Adherence to pharmacotherapy and use of the correct inhaler technique are important basic principles of asthma management. Video- or remote-direct observation of therapy (v-DOT) could be a feasible ap...
To explore the utility and the feasibility of v-DOT to monitor inhaler technique and adherence to treatment in adults attending the asthma outpatient service in a tertiary hospital in Northern Ireland...
The project evaluated use of the technology with 10 asthma patients. Patient and clinician feedback was obtained, in addition to measures of patient engagement and disease-specific clinical markers to...
The engagement rate with v-DOT for participating patients averaged 78% (actual video uploads vs expected video uploads) over a median 7 week usage period. Although 50% of patients reported a technical...
The v-DOT technology was shown to be a feasible method of assessing inhaler technique and monitoring adherence in this small group of adult asthma patients. A range of positive impacts for participati...
Developing and implementing home telehealth (HTH) services for patients with chronic conditions is a challenge. HTH services provide continuous and integrated care to patients, but very often pilot pr...
To plan and evaluate the service for the recipients (i.e., patients and healthcare providers), we used the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) tool in combination with two complexity-informed frameworks: the Non...
Patients and staff perceived the services as valuable as they enabled rapid feedback, and improved communication and collaboration between patients and healthcare providers. Yet, despite the extensive...
The combined use of PDSA, NASSS, and CAT can support the development and evaluation of HTH services that are perceived as valuable by individual patients and staff. For successful adoption, the value ...
The Cardio-Thoracic (CT) professional group experienced a significant increase in stress and workload during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery (SCTS) in Great Bri...
In February 2022, the SCTS created a Mental Health and Wellbeing Working Group to identify the problem and find solutions. This exploratory project was carried out in two stages. Stage one was an onli...
Stage one: An online QR code survey was sent out to 150 members with 129 (86%) completed responses. 92% expressed that SCTS should create awareness about mental health and wellbeing. 99% said that the...
Our study findings indicate that CT staff experience considerable effects on their mental health and wellbeing. However, there is a hesitancy to recognise and seek assistance due to concerns about con...
Coronavirus disease (COVID) dashboards rarely provide insights about the racialized contexts in which vaccination inequities occur....
The purpose of this study was to use the emerging Project REFOCUS dashboard to contextualize COVID vaccination patterns among 6 diverse communities....
We queried the dashboard to generate descriptive statistics on vaccination trends and racism-related contextual factors among the 6 Project REFOCUS pilot sites (Albany, Georgia, Bronx, New York, Detro...
Vaccination rates, demographic indicators, and contextual factors differed across sites. As of October 17, 2022, the proportion of people who had received at least 1 COVID vaccine dose ranged from 58....
The dashboard integrates racism-related factors with COVID vaccination visualizations and provides a fuller picture of the context in which COVID trends are occurring....
Community organizers, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners can track racism-related factors and other social determinants of health as part of the contexts in which COVID-related inequities oc...
Digital greening synergistic transformation (DGST) is a new engine for achieving dual carbon targets. Using panel data from 281 Chinese cities between 2003 and 2019, this study investigates the effect...
Wastewater surveillance is a fast and cost-effective tool that enables tracing of both symptomatic and asymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2. In this paper, a pilot program carried out at the Univer...
Emergency department visits and healthcare expenditures for pediatric atopic dermatitis have been increasing over the last two decades. There is a paucity of replicable quality improvement initiatives...
Vaccine coverage for 18-month-old children in Canada is often below the recommended level, which may be partially because of parental forgetfulness. SMS text message reminders have been shown to poten...
This study aimed to assess the effectiveness and acceptability of using SMS text messages containing a link to web-based immunization information in different languages to remind parents of their chil...
The Childhood Immunization Reminder Project was a pilot intervention at 2 public health centers, one each in Lethbridge and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Two SMS text message reminders were sent to paren...
Following the intervention, the health center in Edmonton had a reduction of 6.4% (95% CI 3%-9.8%) in appointment no-shows, with no change at the Lethbridge Health Center (0.8%, 95% CI -1.4% to 3%). T...
The study's findings support the use of SMS text message reminders as a convenient and acceptable method to minimize parental forgetfulness and potentially reduce appointment no-shows. The diverse lan...
Community Health Workers (CHWs) play a crucial role in outbreak response, including health education, contact tracing, and referral of cases if adequately trained. A pilot project recently trained 766...
This was a qualitative evaluation carried out one year after the project. It used three data collection methods: 30 in-depth interviews among trained CHWs; 15 focus group discussions among community m...
Findings from the study are presented under four themes. (1) Improved knowledge and skills on managing epidemics and pandemics. CHWs distinguished between the two terminologies and correctly identifie...
These findings demonstrate that CHWs can support epidemic and pandemic response when their capacity is enhanced. There is need to invest in routine training of CHWs to contribute to outbreak preparedn...
Building partnerships between mental health services and Black faith communities to co-produce culturally tailored interventions is an essential step towards improving access to services and reducing ...
This study employed a mixed methods pre-post-design, based upon the Medical Research Council Framework (MRC) for complex interventions, and the Implementation Science Research Development....
The qualitative assessments indicate that the intervention was found overall to be acceptable and feasible to the Black faith community population. This pilot study did not find statistically signific...
This ON TRAC pilot study shows that the intervention was feasible and acceptable, and that it has promising positive impacts and next requires larger scale evaluation. These results demonstrate that t...
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