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Objective@#To evaluate the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Questionnaire of Executive Functioning (QEF) among elementary school students aged 7-12 years.@*Methods@#A total of 841 elementary school students from four primary schools in the Pearl River Delta (Guangzhou), eastern Guangdong area (Jieyang), northern Guangdong area (Shaoguan), and western Guangdong area (Maoming) were selected for item analysis by using a stratified whole group sampling method in September 2022. A total of 377 elementary school students from the four elementary schools were selected for testing the structural validity and reliability, and 87 subjects from an elementary school in Guangzhou were selected at 15-day intervals for assessing test retest reliability test.@*Results@#The questionnaire had good discrimination, and the correlation between the items and the total score ranged from 0.22 to 0.46 ( P <0.01). Exploratory factor analysis showed a cumulative variance contribution rate of 56.68%, with item loadings ranging from 0.41 to 0.74. Confirmatory factor analysis showed a good model fit ( χ 2/ df =3.048, CFI=0.988, TLI= 0.980 , RMSEA=0.058, SRMR =0.009). The overall Cronbach s α , split half reliability and test retest reliability of the questionnaire were 0.72 , 0.76, 0.79, respectively.@*Conclusion@#The Chinese version of the Questionnaire of Executive Functioning has good reliability and validity, and it is suitable for application to the self assessment of executive function among elementary school students.
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Objective To study the roles of serum tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α),sTNFR-Ⅰ and sT-NFR-Ⅱ in asthmatic children.Methods The levels of serum TNF-α,sTNFR-Ⅰ and sTNFR-Ⅱ in 60 asthmatic children,including 30 cases of acute exacerbation group and 30 cases of clinical paracmasia group,and 22 cases of healthy children (control group) were detected by ELISA.Results (1) The level of serum TNF-α in acute exacerbation group was (98.87 ± 16.25) ng/L,it is significantly higher than the clinical paracmasia group (62.19 ± 15.85) ng/L and control group (44.25 ± 10.44) ng/L (F =94.78,P ＜ 0.05).The level of serum sTNFR-Ⅰ and sTNFR-Ⅱ in acute exacerbation group were (11.14 ±2.04) μg/L and (11.81 ±2.14) μg/L respectively,they were significantly higher than their own clinical remission group (8.91 ± 1.63) μg/L and (9.36 ± 1.72) μg/L,also significantly higher than the control group (5.03 ± 1.18) μg/L and (5.21 ±1.23) μg/L,(F =83.03 and 87.62,all P ＜ 0.05).The levels of TNF-α,sTNFR-Ⅰ and sTNFR-Ⅱ in clinical paracmasia group were significantly higher than that in control group (P ＜ 0.05).(2) The levels of sTNFR-Ⅰ and sTNFR-Ⅱ in asthmatic children,both acute exacerbation and clinical paracmasia,were positively correlated (r=0.908,P ＜ 0.05 and r =0.737,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion The level of TNF-α maybe indicate the inflammatory severity of asthma,and the changes of serum sTNFR-Ⅰ and sTNFR-Ⅱ were closely related with asthmatic airway inflammation.
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Objective To probe the application of umbilical vein catheterization among the verylow-birth-weight or the low-birth-weight children.Methods In this retrospective study,the clinical condition of the very-low-birth-weight or the low-birth-weight infants in neonatal intensive care unit who had umbilical vein catheterization from June 2011 to January 2013 was concluded.Results Sixty-three cases were successfully catheterized,of which 41 cases were catheterized in inferior vena cava(65.1％).The retention time was 4 to 21 days,with an average of 12.9 days.Eleven cases suffered unplanned extubation of the indwelling catheters,and eight of them were located in the umbilical vein.There were statistically significant differences of unplanned extubation rates among different location of the catheters (x2 =8.38,P ＜ 0.01).All cases were intubated within 36 hours after birth,and the intubation time was not positively correlated to the success rate of catheterization in the inferior vena cava (x2 =0.223,P ＞ 0.1).Suspected catheter-related infections occurred in 5 cases and the infection rate was 6.2/1000 per intravascular catheter day.After extubation,bacterial cultures of the tips of the catheters and blood were arranged.The results suggest that the bacterial culture of the catheter tip was positive in only 1 case(1.6％),and yeast-like fungus was positive in 1 case (1.6％),while the retention time and incidence of catheter-related infection had no significant corelation(x2 =0.075,P ＞ 0.95).Conclusion Umbilical vein catheterization could be used at the early stage in preterm (very) low-birth-weight infants.