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Yang Z, Hu N, Zhang F, Gao Y, Zhang C, Wang A. A Practical Tool for Measuring Home-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Self-Management Behavior: A Multiphase Cross-Sectional Study. J Am Heart Assoc 2024:e034486. [PMID: 38639372 DOI: 10.1161/jaha.124.034486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2024] [Accepted: 03/25/2024] [Indexed: 04/20/2024]
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BACKGROUND Optimal self-management is the key to home-based cardiac rehabilitation for patients with heart disease. At present, there is a lack of a specific assessment tool to evaluate the home-based cardiac rehabilitation self-management behavior in patients with heart disease. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop the Home-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Self-Management Scale and validate its psychometric properties among patients with coronary heart disease. METHODS AND RESULTS A multiphase cross-sectional study was conducted that study covered 3 phases: (1) item generation and revision, (2) item evaluation and preliminary exploration, and (3) assessment of the psychometric properties of the scale. A scale with 21 items was developed to measure the home-based cardiac rehabilitation self-management behavior. The content validity index of the scale was 0.980. In exploratory factor analysis, the 5-factor structure supported by eigenvalues and screen plot explained 74.326% of the total variation. In confirmatory factor analysis, all fitting indicators were acceptable, further supporting the construct validity of the scale. The criterion validity of the scale was 0.783. In the reliability analysis, the Cronbach's α coefficient of the scale was 0.882, with a dimensionality range of 0.780 to 0.936. The split-half reliability coefficient and test-retest reliability coefficient were 0.774 and 0.770, respectively. CONCLUSIONS This study is the first to develop and validate a practical tool. This scale can comprehensively and accurately assess the self-management behavior of patients with heart disease in a home-based cardiac rehabilitation environment.
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- Zhen Yang
- The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University Shenyang Liaoning Province China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University Shenyang Liaoning Province China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University Shenyang Liaoning Province China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinzhou Medical University Jinzhou Liaoning Province China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinzhou Medical University Jinzhou Liaoning Province China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University Shenyang Liaoning Province China
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De Lima B, Lindauer A, Eckstrom E. Age-Friendly Research: A Pilot Exploration of Tools to Facilitate Inclusion of Older Adults in Research. Gerontol Geriatr Med 2024; 10:23337214241236037. [PMID: 38435474 PMCID: PMC10906043 DOI: 10.1177/23337214241236037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2023] [Revised: 02/05/2024] [Accepted: 02/13/2024] [Indexed: 03/05/2024] Open
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Older adults have a high burden of chronic diseases but are underrepresented in research. Researchers with geriatric or gerontology expertise have developed frameworks to recruit and retain older adults but these have not been widely adopted by the broader research community. We developed or adapted seven Age-Friendly research tools and invited research team members with no aging training to pilot test them. We consented 21 research team members and asked them to share strengths, limitations, and areas for improvement for each tool for up to 4 months via REDCap surveys. Sixteen participants (76%) completed at least one survey. The communication guide and Age-Friendly research checklist were the most utilized tools among participants. Key barriers to implementation were lack of time and lack of age-appropriate populations. Facilitators of tool implementation were accessibility and ease of use, webinar training, and supportive teams. Participants found the tools valuable to encourage Age-Friendly research studies. Adoption of Age-Friendly research tools could improve the experience for research team members and older adults alike.
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- Bryanna De Lima
- Division of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Oregon Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Division of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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Gomes Chaves B, Alami H, Sonier-Ferguson B, Dugas EN. Assessing healthcare capacity crisis preparedness: development of an evaluation tool by a Canadian health authority. Front Public Health 2023; 11:1231738. [PMID: 37881342 PMCID: PMC10594116 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1231738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2023] [Accepted: 09/21/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023] Open
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Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic presented health systems across the globe with unparalleled socio-political, ethical, scientific, and economic challenges. Despite the necessity for a unified, innovative, and effective response, many jurisdictions were unprepared to such a profound health crisis. This study aims to outline the creation of an evaluative tool designed to measure and evaluate the Vitalité Health Network's (New Brunswick, Canada) ability to manage health crises. Methods The methodology of this work was carried out in four stages: (1) construction of an evaluative framework; (2) validation of the framework; (3) construction of the evaluative tool for the Health Authority; and (4) evaluation of the capacity to manage a health crisis. Results The resulting evaluative tool incorporated 8 dimensions, 74 strategies, and 109 observable elements. The dimensions included: (1) clinical care management; (2) infection prevention and control; (3) governance and leadership; (4) human and logistic resources; (5) communication and technologies; (6) health research; (7) ethics and values; and (8) training. A Canadian Health Authority implemented the tool to support its future preparedness. Conclusion This study introduces a methodological strategy adopted by a Canadian health authority to evaluate its capacity in managing health crises. Notably, this study marks the first instance where a Canadian health authority has created a tool for emergency healthcare management, informed by literature in the field and their direct experience from handling the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
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- Breitner Gomes Chaves
- Vitalité Health Network, Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre, Moncton, NB, Canada
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- École de Santé Publique, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Vitalité Health Network, Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre, Moncton, NB, Canada
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Shahid A, Sept BG, Owen VS, Johnstone C, Paramalingam R, Moss SJ, Brundin-Mather R, Krewulak KD, Soo A, Parsons-Leigh J, Gélinas C, Fiest KM, Stelfox HT. Preliminary clinical testing to inform development of the Critical Care Pain Observation Tool for Families (CPOT-Fam). Can J Pain 2023; 7:2235399. [PMID: 37719471 PMCID: PMC10503446 DOI: 10.1080/24740527.2023.2235399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2023] [Revised: 06/16/2023] [Accepted: 07/07/2023] [Indexed: 09/19/2023]
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Introduction Many patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) cannot communicate. For these patients, family caregivers (family members/close friends) could assist in pain assessment. We previously adapted the Critical Care Pain Observation Tool (CPOT) for family caregiver use (CPOT-Fam). In this study, we conducted preliminary clinical evaluation of the CPOT-Fam to inform further tool development. Methods For preliminary testing, we collected (1) pain assessments of patients in the ICU from family caregivers (CPOT-Fam) and nurses (CPOT) and determined the degree of agreement (kappa coefficient, κ) and (2) collected openended feedback on the CPOT-Fam from family caregivers. For refinement, we used preliminary testing data to refine the CPOT-Fam with a multidisciplinary working group. Results We assessed agreement between family caregiver and nurse pain scores for 29 patients. Binary agreement (κ) between CPOT-Fam and CPOT item scores (scores ≥2 considered indicative of significant pain) was fair, κ = 0.43 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.18-0.69). Agreement was highest for the CPOT-Fam items ventilator compliance/vocalization (weighted κ = 0.48, 95% CI 0.15-0.80) and lowest for muscle tension (weighted κ = 0.10, 95% [CI] -0.17 to 0.20). Most participants (n = 19; 69.0%) reported a very positive experience using the CPOT-Fam, describing it as "good" and "easy-to-use/clear/straightforward." We iteratively refined the CPOT-Fam over five cycles using the data collected until no further revisions were suggested. Conclusion Our preliminary clinical testing suggests that family involvement in pain assessment in the ICU is well perceived. The CPOT-Fam has been further refined and is now ready for clinical pilot testing to determine its feasibility and acceptability.
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- Anmol Shahid
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary & Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary & Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary & Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary & Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary & Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- School of Health Administration, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary & Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary & Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary & Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- School of Health Administration, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Ingram School of Nursing, McGill University, and Centre for Nursing Research and Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital–CIUSSS West-Central Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary & Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry and Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Department of Community Health Sciences and O’Brien Institute for Public Health, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary & Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Department of Community Health Sciences and O’Brien Institute for Public Health, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Bayrami N, Rassouli M, Shirinabadi Farahani A, Heidarzadeh M, Khademi F, Tajlli S, Babaie M, Masoum Poor A, Hatamipour K. Validation of post-traumatic growth inventory in mothers with the experience of having the NICU-Hospitalized newborns "validation of post-traumatic growth inventory". Nurs Open 2023. [PMID: 37147889 PMCID: PMC10333864 DOI: 10.1002/nop2.1779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2022] [Revised: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 04/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/07/2023] Open
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AIMS Investigating post-traumatic growth (PTG) in mothers with the experience of having a preterm newborn hospitalized in the NICU requires a valid tool. This study aims to determine the validity and reliability of the Farsi version of the post-traumatic growth inventory (PTGI) in mothers with the experience of having their newborns hospitalized in the NICU. DESIGN This study was methodological research. METHODS In this study, 250 mothers who had newborns with a history of NICU hospitalization during the last 3 to 12 months and had visited paediatric clinics of the selected hospitals in Tehran with the aim of having their children's condition examined were selected through convenience sampling. The data were collected using a demographic information questionnaire and PTGI. The face validity, the construct validity (confirmatory factor analysis), and the internal consistency reliability of the inventory were measured using SPSS V22 and LISREL V8.8. RESULTS According to appropriate values for factor analysis fit indices (FI = 0.94, RMSEA = 0.07, IFI = 0.94, NFI = 0.93, RFI = 0.91, NNFI = 0.93, SRMR = 0.07), 21 items and 5 factors were confirmed for this inventory. Furthermore, Cronbach's alpha coefficient of this inventory was measured as α = 0.94. CONCLUSION According to favourable psychometric properties, the Farsi version of PTGI is a suitable tool for studying PTG in mothers with the experience of having preterm newborns in the NICU. Using PTGI can help nurses in planning family-centered care interventions to reduce the impact of the mental trauma caused by the preterm newborn's hospitalization in parents. PATIENT OR PUBLIC CONTRIBUTION Mothers who had newborns with a history of NICU hospitalization during the last 3-12 months.
