Background: Although online health communities are acknowledged for their role in bridging the supply-demand gap in mental health services, the client decision-making process in these environments remains underexplored.
Objective: This study aimed to explore the impact of different signals presented on psychological counselors' home pages on clients' choices.
Methods: Adopting signaling theory as the framework, this study classified information into online and offline signals and developed a theoretical model to examine client choice behaviors.
Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi
August 2024
This study aims to explore the improvement effect of Sijunzi Decoction on intestinal barrier in diabetic mice. A type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM) model was established in C57BL/6J mice by feeding them with high-sugar and high-fat diet combined with streptozotocin(STZ). The T2DM mice were randomly divided into a control group, a T2DM group, a donepezil(DON) group, a rosiglitazone(RGZ) group, and Sijunzi Decoction groups(7.
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December 2021
Purpose: To assess whether medical staff are satisfied with public hospital reform and its influencing factors.
Methods: A sample of 2000 medical staff from 13 public hospitals in Wuhan were surveyed with a self-administered questionnaire. Descriptive analysis and binary logistic regression were conducted to identify the status of the medical staff's attitude to the reform and the influencing factors.
Objective: The purpose of our study is to develop a mental workload scale for physicians in China and assess the scale's reliability and validity.
Design: The instrument was developed over three phases involving 396 physicians from different tiers of comprehensive public hospitals in China. In the first phase, an initial item pool was developed through a systematic literature review.
Hospitals are struggling to involve patients and learn from their experience. The risk factor of patient experience is increasingly recognized as a critical component in improving patient experience. Our study explored risk factors of negative patient experience in order to improve the health-service quality of public hospitals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The proliferation of mobile health apps has greatly changed the way society accesses the health care industry. However, despite the widespread use of mobile health apps by patients in China, there has been little research that evaluates the effect of mobile health apps on patient experience during hospital visits.
Objective: The purpose of our study was to examine whether the use of mobile health apps improves patient experience and to find out the difference in patient experience between users and nonusers and the characteristics associated with the users of these apps.
Objective: The objective of this study is to describe the development of the Outpatient Experience Questionnaire (OPEQ) and to assess the validity and reliability of the scale.
Design: Literature review, patient interviews, Delphi method and Cross-sectional validation survey.
Setting: Six comprehensive public hospitals in China.