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Building a model for encouraging help-seeking for depression: a qualitative study in a Chinese society
BACKGROUND:Clinical depression has been increasingly prevalent in international health statistics but people are often found to be reluctant to seek help when they encounter depression. However, there is no general theory to explain how personal, social and cultural factors affect an individual's help-seeking intention, nor to guide the design of preventive programmes for such intention once needed.METHODS:Drawing on the theory of planned behavior, we deployed the illness narrative approach and interviewed 18 participants in Hong Kong.RESULTS:With the diverse results we gathered from the interviews, a behavioral model was built to conceptualize the interplays of various factors in shaping one's help-seeking intention and behavior for depression. Participants appeared to have a limited view of treatment options and had diverse views of the symptoms of depression, both of which profoundly affected their motivation to seek help.CONCLUSIONS:The role of family and friends and a holistic approach to mental health education were found to be particularly important for encouraging help-seeking behavior in future campaigns concerning depression.published_or_final_versio
Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome presented as failure to thrive in a Down's syndrome child
Children suffering from Down's syndrome are prone to develop obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) due to craniofacial abnormalities, small upper airway, adenotonsillar hypertrophy and muscular hypotonia.1 OSAS will lead to various complications including failure to thrive.2 We report a Down's syndrome boy whose main presenting feature of OSAS was failure to thrive. He was successfully treated initially with nocturnal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) ventilation and subsequently with adenotonsillectomy.published_or_final_versio
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Maintaining a reputation for consistently beating earnings expectations and the slippery slope to earnings manipulation
This paper investigates whether maintaining a reputation for consistently beating analystsâ earnings expectations can motivate executives to move from âwithin GAAPâ earnings management to âoutside of GAAPâ earnings manipulation. We analyze firms subject to SEC enforcement actions and find that these firms consistently beat analystsâ quarterly earnings forecasts in the three years prior to the manipulation period and continue to do so by smaller âbeatsâ during the manipulation period. We find that manipulating firms beat expectations around 86 percent of the time in the twelve quarters prior to the manipulation period (versus 75 percent for control firms) and that manipulation often ends with a miss in expectations. We document that executives of manipulating firms face strong stock market and CEO pressure to perform. Prior to the manipulation period, these firms have high analyst optimism, growing institutional interest, and high market valuations, along with powerful CEOs. Further, we find that maintaining a reputation for beating expectations is more important than CEO overconfidence and is incremental to CEO equity incentives for explaining manipulation. Our results suggest that pressure to maintain a reputation for beating analystsâ expectations can encourage aggressive accounting and, ultimately, earnings manipulation
12-year follow-up student of mortality due to suicide among first-episode psychosis cohort: Is the early intervention program more effective in reducing excess mortality due to suicide in psychosis
Oral Presentation: O10. Treatment and clinical service: no. O10.8published_or_final_versio
A Mobile App Platform for Discovering Learning Profiles and Analytics
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Web-Based Psychoeducation Program for Caregivers of First-Episode of Psychosis: An Experience of Chinese Population in Hong Kong
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The Effect of Paternal Age on Relapse in First-Episode Schizophrenia
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High prevalence of mixed infections by Helicobacter pylori in Hong Kong: Metronidazole sensitivity and overall genotype
Background: Diversity in metronidazole susceptibility and genotypes of Helicobacter pylori have been reported with varying results in different areas. Aims: To investigate the prevalence of multiple strain infection in a symptomatic Chinese population and to determine the metronidazole susceptibility pattern and genotypic characteristics of these infecting strains. Methods: Gastric biopsies from antrum, body and cardia were taken during upper endoscopy in symptomatic patients referred to our department. Pooled cultures and single colony isolates were obtained and tested for metronidazole susceptibility and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprint patterns. Results: A total of 461 isolates were successfully cultured from 46 patients. Fifty-seven per cent of subjects had metronidazole-resistant strains. Among them, 77% carried a mixture of sensitive and resistant strains, non-uniformly distributed in the gastric mucosa. Mixed genotypes were found by RAPD typing in 24% of subjects. These did not correlate with the metronidazole susceptibility/resistance pattern. Conclusion: H. pylori infections with mixed metronidazole sensitive/resistant strains and mixed genotypes are common in Hong Kong. This makes it prudent to use bacterial strains from several biopsy sites when testing for traits such as drug resistance or virulence in relation to disease.postprin
Clinical correlation of nuclear survivin in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
To examine the correlation of survivin (both total and nuclear survivin) with clinicopathological parameters of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) patients. Tumors and non-tumor tissues near the proximal resection margins were resected from ESCC patients undergone esophagectomy. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) was performed to detect survivin mRNA expression level in the 10 paired tumor and adjacent non-tumor tissues. To confirm with the clinical situation, survivin mRNA and protein expression were measured by qPCR and immunoblot, respectively, in 5 ESCC cell lines and a non-neoplastic esophageal epithelial cell line. Immunohistochemistry was employed to reveal the cellular localization of survivin in tumor tissues isolated from the 64 ESCC patients undergone surgery alone. Up-regulation of survivin mRNA and protein was found in 5 ESCC lines (HKESC-1, HKESC-2, HKESC-3, HKESC-4, and SLMT-1) when compared to a non-neoplastic esophageal epithelial cell line NE-1. In particular, HKESC-3, HKESC-4, and SLMT-1 cells demonstrated ~50-fold increase in survivin mRNA. High level of survivin mRNA in tumor tissues when compared to non-tumor tissues was found in 70 % (7 of 10) of clinical cases. The increase in expression ranged from ~twofold to ~16-fold. Immunohistochemistry results showed that survivin was found at the cell nuclei in all specimens examined. Nuclear expression of survivin was inversely associated with the likelihood of developing nodal metastasis (p = 0.021) and significantly associated with early-stage ESCC (p = 0.039). Nuclear survivin could serve as a marker for indicating disease status in ESCC patients. Š 2012 The Author(s).published_or_final_versio
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