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Objective To evaluate whether an intervention with a health promotion program can reduce prevalence of the health risk factors of non-communicable chronic diseases (NCD) and improve the knowledge awareness of NCD prevention of employees from a security corporation in Beijing selected by the study team. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted by selecting 157 employees of a security corporation in Beijing, and a quasi-experiment method and a self-developed Questionnaire of Intervention for Health Risk Factors were used. Based on the results of the distribution of risk factors for NCD and the focus-group discussion, one year health promotion program intervention was performed. According to the comparison of prevalence of risk factors between baselines and after intervention of the studied employees, the intervention effectiveness was evaluated. Results After the health intervention, rate of reported unhealthy diet reduced from 75.0%to 56.8%, which showed statistically significant (?2=8.53, P0.05). The median value of health knowledge awareness of the studied employees was significantly improved from 10.20 to 11.33(S=-2 545, P<0.05) and awareness of recommended daily intake of dietary salt increased significantly from 46.20%to 67.09%after intervention (χ2=17.85, P<0.05). Conclusion The non-communicable chronic diseases intervention program can reduce the health risk factors and improve health knowledge awareness of the studied population.
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Objective To understand the affecting factors of health and health promotion needs of one company staff so as to provide evidence for effective health intervention.Methods A convenience sampling method was used to enroll subjects in this cross-sectional study.All the participants were required to fill in a questionnaire to learn their demographics,health related factors and health promotion needs in the 2 work days of June 2012 had been studied.Chi-square test and unconditional logistic regression were used for data analysis.Results More males showed higher risk of disease than females (x2 =5.394,P ＜ 0.05).In conditional logistic regression,age was the main factor affecting health (odds ratio (OR) =3.127,95％ (confidence interval) CI 1.020-9.591,P ＜ 0.05) when gender,marital status,educational level and occupation were adjusted.Dietary nutritional knowledge (69.6％) and physical check-up (64.6％) were urgent needs among those surveyed.Conclusion Staff with varied demographic characteristics have different health related factors and physical check-up may provide a tool to meet their urgent needs of health promotion.
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Objective To probe into the effect of systematic nursing model on treatment compliance and clinical efficacy of elderly patients with diabetes. Methods 100 elderly patients with diabetes in our hospital were selected from January 2008 to December 2010.The patients were divided into the study group and the control group randomly,50 cases in each group.The patients in the control group were treated with conventional care model,while the patients in the study group were treated with systematic nursing model.The compliance,clinical treatment effect,and improvement of clinical indicators were compared and ana lyzed in two groups respectively. Results Compared with the control group,treatment compliance indexes such as self-monitoring,diet control,medication compliance,exercise therapy in the study group were significantly improved,the difference was statistically significant.Compared with the control group,the clinical efficacy of patients in the study group was significantly improved.Compared with the control group,the FBG,PBG and HbAlc were improved significantly,the difference was statistically significant. Conclusions Systematic nursing model plays a positive role in promoting treatment compliance and clinical effects of elderly patients with diabetes mellitus.The interventions need to be further enriched and perfected.
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With the method of non-experimental assessment research of epidemiology,by viewing the reformation as the intervention and dividing observation group and control group,the study makes some statistics about the variables related to the quality of applicants for a medical college after and before the reformation.The conclusion is:the reformation may be one of the causes that appeals to applicants from reformed class to the non-reformed class ; the reformation is a risk factor to the non-reformed class ( may cause the quality of applccants down ) while the reformation is a protective factor to the reformed class ( help raise the quality of applicants or avoid slipping down too fast ).
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ObjectiveThe study was designed to understand the education training situation and demand of rural doctors,identify problems in training and provide theoretical basis for the relevant government departments to further the development of rural doctors education,explore the pattem of ru ral health education and improve the effectiveness of training.MethodsThe participants were a sample of rural doctors among the east and center-west region in China (Beijing Municipality,Jiangsu,Zhejiang,Hainan,Shanxi,Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region,Guizhou,Yunan and Gansu).20 288questionnaires were issued,18 259 of them were taken back,which occupied 90.1％ recovery rate.Group interview method and stratification-cluster sample method were conducted in the Cross-sectional study.Results70.2％ were male doctors,with an average age of 44.3 ±10.9 years,63.0％ of whom received technical school education and technical secondary school Training time was mainly less than 12 days per year (48.8％),training content was mainly about clinical skills(80.6％),and traning mode was mainly conference traning (56.6％).There was a certain gap between training status and demand.ConclusionThe on-site clinically guide-based,comprehensive and short-term non-job training should be demand-orientedly carried out aiming at young doctors in rural areas.
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Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of health management on quality of life of hypertensive patients living in underdeveloped rural regions. Methods Minqin County of Gansu Province was taken as research field, and health education covered all the population. Individual follow-up was adopted by quasi-experiment,and SF-8 scale was used to evaluate the change of scores of quality of life at baseline and the end of the study. Results The score of various dimension of quality life of interventive group showed a significant decrease at the end of follow-up ( P < 0. 05) , and the net score of general health status was 10. 92,the net score of impact to social role exerted by physical function was 9. 59,and the net score of social function was 4.61. Moreover, there was statistical difference between the intervention group and the control group for their quality of life(P <0. 05) , which showed in detail that each dimension of quality of life of the intervention group had higher score than that of the control group, after adjusting baseline difference by analysis of covariance. Conclusions All these results suggest that the active screening, following up and health education, conducted by the primary health care staff of township hospitals, under the idea of health management, can improve the quality of life of hypertension patients effectively in the rural area of underdeveloped region.
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Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of intervention for health risk factor in hospital employees. Methods This study was carried out among 339 employees of a hospital in Jinan, Shandong Province. Based on the results of Health Risk Appraisal for 14 health risk factors, we designed a 6-months intervention program for the most widely distributed and intervenable health risk factors; and then evaluated the changes of health risk factors after 6 months. Results After 6-month intervention the prevalence of 3 health risk factors decreased (P ＜ 0.05 ): physical inactivity decreased from 57.8% to 38.6%,hyperlipidemia from 9.4% to 5.3%, and unhealthy dietary from 28.9% to 14.8%. Compared with the baseline data, the average number of health risk factors were reduced from 3.10 to 2. 71 ( P ＜ 0. 01 ).Conclusion The intervention can reduce health risk factors effectively.
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Objective To investigate the current status, performance,challenges and demands of the health management service-related institutions in China so as to provide evidence for effective policy-making. Methods A cross-sectional study design was used in this report. The health management service-related institutions were identified based on web site searching and government business registration records. Web or mail-based questionnaire was used for data collection. Telephone interview was conducted to confirm the validity and reliability of the data. Results Of 5744 health management service-related institutions in China,585 were investigated for type of organization, personnel profile, business strategy and investment. Since 2000, the number of health management service-related institutions in China had kept increasing in an average rate of 52%. The services included physical check, health education, and disease intervention,etc. Conclusions In China,health management is still at its early stage although an increasing trend could be found and a large number of related- institutions have emerged. However, health management system in China still faces the challenge of poor professional services and insufficient healthcare providers.
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Against the backdrop of ongoing healthcare system reform and escalating competitions among hospitals in China,more and more specialists and scholars on hospital administration begin to focus their studies on the theories and practice of hospital flows.Methodology frequently called into play in such study include out-patient flow refom,progressive flow improvement,and attention to management and service.Discussed in this paper are the advantages and disadvantages of these three methods as a reference for an appropriate choice by hospitals at large.