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Objective To investigate the current status of hardiness and quality of life (QoL) among patients with Parkinson disease (PD) and analyze the correlation between hardiness and QoL.Methods By convenience sampling,243 patients with PD were recruited from a tertiary hospital in Dalian during February 2017 and May 2017.General Scale,Hardiness Scale for Chinese Adults and Parkinson disease Questionnaire-39 item Version (PDQ39) were employed to measure hardiness and QoL among patients with PD.Results The hardiness score was (1.96±0.66) and the PDQ39 score was (35.46±20.38).The hardiness score was negatively correlated with PDQ39 score (r=-0.434,P＜0.01).Conclusion Patients with PD have a low level of hardiness and QoL.The higher the level of hardiness,the better the QoL.
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Objective To explore the correlation between nursing students' hardiness personality and professional commitment.Methods 1 115 undergraduate nursing students from 3 medical universities in Guangzhou were investigated with the scales of hardiness personality and nursing professional commitment.Results The scores of hardiness personality and professional commitment were (2.55 ± 0.44) and (2.70 ± 0.43),respectively,and both of them were at the middle level.Correlation analysis revealed that hardiness personality was positively related to professional commitment (P＜0.01),and the challenge dimension of hardiness personality had positive predictive effect on professional commitment.Conclusions Nursing educators should take measures to improve students' hardiness personality and professional commitment.It would help maintain the stability of the whole nursing team.