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Objective@#To explore the association between middle school students health literacy and bully victimization and associated sex difference, and to provide guidance for bully prevention in adolescents.@*Methods@#During November 2017 to January 2018, 18 900 junior and senior high school students were enrolled from Hefei of Anhui Province, Shenyang of Liaoning Province, Yangjiang of Guangdong Province and Chongqing by multistage cluster sampling. A self rated questionnaires were used to collect demographic information, health literacy, and bully victimization. Group differences by different characteristics and the association between health literacy and bully victimization were analyzed.@*Results@#The detection rates of campus and cyber bullying victimization were 15.8% (2 992/18 900) and 9.1% (1 723/18 900). Boys, junior high school students, students with poor family financial status and few close friends had a detection rate of 28.0%, 18.8%, 23.3%, and 33.6% of school bullying, which are higher than those of the control group ( χ 2=225.64, 148.07, 141.13, 143.49, P <0.01); boys, students with poor household income and few close friends, the detection rates of cyber bullying were 10.9%, 14.4%, and 20.1%, respectively, are higher than the control group ( χ 2=62.96, 112.82, 88.49, P <0.01). Multivariate Logistic regression analysis indicated that students with low overall and dimensions scores of health literacy were more likely to suffer from campus and cyber bullying, except for the dimension of physical activity. In addition, at all levels of health literacy, males are more likely to be bullied than females ( P <0.05).@*Conclusion@#Health literacy of middle school students is related to bully victimization, which is sex specific. Intervention programs of bullying should focus on health literacy enhancement.
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Objective@#To develop the Adolescent Mental Health Literacy Assessment Questionnaire (AMHLAQ), and to evaluate its reliability and validity among undergraduates.@*Methods@#On the basis of the definition of mental health literacy (MHL) and the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) theory, this study constructed a total of 36 items consisting of four dimensions, and scores were measured according to a five point Likert type scale. Using a cluster sampling method, a questionnaire survey was conducted among 3 826 freshmen and sophomore students from two medical schools in Anhui Province. The items were screened by performing t tests, Pearson s correlation coefficient analysis and factor analysis. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire were evaluated using indicators including homogeneity reliability, the split half reliability coefficient, and construct validity.@*Results@#Factor analysis revealed that the AMHLAQ consisted of 22 questions grouped into four domains. The variance cumulative contribution rate was 62.213%. The reliability result showed that the Cronbach s alpha coefficient of the total questionnaire was 0.897, the split half reliability was 0.800, the Cronbach s coefficient of each dimension was 0.796 to 0.885, the split half reliability of each dimension was 0.725 to 0.846, and the indicators had a high level of reliability. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the model fit was good ( χ 2/df =19.319, P <0.01; RMSEA=0.069).@*Conclusion@#AMHLAQ is consistent with the evaluation standard of psychometrics, has good reliability and validity, and can be used to estimate the level of MHL among undergraduates.
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Objective@#To explore the association between health literacy and drinking behaviors among middle school students in six provinces of China, and to provide scientific basis for the prevention and intervention of drinking behaviors.@*Methods@#From November 2015 to January 2016, 22 628 students were enrolled from Ulanqab, Shenyang, Xinxiang, Bengbu, Chongqing and Yangjiang by multistage stratified cluster sampling method. And a questionnaire survey was conducted among them to collect demographic information, health literacy and drinking behaviors. Rates on drinking behaviors were compared in students with specific characteristics. Multiple Logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine the association between health literacy and drinking behaviors.@*Results@#The proportion of ever drinking, current drinking, binge drinking, drunkenness was 60.0%(13 580), 16.8%(3 799), 5.9%(1 344) and 9.9%(2 250), respectively. After adjusting for gender, grade, family address, siblings, accommodation type, parental educational level, and self reported family income, compared to the high level health literacy, the low level health literacy was significantly associated with ever drinking (OR=1.76, 95%CI=1.62-1.91), current drinking(OR=1.37, 95%CI=1.23-1.52), binge drinking (OR=1.39, 95%CI=1.18-1.63), and drunkenness(OR=1.68, 95%CI=1.47-1.92), respectively(P<0.01).@*Conclusion@#Health literacy of middle school students was related to drinking behaviors. The occurrence of health risk behaviors such as drinking can be prevented and reduced by improving students health literacy level.