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- Nahid Bayrami
- Department of Pediatrics and Neonatal Intensive Care, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Cancer Research Center, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Pediatric & Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran
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- Department of Nursing, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran
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- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Cancer Research Center, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Pediatric & Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Nursing, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran
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Hasper J, Welle K, Hryhorenko J, Ghaemmaghami S, Buchwalter A. Turnover and replication analysis by isotope labeling (TRAIL) reveals the influence of tissue context on protein and organelle lifetimes. Mol Syst Biol 2023; 19:e11393. [PMID: 36929723 PMCID: PMC10090950 DOI: 10.15252/msb.202211393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2022] [Revised: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 02/16/2023] [Indexed: 03/18/2023] Open
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The lifespans of proteins range from minutes to years within mammalian tissues. Protein lifespan is relevant to organismal aging, as long-lived proteins accrue damage over time. It is unclear how protein lifetime is shaped by tissue context, where both cell turnover and proteolytic degradation contribute to protein turnover. We develop turnover and replication analysis by 15 N isotope labeling (TRAIL) to quantify protein and cell lifetimes with high precision and demonstrate that cell turnover, sequence-encoded features, and environmental factors modulate protein lifespan across tissues. Cell and protein turnover flux are comparable in proliferative tissues, while protein turnover outpaces cell turnover in slowly proliferative tissues. Physicochemical features such as hydrophobicity, charge, and disorder influence protein turnover in slowly proliferative tissues, but protein turnover is much less sequence-selective in highly proliferative tissues. Protein lifetimes vary nonrandomly across tissues after correcting for cell turnover. Multiprotein complexes such as the ribosome have consistent lifetimes across tissues, while mitochondria, peroxisomes, and lipid droplets have variable lifetimes. TRAIL can be used to explore how environment, aging, and disease affect tissue homeostasis.
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- John Hasper
- Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- University of Rochester Mass Spectrometry Resource Laboratory, Rochester, NY, USA
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- University of Rochester Mass Spectrometry Resource Laboratory, Rochester, NY, USA
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- University of Rochester Mass Spectrometry Resource Laboratory, Rochester, NY, USA.,Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.,Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.,Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Bona JP, Utecht J, Kemp AS, Gan JM, Caballero A, Trudeau CR, Brochhausen M, James L. The informed consent form navigator: a tool for producing readable and compliant consent documents. J Clin Transl Sci 2023; 7:e3. [PMID: 36755541 DOI: 10.1017/cts.2022.507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2022] [Revised: 10/28/2022] [Accepted: 11/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Background/Objective Informed consent forms (ICFs) and practices vary widely across institutions. This project expands on previous work at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Center for Health Literacy to develop a plain language ICF template. Our interdisciplinary team of researchers, comprised of biomedical informaticists, health literacy experts, and stakeholders in the Institutional Review Board (IRB) process, has developed the ICF Navigator, a novel tool to facilitate the creation of plain language ICFs that comply with all relevant regulatory requirements. Methods Our team first developed requirements for the ICF Navigator tool. The tool was then implemented by a technical team of informaticists and software developers, in consultation with an informed consent legal expert. We developed and formalized a detailed knowledge map modeling regulatory requirements for ICFs, which drives workflows within the tool. Results The ICF Navigator is a web-based tool that guides researchers through creating an ICF as they answer questions about their project. The navigator uses those responses to produce a clear and compliant ICF, displaying a real-time preview of the final form as content is added. Versioning and edits can be tracked to facilitate collaborative revisions by the research team and communication with the IRB. The navigator helps guide the creation of study-specific language, ensures compliance with regulatory requirements, and ensures that the resulting ICF is easy to read and understand. Conclusion The ICF Navigator is an innovative, customizable, open-source software tool that helps researchers produce custom readable and compliant ICFs for research studies involving human subjects.
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Davis SD, Bayes S, Geraghty S. Development of a tool to identify barriers and enablers to practice innovation in midwifery: A participatory action research study. Eur J Midwifery 2023; 7:1. [PMID: 36761447 PMCID: PMC9885374 DOI: 10.18332/ejm/157459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2022] [Revised: 03/18/2022] [Accepted: 12/14/2022] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Transferring research evidence into midwifery practice is fraught with challenges and obstacles. Implementation tools can streamline the process and are most effective when they are discipline-specific; however, there are currently no midwifery specific implementation tools. The aim of this study was to develop a midwifery specific tool to identify barriers and enablers to evidence-informed practice change within the clinical setting. METHODS Participatory action research methodology was employed to ensure potential end-users contributed to content and format of the tool. Purposeful sampling ensured participants were selected from a range of midwifery practice settings in Western Australia and the United Kingdom. Data were collected through stakeholder advisory groups (SAGs) and online surveys. RESULTS Ten midwives participated in this project. Consultation occurred through face-to-face SAG meetings and online surveys until consensus was reached among participants about the content, format, and functionality of the end product which we called the 'Midwifery Tool for Change' (MT4C). CONCLUSIONS To our knowledge, the MT4C is the first readiness for change context assessment tool specific to midwifery practice settings. Evaluation of the MT4C in real-world practice change implementation initiatives will enable further refinement of the tool.
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- Sara D. Davis
- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia
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- School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia
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- School of Nursing, Midwifery, Health Sciences and Physiotherapy, University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, Australia
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Bona JP, Utecht J, Bost S, Brochhausen M, Prior F. The PRISM semantic cohort builder: a novel tool to search and access clinical data in TCIA imaging collections. Phys Med Biol 2023; 68:014003. [PMID: 36279873 PMCID: PMC9855624 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ac9d1d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2022] [Accepted: 10/24/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The cancer imaging archive (TICA) receives and manages an ever-increasing quantity of clinical (non-image) data containing valuable information about subjects in imaging collections. To harmonize and integrate these data, we have first cataloged the types of information occurring across public TCIA collections. We then produced mappings for these diverse instance data using ontology-based representation patterns and transformed the data into a knowledge graph in a semantic database. This repository combined the transformed instance data with relevant background knowledge from domain ontologies. The resulting repository of semantically integrated data is a rich source of information about subjects that can be queried across imaging collections. Building on this work we have implemented and deployed a REST API and a user-facing semantic cohort builder tool. This tool allows allow researchers and other users to search and identify groups of subject-level records based on non-image data that were not queryable prior to this work. The search results produced by this interface link to images, allowing users to quickly identify and view images matching the selection criteria, as well as allowing users to export the harmonized clinical data.
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- Jonathan P Bona
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America
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- Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America,
Department of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America,
Department of Radiology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America
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Yoo PY, Majnemer A, Bolduc LA, Chen K, Lamb E, Panjwani T, Wilton R, Ahmed S, Shikako K. Content development of the Child Community Health Inclusion Index: An evaluation tool for measuring inclusion of children with disabilities in the community. Child Care Health Dev 2023; 49:44-53. [PMID: 35301741 DOI: 10.1111/cch.13004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2021] [Revised: 02/16/2022] [Accepted: 03/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Addressing barriers in the environment can contribute to health and quality of life for children with disabilities and their families. The Community Health Inclusion Index (CHII) is a measurement tool developed in the United States to identify environmental barriers and facilitators to community health inclusion. The CHII adopts an adult viewpoint and aspects crucial for children may have been omitted. AIMS This study aimed to develop a comprehensive list of items that are relevant for the community inclusion of children with disabilities in the Canadian context. METHODS The relevance and priority of items generated from a review of existing guidelines and best practice recommendations for community inclusion were rated as a dichotomous response and discussed by an expert panel in relevant fields related to children with disabilities. RESULTS A total of 189 items from 12 instruments and best practice guidelines were identified. Expert consensus contributed to a relevant and comprehensive list of items. Expert suggestions were considered to refine and reduce the item list. CONCLUSION This study highlights the importance of a child version of a community inclusion tool, as the needs of children with disabilities differ from those of adults. It can help communities improve inclusion of children with disabilities and inform health promotion initiatives for this population.
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- Paul Yejong Yoo
- School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,McGill University Health Centre Research Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,McGill University Health Centre Research Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.,Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,McGill University Health Centre Research Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Rey Velasco E, Pedersen HS, Skinner T. Analysis of Patient Cues in Asynchronous Health Interactions: Pilot Study Combining Empathy Appraisal and Systemic Functional Linguistics. JMIR Form Res 2022; 6:e40058. [PMID: 36538352 PMCID: PMC9812272 DOI: 10.2196/40058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Revised: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 11/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Lifestyle-related diseases are among the leading causes of death and disability. Their rapid increase worldwide has called for low-cost, scalable solutions to promote health behavior changes. Digital health coaching has proved to be effective in delivering affordable, scalable programs to support lifestyle change. This approach increasingly relies on asynchronous text-based interventions to motivate and support behavior change. Although we know that empathy is a core element for a successful coach-user relationship and positive patient outcomes, we lack research on how this is realized in text-based interactions. Systemic functional linguistics (SFL) is a linguistic theory that may support the identification of empathy opportunities (EOs) in text-based interactions, as well as the reasoning behind patients' linguistic choices in their formulation. OBJECTIVE This study aims to determine whether empathy and SFL approaches correspond and complement each other satisfactorily to study text-based communication in a health coaching context. We sought to explore whether combining empathic assessment with SFL categories can provide a means to understand client-coach interactions in asynchronous text-based coaching interactions. METHODS We retrieved 148 text messages sent by 29 women who participated in a randomized trial of telecoaching for the prevention of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and postnatal weight loss. We conducted a pilot study to identify users' explicit and implicit EOs and further investigated these statements using the SFL approach, focusing on the analysis of transitivity and thematic analysis. RESULTS We identified 164 EOs present in 42.37% (3478/8209) of the word count in the corpus. These were mainly negative (n=90, 54.88%) and implicit (n=55, 60.00%). We distinguished opening, content and closing messages structures. Most of the wording was found in the content (n=7077, 86.21%) with a declarative structure (n=7084, 86.30%). Processes represented 22.4% (n=1839) of the corpus, with half being material (n=876, 10.67%) and mostly related to food and diet (n=196, 54.92%), physical activity (n=96, 26.89%), and lifestyle goals (n=40, 11.20%). CONCLUSIONS Our findings show that empathy and SFL approaches are compatible. The results from our transitivity analysis reveal novel insights into the meanings of the users' EOs, such as their seek for help or praise, often missed by health care professionals (HCPs), and on the coach-user relationship. The absence of explicit EOs and direct questions could be attributed to low trust on or information about the coach's abilities. In the future, we will conduct further research to explore additional linguistic features and code coach messages. TRIAL REGISTRATION Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR) ACTRN12620001240932; https://www.anzctr.org.au/Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx?id=380020.
