2010 World Expo and Urban Life Quality in Shanghai in Terms of Sustainable Development

Based on sustainable development theory and the UN's Human Development Index, this thesis puts forward what the quality of urban life implies, makes a study of the world Expo's potential influences on the urban life of Shanghai and advances the strategy and measures to strengthen the life-quality-facing urban

Evaluation of Recreation Service Quality of Slow Traffic Space in Urban Parks Based on IPA-Space Syntax Model

To build an“ecological and livable city”,it is important to figure out the relationship between human activity and urban park space and create a high-quality urban park through the integration of“people”and“park”.Taking Longhu Park in Huainan Province as an example,the study quantitatively analyzed and evaluated the characteristics and service quality of slow traffic space using importance-performance analysis(IPA)and space syntax,clarified the key indexes and areas to be optimized,and put forward corresponding design countermeasures and suggestions in combination with human activity demand.The results suggest that:①The mean performance of park recreation service quality is 3.63,less than the mean importance(3.95).Tourists pay special attention to the safety and convenience of slow traffic space,and the diversity and identiability of site functions is the focus“to be improved”.②The accessibility of Longhu Park shows a strong irregular shape in the southwest.The dead-end roads in the far lake area and the flora and fauna area on the northwest side have weak spatial perception,and the composite function carrying potential of slow traffic space is better reflected in a small range.Therefore,an optimization strategy for slow traffic space is proposed to enhance the continuity of road network,site identifiability,and functional diversification.The results will provide new thoughts of governance based on spatial humanism for the high-quality renewal of urban parks in the new era.

Assessing Sport and Recreation Programmes＇ Service Quality at Hotels and Resorts＂ Towards Enhancing Customer Participation

Many issues and challenges are faced by the managers programmes today. Although many previous researches on and professionals in managing sport and recreation service quality provided by the organizations had been explored, very few studies pertaining to service quality in sport and recreation programmes in local hotels and resorts have been emphasized. This study aims to assess customers＇ perceptions of service quality in sport and recreation programmes and to determine the differences between customers＇ perceptions of service quality in terms of their gender and nationality. A total of 450 respondents from the hotels and resorts located in coastal areas of the northern Peninsular Malaysia participated in the survey. They were asked to respond to a series of the adapted service quality （SERVQUAL） items to measure five dimensions of service quality including tangibles, assurance, responsiveness, reliability, and empathy. Results from this study revealed that the customers＇ perceptions of the overall services in sport and recreation programmes provided by the hotels and resorts were satisfactory. It was also indicated that there was no significant difference between male and female customers＇ perceptions of service quality in sport and recreation programmes. Conversely, the results revealed that there was a significant difference between local and foreign customers＇ perceptions of sport and recreation services provided. These findings had implications on sport and recreation programmes in relation to designing effective management and marketing strategies at hotels and resorts.

Effect of self-management on lower urinary tract symptoms and life quality of benign prostatic hyperplasia patients

Objective To evaluate the efficacy of self-management to improve the lower urinary tract symptoms ( LUTS) and life quality in benign prostatic

Heartburn and regurgitation have different impacts on life quality of patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease

AIM: To investigate the impact of heartburn and regurgitation on the quality of life among patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

Age-related symptom and life quality changes in women with irritable bowel syndrome