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Objective To prepare 3D printed porous tracheal graft fabricated by PCL and to select the appropriate pore size and surface modification techniques,in order to explore its effect on cell behavior.Methods The PCL porous tracheal graft was prepared by 3D printing technology and biomechanical properties of the graft were measured by means of longitudinal tension,radial compression and three-point bending test.The porous grafts were surface-modified through hydrolysis,amination and nanocrystallization treatment and then characterized by energy dispersive spectroscopy(EDS).The effect of different pore sizes and surface modifications on the cell proliferation behavior was evaluated by CCK-8 and scanning electron microscopy (SEM).Results The 3 D printed porous tracheal graft had similar morphology with the native tracheas(P ＞ 0.05) and better biomechanical properties(P ＜0.05).It was more suitable for cell adhesion and proliferation when the pore size is 200 μm (P ＜ 0.05).Compared to hydrolysis and amination,nanocrystallization treatment successfully improved the cytotropism of the 3D printed tracheal graft(P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion 3 D printed porous tracheal graft shows favorable biomechanical properties.The appropriate pore size of the 3D printed porous tracheal graft is 200 μm and the appropriate surface modification techniques is nanocrystallization.
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Tissue-engineering airway reconstruction is a tracheal replacement therapy,which uses different materials,such as primary,allogeneic or synthetic,combined with seed cells and growth factors to repair the defect airway and restore its physiological function.The choice of stent graft is the key to the success or failure of airway reconstruction.By improving the performance of graft scaffolds,it has similar mechanical properties and biocompatibility with natural gas tubes,promoting vascularization and reepithelization,reducing immunogenicity and completing airway reconstruction.This article aims to review advances in the study of graft scaffolds for airway remodeling.
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Currently,carbon nanoparticle technology is a rapidly developing and emerging technology that has a significant impact in the field of cancer treatment,especially in non-small cell lung cancer.The lymphatic tendency of nano-carbon is used to improve the detection rate of positive lymph nodes,avoiding the leakage of lymph nodes and the crushing and breaking of the lymph nodes to prevent the metastasis of tumorsin non-small cell lung cancer surgery.In addition,carbon nanoparticle has underwent tremendous changes on drug chemical treatment.Its good biocompatibility provides the possibility of serving as a drug carrier,and maintains in vivo drugs at a constant concentration to avoid affecting therapeutic efficacy owning to the half-life of the drug.At the same time,its biological toxicity is lower compared to the traditional drug carrier.This paper focuses on these characteristics of carbon nanoparticle which is applied to the lymphatic target tracking,drug control and release,and elaborates its clinical application prospect in the field of non-small cell lung cancer.
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Objective To determine the detergent-enzymatic cycles and evaluate the biomechanical characteristics as well as extracellular matrix integrity of the decellularized tracheal scaffold in rabbit.Methods Forty tracheal segments were harvested from New Zealand white rabbits.Thirty-five of tracheas were subjected to a detergent-enzymatic method of decellularization for 1/3/5/6/7/8/9 cycles,respectively,and other five were stored in phosphate-buffered saline at 4℃ as a control.Comparative examinations were performed by the macroscopic view,histological view(hematoxylin and eosin stain,Movat Pentachrome stain,4-6-diamidino-2-phenylindole),scanning electron microscope (SEM) and biomechanical properties between decellularized groups and control group.Results After 7 detergent-enzymatic cycles,almost complete decellularized tracheae,retaining the hierarchical and mechanical properties of the native tissues,could be obtained.Histological and molecular biology analysis demonstrated that all cellular components and nuclear material were removed.SEM analysis revealed that the decellularized matrices retained the hierarchical structures of native trachea,and biomechanical tests showed that decellularization approach did not led to any influence on tracheal morphological and mechanical properties.Immunofluorescence analysis show a significant reduction of nuclear material in decellularized tracheas (P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion In conclusion,this work suggests that 7 cycles of the modified DEM generates a bioengineered rabbit tracheal matrix that is structurally and mechanically similar to native trachea which could be a better selection for tracheal reconstruction with tissue engineering method.
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BACKGROUND:Some studies have demonstrated that red blood celllysate added into the bone marrow can increase the efficiency of isolating and purifying mesenchymal stem cells, in order to obtain high-purity and high-quantity bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells. OBJECTIVE:To isolate and culture bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells of rabbit with red blood celllysis in vitro for exploring proliferation characteristics and performing the biological identification of cells. METHODS:Bone marrow suspension was col ected by puncturing the tibia with medul o-puncture needle. Red blood celllysis was added to the bone marrow suspension, and bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells were isolated and cultured. Numbers of primary cells were recorded at 4, 7, 10, and 13 days later And Growth curves of the cells at passages 2-5 were drawn for comparison of proliferative characteristics. Inverted phase contrast microscope was used to observe the morphological changes of cells. CD34, CD44 antigens of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells were identified by flow cytometry and immunity fluorescence. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:The adherent bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells mainly showed s spindle shape, with homogeneous nuclei, prominent nucleoli, and rich cytoplasm, which were positive for CD44 antigen and negative for CD34 antigen. The primary cells exhibited an“S”shape. Passage 4 cells had a better proliferative ability, rapider growth and more counting of cells as compared with other generations. These findings indicate that red blood celllysis method is a feasible ways of culturing bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells 0 in vitro, and passage 4 cells have the strongest proliferation capacity.