Lancet
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Interventions that specifically target patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes have not received much attention, despite the numerous interventional studies in patients with diabetes. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a culturally tailored, empowerment-based self-management intervention programme in Chinese patients with poorly controlled type-2 diabetes. ⋯ None.
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Health literacy is important in public health and health care, particularly in effective communication between patients and nurses. The aim of this study was to explore the health literacy level and its influence factors in undergraduate nursing students. ⋯ This project was supported by the Humanity and Social Science Foundation of China's Ministry of Education (15YJA860020).
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Lower urinary tract symptoms, which commonly occur among older men, include urinary retention, voiding difficulty, frequent feeling of urinary urgency, and nocturia. Auriculotherapy, a Chinese medicine approach, is a therapeutic method in which specific points in the auricle are stimulated to achieve specific therapeutic purposes. This randomised controlled pilot study aimed to determine whether magneto-auriculotherapy alone or in combination with laser auriculotherapy is more effective than placebo for symptom relief and enhancement of quality of life. ⋯ Block Grant 1-ZVD4, School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
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The rate of increase in prevalence of childhood obesity in mainland China exceeds the trends observed in other countries. Effective, culturally appropriate prevention interventions are urgently needed to control the epidemic. However, previous programmes lacked rigorous development and evaluation. Using the framework set out by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC), we developed a complex childhood obesity prevention intervention for Chinese primary school children. ⋯ University of Birmingham, Zhejiang Yong Ning Pharmaceutical.
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Enormous efforts have been made to decentralise HIV service delivery in China, gradually developing a network of thousands of Centres For Disease Control And Prevention (CDCs) with or without local hospitals providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) to every village or equivalent. However, in the Guangdong Province, China, most infected patients from CDCs delivering HIV services have been switched to sentinel hospitals, providing an opportunity to examine this shift on linkage to care, retention, and mortality among people living with HIV. We examined long-term outcomes of people living with HIV who accessed services through sentinel hospitals and CDCs in the Guangdong Province. ⋯ This study was supported by Twelve Fifth Key Research grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology, People's Republic of China (2012ZX10001003-003), Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou (201300000092), and the US National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center Global Infectious Diseases Training Grant (1D43TW009532-01). These fundings had no role in study design and data analyses.