Frailty, comorbidity, disability and poor self-rated health: prevalence of overlaps amongst the oldest-old adults from the Hong Kong Centenarian Study.

Posters - Scientific Research (Epidemology)INTRODUCTION: The frailty phenotype includes five characteristics: fatigue, weakness, poor endurance, physical illness and weight loss. Frailty correlates strongly with comorbidity and disability, but their interaction with selfrated health (SRH) amongst the oldest-old adults remains unclear. We examined the prevalence of overlap between frailty, comorbidity, disability and poor SRH amongst the oldest-old adults …published_or_final_versio

Comprehensive Index of Frailty: a multi-dimensional construct from the Hong Kong Centenarian Study

This journal suppl. entitled: 20th Medical Research Conference; Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong KongINTRODUCTION: Frailty is a global epidemiological and clinical phenomenon that can lead to poor long-term outcome. A better understanding of its components is essential for future developments of management strategies. We sought to assess the incremental validity of a new Comprehensive Index of Frailty over Frailty …published_or_final_versio

Comprehensive Index of Frailty: a multi-dimensional construct from the Hong Kong Centenarian Study

Posters - Scientific Research (Biology and Social Gerontology)INTRODUCTION: Frailty is a global epidemiological and clinical phenomenon that can lead to poor long-term outcome. A better understanding of its components is essential for future developments of management strategies. We sought to assess the incremental validity of a new Comprehensive Index of Frailty over Frailty Index in predicting self-rated health and functional dependency amongst the oldest-old adults …published_or_final_versio

Effects of the integrative mind-body intervention on depression, sleep disturbances and plasma IL-6

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Depression, not lethargy, moderates the frailty-subjective health relationship among centenarians

Platform Presentations: Friday, Clinical Quality - Scientific Research (Psychiatry and Mental Health)INTRODUCTION: Very old people may be physically frail, but they may not necessarily experience poor subjective health after taking into account other dimensions of health, e.g. psychological well-being. We hypothesized that the frailty-subjective health relationship is moderated by depression and/or lethargy in very-old adults …published_or_final_versio

Household secondhand smoke exposure of elementary schoolchildren in Southern Taiwan and factors associated with their confidence in avoiding exposure: a cross-sectional study

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Exposure to household Secondhand Smoke (SHS) poses a major health threat to children after an indoor smoking ban was imposed in Taiwan. This study aimed to assess the household SHS exposure in elementary school children in southern Taiwan and the factors associated with their avoidance of SHS exposure before and after the implementation of Taiwan's new Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act in 2009.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>In this cross-sectional school-based study, data on household SHS exposure, avoidance of SHS and related variables was obtained from the 2008 and 2009 Control of School-aged Children Smoking Study Survey. A random sample of 52 elementary schools was included. A total of 4450 3-6 graders (aged 8-13) completed the questionnaire. Regression models analyzed factors of children's self-confidence to avoid household SHS exposure.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Over 50% of children were found to have lived with a family member who smoked in front of them after the new law enacted, and 35% of them were exposed to household SHS more than 4 days a week. Having a positive attitude toward smoking (β = -0.05 to -0.06) and high household SHS exposure (β = -0.34 to -0.47) were significantly associated with a lower avoidance of SHS exposure. Comparing to girls, boys had lower scores in their knowledge of tobacco hazards; and this factor was significantly related to their SHS avoidance (β = 0.13-0.14).</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>The intervention program should enhance school children do actively avoid exposure to SHS in home settings, and more importantly, provide tobacco hazard knowledge to male students to avoid exposure to household SHS for themselves. The results also provide further evidence that Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act should perhaps be extended to the family environment in order to protect children from the hazards of household SHS exposure.</p

A discourse perspective on creating organizational knowledge: the case of strategizing

This chapter outlines a discursive epistemology of knowledge production through an analysis of the role of time and context in the social construction of organizational insights, outcomes and theories. While the role of time and context has been widely acknowledged in organizational discourse analysis, it has remained unclear what is specific to knowledge generation. Drawing upon a case study of an attempted company acquisition, we illustrate how knowledge is discursively produced and consumed during a process of strategizing. Our analysis shows how knowledge producing processes (e.g. strategizing, theorizing, conceptualizing and hypothesizing) extend both the time horizon of discourses that relate to the future, and the context horizon for discourse(s) that relate to the broader context. This reconstructs the tapestry of interwoven discourses that make up a local discourse and enable new managerial knowledge to be produced