Longtao He

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Southwest University of Finance & Economics

Filial piety is a highly relevant cultural mechanism that mediates the impacts of caregiving experiences on Chinese adult children, worldwide but perhaps especially in rural China. We undertook qualitative research with 24 migrant workers who were caring for an elderly parent diagnosed with terminal cancer. Research aims included building a compreh...

The contributors to this book present case studies of elder care in China and India, and draw comparisons between the two – illuminating some of the key issues facing the two largest Asian countries as they develop rapidly. Caring for the elderly is a major challenge for all countries, and one which is of acute concern for rapidly developing econom...

This article reports on research that explored rural migrant workers' experiences of returning to their hometown to provide care for elderly parents diagnosed with cancer. The authors used a culturally integrated approach to Foucauldian discourse analysis to consider how 24 participants narrated their experiences of care in China. The discourse of...

Recently, virtue ethics has been increasingly considered as one of the most appropriate alternative ethical frameworks for youth social work internationally and in China. Extant literature has the tendency to emphasise cultural difference and neglect the universality of (virtue) ethics; instead, this article aims to inspire a balanced theoretical c...

Objectives: Mpox continues to spread in China, and stakeholders' experiences may help inform prevention and control strategies. Study design: Qualitative study. Methods: A qualitative study across 14 Chinese cities recruited stakeholders from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCs), community-based organizations (CBOs), and hospitals in...

The uptake of COVID-19 booster vaccination among older adults in China is suboptimal. Here, we report the results of a parallel-group cluster-randomized controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of promoting COVID-19 booster vaccination among grandparents (≥60 years) through a health education intervention delivered to their grandchildren (aged ≥16...

Objective Sexual health plays a vital role in healthy aging. However, little is known about the sexual attitudes of and the utilization of sexual and reproductive health services by older women in China. This article is based on a qualitative study of older Chinese women in suburban areas to examine their attitudes toward sexuality and their utiliz...

Monkeypox (mpox), a viral zoonotic disease, is spreading worldwide. However, evidence that informs prevention and control strategies in the Asia Pacific Region is very limited. Our study aims to investigate the experiences of mpox patients from infection to treatment to provide scientific basis for the prevention and control. A multicenter qualitat...

Delayed retirement initiative proposed in China attaches greater importance to the sustainability of pension systems and the labour shortage, but less to the health status of older people. The existing social health insurance and pension system are not well established to match this initiative. This study investigates the policy mix of delayed reti...

Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) may be incorporated into HIV prevention services for men who have sex with men (MSM). We conducted a mixed-methods study to elucidate barriers and facilitators to, and experience of, VMMC among MSM. Participants were MSM aged 18 years and older who were enrolled in an ongoing multicenter randomized control...

During the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in China in 2019 and 2020, the Wuhanese suffered tremendous public stigmatization. Why and how did the general public in China develop such strong feelings against the Wuhanese? To address these questions and understand the social forces underlying this phenomenon, a moral panic analysis was conducted. Using...

The emergence of a body of work on ethics since the 1990s with a special interest in the self in the Western academia, inspired by Michel Foucault's earlier work, resonates with a concomitant renewed scholarly interest in classical Confucian ethics both in China and internationally. An emphasis on culture and the rejection of a Euro‐centric univers...

Chinese scholarship conducting/attempting critical discourse analysis (CDA) on the doctor–patient relationship in China has, to date, predominantly relied on the use of analytical tools from systemic functional linguistics and pragmatics. This methodological orientation, by prioritizing the linguistic structure and functions of the textual data, do...

Qualitative meta-synthesis is a coherent approach to answering an overarching re- search question by synthesising past qualitative studies so as to create new mean- ings from their results. We conducted a qualitative meta-synthesis to systematically evaluate and integrate the caregiving experiences of adult children providing care for an elderly pa...

A three-stage strength-based meaning intervention (SMI) was developed in the present study, and its utility in facilitating the mental health of individuals with physical disabilities in low-income communities was tested. A randomized controlled and single-blind trial was adopted. A total of 50 qualified participants (mean age = 42.12, standard dev...

