Maragh-Bass, Allysha Comello, Maria Leonora Tolley, Elizabeth Ellen Stevens, Darrell Jr Wilson, Jade Toval, Christina Budhwani, Henna Hightow-Weidman, Lisa
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Despite high rates of novel COVID-19, acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination is low among Black adults. In response, we developed a digital health intervention (Tough Talks-COVID) that includes digital stories created in a workshop we held with young Black adults. Our formative research using digital storytelling workshops asked 3 research questions: (...
Powers, Brenton Bucher, Amy
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Diabetes is associated with significant long-term costs for both patients and health systems. Regular primary care visits aligned with American Diabetes Association guidelines could help mitigate those costs while generating near-term revenue for health systems. Digital interventions prompting primary care visits among unengaged patients could prov...
Coffin, Tara Bowen, Deborah Lu, Karen Swisher, Elizabeth M Rayes, Nadine Norquist, Barbara Blank, Stephanie V Levine, Douglas A Bakkum-Gamez, Jamie Nadine Fleming, Gini F
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Strong participant recruitment practices are critical to public health research but are difficult to achieve. Traditional recruitment practices are often time consuming, costly, and fail to adequately target difficult-to-reach populations. Social media platforms such as Facebook are well-positioned to address this area of need, enabling researchers...
Oyibo, Kiemute Morita, Plinio Pelegrini
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The adoption of contact tracing apps worldwide has been low. Although considerable research has been conducted on technology acceptance, little has been done to show the benefit of incorporating persuasive principles. This research aimed to investigate the effect of persuasive features in the COVID Alert app, created by Health Canada, by focusing o...
Fialk, Amanda Connors, Alexa Cerrito, Brianna Jones, Karee Buono, Frank
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The COVID-19 pandemic has required restrictive measures to mitigate transmission of the virus. Evidence has demonstrated increased generalized anxiety and depression among young adults due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, minimal research has examined the longitudinal effect of COVID-19 over the course of time and its impact on anxiety and depres...
Al-Rawi, Ahmed Zemenchik, Kiana
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The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to various inequalities in global societies, highlighting discrepancies in terms of safety, accessibility, and overall health. In particular, sex workers are disproportionately at risk due to the nature of their work and the social stigma that comes alongside it. This study examines how public social media ...
Jiang, Nan Rogers, Erin S Cupertino, Paula Zhao, Xiaoquan Cartujano-Barrera, Francisco Lyu, Joanne Chen Hu, Lu Sherman, Scott E
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Smoking remains a major public health issue among Chinese immigrants. Smoking cessation programs that focus on this population are scarce and have a limited population-level impact due to their low reach. Mobile messaging interventions have the potential to reach large audiences and expand smokers' access to smoking cessation treatment. This study ...
Myers, Amanda L Mbao, Mbita Kadakia, Arya Collings, Shira Fortuna, Karen L
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The United Nations has called for wide-scale community mental health psychoeducation; however, few programs currently exist. Emotional Connecting, Empowering, Revitalizing (eCPR) is a community education and training program developed by individuals with a lived experience of mental health challenges or trauma. It is designed to provide community m...
Powell, Adam C Long, James W Deshmukh, Uday U Simmons, Jeffrey D
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Although computed tomography (CT) studies on machines with more slices have reported higher positive and negative predictive values, the impact of using low-slice (16-slice) CT machines on downstream testing has not been well studied. In community outpatient settings, low-slice CT machines remain in use, although many hospitals have adopted higher-...
Stoeten, Claudia de Haan, Hein Arnoud Postel, Marloes Gerda Brusse-Keizer, Marjolein Ter Huurne, Elke Daniëlle
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In face-to-face therapy for eating disorders, therapeutic alliance (TA) is an important predictor of symptom reduction and treatment completion. To date, however, little is known about TA during web-based cognitive behavioral therapy (web-CBT) and its association with symptom reduction, treatment completion, and the perspectives of patients versus ...
