Will mothers of sick children help their husbands to stop smoking after receiving a brief intervention from nurses? Secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial

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Application of linear switched reluctance motors to precision position control

Author name used in this publication: Norbert C. CheungRefereed conference paper2004-2005 > Academic research: refereed > Refereed conference paperVersion of RecordPublishe

Regularized restoration of VQ compressed images with constrained least squares approach

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Virtual laboratory development for teaching power electronics

Author name used in this publication: Cheng K. W. E.Author name used in this publication: Cheung N. C.Author name used in this publication: Sutanto D.Power Electronics Research Centre, Department of Electrical EngineeringRefereed conference paper2001-2002 > Academic research: refereed > Refereed conference paperVersion of RecordPublishe

LED lighting development for intelligent clothing

Author name used in this publication: K. W. E. ChengAuthor name used in this publication: Y. L. KwokAuthor name used in this publication: K. W. ChanAuthor name used in this publication: N. C. CheungAuthor name used in this publication: K. W. KwokVersion of RecordPublishe

Is there scope for community health nurses to address lifestyle risk factors? The community nursing SNAP trial

Background: This paper examines the opportunity and need for lifestyle interventions for patients attending generalist community nursing services in Australia. This will help determine the scope for risk factor management within community health care by generalist community nurses (GCNs). Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study conducted in four generalist community nursing services in NSW, Australia. Prior to service contacts, clients were offered a computer-assisted telephone interview to collect baseline data on socio-demographics, health conditions, smoking status, physical activity levels, alcohol consumption, height and weight, fruit and vegetable intake and \u27readiness-to-change\u27 for lifestyle risk factors. Results: 804 clients participated (a response rate of 34.1%). Participants had higher rates of obesity (40.5% vs 32.1%) and higher prevalence of multiple risk factors (40.4% vs 29.5%) than in the general population. Few with a SNAPW (S moking-N utrition-A lcohol-P hysical-Activity-Weight) risk factor had received advice or referral in the previous 3 months. The proportion of clients identified as at risk and who were open to change (i.e. contemplative, in preparation or in action phase) were 65.0% for obese/overweight; 73.8% for smokers; 48.2% for individuals with high alcohol intake; 83.5% for the physically inactive and 59.0% for those with poor nutrition. Conclusions: There was high prevalence of lifestyle risk factors. Although most were ready to change, few clients recalled having received any recent lifestyle advice. This suggests that there is considerable scope for intervention by GCNs. The results of this trial will shed light on how best to implement the lifestyle risk factor management in routine practice

Predictors of intention to quit at participation and six-month abstinence in the participants of Hong Kong Quit-to-Win Contest (2009-2013)

Poster Discussion 23. Cessation - Predictors and Policies: no. PD-864-20Conference Theme: Tobacco and Non-Communicable DiseasesBACKGROUND: Quit and Win Contests were organized in many countries to attract a large number of smokers, who mostly had not sought professional cessation support, to quit with the grand monetary prize as an incentive. The present study aims to explore the influential factors of being ready to quit (want to quit within 7 days) and abstinence in these participants. DESIGN/METHODS: The 4 rounds of Quit-to-Win Contests (2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013) recruited 4,093 adult daily …published_or_final_versio

Congenital myopathies: characteristic and subtypes in Hong Kong

This journal suppl. entitled: 20th International Congress of The World Muscle SocietyCongenital myopathies are a group of childhood onset neuromuscular disorder with the diagnosis mainly based on genetic and pathological features. This is a unique group with phenotypic, genotypic and pathological heterogeneity, so the confirmation of an underlying diagnosis is often challenging. This is the first congenital myopathy case series in Hong Kong. A total of 15 patients have been diagnosed to have congenital myopathies with 11 patients had the genetic mutations being identified (4 patients had RYR1 mutations, 3 patients had ACTA1 mutations, 2 patients had KLHL40 mutations, 1 patient had MTM1 mutation and 1 patient had DNM2 mutation).postprin

A family smoking cessation intervention for parents of children 0-18 months: a randomized controlled trial

Oral Session 23: 24-Health Promotion in the Community &19- Global Warning,Sustainable Earth and Health (English Session)Conference Theme: Empowerment for Healthy Settings - Healthy City and Community, Healthy School and University, Healthy Hospital and Healthy Workplace.Aim: This is a single-blinded, multi-site randomized controlled trial aiming to evaluate the effectiveness of a proactive multi-step theory-based family smoking cessation intervention delivered by smoking cessation nurses to non-smoking mothers and smoking fathers, to protect their infants from exposure to household second-hand smoke and to help the fathers quit smoking. Methods: A total of 24,315 families were screened at 22 Maternal Child Health Centres in 2008- 2010. 1,158 families with smoking father, non-smoking mother and an infant under 18-month were randomized into intervention and control groups. The intervention group received face-to-face and telephone counselling (mothers) on executing a complete household-no smoking policy and supporting their husbands to quit smoking; 3 telephone smoking cessation counselling sessions (fathers); an additional face-to-face family intervention session with NRT (if necessary); and a smoke-free kit with health education materials. The control group received a pamphlet about smokefree home (mothers) and a self-help smoking cessation pamphlet (fathers). All families were followed up at 6- and 12-month to assess the fathers’ smoking status, implementation of household smoking policy (mothers), role of mothers’ general self-efficacy to assist fathers quit smoking, change in marital relationship (both spouses), and the utilization of health services (infants) .....published_or_final_versio

The role of radiofrequency ablation to liver transection surface in patients with close tumor margin of HCC during hepatectomy-a case matched study

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