Acupuncture and Tuina plus functional training were used to treat forty cases of shoulder impingement syndrome. Twenty-seven cases were cured clinically, accounting for 67.5%; 9 cases had marked effectiveness, accounting for 22.5%; 3 cases had effectiveness, accounting for 7.5%; 1 case obtained no effect, accounting for 2.5%; the total effective rate was 97.5%.

Objective To obtain a two-dimensional evaluation result of the quality of examination paper on fundamental nursing and the students' performance,so as to find the weakness and problems in teaching and learning,and to put forward some suggestions.Methods With the S-P chart analytic system which was designed by using the technology of Excel VBA,we made an analysis of 164 papers of fundamental nursing.Results Both the P-curve and S-curve were in the lower right corner.There wasn't any long vertical line in P-curve.There wasn't any long horizontal one in S-curve either.Caution index of 4 questions and 15 students exceed 0.75.The totality difficulty index of the paper was 0.79.The suitability index was 0.43.The stability index was 0.48.Conclusions Propositional contents about physician orders management,gastric lavage,administering medication,observation of disease and pain need to be reformed into both wide coverage and clear focuses.There are no faults in students' grades.Different learning levels do exist,but with little difference.S-P chart affords multiplex and huge amount of information.Its graphics and parameters help to analyze both the students' and teachers' performance from the macroscopic and microcosmic angle,so as to make teachers self-reflective on teaching fundamental nursing and producing papers from various aspects.

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PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the relation between test anxiety and mental health in adolescents. METHOD: The subjects were 450 students of two academic high schools in J City, who were selected through convenient sampling. Data were collected through a survey using a structured questionnaire from September 1st to 15th 2005. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS 10.0 for Windows through descriptive analysis, Pearson's Correlation Coefficient, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe's test and stepwise multiple regression. RESULT: The mean score of test anxiety was 2.40 (range:1.13-3.81) and that of mental health was 2.77 (range:0.64-5.03). A significant negative correlation was observed between test anxiety and mental health (r=-0.28, p=.000). Test anxiety was significantly different according to adolescents' general characters such as gender (t=-1.98, p=.048), grade (F=3.54, p=.030), school life satisfaction (F=10.73, p=.000) and relationship with the teacher (F=11.60, p=.000). Mental health was significantly different according to adolescents' general characters such as religion (t=2.14, p=.032) and school life satisfaction (F=4.13, p=.017). The most powerful predictor of mental health was test anxiety and it, combined with religion, accounted for 9.0% of variance in mental health in adolescents. CONCLUSION: Test anxiety and mental health was found to be in a significant negative correlation with each other in adolescents. Therefore, nursing intervention programs for adolescents needs to reduce their test anxiety to improve their mental health.
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Objective To investigate the clinical effects and safety of Aminophylline and Caffeine citrate in the treatment of preterm infants with primary apnea. Methods 130 preterm infants with primary apnea were chosen and randomly divided into both group including the Aminophylline group (65 children) with aminophylline and the Caffeine citrate group (65 children) with Caffeine citrate on the basis of conventional intervention; and the total oxygen inhalation time, mechanical ventilation time, hospitalization time, the complications incidence with follow-up and the levels of development quotient for short-term of both groups were compared. Results The total oxygen inhalation time, the mechanical ventilation time and the hospitalization time of Caffeine citrate group were significantly shorter than aminophylline group(P<0.05). The incidence of PDA, BPD and ROP of Caffeine citrate group were significantly lower than aminophylline group(P<0.05). There was no significant difference in the incidence of intracranial hemorrhage, PVL and NEC between two groups. The development quotient levels in 24 weeks and 48 weeks after treatment of Caffeine citrate group were significantly higher than aminophylline group(P<0.05). Conclusion Compared with Aminophylline, Caffeine citrate on the basis of conventional intervention in the treatment of preterm infants with primary apnea could efficiently shorten the oxygen inhalation time, the mechanical ventilation time and clinical disease course, reduce the related complications risk and be helpful to promote the intellectual development.