AIM:To explore age-related changes in symptoms and quality of life(QoL) of women with irritable bowel syndrome(IBS).METHODS:Two-hundred and fifty-four female adult outpatients with IBS attending the Department of Gastroenterology at the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University between January,2008 and October,2008 were approached.Patients with a history of abdominal surgery,mental illness or those who had recently taken psychotropic drugs were excluded.A physician obtained demographic and abdominal symptom data.All patients were asked to complete the Zung Self-Rated Anxiety and Depression Scale(SDS/SAS) and the IBS-specific QoL questionnaire.The patients were divided into six groups according to age,in 10-year increments:18-27 years,28-37 years,38-47 years,48-57 years,58-67 years and 68-75 years(maximum 75 years).Age-related differences of abdominal pain or discomfort were analyzed using ranksum tests.Differences in SDS/SAS and IBS-QoL scores between age groups were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance.Pearson's correlations evaluated potential associations between IBS symptoms,psychological factors and QoL in each age group.RESULTS:There were no differences in the distribution of IBS subtypes between age groups(χ2 = 20.516,P = 0.153).Differences in the severity of abdominal pain/discomfort with age were statistically significant(χ2 = 25.638,P < 0.001);patients aged 48-57 years,58-67 years or 68-75 years had milder abdominal pain/discomfort than those in the younger age groups.The severity of anxiety or depressive symptoms did not differ between age groups(SDS,χ2 = 390.845,P = 0.110;SAS,χ 2 = 360.071,P = 0.220).Differences of IBSQoL scores were statistically significant between age groups(χ2 = 1098.458,P = 0.011).The scores of patients in the 48-57-year group were lower than those in the 18-27-year and 28-37-year groups(48-57-year group vs 18-27-year group,74.88 ± 8.76 vs 79.76 ± 8.63,P = 0.021;48-57-year group vs 28-37-year group,74.88 ± 8.76 vs 79.04 ± 8.32,P = 0.014).The scores in the 68-75-year group were lower than those in the 18-27-year,28-37-year and 38-47-year groups(68-75-year group vs 18-27-year group,71.98 ± 9.83 vs 79.76 ± 8.63,P = 0.003;68-75-year group vs 28-37-year group,71.98 ± 9.83 vs 79.04 ± 8.32,P = 0.002;68-75-year group vs 38-47-year group,71.98 ± 9.83 vs 76.44 ± 8.15,P = 0.039).Anxiety and depression were negatively correlated with QoL in all age groups(SDS and QoL:18-27-year group,r =-0.562,P = 0.005;28-37-year group,r =-0.540,P < 0.001;38-47-year group,r =-0.775,P < 0.001;48-57-year group,r =-0.445,P = 0.001;58-67-year group,r =-0.692,P < 0.001;68-75-year group,r =-0.732,P < 0.001.SAS and QoL:18-27-year group,r =-0.600,P = 0.002;28-37-year group,r =-0.511,P < 0.001;38-47-year group,r =-0.675,P < 0.001;48-57-year group,r =-0.558,58-67-year group,P = 0.001;r =-0.588,P < 0.001;68-75-year group,r =-0.811,P < 0.001).A negative correlation between abdominal pain severity and QoL was found in patients aged more than 58 years(58-67-year group,r =-0.366,P = 0.017;68-75-year group,r =-0.448,P = 0.048),but not in younger patients(18-27-year group,r = 0.080,P = 0.716;28-37-year group,r =-0.063,P = 0.679;38-47-year group,r =-0.029,P = 0.812;48-57-year group,r =-0.022,P = 0.876).CONCLUSION:Factors affecting QoL should always be treated in IBS,especially emotional problems in young adults.Even mild abdominal pain should be controlled in elderly patients.

Standards Ensure Basic Life Quality and Safety

October 14th will be an important day for all of our colleagues engaged in standardization.The theme of the 2008 World Standards Day is'Intelli-gent and sustainable buildings'.The requirements for urban residential developments are rising daily,accompanied by increasing public awareness

Study on the Degree of Rural Empty Nesters' Satisfaction with Life Quality Based on Ordered Logit-ISM Model

It is an ultimate objective to solve the rural supporting problems to improve life satisfaction of empty nesters in rural areas. Based on data of 546 empty nesters in rural areas,the factors influencing life quality satisfaction of empty nesters in rural areas are firstly analyzed using ordered logit model,and then the relationship between various influencing factors is analyzed using ISM. Study shows that health condition,degree of participation in cultural and sports activities,spouse status,family harmony degree,annual family income,degree of worry about life,degree of government and social care and pension mode,have a significant impact on the life quality satisfaction of empty nesters in rural areas.The degree of worry about life,degree of government and social care are surface direct factors; degree of participation in cultural and sports activities,family harmony degree,pension mode are intermediate indirect factors; health condition,spouse status and annual family income are deep root factors.

