Qualitative research on the sources of meaning in life in community elderly people / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective@#To investigate the sources of meaning in life of the elderly in the community.@*Methods@#The phenomenological approach was conducted in Guangzhou Yuexiu Liurong community health service center and Shouxing nursing home in Baiyun District, a total of 21 elderly were interviewed by semi-structured in-depth interviews. Interviews data were analyzed by Nvivo11.@*Results@#The elderly in the community were less concerned about the meaning in life. The level of meaning in life ranges from nothing to high, and some elderly had not explored it yet. Sources of meaning in life for elderly were quite different from when he was young: one valued work, earn money and self-improvement more when young, but as the growth of age, one would pay more attention to family and health. The sources of meaning in life included suffering, autonomy, family, make contributions and faith.@*Conclusion@#In the future, the sense of meaning in life of the elderly can be enhanced from the perspective of individuals, families and society by identifying the sources of meaning of the elderly.

Influence of school-level factors and anxiety on injury-prone children / 中国学校卫生

Objective@#To understand the characteristics of injuries among rural children, and to determine the relationships between school-level factors with anxiety among injury-prone children, to provide a reference for making effective measures to prevent and control the injuries.@*Methods@#A cross-sectional survey was conducted in the Qingxin District of Qingyuan City. Six primary schools and middle schools were randomly selected from two towns. A total of 5 250 students in grades 3-9 were investigated. Students filled out the questionnaire themselves. Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) was used to assess anxiety.@*Results@#Among the 770 rural children who suffered injuries during the past year, the leading cause of injury was falling(44.62%), falling at home(29.61%), getting injuried in low limbs(29.45%), getting injuried by oneself (41.00%) and mainly unintentional injuries(68.66%) . About 35.06% of children reported anxiety symptoms. Approximately 14.94% of children were injury-prone type. Significant differences in educational stage, boarding school, fighting involvement, and somatization/panic between injury-prone children were found in control group(P<0.05). The robust Poisson-GEE model showed that primary school students in high grade and middle grade, fighting with classmates, somatic/panic associated with injury risk (PR value was 2.11, 1.75, 1.58 and 1.58, respectively).@*Conclusion@#Injury-prone children in rural are affected by school-level factors as well as anxiety symptoms. In addition to safety education, mental health promotion and prevention of school bullying should be adopted in schools.

The strategies to deal with the complications after laparoscopic resection of choledochal cyst in children / 国际儿科学杂志

Choledochal cyst is one of the most common biliary deformities in children,and laparo scopic cyst excision and Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy has become a common procedure for pediatric choledochal cyst in many medical centers up to now.However,conversions and complications are frequent especially in the early stage of the laparoscopic series including bleeding,anastomotic leakage and stenosis,intestinal obstruction,pancreatic fistula and acute pancreatitis,residual cyst,etc,some of which may even be lifethreatening.This review will introduce the reasons and the preventive measures of the complications of laparoscopic Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy which aims to improve the security of laparoscopic hepaticojejunostomy for choledochal cysts in children.

Qualitative research on the sources of meaning in life in community elderly people / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective To investigate the sources of meaning in life of the elderly in the community. Methods The phenomenological approach was conducted in Guangzhou Yuexiu Liurong community health service center and Shouxing nursing home in Baiyun District, a total of 21 elderly were interviewed by semi-structured in-depth interviews. Interviews data were analyzed by Nvivo11. Results The elderly in the community were less concerned about the meaning in life. The level of meaning in life ranges from nothing to high, and some elderly had not explored it yet. Sources of meaning in life for elderly were quite different from when he was young: one valued work, earn money and self-improvement more when young, but as the growth of age, one would pay more attention to family and health. The sources of meaning in life included suffering, autonomy, family, make contributions and faith. Conclusion In the future, the sense of meaning in life of the elderly can be enhanced from the perspective of individuals, families and society by identifying the sources of meaning of the elderly.