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- Elena Rey Velasco
- Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Liva Healthcare, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Shahid A, Sept BG, Longmore S, Owen VS, Moss SJ, Soo A, Fiest KM, Gélinas C, Stelfox HT. Development and preclinical testing of the critical care pain observation tool for family caregiver use (CPOT-Fam). Health Sci Rep 2022; 6:e986. [PMID: 36514328 PMCID: PMC9732740 DOI: 10.1002/hsr2.986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2022] [Revised: 11/26/2022] [Accepted: 11/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Background and Aims Pain assessment in noncommunicative intensive care unit (ICU) patients is challenging. For these patients, family caregivers (i.e., family members, friends) may be able to assist in pain assessment by identifying individualistic signs of pain due to their intimate patient knowledge. This study adapted the critical care pain observation tool (CPOT) to facilitate pain assessment in adult ICU patients by family caregivers. Methods This study was conducted through three distinct phases: (1)CPOT adaptation for family caregiver use (to create the CPOT-Fam): A working group met monthly to adapt the CPOT and develop educational material and sample cases for practice scoring until consensus was reached.(2)CPOT-Fam preclinical testing: Family caregiver study participants viewed educational materials and scored four randomly selected sample cases using the CPOT-Fam. Scores were compared to reference scores to assess agreement and identify CPOT-Fam sections requiring revision. Open-ended feedback on the CPOT-Fam was collected.(3)CPOT-Fam revision: the CPOT-Fam was revised by the working group considering score agreement and feedback received from study participants. Results Of the n = 30 participants, n = 14 (47.0%) had experience with an ICU patient. Agreement between CPOT-Fam participant scores and reference scores were highest for the vocalization dimension (Is the patient making any sounds?; Intraclass correlation coefficient; ICC = 1.0) and lowest for the body movements dimension (What are the patient's body movements like?; ICC = 0.85. Participants indicated they found the CPOT-Fam to be "informative" and "easy-to-use" but "not graphic enough"; participants also indicated that descriptors like "lack of breath" and "struggling to move" are helpful with identifying individualistic behaviors of pain exhibited by their loved ones. Conclusion The CPOT-Fam shows ease of use and may be of value in involving family caregivers in ICU care. Clinical pilot testing is needed to determine feasibility and acceptability and identify further areas for refinement.
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- Anmol Shahid
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of MedicineUniversity of Calgary & Alberta Health ServicesCalgaryAlbertaCanada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of MedicineUniversity of Calgary & Alberta Health ServicesCalgaryAlbertaCanada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of MedicineUniversity of Calgary & Alberta Health ServicesCalgaryAlbertaCanada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of MedicineUniversity of Calgary & Alberta Health ServicesCalgaryAlbertaCanada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of MedicineUniversity of Calgary & Alberta Health ServicesCalgaryAlbertaCanada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of MedicineUniversity of Calgary & Alberta Health ServicesCalgaryAlbertaCanada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of MedicineUniversity of Calgary & Alberta Health ServicesCalgaryAlbertaCanada,Department of Psychiatry, Hotchkiss Brain InstituteCumming School of MedicineCalgaryAlbertaCanada,Department of Community Health SciencesUniversity of CalgaryCalgaryAlbertaCanada
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- Centre for Nursing Research and Lady Davis Institute, Ingram School of Nursing, Jewish General Hospital—CIUSSS West‐Central MontrealMcGill UniversityMontrealCanada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Cumming School of MedicineUniversity of Calgary & Alberta Health ServicesCalgaryAlbertaCanada,O'Brien Institute for Public HealthUniversity of CalgaryCalgaryAlbertaCanada
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Hasan S, Sulieman H, Babi H, Bloukh S. Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Antibiotic Knowledge and Consumption Tool (AKCT). Antibiotics (Basel) 2022; 11. [PMID: 36551401 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics11121744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2022] [Revised: 11/27/2022] [Accepted: 11/29/2022] [Indexed: 12/09/2022] Open
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Knowledge of antibiotics and awareness of microbial resistance are essential for appropriate antibiotic consumption. This study aimed to develop and validate a measure of antibiotic knowledge and consumption (AKCT) and to make it available in the Arabic language and context. The tool was developed and applied on individuals ≥ 18 years, with mastery of Arabic or English. Exploratory factor analysis using principal-component analysis tested the psychometric properties of the items. AKCT scores were compared with the Infectious Numeracy Test (INT) scores to establish convergent validity. Cronbach’s α > 0.7 measured reliability. Three hundred-eighty-six participants completed the questionnaire, achieving a 95.3% response rate. Five components were retained after factor analysis: Side-effects and resistance, Access to antibiotics, Recovery after use, Antibiotics use indications, and Body response. Cronbach’s α = 0.85. The mean ± SD of AKCT = 9.82 ± 3.85 (range = 7−20); lowest scores were related to “Side-effects and resistance” (2.32 ± 2.00, max = 7) and “Antibiotic use indications” (1.61 ± 1.29, max = 5). Scores on the AKCT and INT positively correlated. The AKCT is a valuable, valid, and reliable tool developed for measurement of antibiotic knowledge and consumption behaviors to identify specific areas needing improvements; hence, targeted interventions are devised.
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Nguyen H, Doherty KV, Eccleston CEA, Bindoff A, Tierney L, Mason R, Robinson A, Vickers J, McInerney F. Consumer Access, Appraisal, and Application of Services and Information for Dementia (CAAASI-Dem): a validation study. Aging Ment Health 2022; 26:2489-2495. [PMID: 34669522 DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2021.1991277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Objectives: The Consumer Access, Appraisal, and Application of Services and Information for Dementia (CAAASI-Dem) was developed to examine individuals' self-assessed confidence in their ability to access, appraise and use dementia services and information. The CAAASI-Dem is the only tool to date to measure this crucial component of dementia literacy. This study was designed to validate its structural validity.Method: Data was collected from 3277 participants enrolled in an on-line dementia course. The five-factor structure of the CAAASI-Dem, which was derived from a previous exploratory factor analysis, was evaluated using confirmatory factor analysis. Internal reliability, convergent and divergent validity, and known-groups validity were assessed. Results: The five-factor model demonstrated good fit with the observed data with the removal of 2 items and movement of 1 item across the factors. The resultant 24-item five-factor CAAASI-Dem showed very good sub-scale internal reliability and satisfactory convergent and divergent validity. There was good discrimination between groups of participants with different levels of care experience.Conclusion: The results provided evidence for the 24-item CAAASI-Dem as a valid and reliable five-dimensional scale. Limitations of the study are discussed, and recommendations are made for future research and practice.
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- Hoang Nguyen
- Wicking Dementia Research & Education Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Wicking Dementia Research & Education Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Wicking Dementia Research & Education Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Wicking Dementia Research & Education Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Wicking Dementia Research & Education Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Wicking Dementia Research & Education Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Wicking Dementia Research & Education Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Wicking Dementia Research & Education Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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Khurana R, Gupta L, Kumar N. Development and standardization of a COVID-19 Vaccination Anxiety scale for Adult Urban Indian Population (CVAS-A). Hum Vaccin Immunother 2022; 18:2059307. [PMID: 35442144 PMCID: PMC9897640 DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2022.2059307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Given the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination drive across the globe, a significant amount of confusion, mistrust, misunderstanding, and hesitancy had surfaced regarding the vaccine. A standardized tool to understand the possible reasons of COVID-19 vaccination anxiety and hesitancy would be valuable in this context. The current study aimed at developing a standardized tool to measure COVID-19 Vaccination Anxiety among Urban Indian adults. A 19-item scale was administered to an Urban adult Indian population (N = 760) between the period of February 2021- May 2021 to obtain factors associated with COVID-19 Vaccination Anxiety and establish reliability estimates of the scale. Infection-related anxiety, information-related anxiety and vaccine side-effect-related anxiety were the three factors determined through Factor Analysis. The scale was validated with Convergent and Discriminant Validity by finding correlation between the three factors of the scale and five factors of the Brief version of the Big-Five personality Inventory (extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, conscientiousness, and neuroticism). It is expected that a tool such as CVAS-A would help in understanding and managing COVID-19-related vaccination hesitancy.
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- Rati Khurana
- Independent Practitioner,CONTACT Rati Khurana Independent Practitioner
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Gosselin Boucher V, Bacon S, Voisard B, Dragomir AI, Gemme C, Larue F, Labbé S, Szczepanik G, Corace K, Campbell T, Vallis M, Garber G, Rouleau C, Diodati JG, Rabi D, Sultan S, Lavoie K. Assessing Physician's Motivational Communication Skills: 5-Step Mixed Methods Development Study of the Motivational Communication Competency Assessment Test. JMIR Med Educ 2022; 8:e31489. [PMID: 35749167 PMCID: PMC9270716 DOI: 10.2196/31489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2021] [Revised: 01/25/2022] [Accepted: 02/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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BACKGROUND Training physicians to provide effective behavior change counseling using approaches such as motivational communication (MC) is an important aspect of noncommunicable chronic disease prevention and management. However, existing evaluation tools for MC skills are complex, invasive, time consuming, and impractical for use within the medical context. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to develop and validate a short web-based tool for evaluating health care provider (HCP) skills in MC-the Motivational Communication Competency Assessment Test (MC-CAT). METHODS Between 2016 and 2021, starting with a set of 11 previously identified core MC competencies and using a 5-step, mixed methods, integrated knowledge translation approach, the MC-CAT was created by developing a series of 4 base cases and a scoring scheme, validating the base cases and scoring scheme with international experts, creating 3 alternative versions of the 4 base cases (to create a bank of 16 cases, 4 of each type of base case) and translating the cases into French, integrating the cases into the web-based MC-CAT platform, and conducting initial internal validity assessments with university health students. RESULTS The MC-CAT assesses MC competency in 20 minutes by presenting HCPs with 4 out of a possible 16 cases (randomly selected and ordered) addressing various behavioral targets (eg, smoking, physical activity, diet, and medication adherence). Individual and global competency scores were calculated automatically for the 11 competency items across the 4 cases, providing automatic scores out of 100. From the factorial analysis of variance for the difference in competency and ranking scores, no significant differences were identified between the different case versions across individual and global competency (P=.26 to P=.97) and ranking scores (P=.24 to P=.89). The initial tests of internal consistency for rank order among the 24 student participants were in the acceptable range (α=.78). CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that MC-CAT is an internally valid tool to facilitate the evaluation of MC competencies among HCPs and is ready to undergo comprehensive psychometric property analyses with a national sample of health care providers. Once psychometric property assessments have been completed, this tool is expected to facilitate the assessment of MC skills among HCPs, skills that will better support patients in adopting healthier lifestyles, which will significantly reduce the personal, social, and economic burdens of noncommunicable chronic diseases.
