Publications by authors named "Eric M C Wong"
Objective: This study investigated individual, household, and area effects in the distribution of mental and physical health scores in Hong Kong.
Method: Analysis of data from a large representative survey of randomly sampled 29,561 Chinese adults in 2002. Multilevel regression methods were used to model variance in the physical and mental component of the SF-12 at the individual, household and area levels.
Objective: The psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) Cancer Module were investigated.
Methods: This instrument and the Generic Core Scales were administered to 359 pediatric patients with cancer (5-18 years) and 413 parents of such patients (2-18 years old).
Results: Seven and eight factors were, respectively, identified for the patient and parent versions.
Objective: This study investigates differences in perceived communication by patients of the quality of outpatient episodes in an urban Chinese population.
Methods: A representative, population based survey was conducted in Hong Kong, China. A random sample of respondents aged >15 years who had received outpatient care the 30 days previous to enumeration were invited to evaluate communication with their doctors and the overall quality of their latest consultation.
Secular changes in height, weight and body mass index in Hong Kong Children.
BMC Public Health
September 2008
Background: Large population growth surveys of children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 y were undertaken in Hong Kong in 1963 and 1993. The global epidemic of obesity is a major public health concern. To monitor the impact of this epidemic in Hong Kong children and to identify secular changes in growth, a further growth survey was undertaken in 2005/6.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of this study was to translate the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (MSAS) into Chinese and evaluate the psychometric properties of this version. The original MSAS is a 32-item, patient-rated measure that was developed to assess common cancer-related physical and psychological symptoms with respect to frequency, intensity, and distress. In this study, a two-phase design was used.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The purpose of our study was to determine the prevalence, pattern, and spectrum of glenoid bone loss in anterior shoulder dislocation, to relate this to the frequency of dislocation, and to test the appropriateness of the measurement method.
Subjects And Methods: Two hundred eighteen patients with single or recurrent anterior shoulder dislocation underwent shoulder CT examination. Fifteen patients had bilateral dislocation.
Longitudinal changes in the disability level of the elders with low back pain after auriculotherapy.
Complement Ther Med
February 2008
Objective: To evaluate the longitudinal changes in the disability level of elders with LBP after receiving auriculotherapy.
Design: Randomized controlled trial.
Settings: Sixty participants who were 60 years old or above and who were suffering from LBP were recruited from five hostels for the elders in Hong Kong.
Background: A complex inflammatory response associated with the use of cardiopulmonary bypass may ultimately lead to organ dysfunction. We investigate the effect of continuing ventilation during cardiopulmonary bypass on inflammatory reactions and cardiopulmonary function.
Methods: Fifty patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass were prospectively randomized to continuous ventilation and nonventilation groups.
Background And Purpose: Stroke, a major health issue affecting the elderly, limits their participation in society. The aim of this study was to investigate changes in stroke survivors' handicap levels and to identify their determinants in the subacute phase from 3 months to 1 year.
Methods: Data were collected from a prospective cohort of 303 Chinese stroke survivors with the use of questionnaires, including the Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living-Chinese Version (IADL-CV), Barthel Index, Chinese Mini-Mental State Examination, Chinese Geriatric Depression Scale, and the Chinese version of the London Handicap Scale.
Aim: To assess the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Satisfaction with the Nursing Home Instrument.
Background: Resident's satisfaction has been regarded by the literature as a gold standard for quality of nursing home care. Accurate assessment of resident's satisfaction can provide valuable information for implementation of quality nursing home care.
Objective: In adults, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with insulin resistance and dyslipidemia. We aimed to establish correlation between OSA, serum lipid profile, and insulin levels in obese snoring children.
Methods: Consecutive obese children with habitual snoring were recruited.
This study was designed to examine newborn infants in Hong Kong prenatally exposed to levels of methylmercury considered to increase risk of neurotoxic effects and to examine subject characteristics that modify the degree of prenatal mercury exposure. Mercury concentrations in 1057 sets of maternal and cord blood samples and 96 randomly selected maternal hair samples were measured. Subject characteristics were measured or collected by questionnaire.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study aimed to evaluate the parental suspicion of hearing loss in children with otitis media with effusion (OME). As part of a population-based survey in a screening programme among 6- to 7-year-old Chinese children in Hong Kong, OME cases and controls were studied for the value of parental observations in the prediction of OME and hearing test results.
Subjects And Methods: Prior to the otoscopic and tympanometric examination of the children on school premises, a self-administered binary-choice question was sent to the parents asking whether there was any suspicion of hearing impairment.
Risk factors for otitis media with effusion in Chinese schoolchildren: a nested case-control study and review of the literature.
Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol
February 2006
Objective: To identify the risk factors for otitis media with effusion (OME) in Chinese schoolchildren and analyse the results with reference to the review of the literature.
Methods: The study subjects were 6-7-year-old children drawn from a school-screening program for OME in Hong Kong. Both positive and negative screens attended a hospital clinic for further assessment with repeated otoscopic examination and tympanometry as well as pure tone audiometry within 3 weeks after the initial school-screening.
Objective: On-pump beating heart coronary artery surgery provides the opportunity to examine the isolated effect of cardiopulmonary bypass. This prospective randomized study compares the early clinical outcomes and inflammatory response of patients undergoing elective on-pump and off-pump beating heart coronary artery bypass grafting.
Method And Patients: Thirty-seven consecutive patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass grafting were recruited from a pool of 73 patients, with 19 patients randomized to on-pump beating heart surgery and 18 patients to off-pump coronary bypass surgery.
Background: In Hong Kong, it has been projected that, by the year 2010, there will be 0.86 million persons aged 65 or older. The demand for residential care places continues to rise.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To establish if the hygiene practice of contact lens wearers (CLWs) can be influenced by "health belief."
Methods: A nested case-control study based on questionnaires was conducted in Hong Kong over a 17-month period between 45 CLW patients with microbial keratitis and 135 matched asymptomatic CLW volunteer controls.
Results: There was no significant difference between keratitis patients and controls (volunteers) in the perceived benefits of optometrists' instructions generally.