Evaluation of Life Quality and Dyspnea Intensity on Chronic Airway Diseases Patients in Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program

The chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma are chronic airway diseases that cause considerable physical, emotional and social restrictions. The life quality of patients who suffer from these diseases, is more affected by dyspnea then by other symptoms. That way is possible to correlate the impact of dyspnea on their life quality. The Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program (PRP) helps to improve the physical fitness and quality of life. This paper presents a study of the life quality and the dyspnea intensity in chronic lung disease patients. The research has participation of fourteen patients, distributed as seven suffering from COPD and the other seven suffering from asthma, for both gender and with an age average of 74.2 ± 8.9. The patients answer the following questionnaires: Baseline Dyspnea Index (BDI), Medical Research Council (MRC) Dyspnea Scale, Airways Questionnaire 20 (AQ20) and the Brazilian version of the Short-Form (SF-36) life quality questionnaire. From the present study, it was concluded that asthma patients have a less impaired life quality, since the dyspnea intensity is lesser, compared to the one with COPD.

Human Care Theory and Influences on the Life Quality Index of Cancer Patients in Household Life

To investigatetheinfluences of the application of human care theory on the life quality and happiness of cancer patients after they receiveda community nursing care which was implemented by the human care theory. The quality life and the happiness index of 93 patients with cancer living in the six communities in Jillin were assessed, the assessment of the life quality was based on a life quality scale (SF-36) and that of the happiness index was based on Memorial University of Newfoundland Scale of Happiness (MUNSH). The community nurses cared for these patients by applying the theory of human care and the life quality and the happiness index of the patients were observed after the care. The results showed that there were significant differences in the score of 5 dimensions in the eight dimensions of the life quality between before the care and after the care (<0.05), and there were significant differences in the average sores of the positive emotion, positive experience, negative emotion, negative experience and level of happiness included in the happiness index between before the care and after the care (<0.05), suggesting that the theory of human care can be used for the care of patients with cancer and the application of the theory can effectively improve the life quality and the happiness index of the patients, strengthen their problem-solving abilities and let them have a positive attitude towards their lives.

The effects of TCM nursing intervention on the life quality of cancer patients with pain: a review of recent research

Tumor pain is common in patients with advanced cancer;70-80% have varying degrees of pain. Treatment of cancer pain has become a difficult issue in oncology, poor pain control often seriously affects the patients' life quality. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) nursing intervention can improve symptoms and quality of life (QOL) through massage, external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, and auricular therapy, which have unique curative effects such as regulating qi and blood, stabilizing the mind, and enhancing immunity. Not only does TCM nursing intervention prevent disease but also cultivates the mind, helps achieve systemic relaxation, and reduces the pain of cancer patients and the toxic side effects of painkillers, so as to improve QOL and satisfaction, making it worthy of clinical popularization and application. At present, there is an urgent need to carry out high-quality, multi-center, large-sample randomized controlled trials and develop a standardized TCM nursing intervention implementation scheme and efficacy standards to promote its application.

Research on Influence of Clopidogrel on Life Quality in Patients with Transient Ischemic Attack and its Influencing Factors

Purpose:To analyze the basic situation and health related quality of life(HRQOL)results of patients with transient ischemic attack(TIA),and to study the influencing factors of health related quality of life in patients receiving clopidogrel.Method:Divide the TIA patients into clopidogrel group,aspirin group and untreated group.Measure HRQOL scores of TIA patients using the short form 36 questionnaire(SF-36)scale and analyze influencing factors of HRQOL with one-way ANOVA and multivariate stepwise linear regression statistical methods.Results:The differences of HRQOL scores among three groups are of statistical significance(F=4.29,P=0.00).There is no difference in HRQOL score between clopidogrel group and aspirin group(t=5.35,P=0.00),but HRQOL scores of clopidogrel group and aspirin group are higher than those of the untreated group(t=6.14,P=0.00;t=5.16,P=0.00).The HRQOL scores of clopidogrel group are positively correlated with diet,exercise,gender and family harmony(P<0.05),but negatively correlated with diabetes,hypertension,smoking,drinking,hyperlipidemia,age,career and ABCD2 score(P<0.05).Conclusion:TIA patients who received secondary prevention with clopidogrel and aspirin show better life quality results than those who did not.There were many factors influencing clopidogrel's treatment effect.Paying attention to middle-aged and elderly,the obese,mental workers and female TIA patients,teach TIA patients to quit smoking,drinking and eating low-salt and low-fat food,actively treating their hypertension,hyperlipidemia and diabetes and laying emphasis on psychological counseling and exercise can significantly improve the treatment effect of clopidogrel.

