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The Effect of Patient Education on Chinese Adolescent and Parental Beliefs About Counselors ’ Breaches of Confidentiality
AbstractThe primary aim of the present study is to explore whether brief education can change Chinese adolescents ’ and parents’ beliefs about when counselors would breach confidentiality. The two secondary aims are to examine whether the brief education (1) increases adolescents’ willingness to share private information with their counselor and (2) decreases parents’ expectations of the amount of infor mation their child’s counselor would divulge to them. Results showed that adolescents and parents who read a brief passage about the limitations of confidentiality were significantly less likely to believe counsel...
Source: The Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research - November 30, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The differences in self-perceptions of aging, health-related quality of life and their association between urban and rural Chinese older hypertensive patients
Most hypertensive clients are elderly, whose health-related quality of life (HRQL) may be associated with self-perceptions of aging (older individuals ’ beliefs about their own aging). Meanwhile, culture and he...
Source: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes - May 26, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Yunying Hou, Qing Wu, Dandan Zhang, Xiaohong Jin, Wenya Wu and Xiaohua Wang Tags: Research Source Type: research
Prevalence of anemia and sociodemographic characteristics among pregnant and non-pregnant women in southwest China: a longitudinal observational study
Globally, the prevalence of anemia among women of reproductive age is about 29.4%, and anemia impacts about 40% of pregnant women and more than 20% of non-pregnant women. We conducted a longitudinal observatio...
Source: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth - September 14, 2020 Category: OBGYN Authors: Yu Wu, Hanfeng Ye, Jihong Liu, Qiuyue Ma, Yanling Yuan, Qian Pang, Jue Liu, Cai Kong and Min Liu Tags: Research article Source Type: research
Satisfaction with food-related life and beliefs about food health, safety, freshness and taste among the elderly in China: A segmentation analysis
Publication date: Available online 24 August 2019Source: Food Quality and PreferenceAuthor(s): Rongduo Liu, Klaus G. GrunertAbstractThis paper focuses on Chinese elderly’s life satisfaction with food, a specific and important domain of Chinese people’s daily life, with two purposes: first, to investigate the relationship between satisfaction with food-related life and life satisfaction among Chinese elderly; second, to segment Chinese elderly based on their beliefs about food health, safety, freshness and taste, and profile them by their life satisfaction, satisfaction with food-relate life, food-related goals, self-ra...
Source: Food Quality and Preference - August 25, 2019 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
An examination of kindergarten teachers’ beliefs about creative pedagogy and their perceived implementation in teaching practices
Publication date: Available online 4 March 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Zhaocun Li, Li LiABSTRACTThe purpose of the present study was to uncover kindergarten teachers’ beliefs about creative pedagogy, their perceived implementation of creative pedagogy in teaching practices, and factors contributing to differences between teachers’ beliefs and practice in China. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 698 in-service kindergarten teachers in Shanghai, China. Results showed that teachers overall held positive attitudes towards the importance of four dimensions of creative pedagogy (namely po...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - March 6, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Teachers ’ practices and beliefs about teaching writing: a comprehensive survey of grades 1 to 3 teachers
AbstractA random sample of 782 grades 1 through 3 Chinese language arts teachers in Taiwan were surveyed about how they taught writing and their beliefs about writing. The underlying dimensions of teachers ’ reported writing practices and beliefs were established through factor analyses. Thirty-seven percent of the teachers reported they taught writing every day (average writing lesson across all teachers was 52 min). However, most teachers indicated they offered writing classes infrequently, as 60 % of teachers reported teaching writing just once a week or less often. Teachers applied many different instructional proce...
Source: Reading and Writing - May 8, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
IJERPH, Vol. 14, Pages 868: Influence of Health Warnings on Beliefs about the Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking, in the Context of an Experimental Study in Four Asian Countries
We examined whether viewing health warnings in an experimental study influenced beliefs about the health effects of smoking, by conducting surveys with ~500 adult male smokers and ~500 male and female youth (age 16–18) in Beijing, China (n = 1070), Mumbai area, India (n = 1012), Dhaka, Bangladesh (n = 1018), and Republic of Korea (n = 1362). Each respondent was randomly assigned to view and rate pictorial health warnings for 2 of 15 different health effects, after which they reported beliefs about whether smoking caused 12 health effects. Respondents who viewed relevant health warnings (vs. other warnings) were significa...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - August 2, 2017 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Jessica Reid Seema Mutti-Packer Prakash Gupta Qiang Li Jiang Yuan Nigar Nargis A. Hussain David Hammond Tags: Article Source Type: research
IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 1618: Changing Health Beliefs about Breast Cancer Screening among Women in Multi-Ethnic Malaysia
This study evaluated the impact of the ‘Be Cancer Alert’ mass media campaign for breast cancer (BCAC-BC) in terms of changes to women’s health beliefs regarding BC susceptibility and the benefits and barriers of breast cancer screening in Malaysia. Pre- and post-campaign surveys evaluated changes in health beliefs among women aged 40 years and above (n = 676). The perceived susceptibility to breast cancer was significantly higher at follow-up (mean ± SD: 7.30 ± 2.77 vs. 7.63 ± 2.58, p = 0.008) whereas the mean score for the perceived ben...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - January 30, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Mila Nu Nu Htay Maznah Dahlui D ésirée Schliemann Christopher R. Cardwell Siew Yim Loh Nor Saleha Binti Ibrahim Tamin Saunthari Somasundaram Michael Donnelly Tin Tin Su Tags: Article Source Type: research
Beliefs About Sensitive Parenting Among Chinese Cross-Generational Caregivers: The Mediating Role of Education.
