Status of knowledge and behavior of drug use among residents in 5 provinces in China in 2011 / 中华预防医学杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To understand the status of knowledge and behavior of drug use among urban and rural residents in 5 provinces in China to suggest priority intervention strategies and measures for drug use health education.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>From March to May of 2011, 6159 urban and rural residents were selected from Beijing, Liaoning, Zhejiang, Yunnan, Shaanxi provinces by the multistage stratified sampling method and were investigated by the questionnaires on drug use knowledge and behavior.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The residents' average awareness rate for 11 pieces of basic drug use information was 48.3% (32,750/67,749). The residents' average awareness rate in the rural (40.3%, 9189/22 792) was lower than that in metropolitan (51.9%, 11 483/22 110) and small and middle-sized cities (52.9%, 12,078/22,847) and the differences had statistical significance (χ2=889.30, P<0.01). Overall, 77.0% (4742/6159) of residents purchased drug according to the doctors' prescription; 36.9% (2271/6159) of residents bought by their experiences; 33.3% (2049/6159) of residents did not know whether they had bought faked drugs; 32.7% (2016/6159) of residents did not read instructions carefully before using drug; 83.4% (5134/6159) of residents stored drugs in their house and only 29.2% (1798/6159) of residents would check up expired drugs regularly; 59.6% (3673/6159) of residents changed drug by themselves after suspected adverse reaction of drugs.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Chinese urban and rural residents' knowledge level of drug use is inadequate and drug use behaviors are not optimistic. Drug use health education should be enhanced among urban and rural residents.</p>

Status quo of lifestyle among women of five occupations in six provinces of China / 中华预防医学杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To learn the status quo of lifestyle among women of five occupations in six provinces of China.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>A questionnaire was administered among 7416 women from five occupations (civil servants, teachers of elementary and high schools, technical staff, enterprise managers and physical laborers) in Beijing, Hebei, Jilin, Hubei, Ningxia and Gansu of China. The sample was selected by multi-stage stratified cluster random sampling method from December 2009 to June 2010. The questionnaire information included demographic characteristics, diet, sleep habit, smoking, physical exercise. The χ(2) test was used to analyze the different in life style of different occupations.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>There were 7416 valid questionnaires received, and the valid rate of the questionnaires was 97.58% (7416/7682). About 38.00% (2818/7416) respondents preferred to bland diet and 28.44% (2109/7416) preferred to salty and oily food and 33.56% (2489/7416) had no preference. The proportion of sleep time between seven and eight hours per day was highest (accounting for 56.23%, 4154/7416), 25.27% (1867/7416) with sleep time less than seven hours. Among the population who had the sleep time less seven hours, teacher that had the highest rate accounted for 33.19% (531/1607) and technical staff had the lowest rate accounted for 21.05% (301/1401) (P < 0.01). Most of respondents were non-smokers, accounting for 93.10% (6869/7416). 22.73% (1671/7416) respondents passively smoked. The proportion of always passive smoking was highest among civil servants and lowest among teachers, accounting for 26.60% (404/1531) and 18.71% (298/1607), respectively. The proportion of having no physical exercises was highest, accounting for 62.87% (4637/7416). The proportion of having three times physical exercises per week was 12.68% (935/7416). The proportion of having no physical exercises among physical laborers (66.42%, 912/1386), enterprise managers (66.64%, 987/1491) and teachers (62.40%, 999/1607) were higher than others and the proportion of having physical exercises per week among technical staff was 40.83% (569/1401), higher than others (P < 0.01). The proportion of person who worked in sitting quietly beyond six hours per day was 42.62% (3146/7416). The technical staff had the higher rate than other occupational populations (P < 0.01), accounting for 57.83% (809/1401).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The female occupational population had some unhealthy lifestyles, such as taking in high salt food, lacking of sleep, smoking and passive smoking, lacking of physical exercises and working in sitting quietly. Different occupational populations had different unhealthy lifestyles.</p>

Study on lifestyle and self-rated health among 5 kinds of occupational populations in 6 provinces in China / 中华预防医学杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To know about the status of self-rated health and life style among 5 kinds of occupational populations in 6 provinces in China and to explore the influencing factors related with health of the occupational population.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>From May to August 2009, a total of 13 492 persons aged 18 - 60 years including civil servants, scientific and technical personnel, administrative staff, teachers and physical workers were selected by multi-stage stratified sampling from Beijing city, Ningxia Hui autonomous region, Liaoning, Zhejiang, Hubei and Qinghai provinces to undergo surveys on the Lifestyle of Occupational Population in Urban in China and Self-rated Health Measurement Scale Version 1.0 (SRHMS V1.0). The effects of lifestyles on health scores were analyzed by logistic linear regression.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Overall, 13 073 valid questionnaires of the Lifestyle of Occupational Population in Urban in China and 13 177 valid questionnaires of SRHMS V1.0 were collected. The valid rate was 96.9% and 97.7% respectively. Among the respondents, 46.9% (6136/13073) ate timely in a day, 50.9% (6658/13 073) ate breakfast every day, 27.8% (3635/13 073) worked over 8 hours per day, 31.0% (4057/13 073) didn't do any exercises, 14.6% (1906/13073) sat for over 4 hours in spare time, 39.3% (5137/13 073) were drinking and 24.8% (3230/13 073) were current smokers. The average score of SRHMS of all respondents was 73.34 +/- 11.86, of which the civil servant had the highest score (74.83 +/- 11.89) while the teacher had the lowest score (71.65 +/- 11.44, P < 0.05). The results of multiple linear regression showed that females (b = -0.945, b' = -0.041), the elderly (b = -0.098, b' = -0.087), teachers (b = - 2.151, b' = -0.074), the divorced (b = -1.607, b' = -0.021), the widowed (b = -2.926, b' = -0.019), and smokers (b = -1.198, b' = -0.045) were with worse condition. Respondents with higher education (b = 0.588, b' = 0.037), eating timely (b = 2.301, b' = 0.141), eating breakfast every day (b = 1.503, b' = 0.096), paying more attention on diet (b = 0.499, b' = 0.021) and doing more exercises (b = 1.820, b' = 0.058) had better condition.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Eating irregularly, working long hours, lack of exercise, sitting for long hours, smoking and drinking were common among occupational population. The self-rated physical health status was associated with gender, age, education level, occupation, diet and exercise.</p>