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      Social support and Quality of Life: a cross-sectional study on survivors eight months after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.

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          The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake resulted in extensive loss of life and physical and psychological injuries for survivors. This research examines the relationship between social support and health-related quality of life for the earthquake survivors.

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          Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis.

          S. Cohen, T A Wills (1985)
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            Chinese SF-36 Health Survey: translation, cultural adaptation, validation, and normalisation.

            L. Li, H Wang, Y. Shen (2003)
            To develop a self administered Chinese (mainland) version of the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) for use in health related quality of life measurements in China. A three stage protocol was followed including translation, tests of scaling construction and scoring assumptions, validation, and normalisation. 1000 households in 18 communities of Hangzhou. 1688 respondents recruited by multi-stage mixed sampling. The assumption of equal intervals was violated for the vitality and mental health scales. The recoded item values were used to calculate scale scores. The clustering and ordering of item means was the same as that of the source and other two Chinese versions. The items in each scale had similar standard deviations except those in the physical functioning, boduily pain, social functioning scales. The item hypothesised scale correlations were identical for all except the social functioning and vitality scales. Convergent validity and discriminant validity were satisfactory for all except the social functioning scale. Cronbach's alpha coefficients ranged from 0.72 to 0.88 except 0.39 for the social functioning scale and 0.66 for the vitality scale. Two weeks test-retest reliability coefficients ranged from 0.66 to 0.94. Factor analysis identified two principal components explaining 56.3% of the total variance. The Chinese SF-36 could distinguish known groups. This study suggested that the Chinese (mainland) version of the SF-36 functioned in the general population of Hangzhou, China quite similarly to the original American population tested. Caution is recommended in the interpretation of the social functioning and vitality scales pending further studies.
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              Presidential Address-1976. Social support as a moderator of life stress.

              S. Cobb (1976)
              Social support is defined as information leading the subject to believe that he is cared for and loved, esteemed, and a member of a network of mutual obligations. The evidence that supportive interactions among people are protective against the health consequences of life stress is reviewed. It appears that social support can protect people in crisis from a wide variety of pathological states: from low birth weight to death, from arthritis through tuberculosis to depression, alcoholism, and the social breakdown syndrome. Furthermore, social support may reduce the amount of medication required, accelerate recovery, and facilitate compliance with prescribed medical regimens.
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                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): BMC Public Health
                Title: BMC public health
                Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
                ISSN (Electronic): 1471-2458
                ISSN (Print): 1471-2458
                Publication date (Electronic): Sep 24 2010
                Volume: 10
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                [1 ] West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Sichuan 610041, China.
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                Publisher Item ID: 1471-2458-10-573
                DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-573
                PMC ID: 2955008
                PubMed ID: 20863410
                SO-VID: adce9bdf-5ae6-41a3-90d1-1788aa29d56f
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