1.Development of the state-owned enterprise worker's stressor scale
Liguo WANG ; Weitao JIN ; Wenbin GAO ; Yu BAI ; Ligang WANG
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science 2013;(1):75-77
Objective To develop the state-owned enterprise worker's stressor scale and assess its reliability and validity.Methods Combined qualitative and quantitive methods,the state-owned enterprise worker's stressor scale was developed based deep interviews.Data were collected from 6400 state-owned enterprise workers in China.The initial sample was split randomly into two samples (n 1 =2835 ; n 2 =2834).The first data were used to set for exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and the second data were used for confirmatory factor analysis (CFA).3 subscales (anxiety,depression and somatization) of symptom checklist 90(SCL-90) were used for testing criterion validity.Results The state-owned enterprise worker's stressor scale got 4 factors and 15 items,including job stressor,relationship stressor,development stressor and family stressor.The Cronbach α coefficients of the full scale and its four factors were 0.66 ~ 0.86.The results of CFA showed RMSEA =0.066,NFI =0.97,NNFI =0.97,CFI =0.97,IFI =0.97,GFI =0.95.In addition,stressor and its four factors had significant positive correlations with anxiety,depression and somatization (r =0.29-0.43,P < 0.01).Conclusion The stateowned enterprise worker's stressor scale meets psychometric criteria and is an effective tool.
2.Mining of antidepressant patents from Innography
Zhibin YANG ; Dong WANG ; Jin CHENG ; Weitao ZONG ; Wei LIU ; Lei WANG ; Yan ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Medical Library and Information Science 2015;(3):18-22
After the antidepressant patents were retrieved from Innography, their distribution, R& D level, hot spots and core patents were analyzed , which showed that the largest number of antidepressant patents was produced in USA, the medicinal preparations containing organic active ingredients were the hot spots, the technological and economic strengths of Pfizer, Novo and Sanofi-Aventis were relatively tremendous.The law-suited patents, reex-amined patents and patent strength were mined.
3.Robot-assisted upper limb therapy improves shoulder joint proprioception after stroke
Ya SUN ; Minmin JIN ; Yan LI ; Jianming FU ; Meixia YANG ; Weitao ZHANG ; Bihua ZHU
Chinese Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2017;39(11):806-810
Objective To explore the effect of robot-assisted therapy on the shoulder joint proprioception of convalescent stroke survivors.Methods Forty stroke survivors were enrolled and randomized into an experimental group (n =20) and a control group (n =20).Both groups received routine drug treatment and rehabilitation,including the traditional kinesitherapy,occupational therapy and physical therapy,but the experimental group was additionally provided with 20 minutes of robot-assisted upper limb therapy 6 times a week for 8 weeks.Before the intervention and at 4 and 8 weeks the multi-joint system (MJS) upper limb proprioception test system was used to evaluate the average trace error and test execution time of the upper limb.Shoulder joint proprioception was measured at 30° and 60° in intorsion and extorsion using an isokinetic dynamometer.Results Before the training there were no significant differences between the two groups in terms of any of the assessments.After 4 and 8 weeks of training,significant improvement was observed in the measurements,and those of the experimental group were significantly better than those of the control group at the same time points.Conclusion Robot-assisted therapy can facilitate the recovery of shoulder joint proprioception after a stroke.It is worthy of application in clinical practice.
4.Clinical and prognostic significance of ABO promotor methylation level in adult leukemia and myelodydysplastic syndrome
Ming SHAO ; Ping TANG ; Xianping LYU ; Qiankun YANG ; Weitao ZHU ; Huifang JIN ; Li WANG ; Xiaoqiang ZHAO ; Xin LIU ; Ling SUN
Chinese Journal of Internal Medicine 2018;57(11):816-823
Objective To investigate the clinical and prognostic significance of ABO promotor methylation level in adult patients with leukemia and myelodydysplastic syndrome(MDS). Methods ABO promoter methylation level of 182 malignant hematological disease patients and 68 normal controls were detected by bisulfite sequencing PCR. Then clinical features and outcome were compared between hypermethylation group and hypomethylation group. Results The median methylation rate of ABO promoter in newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) were 46.98% and 11.01% respectively, which were both higher than that in controls (2.30%, P<0.05). The methylation rates in remission AML and ALL were 1.58%and 2.30%respectively, which were comparable with that in normal group (P>0.05). As to relapse AML and ALL, methylation rates were 41.26% and 17.50%respectively, also significantly higher than that in controls (P<0.05).In patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) chronic phase, the median methylation rate was 1.00%, which was similar to normal group. But a CML patient who transformed to ALL hadextremely high methylation rate 92.56%. The median methylation rate in patients with MDS significantly elevated as 5.81% compared with that in controls (P<0.05). The median overall survival (OS) of ALL and AML (non-M3) patients with hypermethylation were 12.5 months and 15.3 months, which were significantly shorter than those with hypomethylation (24.0 months and 20.0 months) (P<0.05). The median disease-free survival (DFS) of ALL and AML (non-M3) patients with hypermethylation were 9.9 months and 12.0 months, which were significantly shorter than those with hypomethylation (22.3 months and 18.5 months), (P<0.05). Multivariable analysis suggested that ABO promoter methylation level was an independent predictive factor of OS and DFS in ALL and AML (non-M3) patients. Conclusion ABO promoter hypermethylation is closely related to genesis, development and prognosis of leukemia and MDS. Hypermethylationis related to a clinical poor prognosis compare with hypomethylation.