As the first review to systematically explore the scope and application of Chinese social work research ethics, this study incorporated web-crawling technology in the scoping review process and identified 18 eligible studies from 1168 publications from January 2020 to July 2021. Findings suggest that social work scholars are aware of research ethic...

Objective: Female breast cancer patients do not only experience trauma, but also positive growth. Yet, there has been few qualitative reviews. This study aims to synthesize the results of relevant qualitative studies to comprehensively interpret the PTG experiences of female breast cancer patients. Methods: We utilized the qualitative meta-synthesi...

Background Cancer is a major cause of death in China, accounting for 2·56 million deaths in the country in 2018 alone. Yet, on that year, only 28 600 patients (1·1%) at the end of life received palliative care. Existing studies in palliative care have mainly been done in medical environments. The aim of this study was to focus instead on the genera...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruptions to the functioning of societies and their health systems. Prior to the pandemic, health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) were particularly stretched and vulnerable. The International Society of Global Health (ISoGH) sought to systematically identify priorities for health res...

Social workers contributed significantly to the promotion of public and community health during the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in China. Based on a quasi-scoping review of articles on social work practice during that outbreak, this reflective article elucidates how social workers contributed in three chronological stages. In the early stage (late...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruptions to the functioning of societies and their health systems. Prior to the pandemic, health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) were particularly stretched and vulnerable. The International Society of Global Health (ISoGH) sought to systematically identify priorities for health res...

Abstract Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruptions to the functioning of societies and their health systems. Prior to the pandemic, health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) were particularly stretched and vulnerable. The International Society of Global Health (ISoGH) sought to systematically identify priorities for h...

背景 家庭照护者作为肿瘤患儿最直接的照顾者，在照护肿瘤患儿的过程中扮演着重要角色。有学者 采用质性研究方法，对家庭照护者照顾肿瘤患儿过程中的感受和体验等进行了研究，发现家庭照护者面临着巨大的困 境与压力。目的 系统整合与评价家庭照护者照护肿瘤患儿的经历，旨在为改善肿瘤患儿的照护现状及促进其家庭照 护者的身心健康提供循证依据。方法 系统检索 Web of Science、Pub Med、Embase、MEDLINE、中国知网和万方数据 知识服务平台中与家庭照护者照护肿瘤患儿经历相关的质性研究，检索时限为建库至 2021 年 6 月 1 日。由研究者根 据纳入排除标准独立筛选文献、提取资料后，采用"澳大利亚 JBI(Joanna Briggs Institute)循证卫生保健中心质性研 究质量评...

背景 随着中国人口老龄化的加深与癌症发病率的不断攀升，癌症患者的照护需求也随之显著增加； 而家庭照护是其中最重要的一个方面。照护行为和经历会给家庭照护者带来不同层面的影响，因此，系统全面地对中 国癌症患者家庭照护者的照护经历和体验进行研究是极其必要的。目的 系统整合与评价中国癌症患者家庭照护者的 照护经历与体验。方法 2021 年 1-5 月，系统检索 Web of Science、PubMed、Embase、MEDLINE、Cochrane Library、 Grew Literature in the Health Sciences、中国知网(CNKI)和万方数据知识服务平台中所有与中国癌症患者家庭照护者 经历有关的质性研究，检索时限为建库至 2021-05-23。采用 2016 版澳大...

Background: China and India both have long histories and cultural imperatives of valuing family care practices for elders, especially those with terminal illnesses. However, studies directly comparing the two have been scarce. Aim: By systematically evaluating and integrating the caregiving experiences of family caregivers of cancer patients in Ch...

This study intends to reveal the underlying structural inequity in vulnerability to infection of the novel coronavirus disease pandemic among children and youth. Using multi-source data from New York Times novel coronavirus disease tracking project and County Health Rankings & Roadmap Program, this study shows that children and youth in socioeconom...

Despite extensive research on children’s psychological well-being, little consensus about gender’s influence has been reached. In response, we examined gender differences in children’s psychological well-being in mainland China, along with the gender-based risk and protective factors and their effects on psychological well-being. For a sample, we c...