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- Vincent Gosselin Boucher
- Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, Centre Intégré Universitaire de santé et services sociaux du Nord-de-l'Ile-de-Montréal (CIUSSSNIM), Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, Centre Intégré Universitaire de santé et services sociaux du Nord-de-l'Ile-de-Montréal (CIUSSSNIM), Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Health, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, Centre Intégré Universitaire de santé et services sociaux du Nord-de-l'Ile-de-Montréal (CIUSSSNIM), Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, Centre Intégré Universitaire de santé et services sociaux du Nord-de-l'Ile-de-Montréal (CIUSSSNIM), Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, Centre Intégré Universitaire de santé et services sociaux du Nord-de-l'Ile-de-Montréal (CIUSSSNIM), Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, Centre Intégré Universitaire de santé et services sociaux du Nord-de-l'Ile-de-Montréal (CIUSSSNIM), Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, Centre Intégré Universitaire de santé et services sociaux du Nord-de-l'Ile-de-Montréal (CIUSSSNIM), Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- The Royal's Institute of Mental Health Research, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Total Cardiology Cardiac Rehabilitation, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Family Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, Centre Intégré Universitaire de santé et services sociaux du Nord-de-l'Ile-de-Montréal (CIUSSSNIM), Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, Centre Intégré Universitaire de santé et services sociaux du Nord-de-l'Ile-de-Montréal (CIUSSSNIM), Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Lee CS, Khan MT, Patnaik R, Stull MC, Krell RW, Laverty RB. Model Development of a Novel Robotic Surgery Training Exercise With Electrocautery. Cureus 2022; 14:e24531. [PMID: 35651377 PMCID: PMC9138208 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.24531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2022] [Accepted: 04/27/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Robot-assisted surgery (RAS) has undergone rapid adoption in general surgery due to features such as three-dimensional visualization, wrist dexterity, improved precision of movement, and operator ergonomics. While many surgical trainees encounter RAS during their residency, robotic skills training programs and curricula vary across institutions and there is broad variation in graduating general surgeons’ robotic proficiency levels. Due to a need for a formalized process to achieve competence on the robotic platform, simulation-based training has become instrumental in closing this gap as it provides training in a low-stakes environment while allowing the trainee to improve their psychomotor and basic procedural skills. Several different models of simulation training exist including virtual reality, animal, cadaveric, and inanimate tissue platforms. Each form of training has its own merits and limitations. While virtual reality platforms have been well evaluated for face, content, and construct validity, their initial set-up costs can be as high as $125,000. Similarly, animal and cadaveric models are not only costly but also have ethical considerations that may preclude participation. There is an unmet need in developing high-fidelity, cost-effective simulations for basic videoscopic skills such as cautery use. We developed a cost-effective and high-fidelity inanimate tissue model that incorporates electrocautery. Using a double-layered bowel model secured to a moistened household sponge, this inanimate exercise simulates fundamental skills of robotic surgery such as tissue handling, camera control, suturing, and electrocautery.
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- Christina S Lee
- General Surgery, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, USA
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- General Surgery, UT (University of Texas ) Health San Antonio, San Antonio, USA
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- General Surgery, UT (University of Texas ) Health San Antonio, San Antonio, USA
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- General Surgery, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, USA
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- General Surgery, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, USA
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Telisnor G, Garg R, Glayzer JE, Kobak WH, Kiros GE, Yao Y, Wilkie DJ, Schlaeger JM. Image-based documentation of vulvodynia pain location. Pain Manag 2022; 12:417-424. [PMID: 35060761 PMCID: PMC8981421 DOI: 10.2217/pmt-2021-0110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Aims: Better documentation of vulvar pain is needed. We examined pain locations marked on general body and genital specific outlines among women with vulvodynia. Methods: 62 women (mean age 32.1 ± 9.5 years) with vulvodynia marked their pain on a digital genital specific outline (22 segments) and 59 of those women also marked their pain on a digital general body outline (48 segments). We used ImageJ software to determine body surface area (BSA) for each outline. Results: On the general body outline, 24/48 segments were marked; 22/22 segments were marked on the genital specific outline. There was a moderate correlation (r = 0.43; p = 0.001) between the BSA marked on the general body outline and the BSA marked on the genital area outline. Conclusions: Findings support concurrent validity of the BSA as a measure of pain location using either outline.
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- Guettchina Telisnor
- Department of Biobehavioral Health Nursing Science, University of Florida College of Nursing, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- Department of Biobehavioral Health Nursing Science, University of Florida College of Nursing, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- Department of Human Development Nursing Science, University of Illinois Chicago College of Nursing, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA
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- Department of Biobehavioral Health Nursing Science, University of Florida College of Nursing, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- Department of Biobehavioral Health Nursing Science, University of Florida College of Nursing, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- Department of Human Development Nursing Science, University of Illinois Chicago College of Nursing, Chicago, IL 60612, USA,Author for correspondence: Tel.: +1 312 413 4669;
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Oommen T, Thommandram A, Palanica A, Fossat Y. A Free Open-Source Bayesian Vancomycin Dosing App for Adults: Design and Evaluation Study. JMIR Form Res 2022; 6:e30577. [PMID: 35353046 PMCID: PMC9008526 DOI: 10.2196/30577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2021] [Revised: 10/08/2021] [Accepted: 02/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background It has been suggested that Bayesian dosing apps can assist in the therapeutic drug monitoring of patients receiving vancomycin. Unfortunately, Bayesian dosing tools are often unaffordable to resource-limited hospitals. Our aim was to improve vancomycin dosing in adults. We created a free and open-source dose adjustment app, VancoCalc, which uses Bayesian inference to aid clinicians in dosing and monitoring of vancomycin. Objective The aim of this paper is to describe the design, development, usability, and evaluation of a free open-source Bayesian vancomycin dosing app, VancoCalc. Methods The app build and model fitting process were described. Previously published pharmacokinetic models were used as priors. The ability of the app to predict vancomycin concentrations was performed using a small data set comprising of 52 patients, aged 18 years and over, who received at least 1 dose of intravenous vancomycin and had at least 2 vancomycin concentrations drawn between July 2018 and January 2021 at Lakeridge Health Corporation Ontario, Canada. With these estimated and actual concentrations, median prediction error (bias), median absolute error (accuracy), and root mean square error (precision) were calculated to evaluate the accuracy of the Bayesian estimated pharmacokinetic parameters. Results A total of 52 unique patients’ initial vancomycin concentrations were used to predict subsequent concentration; 104 total vancomycin concentrations were assessed. The median prediction error was –0.600 ug/mL (IQR –3.06, 2.95), the median absolute error was 3.05 ug/mL (IQR 1.44, 4.50), and the root mean square error was 5.34. Conclusions We described a free, open-source Bayesian vancomycin dosing calculator based on revisions of currently available calculators. Based on this small retrospective preliminary sample of patients, the app offers reasonable accuracy and bias, which may be used in everyday practice. By offering this free, open-source app, further prospective validation could be implemented in the near future.
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- Klick Applied Sciences, Klick Health, Klick Inc, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Klick Applied Sciences, Klick Health, Klick Inc, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Pallewaththa P, Agampodi TC, Agampodi SB, Pérez-Escamilla R, Siribaddana S. Measuring Responsive Feeding in Sri Lanka: Development of the Responsive Feeding Practices Assessment Tool. J Nutr Educ Behav 2021; 53:489-502. [PMID: 33775569 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneb.2021.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2020] [Revised: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 02/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To develop and validate a tool focusing on responsive feeding (RF) practices among mothers and infants aged between 6 and 12 months in Sri Lanka. DESIGN A comprehensive review, an in-depth qualitative study, and a cross-sectional study were carried out. SETTING Anuradhapura District, Sri Lanka. PARTICIPANTS Sample of mother-infant pairs (n = 170). VARIABLES MEASURED Items were developed by extracting data from a previous in-depth qualitative study on RF, informed by currently available RF items. ANALYSIS Content validation was performed among experts using standard techniques, followed by cognitive interviews among mothers. Structural validity was assessed using principal component analysis. Test-retest reliability was done with a sample of 50 mothers. RESULTS Cognitive validation with mothers confirmed the applicability and comprehensiveness of the tool. The tool possessed good reliability with an intraclass correlation of 0.80 and internal consistency of 0.79. The principal component analysis showed a clear 3 factor solution. The 3 factors were interpreted as responsive communication during feeding, appropriate feeding, attentive to child's signals, and proactive preparation of the feeding environment. The final version of the tool consisted of 15 items. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS The 15-item Responsive Feeding Practices Assessment Tool is a valid tool to assess RF.
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- Prabhath Pallewaththa
- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.
