Lo, Louisa L Collins, Ian M Bressel, Mathias Butow, Phyllis Emery, Jon Keogh, Louise Weideman, Prue Steel, Emma Hopper, John L Trainer, Alison H
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iPrevent estimates breast cancer (BC) risk and provides tailored risk management information. The objective of this study was to assess the usability and acceptability of the iPrevent prototype. Clinicians were eligible for participation in the study if they worked in primary care, breast surgery, or genetics clinics. Female patients aged 18-70 yea...
Kim, Rebecca H Patel, Mitesh S
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Few studies have examined the use of wearable devices among the veteran population. The objective of this study was to evaluate veterans' perceptions of and experiences with wearable devices and identify the potential barriers and opportunities to using such devices to increase physical activity levels in this population. Veterans able to ambulate ...
Comulada, W Scott Swendeman, Dallas Rezai, Roxana Ramanathan, Nithya
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Health behavior patterns reported through daily diary data are important to understand and intervene upon at the individual level in N-of-1 trials and related study designs. There is often interest in relationships between multiple outcomes, such as stress and health behavior. However, analyses often utilize regressions that evaluate aggregate effe...
Allen, Alicia M Lundeen, Kim Murphy, Sharon E Spector, Logan Harlow, Bernard L
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The use of dried blood spots (DBS) in biomedical research has been increasing as an objective measure for variables that are typically plagued by self-report, such as smoking status and medication adherence. The development of training materials for the self-collection of DBS that can be delivered through the Web would allow for broader use of this...
Verdaguer, Sandra Mateo, Katrina F Wyka, Katarzyna Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy A Leung, May May
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Childhood obesity is a serious public health issue among minority youth in the United States. Technology-enhanced approaches can be effective for promoting healthy behavior change. The purpose of this study was to test the usability of prototypes of a Web-based interactive tool promoting healthy dietary behaviors to reduce childhood obesity risk in...
Elsbernd, Abbey Hjerming, Maiken Visler, Camilla Hjalgrim, Lisa Lyngsie Niemann, Carsten Utoft Boisen, Kirsten Arntz Jakobsen, Jens Pappot, Helle
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Adolescent and young adult (AYA) oncology and hematology is a developing field of medicine, focusing on a population that faces many challenges throughout medical treatment and beyond. Mobile health (mHealth) interventions provide exciting new opportunities for improvement of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in AYAs with cancer. Many smartpho...
Balls-Berry, Joyce Sinicrope, Pamela Valdez Soto, Miguel Brockman, Tabetha Bock, Martha Patten, Christi
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Linking podcasts with social media is a strategy to promote and disseminate health and health research information to the community without constraints of time, weather, and geography. To describe the process of creating a podcast library and promoting it on social media as a strategy for disseminating health and biomedical research topics to the c...
Jungmann, Manuela Vencatachellum, Shervin Van Ryckeghem, Dimitri Vögele, Claus
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The experience of psychological stress has not yet been adequately tackled with digital technology by catering to healthy individuals who wish to reduce their acute stress levels. For the design of digitally mediated solutions, physiological mechanisms need to be investigated that have the potential to induce relaxation with the help of technology....
Liang, Li Wiens, Matthew O Lubega, Phaisal Spillman, Ian Mugisha, Samuel
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Electronic health records (EHRs) are especially important in low-resource settings due to their potential to address unique challenges such as a high number of patients requiring long-term treatments who are lost to follow-up, the frequent shortages of essential drugs, poor maintenance and storage of records, and inefficient clinical triaging. Howe...
Roberts, Courtney Sage, Adam Geryk, Lorie Sleath, Betsy Carpenter, Delesha
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Approximately 10% of adolescents in the United States have asthma. Adolescents widely use apps on mobile phones and tablet technology for social networking and gaming purposes. Given the increase in recreational app use among adolescents, leveraging apps to support adolescent asthma disease management seems warranted. However, little empirical rese...
