Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Aug 2023
The effect of adverse employment circumstances on physical pain: Evidence from Australian panel data.
Physical pain is a common health problem with great public health implications. Yet evidence on whether adverse employment circumstances shape physical pain is limited. Using longitudinal data from 20 waves (2001-2020) from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics of Australia Survey (HILDA; N = 23,748), a lagged design, Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regressions as well as multilevel mixed effect linear regressions, we investigated the association between past accumulated unemployment and recent employment circumstances with physical pain. ⋯ These results held after controlling for socio-demographic characteristics, occupation, and other health-related factors. These findings are consistent with recent work that suggested that psychological distress can influence physical pain. Understanding how adverse employment circumstances impact physical pain is crucial to the design of health promotion policies.
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Preventive medicine · Aug 2023
Longitudinal trajectories of smoking status using 25 year annually-updated data and all-cause mortality followed over 30 years: A community-based prospective cohort study.
We aimed to evaluate the long-term risk of smoking for all-cause mortality according to smoking status trajectories using 25-year annually-repeated input, traced by group-based trajectory modeling with an extension to account for non-random participant attrition or truncation due to death. We examined 2682 men and 4317 women aged 40 to 59 years who participated in annual health checks for the community-based prospective cohort study, 1975-1984 enrollment in Japan. The main outcome measure was all-cause mortality (follow-up period: median 30.2 years in men and 32.2 years in women). ⋯ Among community residents aged 40 to 59 years, 25-year-trajectory-based lifelong smokers had an approximately 30% increased risk for all-cause mortality compared to one-time-point-based smokers. Risk of all-cause mortality among smokers with earlier cessation varied materially. It is necessary to consider the trajectories of smoking status to clarify the long-term excess risk of smoking.
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Preventive medicine · Aug 2023
Randomized Controlled TrialOmni-media health education combined with nanodrug therapy on the creation of gastrointestinal microenvironment and the improvement of treatment compliance in patients with gastrointestinal tumors.
According to the randomization method, 82 patients can be divided into two groups, the control group and the study group, each with 41 patients participating in the investigation. All patients in the control group were cared for, and the study group used a health education model. ⋯ To enable patients to accurately grasp health knowledge during treatment, score self-management ability (ESCA), and maintain a level of satisfaction with care. (1) In the study group, the standard treatment of patients directly reached 97.56%, regular review reached 95.12%, regular exercise reached 90.24%, the degree of smoking cessation reached 92.68%. (2) The mastery of disease and health knowledge in the first group (95.12%) was significantly higher than that of (78.05%) (P < 0.05). (3) After the intervention, the first group scored higher for self-responsibility (27.07 ± 3.15), self-awareness (25.59 ± 3.11), health knowledge (40.38 ± 4.54), and self-care skills (36.45 ± 3.19). (4) The nursing satisfaction level of the first group was (92.68%), which was significantly higher than that of the other group (75.61%). According to the conclusions, it can be shown that health education for tumor patients can improve patients' compliance with treatment and mastery of disease health knowledge, which is conducive to improving patients' self-management ability.
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Preventive medicine · Aug 2023
Application of mobile sensors based on deep neural networks in sports psychological detection and prevention.
This article proposes a low-power, low-cost, programmable neural network processor for IoT applications. Aiming at the human inertial motion capture system, a human motion sensor detection method based on long- and short-term memory network is proposed. It provides a practical method for studying human motion detection based on mobile sensors and portable devices. ⋯ At the same time, improve and improve the physical and psychological functions of athletes of different qualities, and further improve sports performance. So far, the theoretical definition of sports mental fatigue and the operational definition of sports mental fatigue are still the center of discussion and research by sports psychologists. This article will also elaborate on the development of the most important concepts describing sports fatigue at home and abroad, using depth Neural network and mobile sensor technology have carried out research and exploration on the mental recognition of athletes in sports.
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Preventive medicine · Aug 2023
Review Meta AnalysisDrinking behaviors of Chinese adolescents over the past three decades: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Adolescent drinking is a major worldwide public health challenge. China is home to the world's second largest youth population, but relatively little is known about adolescent drinking behaviors. This study examined (1) prevalence rates and sex and age differences in drinking behaviors among Chinese adolescents over the past three decades and (2) whether underage drinking declined following the enactment of a strict national underage drinking policy in 2006. ⋯ The findings suggest that prevalence rates of drinking behaviors remain high among Chinese adolescents but are lower than among European or North American adolescents. The 2006 Chinese national policy to reduce underage drinking did not measurably alter patterns of underage drinking. Implications for prevention, research, and policy are discussed.