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- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
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- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
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Hasan S, Halabi MI. Development and Validation of the New Asthma Numeracy Test (ANT). Value Health Reg Issues 2021; 25:135-141. [PMID: 34020380 DOI: 10.1016/j.vhri.2021.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2020] [Revised: 02/10/2021] [Accepted: 03/02/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVES This study aimed to examine the reliability and validity of a newly developed Asthma Numeracy Test (ANT) and to make it available in Arabic. METHODS Patients with asthma who were ≥18 years were seen in 3 outpatient primary care or respiratory medicine clinics in the United Arab Emirates. They completed the ANT of 10 questions assessing participant arithmetic computation, meaning of percentages, estimation, and problem solving. Each question was worth 1 point, giving a total score of 10. The ANT was forward and back translated to Arabic and English, respectively, by independent legal translators and piloted on 15 participants. Convergent validity was tested by comparing the ANT with the Asthma Knowledge Test (AKT) scores, knowledge of inhaled medications, and practical inhaler technique using Pearson's correlation coefficients. RESULTS The average ANT score achieved by 150 participants was 6.47 ± 2.09; 25% and 45% scored ≤4.0 and 6.0, respectively. Correlation between ANT and AKT and knowledge of inhaled medications were positive, r = .22 and r = .16, P < .05, respectively. No correlation with participants' practical inhaler technique was noted. ANT was positively associated with participant educational attainment and negatively with emergency room visits. CONCLUSIONS A new short and easy-to-administer test of asthma numeracy has been developed and found to be valid and reliable. It may be used to assess numeracy levels of patients with asthma and consequently develop and evaluate targeted interventions designed to improve patient care outcomes. The test is available in English and Arabic.
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- Sanah Hasan
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Ajman University, Ajman, UAE; Center of Medical and Bio-allied Health Sciences Research, Ajman University, Ajman, UAE.
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Albarwani S, Almaskari MA, Alalawi SS, Almaskari TS, Alshidi AS. Development and validation of knowledge of caring for COVID-19 tool. Nurs Open 2021; 9:1844-1853. [PMID: 33991458 PMCID: PMC8242480 DOI: 10.1002/nop2.931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2020] [Revised: 02/14/2021] [Accepted: 03/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Aim We aimed to examine the validity and reliability of a newly developed tool that measures nursing and allied health students’ knowledge of caring for patients with COVID‐19. Method We developed in five phases (literature review, item development, expert evaluation using content validity index, revisions based on a pilot test, and exploratory factor and reliability analyses on the data from the main study). We administered online surveys (the pilot test & the main study using a cross‐sectional design) to students in a governmental health sciences college in Oman. Results The pilot test had 43 participants, and the main study had 507. The item content validity index scores ranged from 0.81–1.00, and the scale content validity index for 20 items was 0.95. The factor analysis revealed a three‐factor solution. The overall Cronbach’s alpha for the final (19‐item) version of the tool after item deletion was 0.76. The reliabilities for Subscales 1, 2, and 3 were 0.83, 0.67, and 0.51, respectively.
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Pagali SR, Miller D, Fischer K, Schroeder D, Egger N, Manning DM, Lapid MI, Pignolo RJ, Burton MC. Predicting Delirium Risk Using an Automated Mayo Delirium Prediction Tool: Development and Validation of a Risk-Stratification Model. Mayo Clin Proc 2021; 96:1229-1235. [PMID: 33581839 PMCID: PMC8106623 DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2020.08.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2020] [Revised: 08/09/2020] [Accepted: 08/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To develop a delirium risk-prediction tool that is applicable across different clinical patient populations and can predict the risk of delirium at admission to hospital. METHODS This retrospective study included 120,764 patients admitted to Mayo Clinic between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2017, with age 50 and greater. The study group was randomized into a derivation cohort (n=80,000) and a validation cohort (n=40,764). Different risk factors were extracted and analyzed using least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) penalized logistic regression. RESULTS The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) for Mayo Delirium Prediction (MDP) tool using derivation cohort was 0.85 (95% confidence interval [CI], .846 to .855). Using the regression coefficients obtained from the derivation cohort, predicted probability of delirium was calculated for each patient in the validation cohort. For the validation cohort, AUROC was 0.84 (95% CI, .834 to .847). Patients were classified into 1 of the 3 risk groups, based on their predicted probability of delirium: low (≤5%), moderate (6% to 29%), and high (≥30%). In the derivation cohort, observed incidence of delirium was 1.7%, 12.8%, and 44.8% (low, moderate, and high risk, respectively), which is similar to the incidence rates in the validation cohort of 1.9%, 12.7%, and 46.3%. CONCLUSION The Mayo Delirium Prediction tool was developed from a large heterogeneous patient population with good validation results and appears to be a reliable automated tool for delirium risk prediction with hospitalization. Further prospective validation studies are required.
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- Sandeep R Pagali
- Division of Hospital Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
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- Division of Hospital Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Division of Hospital Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Division of Hospital Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Division of Hospital Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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Derakhshani N, Doshmangir L, Ahmadi A, Fakhri A, Sadeghi-Bazargani H, Gordeev VS. Monitoring Process Barriers and Enablers Towards Universal Health Coverage Within the Sustainable Development Goals: A Systematic Review and Content Analysis. Clinicoecon Outcomes Res 2020; 12:459-472. [PMID: 32922051 PMCID: PMC7457838 DOI: 10.2147/ceor.s254946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2020] [Accepted: 07/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND This study builds on previous successes of using tracer indicators in tracking progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and complements them by offering a more detailed tool that would allow us to identify potential process barriers and enablers towards such progress. PURPOSE This tool was designed accounting for possibly available data in low- and middle-income counties. METHODOLOGY A systematic review of relevant studies was carried out using PubMed, ISI Web of Science, Embase, Scopus, and ProQuest databases with no time restriction. The search was complemented by a scoping review of grey literature, using the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO) official reports depositories. Next, an inductive content analysis identified determinants influencing the progress towards UHC and its relevant indicators. The conceptual proximity between indicators and categorized themes was explored through three focus group discussion with 18 experts in UHC. Finally, a comprehensive list of indicators was converted into an assessment tool and refined following three consecutive expert panel discussions and two rounds of email surveys. RESULTS A total of 416 themes (including indicators and determinants factors) were extracted from 166 eligible articles and documents. Based on conceptual proximity, the number of factors was reduced to 119. These were grouped into eight domains: social infrastructure and social sustainability, financial and economic infrastructures, population health status, service delivery, coverage, stewardship/governance, and global movements. The final assessment tool included 20 identified subcategories and 88 relevant indicators. CONCLUSION Identified factors in progress towards UHC are interrelated. The developed tool can be adapted and used in whole or in part in any country. Periodical use of the tool is recommended to understand potential factors that impede or advance progress towards UHC.
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- Naser Derakhshani
- Department of Health Policy & Management, Tabriz Health Services Management Research Center, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
- Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Health Policy & Management, Tabriz Health Services Management Research Center, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Health Management and Safety Promotion Research Institute, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Knowledge Utilization Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
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- The Institute of Population Health Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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Hasan S, Mahameed S. Assessing Patient Knowledge of Asthma Using a Newly Validated Tool. Value Health Reg Issues 2020; 22:108-114. [PMID: 32828005 DOI: 10.1016/j.vhri.2020.07.576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2020] [Revised: 07/13/2020] [Accepted: 07/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To develop and validate a measure of asthma knowledge and to translate and culturally adapt the measure into the Arabic language and context. METHODS Medically diagnosed individuals 18 years and older were recruited in primary care and specialty asthma clinics in the United Arab Emirates. The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program recommendations for education on asthma were used as a framework to develop the Asthma Knowledge Test (AKT). A measurement scale of "Yes," "No," and "I don't know" was selected. Descriptive statistics were calculated for participant demographics and other healthcare information. Cronbach α ≥ 0.7 was used to measure reliability. Principal component analysis was used to determine the distinct areas of asthma knowledge covered by the AKT. Differences in asthma knowledge depending on sex, age, marital status, and education were tested using multivariate analyses of variance. RESULTS Cronbach α = .70. Four components were retained and included: asthma as a common disease, triggers and control issues, inhalers, and beliefs and myths. The average AKT score = 13.95 ± 2.77 (range = 5.0-18.0). There was a significant effect of participant level of education on the AKT scores. CONCLUSIONS The availability of the AKT in Arabic is a valuable addition to the limited available tools related to asthma. As a simple and short tool, it could be used in clinical practice and research to identify specific areas of patient asthma knowledge needing improvements; hence, targeted interventions are sought.
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- Sanah Hasan
- Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Ajman University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates.
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Ajman University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates
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This was a two-phase study that aimed to (a) develop a tool for assessing visual attention in individuals with Rett syndrome using AAC with a communication partner during naturalistic interactions in clinical settings; and (b) explore aspects of the tool's reliability, validity, and utility. The Assessment of Visual Attention in Interaction (AVAI) tool was developed to assess visual attention operationalized as focused gazes (1 s or longer) at the communication partner, an object, and a symbol set. For the study, six video-recorded interactions with nine female participants diagnosed with Rett syndrome (range: 15-52-years-old) were used to calculate intra- and inter-rater agreement, and 18 recorded interactions were analyzed to examine sensitivity to change and acceptability. There was a significant difference in the AVAI results between two conditions (with and without aided-language modeling). Inter-rater agreement ranged from moderate and strong. There was a range in scores, indicating that the AVAI could differentiate between participants. The AVAI was found to be reliable, able to detect change, and acceptable to the participants. This tool could potentially be used for evaluating interventions that utilize aided AAC.