Effect of Ovarian Transposition Therapy on Ovarian Function, Ovarian Blood Flow and Sexual Life Quality in Patients with Cervical Cancer

Objective To study the ovarian function,blood flow and quality of life in patients with cervical cancer after ovarian transposition.Methods 114 patients with cervical cancer during January 2015 to January 2016 were retrospectively analyzed,patients who don’t need ovarian transposition treatment were included in the control group(38 cases),and those who need ovarian transposition treatment were included in observation group,those who had accepted operation but not radiotherapy were in observation group 1(38 cases),and those who had accepted operation and radiotherapy were in observation group 2(38 cases).Then the ovarian function,ovarian blood flow and sexual life quality and complication were compared in each group.Results P,E2,LH and FSH indexes of all patients before operation showed no significant difference in statistical analysis(P>0.05),after 12 months of follow-up,ovarian function index changes were observed in 2 groups,and the other two groups had significant difference(P<0.05);preoperative blood group hemodynamic indexes were no significant difference(P<0.05),after treatment,2 groups’RI was observed and was higher than other groups,and the difference between groups was significant(P<0.05);The quality of sex life in the observation group was significantly higher than that in the control group,and the 2 groups had a statistically significant difference(p<0.05)compared to the 2 groups.In addition,the incidence rate of each group of complications was compared,observation 1 group and observation 2 group were higher than the control group,the statistical analysis of the group was significantly different(p<0.05).Conclusion Cervical cancer patients with ovarian shift after treatment,postoperative can still preserving ovarian function and sexual life quality also increased significantly,but the postoperative patients complicated with abdominal pain,without functional ovarian cysts;If ovarian shift line of postoperative radiation therapy,there are side effects on the ovarian function and sexual life.After the ovarian transposition treatment for patients with cervical cancer,they can still retain ovarian function,and the sexual life quality is also significantly improved,but abdominal pain and non-functional ovarian cyst may occur;if the radiation therapy was given after ovarian transposition,then side effects will appear in the ovarian function and sex life.

The Effect of Respiratory Rehabilitation Training on the Life Quality of Pneumoconiosis Patients

Objective:To explore the effect of respiratory rehabilitation training on the quality of life of pneumoconiosis patients.Methods:76 pneumoconiosis patients who were treated in our hospital from April 2017 to December 2019 were selected as the research object,and randomly divided into 2 groups according to the order of admission by coin tossing,38 cases in each group.The control group carried out health knowledge education on the basis of conventiona1 treatment,and the observation group combined with respiratory rehabilitation training on the basis of the control group to compare the quality of life and lung function of the two groups of patients.Results:After 2 months of nursing care,scores of GQOLI-74 scale and pulmonary ventilation function indexes in the observation group were higher than those in the control group,with statistically significant differences(P<0.05).Conclusion:Respiratory rehabilitation training can improve pulmonary ventilation function of pneumoconiosis patients,improve the quality of life of patients,has good clinical application value.

Building a Comprehensive Well-off Society in Yunnan＇s Minority Areas A Study of the Prediction on the Differences in Life Quality Indexes

Based on the gray theory and GM （1, 1） model, the life quality indexes in next few years are predicted using the statistical data of the life quality indexes of Yunnan＇ s 8 minority areas in recent years and also compared with the standard value （2020） of building the national well-off society, and the differences between them are measured and calculated. Thus, effective reference information is provided for the decision-making of government.

Analysis of the Impact of City Transport on Life Quality in the City of Szczecin

This paper looks at public transport in the city of Szczecin.In the recent years,new means of transport have been offered by both external companies and the city.Many city inhabitants have swapped buses for city bikes,scooters and electric scooters available in large cities.A questionnaire survey has been designed to examine the public opinion on the best transport services offered by external companies and whether life quality in the city has improved owing to a wide offering of means of public transport.The paper aims at an analysis and assessment of the city transport services offered and how they influence the quality of life in the city of Szczecin.

