Objective To systematically review the psychological resilience intervention in China, so as to evaluate its effectiveness. Methods Studies published as of October 2012 were searched in CBM, VIP, CNKI and WanFang Data. The randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and controlled before-and-after trials (CBAs) about psychological resilience intervention were included. Two reviewers independently performed screening, quality assessment and data extraction, and then reached a consensus after cross-check and discussion. Qualitative synthesis was adopted instead of meta-analysis for the existed significant deviations in outcomes of included studies. Results A total of 8 studies including 3 RCTs and 5 CBAs were included for the analysis. All the studies referred to the objects of students, including 6 for college students, 1 for secondary school students and 1 for left behind students in rural junior school. All 8 studies evaluated the effectiveness of group psychological guidance, 1 of which also compared the outcomes of psychological lectures. All the included trials suggested that group psychological guidance and psychological lectures might significantly improve the psychological resilience of subjects. Conclusion Current studies on psychological resilience intervention are limited, the measure has been taken seems relatively single, which mainly focuses on students and lacks of high-quality research design. It suggests take more diverse psychological resilience interventions for different population, and evaluate both short-term and long-term effectiveness by performing large sample, strictly designed and high-quality trials.
Objective To comprehensively summarize and analyze the status quo, assessing contents and problems of the assessment studies on appropriate health technology in China. Methods With the search terms and strategies predefined by repeated discussion and pre-retrieval, all literature on appropriate health technology assessment in China published from October 1949 to March 2012 were searched in the following databases: CBM, VIP, CNKI and WanFang Data. According to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, two reviewers independently screened literature, and extracted and cross-checked data. Disagreements were resolved by discussion or by involving a third researcher. The qualitative synthesis method was used to analyze the studies. Results Among total 174 included studies, 117 were cross-sectional. Targeted populations were patients and community residents who had received the service or treatment of appropriate health technology, as well as the grassroots medical staffs and workers from marketing organization who had used or carried out the appropriate health technologies. Appropriate health technologies mainly contained four fields of appropriate health technology: traditional Chinese medicine, western medicine, family planning services and community health services. Most types of diseases involved in those technologies were circulatory system diseases, and high blood pressure was highly concerned. The contents of appropriate health technology assessment mainly included 6 aspects: effectiveness, acceptability, economic characteristics, requirements, safety and technical specific property. The results of the included studies indicated that, most assessments focused on just one aspect, and were lack of comprehensive evaluation. The indexes used in each assessment covered a far too wide range, and was lack of unified index and standards. Conclusion Current studies show that the fields of appropriate health technology assessment distribute widely; the assessment content is simple and lack of comprehensive evaluation; the assessment index system has no unified standard; and the study design methods are different and lack of high quality study design. So it is necessary to conduct high quality assessment studies, establish scientific assessment index system, and systematically assess appropriate health technology, so as to provide more scientific basis for health decision makers.