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- Helena Wandin
- Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.,Swedish National Center for Rett Syndrome and Related Disorders, Frösön, Sweden
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- Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Yuen JK, Kelley AS, Gelfman LP, Lindenberger EE, Smith CB, Arnold RM, Calton B, Schell J, Berns SH. Development and Validation of the ACP-CAT for Assessing the Quality of Advance Care Planning Communication. J Pain Symptom Manage 2020; 59:1-8.e3. [PMID: 31520727 PMCID: PMC7189328 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2019] [Revised: 09/01/2019] [Accepted: 09/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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CONTEXT High-quality advance care planning (ACP) discussions are important to ensure patient receipt of goal-concordant care; however, there is no existing tool for assessing ACP communication quality. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to develop and validate a novel instrument that can be used to assess ACP communication skills of clinicians and trainees. METHODS We developed a 20-item ACP Communication Assessment Tool (ACP-CAT) plus two summative items. Randomized rater pairs assessed residents' performances in video-recorded standardized patient encounters before and after an ACP training program using the ACP-CAT. We tested the tool for its 1) discriminating ability, 2) interrater reliability, 3) concurrent validity, 4) feasibility, and 5) raters' satisfaction. RESULTS Fifty-eight pre/post-training video recordings from 29 first-year internal medicine residents at Mount Sinai Hospital were evaluated. ACP-CAT reliably discriminated performance before and after training (median score 6 vs. 11, P < 0.001). For both pre/post-training encounters, interrater reliability was high for ACP-CAT total scores (intraclass correlation coefficient or ICC = 0.83 and 0.82) and the summative items Overall impression of ACP communication skills (ICC = 0.73 and 0.80) and Overall ability to respond to emotion (ICC = 0.83 and 0.82). Concurrent validity was shown by the strong correlation between ACP-CAT total score and both summative items. Raters spent an average of 4.8 minutes to complete the ACP-CAT, found it feasible, and were satisfied with its use. CONCLUSION ACP-CAT provides a validated measure of ACP communication quality for assessing video-recorded encounters and can be further studied for its applicability with clinicians in different clinical contexts.
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- Jacqueline K Yuen
- Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
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- Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA; Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA
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- Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA; Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA
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- Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA; Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Palliative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Division of Renal-Electrolyte, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Palliative Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
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Black KD, Chertok IA, Acker CM. Development and Psychometric Testing of the Maternal Nipple Shield Satisfaction Scale. J Nurs Meas 2019; 27:524-533. [PMID: 31871289 DOI: 10.1891/1061-3749.27.3.524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Nipple shield use is common among breastfeeding mothers, yet no instrument measures maternal satisfaction. The new Maternal Nipple Shield Satisfaction Scale (MNSSS) was evaluated for reliability and validity. METHODS The MNSSS for was tested in two phases: women (N = 128) using nipple shields in the previous 6 months and the second, women, (N = 57) within the first 3 weeks postpartum. RESULTS From the original 21-item scale, content validity analysis, Cronbach's alpha, item to total correlation testing, exploratory factor analysis resulted in a one factor scale consisting of nine items with a Cronbach's alpha of .90. Convergent validity testing resulted in a small, but significant negative correlation. CONCLUSION The MNSSS may be a useful instrument for examining satisfaction of women using nipple shields for breastfeeding.
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Fitzpatrick AM, Szefler SJ, Mauger DT, Phillips BR, Denlinger LC, Moore WC, Sorkness RL, Wenzel SE, Gergen PJ, Bleecker ER, Castro M, Erzurum SC, Fahy JV, Gaston BM, Israel E, Levy BD, Meyers DA, Teague WG, Bacharier LB, Ly NP, Phipatanakul W, Ross KR, Zein J, Jarjour NN. Development and initial validation of the Asthma Severity Scoring System (ASSESS). J Allergy Clin Immunol 2019; 145:127-139. [PMID: 31604088 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2019.09.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2019] [Revised: 09/09/2019] [Accepted: 09/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Tools for quantification of asthma severity are limited. OBJECTIVE We sought to develop a continuous measure of asthma severity, the Asthma Severity Scoring System (ASSESS), for adolescents and adults, incorporating domains of asthma control, lung function, medications, and exacerbations. METHODS Baseline and 36-month longitudinal data from participants in phase 3 of the Severe Asthma Research Program (NCT01606826) were used. Scale properties, responsiveness, and a minimally important difference were determined. External replication was performed in participants enrolled in the Severe Asthma Research Program phase 1/2. The utility of ASSESS for detecting treatment response was explored in participants undergoing corticosteroid responsiveness testing with intramuscular triamcinolone and participants receiving biologics. RESULTS ASSESS scores ranged from 0 to 20 (8.78 ± 3.9; greater scores reflect worse severity) and differed among 5 phenotypic groups. Measurement properties were acceptable. ASSESS was responsive to changes in quality of life with a minimally important difference of 2, with good specificity for outcomes of asthma improvement and worsening but poor sensitivity. Replication analyses yielded similar results, with a 2-point decrease (improvement) associated with improvements in quality of life. Participants with a 2-point or greater decrease (improvement) in ASSESS scores also had greater improvement in lung function and asthma control after triamcinolone, but these differences were limited to phenotypic clusters 3, 4, and 5. Participants treated with biologics also had a 2-point or greater decrease (improvement) in ASSESS scores overall. CONCLUSIONS The ASSESS tool is an objective measure that might be useful in epidemiologic and clinical research studies for quantification of treatment response in individual patients and phenotypic groups. However, validation studies are warranted.
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- Anne M Fitzpatrick
- Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga; Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Ga.
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- Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colo; Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colo
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pa
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pa
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
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- Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Md
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University, St Louis, Mo
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- Department of Medicine, San Francisco, Calif
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- Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis
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Alimoradi Z, Kariman N, Ahmadi F, Simbar M, AlaviMajd H. Development and psychometric properties of the female adolescents' sexual reproductive self-care scale. Int J Adolesc Med Health 2019; 33:/j/ijamh.ahead-of-print/ijamh-2018-0116/ijamh-2018-0116.xml. [PMID: 30973825 DOI: 10.1515/ijamh-2018-0116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2018] [Accepted: 06/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to design and evaluate the psychometric properties of an instrument for understanding female adolescents' reproductive and sexual self-care behaviors. METHODS A methodological study was conducted. In the qualitative phase, individual in-depth interviews were performed to develop the initial questionnaire. In the quantitative part, the psychometric properties of the questionnaire were evaluated. FINDINGS The initial questionnaire with 128 items was reviewed by the research team and taking into account the cut-off point 1.5 for the item impact and 0.62 for the content validity ratio (CVR), the number of questions fell to 82 items. S-CVR and S-content validity index (CVI) rations were 0.83 and 0.91, respectively. Exploratory factor analysis led to 74 items in seven dimensions. The alpha Cronbach's coefficient for the whole questionnaire was 0.895 and the intra-cluster correlation coefficient was 0.91. CONCLUSION The questionnaire developed in this study is reliable and valid for assessing female adolescents' sexual and reproductive self-care.
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- Zainab Alimoradi
- Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Social Determinants of Health Reseasrch Center (SDH), Qazvin, Iran
- Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Qazvin University of Medical Science, Qazvin, Iran
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- Midwifery and Reproductive Health Research Center, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Midwifery and Reproductive Health Research Center, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biostatistics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran
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Poghosyan L, Norful AA, Liu J, Shaffer J. Cognitive and Initial Psychometric Testing of the Errors of Care Omission Survey: A New Patient Safety Tool for Primary Care. J Nurs Meas 2019; 27:16-32. [PMID: 31068488 DOI: 10.1891/1061-3749.27.1.16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Most patient safety studies focus on errors of commission rather than on errors of omission. No tools measure errors of omission in primary care. We developed the Errors of Care Omission Survey (ECOS) and present its cognitive and psychometric testing. METHODS Twenty-six primary care providers (PCPs) participated in cognitive interviews, which were audiotaped, transcribed, and analyzed. ECOS was also pilot tested with 37 PCPs. Item analysis and reliability testing w conducted. RESULTS Interviewees agreed that ECOS measures errors of omission and items were clear. The response categories were revised. All items were correlated and subscales had high internal consistency reliability. CONCLUSIONS ECOS can measure errors of omission in primary care.
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Mhatre AA, Lachell S, Pearlman JL. Development, reliability, and piloting of a wheelchair caster failure inspection tool (C-FIT). Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol 2019; 15:195-204. [PMID: 30729825 DOI: 10.1080/17483107.2018.1554714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Introduction: Wheelchair casters fail frequently in the field causing multiple user consequences and wheelchair breakdowns. To inform caster design improvement, there exists no validated tools that can collect caster failures. This need motivated the development of a user-reported, caster failure inspection tool (C-FIT).Methods: To develop C-FIT, a multistep design and testing approach was used which included face validity testing, test-retest reliability testing and expert review. Reliability testing was conducted with two independent cohorts of wheelchair professionals who inspected caster failures physically and online through pictures. The tool was revised based on testing outcomes and expert feedback. For preliminary data collection and evaluating usability, C-FIT was piloted at wheelchair service centers in Scotland, Indonesia and Mexico.Results: Caster failure items reported in the literature were screened to develop the initial list of C-FIT items. Face validity testing conducted through surveys with wheelchair experts (n = 6) provided 14 items for C-FIT inclusion. The test-retest reliability was found to be high for 10 items with physical failure inspections (n = 12). For each of these items, 75% or more participants had substantial to almost perfect agreement scores (κ = 0.6-1.0). Lower reliability scores were found with online failure inspections (n = 11). C-FIT received positive usability feedback from study participants and data collectors in the field. Pilot field data (n = 31) included comprehensive details about failures useful for manufacturers, designers and researchers to improve caster designs.Conclusions: The C-FIT tool developed in this study has substantial reliability and can be used for documenting caster failures at wheelchair service centers.Implications for rehabilitationCollecting data on caster failures is an important first step to inform design improvements and caster quality testing methods.The caster failure inspection tool is a reliable tool that can be used during wheelchair repair and servicing to collect caster failures in a standardized way.The failure data can be used by wheelchair manufacturers, designers, technicians and researchers to develop reliable caster designs. Wheelchair providers can select caster designs based on context of use.
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- Anand A Mhatre
- Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Hasan MM, Khatun MS, Kurata H. Large-Scale Assessment of Bioinformatics Tools for Lysine Succinylation Sites. Cells 2019; 8:cells8020095. [PMID: 30696115 PMCID: PMC6406724 DOI: 10.3390/cells8020095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2018] [Revised: 01/24/2019] [Accepted: 01/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Lysine succinylation is a form of posttranslational modification of the proteins that play an essential functional role in every aspect of cell metabolism in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Aside from experimental identification of succinylation sites, there has been an intense effort geared towards the development of sequence-based prediction through machine learning, due to its promising and essential properties of being highly accurate, robust and cost-effective. In spite of these advantages, there are several problems that are in need of attention in the design and development of succinylation site predictors. Notwithstanding of many studies on the employment of machine learning approaches, few articles have examined this bioinformatics field in a systematic manner. Thus, we review the advancements regarding the current state-of-the-art prediction models, datasets, and online resources and illustrate the challenges and limitations to present a useful guideline for developing powerful succinylation site prediction tools.
