Anxiety, depression, insomnia, and PTSD among college students after optimizing the COVID-19 response in China.

Background: The number of COVID-19 infections has increased sharply and quickly after optimizing the COVID-19 response in China. In the context of this population-size infection, college students' psychological response is yet to be understood.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was designed to investigate anxiety, depression, insomnia, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among college students from December 31, 2022, to January 7, 2023.

Insight into the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on tuberculosis burden in China.

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Association of TNF-alpha-238G/A and 308 G/A gene polymorphisms with pulmonary tuberculosis among patients with coal worker's pneumoconiosis.

Objectives: Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) may play an important role in host's immune response to mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) infection. This study was to investigate the association of TNF-alpha gene polymorphism with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) among patients with coal worker's pneumoconiosis (CWP).

An HIV/AIDS intervention programme with Buddhist aid in Yunnan Province.

Background: The prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Chinese ethnic minorities is an important component of China's AIDS issues. In this study, we launched an intervention programme in Yunnan Province of China, where the Dai people live, to carry out the community-based HIV/AIDS health education and behavioral interventions on ordinary Dai farmers. The Dai people believe in Theravada Buddhism.

Effect of lifestyle on the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among farmers, migrants with Yi ethnicity and Han population in Sichuan province of China.

Yi people are the most primitive society in China. Little information on the metabolic syndrome (MS) is available in Yi people. We explored whether differing lifestyle affected the prevalence of MS among farmers and migrants of Yi ethnicity and Han population in one of the Southwestern parts of China.

HIV/AIDS related discrimination in health care service: a cross-sectional study in Gejiu City, Yunnan Province.

Objectives: To investigate discrimination against people living with HIV (PLWH) and its impacts.

Methods: Forty people who were either HIV positive (7/40) or had high risk behavior (33/40) were interviewed. Focus group discussion was held in the interview with people who were suspected to be infected with HIV, and in-depth interview was conducted in the survey of HIV positive persons whose privacy was strictly protected to ensure the confidentiality of the collected information.

Disentangling the stigma of HIV/AIDS from the stigmas of drugs use, commercial sex and commercial blood donation - a factorial survey of medical students in China.

Background: HIV/AIDS related stigma interferes with the provision of appropriate care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS. Currently, programs to address the stigma approach it as if it occurs in isolation, separate from the co-stigmas related to the various modes of disease transmission including injection drug use (IDU) and commercial sex (CS). In order to develop better programs to address HIV/AIDS related stigma, the inter-relationship (or 'layering') between HIV/AIDS stigma and the co-stigmas needs to be better understood.

Inequality and unwillingness to care for people living with HIV/AIDS: a survey of medical professionals in Southeast China.

This study was aimed at assessing physicians' and physician assistants' knowledge and attitudes toward HIV/AIDS and identifying determinants of willingness to care for infected individuals in Southeast China. From May to June 2004, 454 physicians and physician assistants from 5 different medical facility levels in Fujian Province, China, undertook a survey on knowledge, attitude, behavior, and practice (KABP). Only 40.

Smoking and mortality from esophageal cancer in China: a large case-control study of 19,734 male esophageal cancer deaths and 104,846 living spouse controls.

An innovative population-based case-control study was conducted in a national mortality survey to assess the hazards of tobacco use on esophageal cancer among Chinese men. Cases were 19,734 males aged 35 years or older, who died of esophageal cancer during 1986-1988. Controls were 104,846 male living spouses of the same age when their wife died (of any cause) during the same period in the same county or city.

Epidemiology of HIV and sexually transmitted infections in China.

As the most populous country in the world, China has been confronted with the huge challenges that HIV and sexually transmitted infections pose. The HIV infection rate among adults is lower than 0.1%, however, the estimated number of HIV infections sits around one million, according to the estimation of some experts.

HIV/AIDS-related discrimination in Shanxi rural areas of China.

Objective: In order to explore the features of discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS in rural areas, a community-based intervention was carried out in two pilot communities of X County of Shanxi Province from September 2002 to October 2003.

Methods: Data were collected using qualitative methods (in-depth interview and focus group discussion) and anonymously structured questionnaires.

Results: (1) Severe discrimination against people infected with HIV/AIDS was revealed in the target communities.

Exploring the influence of depressive symptoms on physical disability: a cohort study of elderly in Beijing, China.

Objectives: This study examined the influence of depressive symptoms on the prevalence of physical disability in a cohort study of Beijing elderly (1992--2000) and analyses the role of some confounding variables in this relationship.

Methods: A cohort of 1828 elderly aged 55 and older who were initially free of any physical disability was followed up for 8 years. Baseline depression was assessed by the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale.

[Ponderal index at birth predicts metabolic syndrome in mid-aged Chinese].

Objective: To examine the association between Ponderal index (PI) at birth and metabolic syndrome during middle age.

Methods: Totally, 975 adults (494 men and 481 women) aged 41-52 from the study cohort of Fetal Origin of Adult Disease were recruited in the study for clinic examinations, involving anthropometry and measurements of blood pressure, fasting and 2 hr plasma levels of glucose and insulin, serum lipid profile. Their HOMA-insulin resistance (IR) index was estimated.

[Cigarette smoking and Parkinson's disease: a population based case-control study].

Objective: To explore the association with cigarette smoking for Parkinson's disease (PD).

Methods: One hundred and fourteen PD cases and 205 controls matched on gender and race were recruited from ongoing PD prevalence survey and identified at the neurological clinic of Peking Union Medical College Hospital. Face to face questionnaire interview was carried out and data on smoking and alcohol consumption were analyzed in a population-based case control study.

Parkinson's disease and smoking: an integral part of PD's etiological study.

Objective: To explore the association of Parkinson's disease (PD) with cigarette smoking.

Methods: One hundred of fourteen PD patients were compared with 205 control subjects who were matched by gender, race and residency. A previously validated questionnaire including smoking, alcohol/tea consumption as well as some other environmental exposure data was administered.

AIDS-related knowledge, condom usage among medical postgraduates.

Objective: To investigate the knowledge about safety/unsafety of sexual acts relating to HIV transmission, levels of embarrassment related to condom and condom usage among medical postgraduates.

Methods: From August to December, 1998, a self-administered anonymous questionnaire was given to 271 new medical postgraduates from two medical colleges of Beijing and Hebei Province.

Results: There was a hazy understanding of the protective function of condom from AIDS among medical postgraduates.