Publications by authors named "Dejian Zeng"

Unlabelled: BACKGROUND IN: the early days of December 2022, the Chinese government ended its restrictive quarantine measures (e.g. nationwide lockdown) against COVID-19, which started in December 2019.

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Background: Interventions for people with chronic illness have increasingly got involvement and partnership with family members in China and worldwide. The patient-family interactions in chronic illness care can greatly influence not only family dyadic relationship or collaboration in caregiving but also both patient's and caregiver's health and well-being. To date, very few instruments have been developed to measure the family dyadic relationship; and none has been found in Chinese language.

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Objective: To evaluate the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary effectiveness of a theory-based patient-family carer partnership intervention for people with hypertension in a Chinese rural community.

Design: A pilot randomised controlled trial using pretest and post-test design.

Setting: Rural China PARTICIPANTS: Forty-four hypertensive patients and their family carers (family dyads) were randomly recruited from a village clinic located in China between November 2019 and January 2020.

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Background: Providing quality and safe nursing care is considered the cornerstone of the healthcare system globally. However, there are no comprehensive evaluation indicators of nursing students' quality and safety competencies in China.

Aim: To develop the evaluation indicators and achieve experts' consensus on bachelor nursing students' quality and safety competencies at their graduation.

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Background: Older patients suffering from multimorbidity are at high risk of medication nonadherence. It has been well established that self-management support is an effective strategy to enhance medication adherence for patients with chronic conditions. However, little is known about the effect of the medication self-management intervention in older patients with multimorbidity.

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Purpose: To determine the structural relationships among nurses' occupational burnout, job stress, psychological capital, and perceived support from society.

Design: A cross-sectional design was performed to collect data from 766 registered nurses in three general tertiary Class A hospitals from March to August 2018.

Methods: Structural equation modeling was performed to examine the proposed model.

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Introduction: Multimorbidity is highly prevalent among older patients and has been shown to be associated with poor health outcomes and lower quality of life. Adherence to medication treatments is essential in order to maximise the efficacy of treatments and improve health outcomes. However, nearly half of the older patients with multimorbidity fail to adhere to their medications, which can result in an increased risk of adverse health events, lower quality of life and higher healthcare cost.

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