This systematic review of published quantitative research was conducted to explore the effects of spirituality-integrated interventions for informal caregivers of terminally ill patients. Multiple databases were searched for articles published between January 2004 and November 2019. Twelve randomized controlled trials were identified. Methodologica...

Recent years have witnessed a growing scholarly interest in the development of professional ethics of social work in China. Confucian ethics is believed to be able to contribute to such development. This article explores Confucian ethics and its interaction with western ethics that underpins the United States’ National Association of Social Workers...

This chapter reviews and synthesises what has been discussed in the book and offers recommendations for future research and for policymaking. This chapter, along with Chapter 9, advances an argument in favour of supporting families of migrant workers in China in their ability to practice filial piety toward their ailing parents, specifically their...

This chapter presents the final findings and focuses on another underlying discourse: that of forgetting. Participants’ narratives about parental sacrifice in the past revolved heavily around a particular period of time, that of the Mao era (notably the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution). ‘Forgetting’ about the Mao era includes two dim...

This chapter discusses why a constructionist qualitative approach is well suited to research examining people’s sense-making of care experiences. Here the author explains the methodological choice of Foucauldian discourse analysis and also how it can be localised for the study of Chinese filial piety. The chapter continues with a description of the...

This chapter focuses on laying out Foucauldian and Chinese theory through the lens of filial piety. This chapter explains Foucault’s theoretical conceptualisation of discourse, power, archaeology, genealogy, and subjectivity as these relate to filial piety. The author identifies three similarities between Foucault’s theories and Chinese philosophie...

This chapter shows how a parental sacrifice discourse emerged from participants’ narratives. From the analysis of interview transcripts, the author identifies discourses of ‘eat well and dress well’ and tianjingdiyi (the notion of naturalness). Enabling parents to eat well and dress well was said to be the primary duty the child needs to fulfil. Su...

This chapter explains the connection between care responsibilities (and burdens) and filial piety, focusing on the historical trajectory of filial piety in China. The dynamic and evolving nature and complexity of filial piety and the deep and broad entrenchment of this concept are briefly examined.

This chapter introduces to the readers background information that makes clear the importance of family caregivers for elders diagnosed with cancer, the significance of filial piety for adult children caring for aged parents, and the author’s personal motivations for doing this research. The chapter sets out the author’s theoretical basis and metho...

This chapter begins with a literature review, identifying areas in need of scholarly attention; these include the conflation of care and filial piety, low visibility of migrant peasant workers in the informal care research arena, and the lack of qualitative data. The second part of the chapter demonstrates how investigation of different theories in...

This chapter is the first of three findings chapters. This chapter considers participants’ statements about care tasks and care impacts. These statements are grouped into sections that reflect categories of impacts: emotional, physical, financial, and work-related. Each section provides details of the challenges and themes that emerged (e.g., filia...

This Chapter engages in a deeper discussion of the two research questions through localised Foucauldian discourse analysis. Firstly, the complexity of the relationality of filial piety is expanded through participants’ interview excerpts. Secondly, participants’ narrative of ‘eat well and dress well’ and their avoidance of verbal expressions of lov...

Social media has expanded the scope and method of interpersonal communication, and presents the risk of social media addiction as well. This study reported the psychometrics of the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS) and further analyzed the moderating role of peer relationship on the association between negative emotions and risk of social...

Introduction Studies on various types of digital-technology-based psychotherapies (DTPs) have indicated that they are effective for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom relief among adults. The intervention efficacy or effectiveness hierarchy, however, is still not clear. Therefore, we propose to conduct a network meta-analysis to assess t...

The current dominant approach to active ageing policy in the EU and the UK is the productivist approach. Drawing on Weber’s concepts of instrumental rationality and value rationality, this article argues that this approach is principally informed by instrumental rationality and thus has the potential to instrumentalize older persons, to become an o...

Background Many scholars claim that recent changes to Chinese society since economic reform have challenged longstanding forms of informal social care, such as filial piety. For instance there is a societal tension at work in contemporary Chinese society today. On the one hand decreasing co-residence in multi-generational households caused by rural...