Iwalokun, Bamidele Abiodun Olalekan, Adesola Adenipekun, Eyitayo Ojo, Olabisi Iwalokun, Senapon Olusola Mutiu, Bamidele Orija, Oluseyi Adegbola, Richard Salako, Babatunde Akinloye, Oluyemi
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JMIR Research Protocols
Background The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, continues to impact health systems throughout the world with serious medical challenges being imposed on many African countries like Nigeria. Although emerging studies have identified lymphopenia as a driver of cytokine storm, disease progression, and poor outcomes in infected patients, its im...
Kurizky, Patricia Nóbrega, Otávio T Soares, Alexandre Anderson De Sousa Munh... Aires, Rodrigo Barbosa Albuquerque, Cleandro Pires De Nicola, André Moraes Albuquerque, Patrícia Teixeira-Carvalho, Andréa Naves, Luciana Ansaneli Fontes, Wagner
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JMIR Research Protocols
Background Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s attention has been focused on better understanding the relation between the human host and the SARS-CoV-2 virus, as its action has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths. Objective In this context, we decided to study certain consequences of the abundant cytokine release over the ...
Cerqueira-Silva, Thiago Carreiro, Roberto Nunes, Victor Passos, Louran Canedo, Bernardo F Andrade, Sofia Ramos, Pablo Ivan P Khouri, Ricardo Santos, Carolina Barbosa Souza Nascimento, Jedson Dos Santos
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JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Background COVID-19 presented great challenges for not only those in the field of health care but also those undergoing medical training. The burden on health care services worldwide has limited the educational opportunities available for medical students due to social distancing requirements. Objective In this paper, we describe a strategy that co...
Seto, Emily Challa, Priyanka Ware, Patrick
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Journal of Medical Internet Research
With the relative ubiquity of smartphones, contact tracing and exposure notification apps have been looked to as novel methods to help reduce the transmission of COVID-19. Many countries have created apps that lie across a spectrum from privacy-first approaches to those that have very few privacy measures. The level of privacy incorporated into an ...
Hill, Jordan R Harrington, Addison B Adeoye, Philip Campbell, Noll L Holden, Richard J
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JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Background The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated “going remote” with the delivery, support, and assessment of a study intervention targeting older adults enrolled in a clinical trial. While remotely delivering and assessing technology is not new, there are few methods available in the literature that are proven to be effective with diverse populations...
Jiang, Xinchan Yao, Jiaqi You, Joyce Hoi-Sze
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Journal of Medical Internet Research
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has caused patients to avoid seeking medical care. Provision of telemonitoring programs in addition to usual care has demonstrated improved effectiveness in managing patients with heart failure (HF). Objective We aimed to examine the potential clinical and health economic outcomes of a telemonitoring program for man...
Montagni, Ilaria Roussel, Nicolas Thiébaut, Rodolphe Tzourio, Christophe
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Journal of Medical Internet Research
Background Many countries worldwide have developed mobile phone apps capable of supporting instantaneous contact tracing to control the COVID-19 pandemic. In France, a few people have downloaded and are using the StopCovid contact tracing app. Students in the health domain are of particular concern in terms of app uptake. Exploring their use and op...
Strudwick, Gillian Sockalingam, Sanjeev Kassam, Iman Sequeira, Lydia Bonato, Sarah Youssef, Alaa Mehta, Rohan Green, Nadia Agic, Branka Soklaridis, Sophie
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JMIR Mental Health
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a number of negative health related consequences, including impacts on mental health. More than 22% of Canadians reported that they had felt depressed in the last week, in response to a December 2020 national survey. Given the need to physically distance during the pandemic, and the increase in deman...
Yunusova, Asal Lai, Jocelyn Rivera, Alexander P Hu, Sirui Labbaf, Sina Rahmani, Amir M Dutt, Nikil Jain, Ramesh C Borelli, Jessica L
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JMIR Research Protocols
Background Individuals can experience different manifestations of the same psychological disorder. This underscores the need for a personalized model approach in the study of psychopathology. Emerging adulthood is a developmental phase wherein individuals are especially vulnerable to psychopathology. Given their exposure to repeated stressors and d...
Almalki, Manal Giannicchi, Anna
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JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Background Mobile phone apps have been leveraged to combat the spread of COVID-19. However, little is known about these technologies’ characteristics, technical features, and various applications in health care when responding to this public health crisis. The lack of understanding has led developers and governments to make poor choices about apps’...
