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Hubungan Akses Layanan Kesehatan Dengan Penggunaan Metode Kontrasepsi Jangka Panjang Di Indonesia: Analisis Data Skap Kkbpk 2019, Vallery Violila, Tris Eryando, Kemal N. Siregar, Lilik Aryani Falupi

Jurnal Biostatistik, Kependudukan, dan Informatika Kesehatan

Program KB di Indonesia khususnya penggunaan MKJP menjadi upaya pemerintah dalam mengendalikan penduduk, khususnya pada kelompok berisiko. Namun, penggunaan mix-method MKJP di Indonesia relatif masih rendah, yaitu 24,6% dibandingkan negara ASEAN lainnya. Wanita menikah di Indonesia masih mengalami masalah dalam mengakses layanan kesehatan seperti masih tingginya angka unmet-need serta rendahnya presentase wanita terpapar informasi dari penyuluh lapangan KB dan informed choice KB. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi indikator akses layanan kesehatan dan mengetahui hubungan akses layanan kesehatan dengan penggunaan MKJP. Penelitian ini menggunakan data SKAP KKBPK 2019 dengan desain penelitian cross-sectional. Analisis univariat dilakukan untuk mengidentifikasi indikator akses layanan …

Clinical Practice Implementation To Address Ascvd Risk: A Practice Change In Primary Care, Elizabeth Wooten

Student Scholarly Projects

Practice Problem: Heart disease stands as the leading cause of mortality in the United States. While healthcare providers strive to identify and optimize prevention strategies, particularly in high-risk patient populations, notable gaps in care persist, notably in the management of modifiable risk factors such as low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL). By harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) integrated software within clinical settings, we can revolutionize the landscape of this devastating chronic disease.

PICOT: The PICOT question that guided this project was: In Primary Care Advanced Practice Providers (APP) caring for high-risk and/or very high-risk patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) …

Identifying Motivations For Relationship Alternatives : Analyzing College Students' Backburner Relationships, Narissra Maria Punyanunt-Carter, V. Santiago Arias, Jayson L. Dibble, Michelle Drouin, Joris Van Ouytsel, Ryan J. Martinez, Thomas R. Wagner

Health Services and Informatics Research

Backburner refers to a desired prospective romantic/sexual partner with whom one interacts with the purpose of possibly creating a future romantic or sexual relationship. Modern technology has made it easier to develop and maintain relationships with backburners. This study analyzed the different motivations that individuals (N = 762) use towards their backburner relationships. Results from this study revealed that there were six main motivations for backburner relationships: 1) sex or possibility of sexual intimacy; 2) previous romantic feelings with this person (e.g., first love, previous romance, ex-boyfriend/girlfriend); 3) to maintain a friendship in hopes of a potential romantic relationship; 4) …

Towards A Virtual Reality Visualization Of Hand-Object Interactions To Support Remote Physical Therapy, Trudi Di Qi, Louanne Boyd, Scott Fitzpatrick, Meghna Raswan, Franceli L. Cibrian

Engineering Faculty Articles and Research

Improving object manipulation skills through hand-object interaction exercises is crucial for rehabilitation. Despite limited healthcare resources, physical therapists propose remote exercise routines followed up by remote monitoring. However, remote motor skills assessment remains challenging due to the lack of effective motion visualizations. Therefore, exploring innovative ways of visualization is crucial, and virtual reality (VR) has shown the potential to address this limitation. However, it is unclear how VR visualization can represent understandable hand-object interactions. To address this gap, in this paper, we present VRMoVi, a VR visualization system that incorporates multiple levels of 3D visualization layers to depict movements. In …

Innovation Process And Industrial System Of Us Food And Drug Administration-Approved Software As A Medical Device: Review And Content Analysis

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: There has been a surge in academic and business interest in software as a medical device (SaMD). SaMD enables medical professionals to streamline existing medical practices and make innovative medical processes such as digital therapeutics a reality. Furthermore, SaMD is a billion-dollar market. However, SaMD is not clearly understood as a technological change and emerging industry.