This study investigated beliefs about sensitive parenting of cross-generational caregivers from urban and rural areas of China. A total sample of 135 urban and rural mothers and grandmothers sorted the Maternal Behavior Q-Sort to indicate their view of the ideal mother. These sorts were compared with the expert sort reflecting the highly sensitive mother as defined in attachment theory. Generally, the caregivers from both generations and both urban and rural residence showed beliefs convergent with the notion of sensitivity. The variation in their sensitivity beliefs could be predicted by the caregivers' generation and thi...
Source: International Journal of Aging and Human Development - March 15, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Tags: Int J Aging Hum Dev Source Type: research
If It ’s Healthy, It’s Tasty and Expensive: Effects of Nutritional Labels on Price and Taste Expectations
This study elicited health, taste, and price beliefs of 60 food items in three countries—the USA, China, and Korea—and we studied how these beliefs and purchase intentions change in response to exogenous health information. We found lay beliefs are not always true and identical across countries, and they depend on prior beliefs and information. When neutral or negative exogenous information about healthfulness was provided, USA and Korea consumers tend to consider healthier foods more expensive, but this was not the case with China consumers. Interestingly, despite the commonly asserted “tasty=unhealthy” lay belief...
Source: Food Quality and Preference - April 5, 2018 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Cultural Beliefs about Healthy Aging and Alzheimer ’s Disease among Older Chinese Americans in New York City
The objective of this study is to examine knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about healthy aging and ADRD among older Chinese Americans living in New York City. Chinese Americans with very low English proficiency were recruited from a senior center in New York City. Accordingly, s urveys were translated and focus groups were conducted in Mandarin or Cantonese. Questionnaires assessed demographic and health characteristics. Focus groups followed an open-ended protocol which was guided by the published literature. Focus group discussions were audio recorded, transcribed, and tr anslated to English for qualitative analysis. An...
Source: Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology - May 17, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Recognition and beliefs about treatment for mental disorders in mainland China: a systematic review and meta-analysis
ConclusionsThe public ’s level of mental health literacy related to recognition of specific mental disorders, and knowledge and beliefs about treatments is still relatively low. The government should consider public education campaigns to improve this.
Source: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology - October 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Family First: Asian Americans ’ Attitudes and Behaviors Toward Deceased Organ Donation
This study is the first to explore attitudes and knowledge about posthumous organ donation among US Asian American populations in at least a decade.
Source: Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities - September 5, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 1163: Examining Cultural Differences in the Associations between Appraisals and Emotion Regulation and PostTraumatic Stress Disorder in Malaysian and Australian Trauma Survivors
This study examined cultural differences in the associations between appraisals, emotion regulation and PTSD symptoms using trauma survivors from an individualistic Western culture (Australia) and a collectivistic Asian culture (Malaysia). Trauma survivors (N = 228; 107 Australian with European cultural heritage, 121 Malaysian with Malay, Indian or Chinese cultural heritage) completed an on-line survey assessing PTSD (PTSD Checklist for the DSM-5 with Life Events Checklist), appraisals (trauma-related, fatalism, cultural beliefs about adversity) and emotion regulation (suppression, reappraisal, interpersonal). The Malaysia...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - January 21, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Laura Jobson Shamsul Haque Siti Zainab Abdullah Bryan Lee Haoxiang Li Tamsyn Reyneke Britney Kerr Wen Tan Winnie Lau Belinda Liddell Tags: Article Source Type: research
Teachers' perceived professional development in a multi-regional community of practice: Effects of beliefs and engagement
This study investigated how teachers' beliefs (i.e., beliefs about teaching thinking, acceptance of the community of practice, and acceptance of the school culture) and engagement (i.e., engagement in learning and engagement in practice on teaching thinking) affected their perceived professional development in the Alliance of Thinking Schools (ATS), which is a multi-regional community of practice (CoP) on teaching thinking for K-12 teachers in China. A total of 478 teachers from 39 schools in 10 cities participated in this study. The regression analysis results indicated that teachers' beliefs about teaching thinking, foll...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - September 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