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- Md Mehedi Hasan
- Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 680⁻4 Kawazu, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820-8502, Japan.
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- Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 680⁻4 Kawazu, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820-8502, Japan.
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- Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 680⁻4 Kawazu, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820-8502, Japan.
- Biomedical Informatics R&D Center, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 680-4 Kawazu, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820-8502, Japan.
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Madhavan A, Carnaby GD, Chhabria K, Crary MA. Preliminary Development of a Screening Tool for Pre-Clinical Dysphagia in Community Dwelling Older Adults. Geriatrics (Basel) 2018; 3:geriatrics3040090. [PMID: 31011125 PMCID: PMC6371185 DOI: 10.3390/geriatrics3040090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2018] [Revised: 12/03/2018] [Accepted: 12/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Evidence suggests that community dwelling older adults (CDOA) are at risk for dysphagia (swallowing difficulties). Dysphagia is often unidentified until related morbidities like under nutrition or pneumonia occur. These cases of unidentified dysphagia, prior to any clinical intervention, may be termed ‘pre-clinical dysphagia’. Identifying pre-clinical dysphagia is challenged by the lack of validated tools appropriate for CDOA. This study addresses preliminary development of a novel patient reported outcome (PRO) screening tool for pre-clinical dysphagia. Initially, 34 questions were developed from literature review and expert opinion. Following pilot testing (n = 53), the questionnaire was revised and tested on 335 additional CDOA. Face validity, content validity, item analysis, reliability (internal consistency), and construct validity (exploratory factor analysis) measures were completed. Psychometric validation resulted in a 17-question PRO tool. Construct analysis identified a three-factor model that explained 67.345% of the variance. Emergent factors represented swallowing effort, physical function, and cognitive function. The results revealed strong construct validity and internal consistency (Cronbach’s α = 0.90). A novel, simple PRO incorporating multiple function domains associated with aging demonstrated strong preliminary psychometric properties. This tool is more comprehensive and aging-focused than existing dysphagia screening tools. Inclusion of multiple domains may be key in early identification of pre-clinical dysphagia.
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- Aarthi Madhavan
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
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- Swallowing Research Laboratory, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.
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- Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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- Swallowing Research Laboratory, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.
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Norful AA, Ye S, Shaffer J, Poghosyan L. Development and Psychometric Testing of the Provider Co-Management Index: Measuring Nurse Practitioner-Physician Co-Management. J Nurs Meas 2018; 26:E127-E141. [PMID: 30593582 PMCID: PMC7220798 DOI: 10.1891/1061-3749.26.3.e127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Provider co-management has emerged in practice to alleviate demands of larger, more complex patient panels, yet no tools exist to measure nurse practitioner (NP)-physician co-management. The purpose of this study is to develop a tool that measures NP-physician co-management. METHODS Items were generated based on three theoretical dimensions of co-management. Face and content validity were established with six experts. Pilot testing was conducted with a convenience sample of 40 NPs and physicians. We computed mean, standard deviation, skewness, interitem and corrected item-total correlations, and Cronbach's alpha. RESULTS Psychometric analysis yielded high subscale reliability: effective communication (α = .811); mutual respect and trust (α = .746); and shared philosophy of care (α = .779). CONCLUSIONS PCMI demonstrates strong internal reliability consistency. Future research to examine construct validity is recommended.
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- Columbia University Medical Center, New York
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Rozenfeld RA, Reynolds SL, Ewing S, Crulcich MM, Stephenson M. Development of an Evacuation Tool to Facilitate Disaster Preparedness: Use in a Planned Evacuation to Support a Hospital Move. Disaster Med Public Health Prep 2017; 11:479-86. [PMID: 28115033 DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2016.154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Our institution relocated to a new facility 3.5 miles from our original location in Chicago on June 9, 2012. We describe the tools we developed to prepare, execute, and manage our evacuation and relocation. METHODS Tools developed for the planned evacuation included the following: level of acuity and team composition classification, patient departure checklist, evacuation handoff tool, and a patient tracking system within the electronic health record. Incident Command structure was utilized. RESULTS Monthly census tracking exercises were held beginning 12 months before the evacuation. Simulation drills began 6 months before the evacuation. The entire evacuation took less than 14 hours and there were no safety issues. A total of 127 patients were transported to the new facility: 45 patients were moved via the Neonatal/Pediatric Critical Care Transport Team, and the rest were moved with various team configurations. CONCLUSION Documents developed for a planned evacuation can be used for any planned or unplanned evacuation. We believe the tools we used to prepare, execute, and manage our evacuation and relocation would assist any health care facility to be better prepared to safely and efficiently evacuate patients in the event of a disaster, or to create surge capacity, and relocate them to another facility. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2017;11:479-486).
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Seaman JB, Evans AC, Sciulli AM, Barnato AE, Sereika SM, Happ MB. Abstracting ICU Nursing Care Quality Data From the Electronic Health Record. West J Nurs Res 2016; 39:1271-1288. [PMID: 27605024 DOI: 10.1177/0193945916665814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The electronic health record is a potentially rich source of data for clinical research in the intensive care unit setting. We describe the iterative, multi-step process used to develop and test a data abstraction tool, used for collection of nursing care quality indicators from the electronic health record, for a pragmatic trial. We computed Cohen's kappa coefficient (κ) to assess interrater agreement or reliability of data abstracted using preliminary and finalized tools. In assessing the reliability of study data ( n = 1,440 cases) using the finalized tool, 108 randomly selected cases (10% of first half sample; 5% of last half sample) were independently abstracted by a second rater. We demonstrated mean κ values ranging from 0.61 to 0.99 for all indicators. Nursing care quality data can be accurately and reliably abstracted from the electronic health records of intensive care unit patients using a well-developed data collection tool and detailed training.
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Fetherstonhaugh D, Lewis V, McAuliffe L, Bauer M. Pain in older adults: development of a tool for measuring knowledge of residential aged care staff. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2016; 31:428-34. [PMID: 26430905 DOI: 10.1002/gps.4364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2015] [Revised: 08/11/2015] [Accepted: 09/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To develop a psychometrically sound tool for measuring the knowledge of nursing and care staff about the experience, assessment and management of pain in older people (including people with dementia) for use in the residential aged care setting. METHODS The Pain in Older Adults Knowledge Survey (POAKS) was developed and tested in two phases. Phase 1 involved developing an initial item pool with good content validity based on a review of the research literature and a modified Delphi technique involving national and international experts. A pool of 24 items was developed for testing. Initial testing of the psychometric properties of the POAKS with 30 university employees led to refinement and final wording of items. Phase 2 involved testing of the psychometric properties of the POAKS with 279 respondents, including first year (n = 176) and third year (n = 70) nursing students and staff in a residential aged care service (n = 33). RESULTS Results established the content validity and internal consistency of the POAKS and supported its use as an instrument to measure nursing staff knowledge about the experience, assessment and management of pain in older people. CONCLUSIONS The POAKS will enable residential aged care facilities to measure the level of knowledge among nursing and care staff about pain in older people (including people with dementia). The measure provides a basis for the development and implementation of educational interventions to address knowledge gaps that may impact on the quality of care provided.
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ICHINOSE T, TANIMOTO H. Dynamics of memory-guided choice behavior in Drosophila. Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci 2016; 92:346-357. [PMID: 27725473 PMCID: PMC5243950 DOI: 10.2183/pjab.92.346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2016] [Accepted: 07/25/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Memory retrieval requires both accuracy and speed. Olfactory learning of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster serves as a powerful model system to identify molecular and neuronal substrates of memory and memory-guided behavior. The behavioral expression of olfactory memory has traditionally been tested as a conditioned odor response in a simple T-maze, which measures the result, but not the speed, of odor choice. Here, we developed multiplexed T-mazes that allow video recording of the choice behavior. Automatic fly counting in each arm of the maze visualizes choice dynamics. Using this setup, we show that the transient blockade of serotonergic neurons slows down the choice, while leaving the eventual choice intact. In contrast, activation of the same neurons impairs the eventual performance leaving the choice speed unchanged. Our new apparatus contributes to elucidating how the speed and the accuracy of memory retrieval are implemented in the fly brain.
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- Toshiharu ICHINOSE
- Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences, Sendai, Japan
- Max-Planck Institut für Neurobiologie, Martinsried, Germany
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- Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences, Sendai, Japan
- Max-Planck Institut für Neurobiologie, Martinsried, Germany
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Ward JD. Rendering the Intractable More Tractable: Tools from Caenorhabditis elegans Ripe for Import into Parasitic Nematodes. Genetics 2015; 201:1279-94. [PMID: 26644478 PMCID: PMC4676526 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.182717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2015] [Accepted: 10/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Recent and rapid advances in genetic and molecular tools have brought spectacular tractability to Caenorhabditis elegans, a model that was initially prized because of its simple design and ease of imaging. C. elegans has long been a powerful model in biomedical research, and tools such as RNAi and the CRISPR/Cas9 system allow facile knockdown of genes and genome editing, respectively. These developments have created an additional opportunity to tackle one of the most debilitating burdens on global health and food security: parasitic nematodes. I review how development of nonparasitic nematodes as genetic models informs efforts to import tools into parasitic nematodes. Current tools in three commonly studied parasites (Strongyloides spp., Brugia malayi, and Ascaris suum) are described, as are tools from C. elegans that are ripe for adaptation and the benefits and barriers to doing so. These tools will enable dissection of a huge array of questions that have been all but completely impenetrable to date, allowing investigation into host-parasite and parasite-vector interactions, and the genetic basis of parasitism.
