Personal experience of schizophrenia and the role of Danwei: a case study in 1990s Beijing.

Danwei as a cornerstone of Chinese urban society has received great research attention. The relationship between the Danwei and psychiatric patients, however, remains unclear. This article aims to shed light on the subject with an integrated micro-macro approach.

Understanding the self-care strategies of patients with asthma.

Objective: The objective was to understand how adults living with asthma deal with their chronic illness, perceive self-management and develop self-care strategies.

Methods: 24 in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted in Montreal, Canada with low- and middle-income adults living with asthma. The interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed for purposes of analysis.

Help-seeking behaviors of Chinese patients with schizophrenia admitted to a psychiatric hospital.

Purpose: To investigate the help-seeking behaviors and related factors of Chinese psychiatric inpatients with schizophrenia.

Method: Two hundred and two patients with schizophrenia (ICD-10) were enrolled in this study. A locally-developed, semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data, including data on illness and help-seeking histories from patients, informants, and medical records.

Social welfare policy: social rehabilitation of psychiatric patients in urban China.

Background: The background of this paper is an empirical research on social rehabilitation of psychiatric patients in a large urban city in China during the post-Mao period, the Beijing Psychiatric Rehabilitation Research. Another aspect of this background is an exchange with Chen Sheying, a colleague interested in social services for the elderly in China. The underlying assumption of this paper is the multiple similarities between those two areas.