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Objective@#To develop the outcome evaluation index system for home care service of disabled elderly based on the long-term care insurance in Guangzhou.@*Methods@#Delphi method was used to develop the outcome evaluation index system for home care service of disabled elderly under the long-term care insurance in Guangzhou. The Analytic Hierarchy Process was used to determine the weights of all indexes.@*Results@#After two rounds of expert consultation, questionnaire response rates were 86.67%, 100%; expert authority coefficients were 0.843, 0.858; coefficients of variation ranged from 0.07 to 0.23 and 0.00 to 0.14; coordination coefficients ranged from 0.221 to 0.355 and 0.379 to 0.433 (P<0.01). The final index system consisted of 5 first-level indicators, 17 second-level indicators, and 59 third-level indicators. The analytic hierarchy process was used to determine the weights of all indexes, and the consistency test (CR<0.1) was performed.@*Conclusions@#The outcome evaluation index system for home care service of disabled elderly under the long-term care insurance in Guangzhou was scientific and reliable, the weights of all indexes were reasonable, which could provide reference for the designated service institution on evaluation and improvement of the effect of home care service of long-term care insurance for disabled elderly.
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Objective To explore the correlation between nursing students' hardiness personality and professional commitment.Methods 1 115 undergraduate nursing students from 3 medical universities in Guangzhou were investigated with the scales of hardiness personality and nursing professional commitment.Results The scores of hardiness personality and professional commitment were (2.55 ± 0.44) and (2.70 ± 0.43),respectively,and both of them were at the middle level.Correlation analysis revealed that hardiness personality was positively related to professional commitment (P＜0.01),and the challenge dimension of hardiness personality had positive predictive effect on professional commitment.Conclusions Nursing educators should take measures to improve students' hardiness personality and professional commitment.It would help maintain the stability of the whole nursing team.
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Objective To explore the current situation of knowledge,beliefs and behavior of elderly patients with COPD during their community-based rehabilitation.Methods Phenomenological research method of qualitative research was used,14 elderly patients with COPD during their community-based rehabilitation period received in-depth interviews.Results There were three themes and corresponding subthemes sublimated from the patients:self-management knowledge and skills,self-management beliefs and attitudes and self-management behavior.Conclusions It is necessary to pay close attention to spreading disease related health information,especially for patients with low health literacy.During the process of COPD self-management projects,we should focus on negative beliefs and negative attitudes on their selfmanagement behavior choice,which is as important as strengthening the patients' self-efficacy.
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Objective To explore the negative emotion and self-management of elderly patients with COPD during their community-based rehabilitation.Methods Phenomenological research method of qualitative research was used,12 elderly patients with COPD during their community-based rehabilitation period received in-depth interviews.Results There were three themes sublimated from the patients negative emotions:aloneness and inferiority feeling,self-abasement and guilty feeling,sense of helplessness.Self-management of negative emotions also had three themes:gratitude mood,complying with the disease and distracting attention.Conclusions It is necessary to pay close attention to the negative emotions of elderly patients with COPD during their community-based rehabilitation; the community healthcare services should bear the responsibility of COPD patients' rehabilitation; we should explore practical intervention plan work on gratitude mood of elderly patients with COPD ; mobilize all social resources to do a good job on social support in elderly patients with COPD.
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Objective To learn about the average development tendency and level of the social adaptability of undergraduate students and students of diploma degree of nursing speciality,and to provide reference and guidance to numing speciality students in their career planning.Methods A survey was made with the Social Adaptability of Nursing Speciality College Students Questionnaire designed by the authors on 1007 randomly selected nursing speciality students of undergraduate and diploma level in Tianjin and Guangzhou.Results As for first-year undergraduate students,the social adaptability of those from cities is significantly higher than that of those from countryside families(t=3.08,P＜0.01);while for the third-year diploma degree and the fifth-year undergraduate urban students,their social adaptability is significantly lower than that of students from countryside who are in the same grades(t=11.24,P＜0.01;t=2.14,P＜0.05).As to the total score on social adaptability,the mean-value of students from southern parts of China is higher than that of students from northern parts(t=2.16,P＜0.05);students from one-child families are significantly lower than students from more-than-one-child families(t=2.20.P＜0.05);students from families of high and medium level educational backgrounds is significantly higher than that of students from junior middle school and even lower level educational backgrounds families.Subscale comparison:the mean-value of students from southern parts of China is only higher than that of students from northern parts on relationship ability(t=0.39,P＞0.05).As for the Life Self-care subscale and the Frustration Endurance Subscale,the mean-values of those only-child students are significantly lower than students from more-than-one-child families(t=7.28,P＜0.05;t=1.53,P＞0.05),however,the mean-value of the former group students in term of stress reaction capability is significantly higher than students of the latter group(t=3.79,P＞0.05).Conclusion Different family backgrounds and different education level of the parents can both affect the social adaptability of nursing speciality college students.