ObjectiveTo investigate the knowledge of drug safety among parents of some children with epilepsy in Henan Province, and to provide a basic advice for drug safety and health education for children with epilepsy.sMethodUsing a questionnaire to parents of epilepsy children from the Children's Hospital in Henan Province and the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University in July 2019, a total of 336 questionnaire were conducted by the professionals responsible for after the training, including parents and children basic situation, drug habits and attitudes, medication safety consciousness and antibiotic drug use knowledge.Results320 questionnaire were collected, 314 of which were valid questionnaires, with an effective rate of 98.1%. 66 (21%) of parents chose juice or milk for oral administration, and 87 (27.7%) of parents chose sugar water. 104 (33.1%) of the parents chose to stop the medication immediately after the child's condition improved. 126 (40.1%) of parents believe that combination of two or more antibiotics is more effective, 178 (56.7%) of parents will give their children antibiotics when they have a cold or fever, and more than 254 (80%) of parents are not aware of adverse reactions to antibiotics.ConclusionIn the investigation, the parents of children with epilepsy in Henan Province still have insufficient knowledge of safe drug use, and there are many non-standard drug use behaviors. Local medical professionals for epilepsy should be strengthened to guide and monitor the children and their parents.
ObjectiveTo understand the development of clinical nutrition departments in western China, analyze the main problems and factors restricting its development, and provide a basis for promoting the construction and development of clinical nutrition departments in western China and formulating clinical nutrition management standards.MethodsQuestionnaires were used to investigate the development of clinical nutrition services in some hospitals in 11 provinces/municipalities/autonomous regions in western China (except Tibet) in March 2019. ResultsA total of 230 hospitals participated in the survey. Most clinical nutrition departments set up outpatient clinics (76.1%), with an average annual number of outpatients of 884; most of them carried out nutrition inspection visit/follow-up work (86.5%), and the average number of inspection visit/follow-ups was 3 876. Most hospitals had incomplete hardware and software facilities in the clinical nutrition departments. The charging items for diagnosis and treatment were complicated, and the charging standards were uneven. There were still 47.0% of the clinical nutrition departments of hospitals that did not offer diagnosis and treatment charging items. The surveyed hospitals believed that the talent team was the number one factor restricting the development of the clinical nutrition department, and regular skills training was the number one project that urgently needed the help of the Clinical Nutrition Discipline Alliance of West China Hospital of Sichuan University.ConclusionIn the future, the western region should increase the investment in hardware and software facilities, strive for policy support for maintaining department operations and formulate unified standards to regulate the development of disciplines.