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Objective To explore the relationship among social support, postpartum depression and quality of life of puerperal women. Methods A total of 348 puerperal women were investigated with Postnatal Social Support Questionnaire,Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and WHO Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF). Results Pearson correlation analysis showed that there was a significant positive correlation between social support and the quality of life (r=0.483, P < 0.01), and a significant negative correlation to postpartum depression (r=-0.243, P < 0.01),and a significant negative correlation between postpartum depression and quality of life (r=-0.408, P<0.01). Intermediary effect of postpartum depression was tested. Conclusions A good social support system is benefit to improve depression scores for EPDS, and promote the life quality in puerperal women.
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Vitamin D binding protein ( VDBP) is a multi-functional plasma globulin which binds to the vitamin D ( VD) in the circulation system and transporting the latter to various effective organs to exert its biological functions .Studies have found that VD and its carrier VDBP are associated with the risk of various cancers such as breast cancer , prostate cancer , and colorectal cancer however , lacking sufficient epidemiological evidences so far .Furthermore , it is still controversial regarding how VD controls and affects cancer progression.In addition, studies have also demonstrated that VDBP derived macrophage-activating factor (GcMAF) is a potent lymphokine in cancer treatment .Nonetheless, the relationship between VDBP and cancer including the VDBP polymorphism, VDBP plasma concentration are still unclear; more studies are needed to further uncover its role in cancer development and progression , thus providing new evidences for cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.
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Objective Through application of clinical pathway in hospitalization patients undergoing uterectomy, we aimed to study the efficacy of clinical pathway in uterectomy patients. Methods 120 patients randomly sampled into the experimental group and the control group with 60 in each. The experimental group received diagnosis, treatment, nursing and rehabilitation according to the clinical pathway table, patients in the control group received routine nursing interventions. The average hospitalization days, medical costs, patient satisfaction degree, disease cognition, first exercise time after operation and medical disputes were compared between the two groups. Results The average hospitalization days and hospitalization costs of the experimental group were obviously lower than those in the control group, patients' satisfaction degree, knowledge of health and first functional exercise time in the experimental group were better than those of the control group, while the medical disputes in the experimental group were obviously de -creased in the experimental group. Conclusions Application of clinical pathway in nursing care for uterectomy patients can effectively decrease hospitalization days, medical costs and disputes. It is also helpful for patients to cooperate with doctors in diagnosis, treatment, nursing, thus increase the satisfaction degree of patients, ensure the reasonable use of medical resources and promote the sustainable improvement of nursing quality.