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Objectives To study the status of medical compliance and the reason of non-medical compliance behavior of the Hui diabetics. Methods 121 Hui diabetics were recruited by convenient sampling, investigated by medical compliance questionnaire and interviewed by open questions about the reason of non-medical compliance behavior (e.g. drug therapy, diet therapy, sports therapy, self monitoring and periodic review). Results The mean score of the medical compliance behaviors was (32.69±8.64), and the overall rate of non-medical compliance was 95.9%(116/121) in Hui diabetics. Arranged by the rate of non-medical compliance in descending order, the five dimensions of medical compliance behaviors were sports therapy, self monitoring, periodic review, diet therapy and drug therapy in turn. The reason of non-medical compliance behavior mainly included the cognition of treatment, the economic conditions, job, minority customs and religion. Conclusions Non-medical compliance behaviors existed in five major diabetes therapies in the Hui diabetics. The patients and their families should be educated and conducted individually according to their specific situation to improve the medical compliance behavior.
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Objective To investigate the clinical value of simplified Chinese version NU-DESC in assessment of ICU delirium in domestic ICU,and provide easy ICU delirium assessment tool for clinical nurses.Methods We used simplified Chinese version NU-DESC to assess patients in domestic ICU from July to September 2011,and compared with the gold standard DSM-IV diagnosis results.Their validity,reliability and effectiveness were evaluated to analyze the application value of NU-DESC in ICU.Results The area under the ROC curve of simplified Chinese version of Nu-DESC was 0.951,the sensitivity was 82％,the specificity was 90％,the false negative rate was 18％,the false positive rate was 10％,Youden's index was 0.72,the positive likelihood ratio was 7.99,the negative likelihood ratio was 0.20,the agreement rate was 87％,Kappa value was 0.71,the positive predictive value was 77％,the negative predictive value was 92％.Conclusions The simplified Chinese version NU-DESC can easily be understood,used and accepted by nurses.They can be used as an assessment tool for nurses to judge ICU delirium for ICU patients.
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Objective Through investigation and analysis of nursing services and needs for community home visiting in Yinchuan city in order to improve the quality of nursing service. Methods Using cluster sampling method to collect 300 residents from five community for questionnaire investigation in Yinchuan city.Questionnaire included general situation and evaluation standard of home care patients and service quality satisfaction questionnaire of home care. Results The residents had different degree of nursing needs and differences existed in satisfaction degree with different project of community home visiting. Conclusions Community home visiting need is high,and further improvement of nursing service quality for community home visiting is needed in Yinchuan city.