mental state of cervical cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. Methods 72 cervical cancer patients receiving chemotherapy were randomly divided into control group and observation group.The control group was given routine care and the observation group was given cluster nursing on the basis of routine care.The quality of life core questionnaire (EORTC QOL-C30) and Symptom Checklist SCL-90 score were tested at the end of treatment. Results Compared with the control group, after using cluster nursing, the EORTC QOL-C30 functional areas of physical function role function, cognitive function , social function, emotional function of patients in the observation group were significantly improved( <0.05), the main symptoms of nausea areas vomiting and pain were decreased significantly ( <0.05),and sleep,diet,diarrhea and constipation were improved significantly (<0.05) . SCL-90 scale showed that the somatization,obsessive-compulsive symptoms,depression and anxiety in observation group were decreased significantly compared with the control group ( <0.05),the somatization, obsessive-compulsive symptoms and anxiety were increased significantly in control group compared with China norm (<0.05) .Conclusion Cluster nursing on patients with cervical cancer receiving chemotherapy can effectively improve quality of life and reduce the incidence of negative emotions.
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Objective To explore the nursing effect evaluation of vacuum sealing drainage based latissimus dorsi bridge free skin flap to repair refractory wound. Methods Thirty-seven cases of patients with intractable wounds were chosen as the observe group from January 2009 to January 2012, and 26 cases accepting the traditional way of wound care with intractable wounds were selected as control group from January 2006 to December 2008. Control group adopt conventional methods wound and the observation group accepted VSD accessories line wound negative pressure closed drainage before the wound phase 2 latissimus dorsi bridge free skin flap repairment. After treatment, the dressing time, interval and dressing change, the time of hospitalization were observed, and the nursing effect were compared after skin flap to repair for 8 days and 16 days between patients of two groups. Results The dressing time and hospitalization days in observation group after treatment were significantly less than that in control group ( <0.05), the number of dressing have significantly shortened compared with control group ( <0.01), and the dressing change interval in control group had significantly difference ( <0.01) . The effect of 2 patients in control group after skin flap to repair was poorer, but the observation group did not appear significant necrosis. Compared the good rate of two groups, the observation group patients was significantly higher than control group ( <0.01) . The therapy good rate of observation group was significantly better than that of control group (<0.01) . Conclusion The negative pressure closed drainage based ascending latissimus dorsi bridge free skin flap repairment has contributed to cure the refractory wound recovery significantly.
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BACKGROUND: Gong's nonverbal intelligence test(GNIT) is a nonverbal and cross-cultural test of intelligence designed primarily to suit the use in the minority groups and those with linguistic difficulties by Professor Gong Yao-xian. At present 5 unified norms of the minority groups as well as norms of Chinese Han children and adult aged below 55 years have been developed, but the norms for the elderly above 56 years of age are not available. Nonverbal intelligence test is especially suitable for the elderly and has therefore wide applications.OBJECTIVE: To establish regional norms of the GNIT for healthy elderly people above 56 to enable the completion of nonverbal intelligence test norms suitable for each age groups.DESIGN: A controlled study with stratified sampling of healthy elderly retirees over 56 years of age in the community.SETTING: Department of Physiology in Medical College of Henan University of Science and Technology; Center for Psychology, Xiangya Second Hospital,Central South University.PARTICIPANTS: Healthy elderly retirees above 56 years of age in Luoyang cityor the counties were selected on a voluntary basis with stratified sampling according to the proportion of each region. The selected subjects aged between 56 and 101 years, and 8 age groups were divided at the interval of 5 years(about 200 people in each age group). Totally 1 460 subjects were selected, including 679 male and 781 female subjects.METHODS: With the instruments and manual of GNIT, the subjects were tested for color identification, classification, blank-filling with numbers or graphs, characters and encoding tests. The results were original scores, scale scores and intelligence quotient.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The norms of GNIT for the elderly above 56 years of age.RESULTS: The norms included three scores, namely the original scores, scale scores and standard deviation scores. To test of reliability and validity of the norms, retest was performed in 40 1 or 2 weeks after the initial test, resulting in the test-retest reliability coefficient ranging from 0.59 to 0. 89, with the total test-retest reliability coefficient of 0.83. The correlation coefficients the original scores between the subtests ranged from 0. 35 to 0. 63, and the correlation coefficients between the standard deviation scores of the verbal intelligence quotient(VIQ), performance intelligence quotient(PIQ) and full intelligence quotient(FIQ) of Wechster intelligence scale for children(WAIC-RC) were 0.43,0.51 and 0.54 respectiyely, based on a study of a sample of 50 elderly subjects.CONCLUSION: Primary regional norms of GNIT for elderly subjects above 56 years of age have been established to measure mainly the perception and reasoning factors loaded with also visual motor psychological factors and abstract summary factors, with satisfactory reliability and validity equivalent to similar tests.
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BACKGROUND: Different processes of thinking may lead to the same results, which represent one of the forms of the complexity of the human brain.OBJECTIVE: To analyze the similarity in the results of thinking and difference in the thinking process by means of questionnaires.DESIGN: A comparative analysis of the answers in the final term examination with the difference in answers analyzed by x2 test with contingency table.SETTING: Department of Physiology, Medical College of Henan University of Science and Technology.PARTICIPANTS: This study was conducted between June and November,2004, involving totally 300 volunteered second-year medical students (150male and 150 female, aged 20-22 years) of the medical school of Henan Science and Technology University who took their final examination in physiology.METHODS: The first "question for thinking" in the final examination was taken as an example, and the papers with full score for this question (completely correct group, n=42) and zero score (totally wrong group, n=49)were chosen, from which one paper was randomly selected from each group. The first 10 words in the answer to the question was used as the control and compared with the answers of the other papers word by word.Each same word was given a score of 1 and otherwise a score of 0, and the number of the same words and different words were counted for comparison. Meanwhile the total words of the answer were also counted and compared. The difference in the answers was analyzed with x2 test with contingency table.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The difference in the first 10 words between completely correct group and totally wrong group.RESULTS: Totally 42 students in the complete correct group and 49 in totally wrong group were included in the final result analysis. The number of the total words of the answer was different between the students in spite of the same scores. The first 10 words of the chosen paper in completely correct group was significantly different from those in the other 41 papers (x2=270.978, P ＜ 0.01); there was also significant difference in the first 10words between the chosen paper and the other 41 papers in totally wrong group (x2=285.153, P ＜ 0.01).CONCLUSION: Longitudinal thinking as well as lateral thinking processes are different between persons.
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Objective:To study the intelligence of old people above 56 years old were tested by Gong's non-verbal intelligence test. Methods:1460 old peopl above 56 years old were tested by Gong's non-verbal intelligence test.Results: After controlled the effect of educational background on the intelligence, the scores of each subtest decrease with the increase of age( P