Qiang Zhang

ORCID: 0000-0003-0576-829X
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Research Areas
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Disaster Response and Management
  • Public Relations and Crisis Communication
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Innovative Teaching Methods
  • Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Mobile Learning in Education
  • Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
  • Safety and Risk Management
  • Research studies in Vietnam
  • Online and Blended Learning
  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
  • Information Technology Governance and Strategy
  • China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
  • Statistical Methods and Inference
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Organic Food and Agriculture
  • Water Resources and Sustainability
  • Topic Modeling

Beijing Normal University
2010-2023

Chengdu University of Information Technology
2023

Guizhou Normal University
2023

University College London
2020

First Hospital of China Medical University
2015-2016

China Medical University
2015-2016

Sichuan University
2016

Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College
2013

Xiyuan Hospital
2013

Wake Forest University
2012

Adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus often have limitations in mobility that increase age. An intensive lifestyle intervention produces weight loss and improves fitness could slow the of such patients.We randomly assigned 5145 overweight or obese adults between ages 45 74 years to either an a support-and-education program; 5016 participants contributed data. We used hidden Markov models characterize disability states mixed-effects ordinal logistic regression estimate probability functional...

10.1056/nejmoa1110294 article EN New England Journal of Medicine 2012-03-28

Objectives We examined the level of agreement between biomedical and self-reported measurements hypertension diabetes in a Chinese national community sample, explored associations possible contextual effects among provinces geographic regions China. Design Secondary analysis cohort sample. Setting participants Community samples were drawn from baseline survey China Health Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS, 2011–2012) through multistage probability sampling, which included households with...

10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009836 article EN cc-by-nc BMJ Open 2016-01-01

This study examined the estimated prevalence rate of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and associated risk factors among Chinese adult survivors 7 to 8 months after 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The sample was recruited from 2 areas close epicenter but different distances. PTSD 55.6% 26.4% respectively in two areas. Loss a child strong predictive factor for parents. Other included female gender, loss parent, friends or neighbors, residential house damage collapse, proximity epicenter....

10.1002/jts.20645 article EN Journal of Traumatic Stress 2011-05-23

Based on a comparative approach, this article reports content analyses of news articles about devastating earthquake that occurred in Sichuan province, China, from six Chinese newspapers, indicating the media, reporting government's emergency responses, had many similarities with American media's coverage Hurricane Katrina 2005. Further comparisons, however, suggest claim 'watchdog' media culture during disasters, as measured by frequency accounts responsibilities, is still relatively...

10.1080/13698575.2011.641521 article EN Health Risk & Society 2012-01-18

In the past decade, number of long-term care (LTC) services for older adults in China has grown annually by an average 10%. Older adults, their family members, and policymakers are concerned about patient outcomes different settings because who have a similar functional status LTC needs may choose either nursing home or care. The aim this study was to compare pain perception physically dependent China. Multi-stage sampling method used recruit respondents aged 65 from Yichang City, China,...

10.1186/s12877-018-0841-0 article EN cc-by BMC Geriatrics 2018-07-03

The importance of effective communications in extreme emergency situations, such as earthquakes, is widely recognised (Lee, 2008), whether the relate to disaster preparedness, response or recovery. More problematic connection between and situation people with disabilities situations. In times crisis, do communication needs differ from those wider population? This study aims understand use media risk before, during after 2008 earthquake Sichuan province China, a special focus on experiences...

10.1504/ijem.2010.032046 article EN International Journal of Emergency Management 2010-01-01

Abstract The outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic shows increasing importance determining factors public perceptions personal and societal risks. These can shape people's behaviors, which, in turn, alter spread a on community level. However, previous research risk communication was inconsistent, little is known about impact timely warning messages stakeholders' health emergencies. To address this theoretical gap, study analyzes survey data ( N = 538) from Singapore to explore main effect...

10.1111/risa.14247 article EN Risk Analysis 2023-11-05

Using evidence from the Wenchuan earthquake (12 May 2008) in China, this article examines impact of disaster on functioning China's social protection system. The system and recipients protection. It presents four main findings: (1) itself was considerable; (2) able to cope fairly successfully with enormous demands created by a surge resource utilisation; (3) there an alarming rate burnout possible degradation capabilities after several months, which may affect effectiveness reconstruction...

10.1111/j.1759-5436.2010.00157.x article EN IDS Bulletin 2010-07-01

Brownian motion has been used to derive stopping boundaries for group sequential trials, however, when we observe dependent increment in the data, fractional is an alternative be considered model such data. In this article compared expected sample sizes and times different based on power family alpha spending function under various values of Hurst coefficient. Results showed that will decrease increases coefficient increases. With same coefficient, closer are O'Brien-Fleming, higher are; a...

10.1080/03610911003615824 article EN Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation 2010-03-31

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to investigate a behavioral loyalty model China Tennis Open spectators and validate the relationships among spectators’’ watching motivation, perceived value, place attachment loyalty. METHOD at were targeted as main research sample. A total 400 questionnaires collected. collected data was analyzed by means descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, significance test difference. RESULT (1) Motivation has positive...

10.46695/ascs.2.2.210.46695/ascs.2.2.2 article EN Asia Pacific Journal of Applied Sport Sciences 2021-08-30

Since the launch of rural revitalization strategy, heat has intensified. However, study agricultural modernization or urban-rural integration development is not without premise security. Therefore, there are obstacles, this paper takes lead in analyzing internal and external logic security, provides a reference for realizing health sustainable development.

10.1051/shsconf/202317904005 article EN cc-by SHS Web of Conferences 2023-01-01

Under the background of initial establishment discipline inspection and supervision, this study discusses opportunity, path guarantee for supervision practitioners to participate in construction based on practicality itself. It expounds most effective way is construct a new pattern which professional researchers cooperate complement each other. Taking cooperation between as starting point, it puts forward possible construction. At same time, order fully ensure that effectively better realize...

10.56397/rae.2023.12.04 article EN Research and Advances in Education 2023-12-01
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