Maneuvering between cultures: The reception of hospice care in the Chinese medical community.

The expansion of hospice care worldwide has been received differently by medical communities in different societies. Nonetheless, existing efforts to explain how culture affects the reception of hospice care are inadequate. On the basis of fieldwork conducted in Chinese medical institutions and care facilities between 2017 and 2022, this paper draws on a theoretical framework that distinguishes between declarative culture and nondeclarative culture at the personal level to explain the discrepancies between healthcare professionals' beliefs regarding the value of hospice care and their daily healthcare practice.

Contextualizing the revised Patient Perception of Patient-Centeredness (PPPC-R) scale in primary healthcare settings: a validity and reliability evaluation study.

Background: An English version of the Patient Perception of Patient-Centeredness (PPPC) scale was recently revised, and it is necessary to test this instrument in different primary care populations.

Aim: This study aimed to assess the validity and reliability of a Chinese version of the PPPC scale.

Design: A mixed method was used in this study.

The trajectory of family caregiving for older adults with dementia: difficulties and challenges.

Introduction: As the main source of informal care in China, family members bear a tremendous caregiving burden, particularly in relation to older people with dementia (PwDs). However, the continuous caregiving trajectory of family caregivers was unclear.

Objectives: To investigate the trajectory of PwDs' family caregivers' struggles from home care to institutional care, and identify the common tipping points leading to institutional care from their perspectives.

When cultural values meets professional values: a qualitative study of chinese nurses' attitudes and experiences concerning death.

Background: In China, there is a culture of death-avoidance and death-denying. Influenced by this distinctive socio-cultural views surrounding death, nurses often find it challenging to handle death and care for dying patients. This study explores the nurses' attitudes and coping strategies concerning death and caring for dying patients in a cultural context of death taboo.

The possibility of impossibility: The hope for a cure among terminally ill cancer patients in China.

Objective: Although the medical potential of the hope for a cure has been fiercely debated within academia, few researchers have approached this topic from the perspective of terminally ill cancer patients themselves. As such, this article aims to help bridge the gap by exploring how terminally ill cancer patients in China construct the hope for a cure.

Methods: Seventeen terminally ill cancer patients were recruited from the department of oncology at a tertiary hospital, where data were collected through individual interviews and participatory observation from April to December 2020 and analysed via thematic analysis.

'It's not within my control': local explanations for the development of lung cancer in China.

Rates of lung cancer in China are rising rapidly, creating an urgent need for prevention. Effective prevention measures require understanding local beliefs and perceptions about the risk for developing lung cancer. This article explores the explanations that Chinese lung cancer patients and their families give about the aetiology of their disease.

Primary care providers' perceptions and experiences of family-centered care for older adults: a qualitative study of community-based diabetes management in China.

Background: Family-centered care, as a contemporary model of health service delivery, involves a mutually beneficial partnership between healthcare providers, patients and their families. Although evidence on the positive effects of family-centered care on older adults and their families is accumulating, less is known about the providers' beliefs, attitudes and practices related to family-centeredness, especially regarding community-based primary healthcare services for the rapidly-ageing Chinese population.

Methods: This study investigated Chinese primary care providers' perceptions and experiences of family-centered care for older adults, using community-based diabetes management services as an example.

The Perceptions and Experiences of Mobile Health Technology by Older People in Guangzhou, China: A Qualitative Study.

The study explores older people's perceptions and experiences with mobile technology adoption in hospitals. Twenty nine older people were interviewed at a tertiary hospital in Guangzhou from June to December 2020. All the interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis.

Registered nurses' role experiences of caring for older stroke patients: a qualitative study.

Background: With China's population ageing rapidly, stroke is becoming one of the major public health problems. Nurses are indispensable for caring for older patients with acute and convalescent stroke, and their working experiences are directly linked to the quality of care provided. The study aims to investigate registered nurses' experiences of caring for older stroke patients.

Values, skills, and decision-making: A cultural sociological approach to explaining diagnostic disclosure.

This paper provides an analytical framework for explaining the practice of diagnostic disclosure by drawing on theoretical developments regarding the question of "culture in action." Based on ethnographic and interview data collected from fieldwork at a major cancer hospital in China from 2015 to 2019, this paper explains how doctors and family members make decisions about diagnostic disclosure. We argue that it is important to understand the practice of diagnostic disclosure as motivated by the actors' values on the one hand, and constrained and enabled by the actors' skills on the other hand.

A Cross-Sectional Survey of Family Care Behaviors for Children with Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in China: Are There Opportunities for Improvement?

Objective: To describe family care behaviors for children with upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) and explore related factors.

Design And Methods: Parents of children with URTIs were included in this cross-sectional study. Family care behaviors, disease-related knowledge, and parental self-efficacy were evaluated with validated measures.

Dyadic appraisal and coping with illness among older Chinese adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a qualitative study.

Introduction: Diabetes management permeates patients' daily routines and interacts with their living context. Less is known about how older Chinese couples view their supportive roles and the allocation of the management responsibility between them.

Objectives: To explore dyadic appraisal, coping and the barriers to diabetes management shared by older Chinese couples.

Indispensable outsiders: A qualitative study of the working experiences of hospital care workers in China.

Aims: To explore the working experiences of Chinese hospital care workers from their own perspectives.

Background: Many countries face an increasing demand for nursing care and an acute shortage of registered nurses. As a result, much of the care work at hospitals is delegated to assistant staff, such as care workers.

The working experiences of male nurses in China: Implications for male nurse recruitment and retention.

Aims: To understand the working experiences and career trajectories of male nurses in China.

Background: Compared with developed countries, men were far more under-represented in the nursing profession in China. Little is known about the working experiences of Chinese male nurses and the contextual factors that contribute to their low participation rate in the nursing profession.

Outpatient communication patterns in a cancer hospital in China: A qualitative study of doctor-patient encounters.

Objective: The paper characterizes outpatient communication in a major cancer hospital in southern China with regard to the structure, style and focus of doctor-patient communication.

Method: Fifty-one encounters between doctors and patients were recorded in the outpatient department of the cancer hospital and analysed inductively to identify patterns of doctor-patient outpatient communication.

Results: Outpatient communication in the cancer hospital is characterized by structuralized conversation, doctor domination of the conversation and a focus on technology during communication.

Assessment of the health status and health service perceptions of international migrants coming to Guangzhou, China, from high-, middle- and low-income countries.

Background: China, which used to be an export country for migrants, has become a new destination for international migrants due to its rapid economic growth. However, little empirical data is available on the health status of and health service access barriers faced by these international migrants.

Methods: Foreigners who visited the Guangzhou Municipal Exit-Entry Administration Office to extend their visas were invited to participate in the study.