Cindy L K Lam

..Patients' views on this are not well documented and the aim of the present study was to explore the views of patients with LTCs on family doctors in Hong Kong...

..To evaluate whether screening followed by brief problem-solving treatment by primary care doctors (PST-PC) could improve health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and reduce consultation rates in the elderly...

..It confirmed the clinical relevance of the SF-36 to a culture and health care system that is different from that of the United States where the instrument originated...

..To find out whether the SF-36 physical and mental health summary (PCS and MCS) scales are valid and equivalent in the Chinese population in Hong Kong (HK)...

..Chinese is the world's largest ethnic group but few health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measures have been tested on them. The aim of this study was to determine if the standard SF-12 was valid and equivalent for a Chinese population...

..Family medicine must prepare for it by building up its research track record and capacity...

..To investigate key factors associated with treatment-seeking for orofacial pain symptoms in community-dwelling adult Chinese people in Hong Kong...

..To investigate the impacts associated with orofacial pain symptoms among adult Chinese people in Hong Kong. Associations between impacts, pain characteristics and professional treatment seeking behaviour were explored...

..The pathways of care, the long term outcomes and the factors affecting prognosis of these patients requires closer examination...

..The prevalence and risk factors of unrecognised psychological problems were also determined...

..Amongst various clinical parameters, the severity of depressive symptoms correlates most with QOL...

..To estimate the direct medical cost of colorectal neoplasia (CRN) from newly diagnosed to the completion of the tumour-specific treatment in the initial year of disease across stages and tumour primary sites...

..Few studies have evaluated the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of Southern Chinese with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection...

..To establish the validity and reliability of traditional Chinese version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Colorectal (FACT-C)...

..To determine orofacial pain (OFP) characteristics, associated disability, and effect on quality of life in elderly community-dwelling Chinese people...

..CONCLUSION: Hence, this version of SAQLI was an acceptable, psychometrically valid, and responsive HRQOL measure for evaluating impact of illness and treatment effectiveness in Chinese OSA patients...

..To evaluate the construct validity of the standard Chinese Short Form (SF)-12v2 in adolescents...

..The aim of this study was to evaluate the content validity of ChQOL in a Chinese population whose spoken dialect and health-care system are different from those of Mainland China to find out whether the instrument is generalizable...

..The QUALEFFO-31 is a useful tool for assessing QOL in Chinese. It was well accepted and significantly predictive of subjects with CVFs...

..To estimate the prevalence and pattern of self-reported orofacial pain symptoms and treatment-seeking behavior in adult Cantonese-speaking Chinese people in Hong Kong...

..These results can then be applied to studies that have used FACT-G or FACT-C to predict SF-6D utility values to inform economic evaluation...

..To assess the association of work nature, lifestyle and obesity with health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in professional drivers...

..The Patient Enablement Instrument (PEI) was developed to measure patients' enablement, which is an indicator of the effectiveness of a primary care consultation; however, to date, the PEI has not been tested in Asian populations...

..The aim of this study was to find out whether it was feasible, acceptable, reliable, and valid to use the standard gamble (SG) method to generate preference-based values for the SF-6D in a Chinese population...

..The authors estimated the cost effectiveness of biennial mammography in Hong Kong Chinese women to inform evidence-based screening policies...

..CONCLUSION: NCCP is a common problem in southern Chinese and associated with anxiety and depression. Female gender, GERD and social life affected by chest pain were associated with health care utilization in subjects with NCCP...

..The CapQOL demonstrated satisfactory psychometric properties. Further validation studies in people with psychosis as well as other mental disabilities are indicated...

..Previous studies have demonstrated medical students' generally positive attitudes towards PPE, but the correlation between student attitude and actual practice of PPE has yet to be examined...

..These findings stress the importance of expanding efforts to increase knowledge and awareness among health care providers and also provide future directions for developing strategies for managing osteoporosis in developing Asian regions...

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..To investigate the optimal strategy to treat dyspeptic patients in primary care...

..Group learning is the core of problem-based learning (PBL) but has not been extensively studied, especially in Asian students...

..However, the impacts of this procedure on quality-of-life (QoL) have not been evaluated...

..The efficacy of dual vaccination remains unknown...

..Replication of this study using a control group would allow direct comparison of patient incidents when the charts are used and when they are not...

..Locally validated symptom questionnaires are essential instruments in dyspepsia research. A symptom score for Chinese dyspeptics was developed. Multiple aspects of validity and reliability were assessed...