Hayotte, Meggy Thérouanne, Pierre Gray, Laura Corrion, Karine d'Arripe-Longueville, Fabienne
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Technology-based physical activity suggests new opportunities for public health initiatives. Yet only 45% of technology interventions are theoretically based, and the acceptability mechanisms have been insufficiently studied. Acceptability and acceptance theories have provided interesting insights, particularly the unified theory of acceptance and ...
Slightam, Cindie Gregory, Amy J Hu, Jiaqi Jacobs, Josephine Gurmessa, Tolessa Kimerling, Rachel Blonigen, Daniel Zulman, Donna M
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Video-based health care can help address access gaps for patients and is rapidly being offered by health care organizations. However, patients who lack access to technology may be left behind in these initiatives. In 2016, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) began distributing video-enabled tablets to provide video visits to veterans with he...
Lee, Heayon Park, Yu Rang Kim, Hae-Reong Kang, Na Young Oh, Gahee Jang, Il-Young Lee, Eunju
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Home Internet of Things (IoT) services and devices have the potential to aid older adults and people with disabilities in their living environments. IoT services and devices can also aid caregivers and health care providers in conveniently providing care to those in need. However, real-world data on the IoT needs of vulnerable people are lacking. T...
Barke, Antonia Doering, Bettina K
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People often search the internet to obtain health-related information not only for themselves but also for family members and, in particular, their children. However, for a minority of parents, such searches may become excessive and distressing. Little is known about excessive web-based searching by parents for information regarding their children'...
Hébert, Emily T Ra, Chaelin K Alexander, Adam C Helt, Angela Moisiuc, Rachel Kendzor, Darla E Vidrine, Damon J Funk-Lawler, Rachel K Businelle, Michael S
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Smartphone apps for smoking cessation could offer easily accessible, highly tailored, intensive interventions at a fraction of the cost of traditional counseling. Although there are hundreds of publicly available smoking cessation apps, few have been empirically evaluated using a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design. The Smart-Treatment (Smart-...
Vugts, Miel Ap Zedlitz, Aglaia Mee Joosen, Margot Cw Vrijhoef, Hubertus Jm
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Serious gaming could support patients in learning to cope with chronic pain or functional somatic syndromes and reduce symptom burdens. To realize this potential, insight is needed into how, why, for whom, and when it works in actual treatment circumstances. Following a realist approach, process evaluations were performed before, during, and after ...
Jongen, Peter Joseph Ter Veen, Gezien Lemmens, Wim Donders, Rogier van Noort, Esther Zeinstra, Esther
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Empowerment helps persons with a chronic disease to self-manage their condition and increase their autonomy and participation. MSmonitor (Curavista bv) is an interactive Web-based program for self-management and multidisciplinary care in multiple sclerosis (MS). It includes, among others, short questionnaires on fatigue (Modified Fatigue Impact Sca...
Beier, Michael Früh, Sebastian
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Social media platforms are important tools for hospitals. These platforms offer many potential benefits in various areas of application for hospitals to connect and interact with their stakeholders. However, hospitals differ immensely in their social media adoption. There are studies that provide initial findings on individual factors influencing s...
Masters, Ken Loda, Teresa Johannink, Jonas Al-Abri, Rashid Herrmann-Werner, Anne
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Doctors' interactions with and attitudes toward e-patients have an overall impact on health care delivery. This study aimed to gauge surgeons' interactions with e-patients, their attitudes toward those e-patient activities, the possible impact on the delivery of health care, and the reasons behind those activities and attitudes. We created a paper-...
Phungoen, Pariwat Promto, Songwoot Chanthawatthanarak, Sivit Maneepong, Sawitree Apiratwarakul, Korakot Kotruchin, Praew Mitsungnern, Thapanawong
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In the past several years, gamified learning has been growing in popularity in various medical educational contexts including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training. Furthermore, prior work in Basic Life Support (BLS) training has demonstrated the benefits of serious games as a method for pretraining among medical students. However, there is ...