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- Jordan D Ward
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94158
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Jackson LK, Epstein JB, Migliorati CA, Rezk J, Shintaku WH, Noujeim ME, Santos-Silva AR, Dietrich MS, Murphy BA. Development of tools for the oral health and panoramic radiograph evaluation of head and neck cancer patients: a methodological study. Spec Care Dentist 2015; 35:243-252. [PMID: 26178803 DOI: 10.1111/scd.12125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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PURPOSE Describe the methodology used to construct tools for standardized data collection of head and neck cancer patients (HNCP). METHODS We constructed the Oral Health Evaluation Tool (OHET) and Panoramic Radiograph Evaluation Tool (PRET) for systematic collection of long-term oral clinical/radiographical complications, prevalence, and severity. Tools were pilot-tested in 50 chemoradiation-treated HNCP >6 months post-therapy. RESULTS Tools allowed for collection of extensive clinical and radiographical data. A medium of 1.9 years had elapsed since chemoradiation completion. Patients had a median of 6 missing teeth, 32.7% had no decay and a medium of 30% had filled surfaces; 42.9% had moderate-to-severe decay. Reduced/thickened saliva was noted in 85.4% and dry mucosa in 93.9%. Gingival bleeding was present in 75.5% HNCP and attachment loss in 86%. Four patients had trismus. CONCLUSIONS Tools were user friendly and provided comprehensive, reproducible, and inexpensive means to evaluate post-therapy oral health of HNCP. Validation testing is ongoing.
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- Oral Medicine Services, Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, City of Hope National Medical Center, California.,Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, California
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- Department of Diagnostic Sciences and Oral Medicine, College of Dentistry, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Tennessee
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- Division of Dentistry, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
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- Department of Diagnostic Sciences and Oral Medicine, College of Dentistry, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Tennessee
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, University of Texas, Texas
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- Department of Oral Diagnosis, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Piracicaba, Brazil
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- Department of Biostatistics, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
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Chen Q, Shin MH, Chan JA, Sullivan JL, Borzecki AM, Shwartz M, Rivard PE, Hatoun J, Rosen AK. Partnering With VA Stakeholders to Develop a Comprehensive Patient Safety Data Display: Lessons Learned From the Field. Am J Med Qual 2014; 31:178-86. [PMID: 25500716 DOI: 10.1177/1062860614560214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Health care systems are increasingly burdened by the large numbers of safety measures currently being reported. Within the Veterans Administration (VA), most safety reporting occurs within organizational silos, with little involvement by the frontline users of these measures. To provide a more integrated picture of patient safety, the study team partnered with multiple VA stakeholders and engaged potential frontline users at 2 hospitals to develop a Guiding Patient Safety (GPS) tool. The GPS is currently in its fourth generation; once approval is obtained from senior leadership, implementation will begin. Stakeholders were enthusiastic about the GPS's user-friendly format, comprehensive content, and potential utility for improving safety. These findings suggest that stakeholder engagement is a critical first step in the development of tools that will more likely be used by frontline users. Policy makers and researchers may consider adopting this innovative partnered-research model in developing future national initiatives to deliver meaningful programs to frontline users.
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- Qi Chen
- VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA
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- Bedford VAMC, Bedford, MA Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA Boston University School of Management, Boston, MA
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA Suffolk University Sawyer Business School, Boston, MA
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
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Bauer M, Fetherstonhaugh D, Tarzia L, Nay R, Beattie E. Supporting residents' expression of sexuality: the initial construction of a sexuality assessment tool for residential aged care facilities. BMC Geriatr 2014; 14:82. [PMID: 24980463 PMCID: PMC4085662 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-14-82] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2014] [Accepted: 06/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Sexuality is a key component of quality of life and well-being and a need to express one's sexuality continues into old age. Staff and families in residential aged care facilities often find expressions of sexuality by residents, particularly those living with dementia, challenging and facilities often struggle to address individuals' needs in this area. This paper describes the development of an assessment tool which enables residential aged care facilities to identify how supportive their organisation is of all residents' expression of their sexuality, and thereby improve where required. METHODS Multi-phase design using qualitative methods and a Delphi technique. Tool items were derived from the literature and verified by qualitative interviews with aged care facility staff, residents and families. The final item pool was confirmed via a reactive Delphi process. RESULTS A final item pool of sixty-nine items grouped into seven key areas allows facilities to score their compliance with the areas identified as being supportive of older people's expression of their sexuality in a residential aged care environment. CONCLUSIONS The sexuality assessment tool (SexAT) guides practice to support the normalization of sexuality in aged care homes and assists facilities to identify where enhancements to the environment, policies, procedures and practices, information and education/training are required. The tool also enables facilities to monitor initiatives in these areas over time.
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- Michael Bauer
- Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care; Australian Institute for Primary Care and Ageing, La Trobe University, Melbourne Campus, Victoria 3086, Australia
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- Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care; Australian Institute for Primary Care and Ageing, La Trobe University, Melbourne Campus, Victoria 3086, Australia
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- Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care; Australian Institute for Primary Care and Ageing, La Trobe University, Melbourne Campus, Victoria 3086, Australia
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- Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care; Australian Institute for Primary Care and Ageing, La Trobe University, Melbourne Campus, Victoria 3086, Australia
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- Dementia Collaborative Research Centre (DCRC)-Carers and Consumers, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland 4059, Australia
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Pierce E, McLaren S. Development of an assessment tool for the multidisciplinary evaluation of neurological dependency: preliminary findings. Scand J Caring Sci 2012; 28:193-203. [PMID: 23240872 DOI: 10.1111/scs.12018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2012] [Accepted: 10/27/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND Multidisciplinary inputs are of vital importance in the comprehensive care management and rehabilitation of individuals with long-term neurological conditions. Although many ordinal measures of disability correlate with patient dependency and care, few are based on numbers of different health professionals required, or their skill-mix, for assistance associated with levels of dependency. AIM AND OBJECTIVES To develop an instrument to assess dependency in adult patients suffering from severe and complex neurological disability for use by multidisciplinary teams. Objectives were to establish content validity, construct validity, inter-rater reliability and internal consistency, and to demonstrate preliminary clinical utility from the perspective of professional staff. DESIGN AND METHODS A mixed methods design utilised qualitative and quantitative approaches. Stage I involved developmental fieldwork using focus groups (n = 3), questionnaires (n = 70), expert panel (n = 20) and direct observation (n = 12). In stage 2, intensive refinement through direct observation, construct validity and reliability testing (n = 100) of the instrument was completed. The research complied with the research governance and ethical standards set by the Department of Health (UK). RESULTS In the final format, an instrument was developed which comprised two sections. Section 1: an ordinal scaled basic care section, with 15 categories of dependency and level of descriptors based on numbers, grade and time taken by staff providing assistance. Factor analysis identified one dominant and four subsidiary factors which explained 67% of the total variance. Overall inter-rater agreement was 0.87 (kappa coefficient: range 0.67-1.0), and Cronbach's coefficient alpha was 0.733. Section 2: comprised a nominally measured specialist care section for inputs from nurses and therapists. The mean time taken to complete assessments was 12 minutes. CONCLUSION The instrument satisfied preliminary selective criteria for validity and reliability. Further research is necessary to satisfy other requirements of psychometric testing and clinical utility.
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- Elaine Pierce
- Institute for Leadership and Service Improvement, V-612, Faculty of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University, London, SE1 0AA, UK
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Mbuba CK, Abubakar A, Odermatt P, Newton CR, Carter JA. Development and validation of the Kilifi Stigma Scale for Epilepsy in Kenya. Epilepsy Behav 2012; 24:81-5. [PMID: 22481043 PMCID: PMC3359498 DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2012.02.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2012] [Revised: 02/08/2012] [Accepted: 02/10/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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The aim of this study was to develop and validate a tool to measure perceived stigma among people with epilepsy (PWE) in Kilifi, Kenya. We reviewed existing scales that measured stigma, particularly of epilepsy. We conducted a qualitative study to determine salient concerns related to stigma in Kilifi. Themes were generated, and those related to stigma were used to construct an 18-item stigma scale. A descriptive cross-sectional survey was then conducted among 673 PWE to assess the reliability and validity of the scale. Internal consistency was calculated using Cronbach's alpha and test-retest reliability with an interclass correlation coefficient. The final scale had 15 items, which had high internal consistency (Cronbach's α=0.91) and excellent test-retest reliability (r=0.92). Factor analysis indicated that the scale was unidimensional with one factor solution explaining 45.8% of the variance. The Kilifi Stigma Scale for Epilepsy is a culturally appropriate measure of stigma with strong psychometric properties.
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- Caroline K. Mbuba
- KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research (Coast), Kilifi, Kenya,Corresponding author at: KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, P.O. Box 230-80108, Kilifi, Kenya. Fax: + 254 41 7522390.
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- KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research (Coast), Kilifi, Kenya,Tilburg University, The Netherlands,Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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- Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland,University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research (Coast), Kilifi, Kenya,London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK,Neurosciences Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK,Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Centre for International Health and Development, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK
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PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to develop a paediatric cardiopulmonary physiotherapy (CPT) discharge tool. We report on the initial stages of its development and the tool's sensibility (face/content validity, feasibility, and ease of usage). METHODS Using a modified Delphi technique, a panel of paediatric physiotherapy clinicians and academic leaders in the area of CPT (n=25) was recruited. Four rounds of discussion among the members of the Delphi panel focused on (1) generation of discharge items, (2) reduction of items, (3) discussion of contentious items and refinement of criterion definitions, and (4) determination of scoring options for the test instrument. The sensibility of a draft of the tool was assessed using a sample of convenience (n=15). RESULTS Six items (auscultation, discharge planning, mobility, oxygen saturation, secretion clearance, and signs of respiratory distress) were identified for inclusion in the tool. The global mean of all sensibility domains was 6.4 (median=6.6) of a possible 7.0. CONCLUSION Using a modified Delphi process, we developed a six-item paediatric CPT discharge planning tool with good face and content validity. Future work will determine the scoring method for using this tool, interrater reliability, and predictive validity to facilitate optimal timing of hospital discharge for paediatric CPT patients.
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- Cindy Ellerton
- Cindy Ellerton, MSc: Department of Physical Therapy and Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario
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