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to review the landscape of SaMD in response to increasing interest in SaMD within health systems and regulation. The objectives of the study are to (1) clarify the innovation process of SaMD, (2) identify the prevailing typology of such …

Medical Tourism & Communication, Alicia Mason

Faculty Submissions

Medical tourism (MT), sometimes referred to as health tourism or medical travel, involves both the treatment of illness and the facilitation of wellness, with travel. Medical tourism is a multifaceted and multiphase process involving many agents and actors that requires careful planning and execution. The coordinated process involves the biomedical, transportation, tourism, and leisure industries. From the communication perspective, the process can be viewed as a 5-stage model consisting of the: (a) orientation, (b) preparation, (c) experiential and treatment, (d) convalescence, and (e) reflection phases. Medical tourism is uniquely situated in a nexus of academic literature related to communication, business …

The Impact Of Telehealth In Urgent Care Settings, Annie Dong

Applied Research Projects

Telehealth is an emerging modality of patient care and has since expanded to urgent care facilities. Urgent care facilities have been around for decades; however, along with telehealth, it has only grown in popularity in recent years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the implementation and usage of telehealth in urgent care facilities is dependent on the provider being able to use it. This study aimed at looking at the perspective of the provider on the implementation and usage of telehealth in the urgent care setting.

Using Digital Assessment Technology To Detect Neuropsychological Problems In Primary Care Settings, David J Libon, Emily Frances Matusz, Stephanie Cosentino, Catherine C Price, Rod Swenson, Meagan Vermeulen, Terrie Beth Ginsberg, Adaora Obiageli Okoli-Umeweni, Leonard Powell, Robert Nagele, Sean Tobyne, Joyce Rios Gomes-Osman, Alvaro Pascual-Leone

Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine Departmental Research

INTRODUCTION: Screening for neurocognitive impairment and psychological distress in ambulatory primary and specialty care medical settings is an increasing necessity. The Core Cognitive Evaluation™ (CCE) is administered/scored using an iPad, requires approximately 8 min, assesses 3- word free recall and clock drawing to command and copy, asks questions about lifestyle and health, and queries for psychological distress. This information is linked with patients' self- reported concerns about memory and their cardiovascular risks.

METHODS: A total of 199 ambulatory patients were screened with the CCE as part of their routine medical care. The CCE provides several summary indices, and scores on …

Embryological Basis Of Polydactyly In 56 Years Old Male Patient, Sarayu M

Digital Journal of Clinical Medicine

Polydactyly is a common congenital hand deformity. The limb buds are the precursor structures of the limbs. Their formation begins in the 4th week, with the activation of mesenchymal cells in the somatic layer of lateral plate mesoderm. As mesenchyme cells enter the limb region, they secrete factors that induce the overlying ectoderm to form a structure called the apical ectodermal ridge (AER). Polydactyly is the congenital deformities which is seen in 1000 births. To observe and study the various type of polydactyly in relation to the preaxial polydactyly and postaxial polydactyly with other classification. So, thumb polydactyly is a …

Perspective On The Utilization And The Outcome Of Digital Tools To Manage Chronic Diseases, Narjodh Singh

Applied Research Projects

The increasing aging population and the prevalence of chronic diseases among lower socioeconomic groups have led to higher healthcare spending on chronic care management. In this paper, the study revolves around the utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the management of chronic diseases, with a particular focus on the elderly population. The study examines various digital health interventions, including eHealth, mHealth, electronic health records, remote monitoring, wearable devices, clinical decision support systems, telehealth, and telemedicine, in the context of chronic disease management. The opportunities, strengths, and weaknesses of digital technology are discussed, highlighting the potential benefits of ICT …

Importance Of Geriatrics In Psychiatric Postgraduate Education, Dr Anand R, Dr Kishor M, Dr Murali M R

Digital Journal of Clinical Medicine

Introduction

To assess the importance of Geriatrics in Psychiatric postgraduate education

Methodology

Marks allotted in question papers from Geriatrics in Psychiatry postgraduate examination from a university for a 5-year period was evaluated.

Discussion

1-6% of entire theory evaluation was related to Geriatric mental health topics predominantly on dementia and related disorders.

