Impact of the Essential Public Health Service program on financial protection and health outcomes among hypertensive patients: A quasi-experimental study in China.

Background: The Chinese government launched the Essential Public Health Service (EPHS) program nationwide in 2009. However, prior studies have not provided clear and integrated evidence on whether the EPHS program improves health outcomes and prevents financial risks among individuals. Because hypertension is the chronic disease with the highest prevalence, this study evaluated the impact of the EPHS program among hypertensive patients to provide evidence for the progress of the program.

Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Gudjonsson compliance scale: scale validation and associations with mental health.

Background: Trait compliance involves people reacting favorably to demands made by others across different situations. This may lead to susceptibility to external pressures, exploitation, and manipulation. Moreover, trait compliance was found to correlate with various mental health outcomes, such as depression and anxiety.

FDI and Wellbeing: A Key Node Analysis for Psychological Health in Response to COVID-19 Using Artificial Intelligence.

Developing countries are primary destinations for FDI from emerging economies following the World Investment Report 2022, including destinations in OECD countries. Based on three theoretical lenses and case analyses, we argue that Chinese outward FDI has impacts on wellbeing in destination countries, and that this is an important issue for psychological health in response to COVID-19. Based on the super-efficiency DEA approach, our study investigated the impact of Chinese outward FDI on wellbeing in OECD countries.

Role of time perspectives and self-control on well-being and ill-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multiple mediation model.

Background: A growing body of evidence indicates that the outbreak of COVID-19 has had a significant influence on individuals' cognition, emotion, and psychological health. This study aims to explore the effect of the association between time perspectives and self-control on the well-being and ill-being among college students in China during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: We conducted an online survey involving 1,924 participants in mainland China during the outbreak of COVID-19.

Understanding cultural factors in mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: when collectivism meets a tight culture.

The long-standing pathogen prevalence hypothesis suggests that collectivism can protect from epidemics and pandemics in terms of psychological well-being. However, studies exploring the protective mechanism induced when collectivism meets cultural tightness (the strength of social norms and tolerance for deviant behavior) are few. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the protective effect of collectivism in detail considering loose and tight cultural contexts.

What protects us against the COVID-19 threat? Cultural tightness matters.

Background: The only previous studies that formulated a theoretical model of epidemics for psychological response relative to cultural perspectives have focused on the role of individualism-collectivism and have omitted analysis of tightness-looseness. This study explored the role of cultural tightness in relation to psychological disorders during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: We recruited 1827 Chinese adolescents (M = 18.

Influence of Public Engagement with Science on Scientific Information Literacy During the COVID‑19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence from College Students in China.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we are fighting not only the novel coronavirus, but also the "infodemic" induced by the pandemic. Therefore, it is urgent to explore approaches for enhancing individual immunity against science-related misinformation. We conducted a cross-sectional study to examine the relationship between public engagement with science (PES) and scientific information literacy (SIL) during the COVID-19 pandemic from college students ( = 8075) in China.