Corneal refractive surgery continues to develop accompanied by a rapid advance in scientific knowledge and technology.Improvement in visual quality after corneal refractive surgery is an issue of increasing concerns.Furthermore,corneal biomechanical alteration after corneal refractive surgery is a new problem.Corneal biomechanical parameters vary upon not only the quality of refractive surgery,but also the human physiological cycles and application of some postoperative drugs.These effects are sometimes very important factors for 'unstable'outcomes.At present,much attention has been focused on the change of corneal biomechanics after operation,but the event of postoperative application of anti-inflammatory eye drops leading to ocular hypertension,refractive regression,even visual quality decline is still not well understood.Herein,the therapeutic effects and adverse responses of topical anti-inflammatory eye drops,especially the change in characteristics of corneal biomechanics after corneal refractive surgery,as well as the application of topical anti-inflammatory eye drops were discussed.It is essential that corneal refractive surgeons should fully understand the potential impact of anti-inflammatory eye drops on corneal biomechanics after corneal refractive surgery.

Psychotherapies were introduced into China and developed quite well in the past two decades.The author suggests that the development of psychotherapies for the Chinese should be integrated the traditional cultural issues with the different schools of Western psychotherapies. This article reviews the traditional cultures,which deeply influenced the people's mind and behavioral patterns; and the common kinds of modern psychotherapies practiced in China now.Particularly, the author suggests that the therapeutic skills to learn and experiments to collect, as well as cultural issues to concern will be focused on more by the Chinese therapists.

Incretin is defined as an intestinal hormone released in response to nutrient ingestion, which potentiates the glucose-induced insulin response. In human body, the incretin's effect is mainly induced by two peptide hormones, glucagon-like peptide-I (GLP-I)and glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP). In order to fully evaluate the clinical advantages of novel agents based on incretin, this review introduces the islet actions of incretin in brief, and mainly focuses on the extra-islet effect of incretin.

OBJECTIVE: To study the effect of Qinggan Huoxue Recipe on alcoholic liver disease(ALD). Methods Effects were observed of Qinggan Huoxue Recipe on the symptoms, physical signs, liver function, blood lipid, markers of liver fibrosis, cytokine and ultrasonogram of ALD patients; the control groups were treated with Xiao Chaihu Decoction or general supportive treatment. RESULTS: The effects of Qinggan Huoxue Recipe were better than that of the other treatments on anorexia, nausea, vomiting, jaundice, ALT, AST and TG; the effects of Qinggan Huoxue Recipe on GGT and VLDL were better than that of the general supportive treatment. Qinggan Huoxue Recipe could decrease the level of cytokines and markers of liver fibrosis, its total effective rate was better than that of Xiao Chaihu Decoction and general supportive treatment. CONCLUSION: Qinggan Huoxue Recipe could prevent and cure ALD markedly, its mechanism might be: resisting lipid peroxidation, stabilizing the membrane of the hepatocytes, rectifying the disturbance of liver lipid metabolism, adjusting the immune function, anti-fibrosis, and promoting the metabolism of ethanol in the liver.

Objective To explore the clinical effect of disposable root canal treatment for elderly patients with chronic pulpitis.Methods 84 patients with chronic pulpitis were selected and randomly divided into the control group and observation group,each group in 42 cases(42 teeth).The control group was used multiple root canal treat-ment,and the observation group was used disposable root canal treatment,and following-up for 1 year after treatment, the clinical effect and success rates after one year were compared between the two groups.Results The total effective rate of the observation group was 92.9%, which was significantly higher than 69.0% of the control group (χ2 =3.860,P<0.05);After 1 years treatment,the total success rate of the observation group was 83.3%,which was sig-nificantly higher than 54.8%of the control group(χ2 =4.011,P<0.05).Conclusion The disposable root canal treatment for elderly patients with chronic pulpitis has a total effective rate,assembly and high power,which has cer-tain clinical reference.