Comparative Study of Psychiatric Nurses’ Life Quality

Objective To study psychistric nurses’ life quality. Methods From first-rank psychiatric hospitals of three bands,via stratified random sampling, 150 nurses were selected based on their job ranks as the research objects( the study group). Following the same method, from first-rank comprehensive hospitals of 3 ranks in Beijing, 150 nurses from the emergency department were selected as the control group. Results GQOLI-74 in the aspects of three subscales (physical function,psychologic function,and material life),psychiatric nurses achieved lower scores than emergency nurses. MBI, in the aspects of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, there is significant difference between psychiatric nurses and emergency nurses from comprehensive hospitals (P<0.01). Conclusions Psychiatric nurses achieved lower scores in the aspect of life quality among all nurses the main influential factors are social attitudes toward psychiaty and psychiatric nurses’ social support system.Since psychiatric nurses face more pressure as compared with those from comprehensive hospitals, the society should pay more attention to this issue.

Distressing symptoms and health-related quality of life in patients with chronic kidney disease

BACKGROUND Chronic kidney disease(CKD)is an incapacitating illness associated with distressing symptoms(DS)that have negative impact on patients’health-related quality of life(HRQOL).AIM To assess the severity of DS and their relationships with HRQOL among patients with CKD in Jordan.METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional design was used.A convenience sampling approach was used to recruit the participants.Patients with CKD(n=140)who visited the outpatient clinics in four hospitals in Amman between November 2021 and December 2021 were included.RESULTS The Edmonton Symptom Assessment System was used to measure the severity of the DS while the Short Form-36 tool was used to measure the HRQOL.Participants’mean age was 50.9(SD=15.14).Most of them were males(n=92,65.7%),married(n=95,67.9%),and unemployed(n=93,66.4%).The highest DS were tiredness(mean=4.68,SD=2.98)and worse well-being(mean=3.69,SD=2.43).The highest HRQOL mean score was for the bodily pain scale with a mean score of 68.50 out of 100(SD=32.02)followed by the emotional well-being scale with mean score of 67.60(SD=18.57).CONCLUSION Patients with CKD had suboptimal HRQOL,physically and mentally.They suffer from multiple DS that have a strong association with diminished HRQOL such as tiredness and depression.Therefore,healthcare providers should be equipped with the essential knowledge and skills to promote individualized strategies that focusing on symptom management.

Research on Recreational Intention and Experience in Tourism-Take Nantou Ancient City as an Example

In recent years,under the guidance of the national“all-for-one tourism”and“integration of culture and tourism”development policies,humanistic leisure tourism has become the current hot spot in the development of Chinese tourism industry.In 2013,China promulgated the National Tourism and Leisure Outline(2013-2020),which boosted the development of tourism and leisure consumption of urban and rural residents.In 2016,the State Council issued the“Several Opinions on Further Promoting the Construction of New Urbanization”,which clearly stated that it is necessary to“accelerate the cultivation of characteristic small towns”.The construction of small towns(blocks)led by the integration of culture and tourism has gradually become a new driving force for local economic development.In 2020,the global outbreak of the COVID-19 and normalized prevention and control measures have made the choice of tourism and leisure destinations more localized and short-distance.Characteristic leisure blocks and small towns have increasingly become important destinations for people to travel and leisure activities.Therefore,this article takes Shenzhen Nantou Ancient City as the research area,and uses literature review,questionnaire survey,and statistical survey methods(SPSS.25 and PLS.3.0)to obtain relevant literature and data and describe them.Statistical analysis and confirmatory factor analysis are designed to examine the relationship between the cultural authenticity of leisure blocks,product combination,accessibility,the sense of place identification,recreational intentions,and experience quality,diagnose and discover tourism from them,discover the problems existing on the supply side of tourism object,and provide guidance and suggestions for the construction and development of cultural tourism and leisure characteristic blocks.Finally,this paper tests 10 hypotheses and draws research conclusions:(1)Cultural authenticity has positive impact on recreational intention,place identification,and experience quality in humanistic leisure tourism.(2)Tourism product combination has positive impact on recreational intention and experience quality.(3)Accessibility can affect recreational intention and experience quality in a positive way.(4)Place identification can affect recreational intention in a positive way.(5)Experience quality has positive impact on recreational intention and place identification.