1.Willingness of medical undergraduate students choose general practitioners in community health-care service as their career
Qing GUO ; Chenjia MAO ; Zhixin JIANG ; Lei YANG ; Jianchun YUAN
Chinese Journal of General Practitioners 2008;7(12):814-817
Objective To understand willingness of current medical undergraduates to work at community health-care service(CHS)institutions after their graduation to provides information for professional training for them.Methods Totally,2714 medical undergraduate students were recruited from three medical schools in east,middle and west China by multi-level sampling methods for questionnaire survey on their basic information and willingness to be employed at CHS institutions.results of the survey were described by relative numeric and tested by chi-square test for smtistical inference.Results About 60.6%of medical undergraduate students were willing to work at CHS organizations permanently or temporarily.Their willingness to work there differed with their native living areas and grades they were studying significantly(P<0.01).Reason for those they would work at CHS organizations after graduation included work less stress and easier,and that for those reluctant to work there included low-income and lack of social respect for general practitioners.Conclusions Nowadays,few medical undergraduate students would like to work at CHS organizations after their graduation,which was influenced mainly by traditional ideas and concepts of employment,personal career devdopment,economic income,and so on.It is suggested that ideas of community work be strengthened for medical undergraduate students and their employment concepts be changed in the future.
2.Reliability and validity of adolescent sedentary behavior scale ( Chinese version) in junior middle school students
Li XU ; Liangwen XU ; Chenjia MAO ; Hanqiong HU ; Chunhong LIU ; Ying XU
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science 2010;19(11):1040-1042
Objective To evaluate the reliability and validity of adolescent sedentary behavior scales ( Chinese version) in junior middle school students. Methods A total of 782 junior students were tested through multistage sampling method. The reliability was assessed, using Cronbach's αcoefficient and split-half reliability,while its validity was tested through ICC, correlation analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. Results The internal consistency reliability for total scale score ( Cronbach's α = 0.822 ) ,change strategies score ( Cronbach's α =0.882 ), decisional balance/pros score( Cronbach's α = 0.478 ), decisional balance/cons score ( Cronbach's α =0.631 ) ,and self-efficacy score (Cronbach's α = 0.645 ) ;the split-half reliability for total scale score was 0.857,four domains split-half reliability ranged between 0.488 ~ 0.896; the correlations between items and the domains ranged 0.226 ~ 0.768, except the correlations coefficients between decisional balance (cons score) and change strategies score, decisional balance ( cons score) and decisional ( pros score) were - 0.052,0.090 ( P < 0.05 ),respectively. Low to moderate correlations between domains ranged from -0.210 to 0.394 ( P < 0.01 ), while moderate to high correlations between domain and total scale. Correlation coefficients ranged between 0.365 to 0.554( P < 0.01 ). Conclusion The reliability and validity of adolescent sedentary behavior scales ( Chinese version) were good, and adapt to measure junior middle school students' sedentary behavior.