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Objective: To explore the relationship of social support to patients with schizophrenia, family burden with patients' quality of life and family life satisfaction. Methods: Multi-stage stratified cluster random sampling was used to select 358 patients with schizophrenia and 358 patients' family members in Gansu Province who met the inclusion criteria were included. The Social Support Rating Scale, Family Burden Scale, Satisfaction with Life Scale and Quality of Life Scale were used in the survey. AMOS 24.0 was used to explore the pathway of influence of family burden on social support to patients with schizophrenia, patients' quality of life and patients' family life satisfaction. Results: There was a two-by-two significant correlation between patients' access to social support, family burden, patients' life quality and family life satisfaction (P<0.05), and the total score of the social support scale negatively predicted the total score of the life quality scale (β=-0.28, P<0.05) and positively predicted the total score of the life satisfaction scale (β=0.52, P<0.05). Family burden was a full mediator between the social support to the patient and the patient's quality of life, and as a partial mediator between the social support to the patient and the family's life satisfaction. Conclusions: Social support to people with schizophrenia is a significant predictor of their quality of life and family life satisfaction. Family burden mediates the relationship of social support to patients with their quality of life and family life satisfaction. Interventions can focus on increasing social support for the patient and reducing the burden on the patient's family to improve the patient's quality of life and increase the satisfaction of the patient's family.
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Humans , Patient Satisfaction , Quality of Life , Schizophrenia , Family Relations , Social SupportABSTRACT
The aim of the study was to investigate whether the expression of obestatin in gastric body mucosa in abdominal obesity patients with normal body mass index (BMI) is different compared with healthy controls. Twenty abdominal obesity patients with normal BMI and twenty healthy controls were included in the study. The number of obestatin-positive cells in gastric body mucosa was significantly lower in abdominal obesity patients with normal BMI than that in healthy subjects. There was a positive correlation between the numbers of obestatin-positive cells in the gastric body mucosa and plasma obestatin levels in abdominal obesity subjects and control group.
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Adult , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Body Mass Index , Case-Control Studies , Gastric Mucosa , Metabolism , Obesity, Abdominal , MetabolismABSTRACT
Objective To investigate the associations between polymorphisms of organic cation transporter OCTN1/2 (organic cation transporter 1/2) and the susceptibility of Crohn' s disease (CD) through a meta-analysis.Methods Databases of PubMed,EMBASE,MedLine,and CNKI (Chinese),Wanfang (Chinese) were searched for published case control studies on the association between polymorphisms of OCTN1/2 gene and the susceptibility of CD which were published before September 2012.The meta-analysis was applied with Review Manager 4.2 software and Stata 10.0 software.Results Nineteen eligible studies,including 14 from Europeans,3 from Asians,1 from Oceania,and 1 from the US were included in the meta-analysis.In total,significant associations were found between OCTN1/2 polymorphisms and the susceptibility of CD for all genetic models.In subgroup analyses,significant associations were found in the European population for OCTN1/2.Associations were not significant in the non-European population for OCTN1 (TT vs.CT:OR=1.25,95％CI:0.75-1.98,P=0.34; TT vs.CC+CT:OR=l.48,95％CI:0.95-2.29,P=0.08) and for OCTN2 (CC vs.GC:OR=1.03,95％CI:0.68-1.56,P=0.89; CC vs.GG + GC:OR=1.23,95％CI:0.83-1.82,P=0.31).However,there were significant associations found between OCTN1/2(TT vs.CC,TT+CT vs.CC,CC vs.GG,CC + GC vs.GG) polymorphisms and the susceptibility of CD found in the nonEuropean population.Conclusion Results from this meta-analysis suggested that OCTN1/2 polymorphisms were associated with the susceptibility of CD in the European population.Associations between OCTN1/2 polymorphisms and the susceptibility of CD in the non-European population required searching for large samples to confirm the findings.