Psychiatric Morbidity And Dental Problems Among Women From Institutional Care, Meghana Hanchate, Kishor M, Ashwini T S

Digital Journal of Clinical Medicine

No abstract provided.

Teledentistry In Dentistry, Jaycee Murray, Lauren Chestnut

Dental Hygiene Student Research Posters

Teledentistry is an online service that is utilized in many dental offices allowing for clinicians to virtually meet with patients using interactive tools and telecommunications. This method of care has been extremely beneficial to both the patient and clinician as it continues to become popular and more developed, it increases access to care for many populations by minimizing the cost of dental treatment and providing more convenient care options. Through teledentistry, problems that impact patients' access to care such as unequal access, lack of financial resources, and lack of practice availability are eliminated, allowing for different populations to receive consultation, …

Privacy Preserving Self-Service Degauss Based Geomarker Portal, Harpreet Gill, Kushal Vallambhatla, Mark A. Hoffman, Kevin Power, Catherine Jackson

Posters

DeGAUSS offers a privacy-preserving capability to annotate a list of addresses with geomarker information that is useful for social determinants and other research. The standard delivery of DeGAUSS requires command line proficiency, potentially limiting the group of users. We provide a self-service portal that enables researchers to load a file and receive a downloadable annotated output file. In our pilot phase, the system has processed 481 calls for more than 45,000 addresses at Children’s Mercy.

Delivering Healthcare To The Underserved, Edward Booty

Asian Management Insights

Non-profits, governments, and businesses need to come together and use a data-driven approach to improve local basic healthcare access.

November 2023, Swosu Bulldog Wellness Committee

SWOSU BULLDOG WELLNESS

Eat Right, Every Bite

An Apple a Day …

Staff and faculty MASSAGES

Five Tips for Exercising Safely in Cold Weather

Parents' Desire To Change Phone Use: Associations With Objective Smartphone Use And Feelings About Problematic Use And Distraction., Brandon T. Mcdaniel Phd, Jessica Pater, Victor P. Cornet Ms, Safia Mughal, Lauren Reining, Alexandria Schaller, Jenny Radesky, Michelle Drouin Phd

Health Services and Informatics Research

We examined objective smartphone use (via a mobile sensing application) and self-reported desire to change phone use among a sample of 268 U.S. parents of infants. Using the Transtheoretical Stages of Change model as a conceptual foundation, we contextualized their attitudes and behaviors and explored how phone use and desire to change relate to perceptions of distraction and problematic phone use around their child. Latent profile analysis of parents' precontemplation, contemplation, and action scores revealed two classes-precontemplators (15%) and contemplators (85%). Contemplators-those considering or desiring change-showed more bedtime phone use and general social networking than precontemplors; however, there were no …

Cost And Utilization Of Healthcare Services For Persons With Diabetes., Evan L Reynolds, Kara Mizokami-Stout, Nathaniel M Putnam, Mousumi Banerjee, Dana Albright, Lynn Ang, Joyce Lee, Rodica Pop-Busui, Eva L Feldman, Brian C Callaghan

Health Services and Informatics Research

AIMS: Describe and compare healthcare costs and utilization for insured persons with type 1 diabetes (T1D), type 2 diabetes (T2D), and without diabetes in the United States.

METHODS: Using a nationally representative healthcare claims database, we identified matched persons with T1D, T2D, and without diabetes using a propensity score quasi-randomization technique. In each year between 2009 and 2018, we report costs (total and out-of-pocket) and utilization for all healthcare services and those specific to medications, diabetes-related supplies, visits to providers, hospitalizations, and emergency department visits.

RESULTS: In 2018, we found out-of-pocket costs and total costs were highest for persons with …

Individual- And Neighborhood-Level Characteristics Of Lung Cancer Screening Participants Undergoing Telemedicine Shared Decision Making, Christine S. Shusted, Hee-Soon Juon, Brooke Ruane, Brian M. Till, Charnita Zeigler-Johnson, Russell K. Mcintire, Tyler Grenda, Olugbenga Okusanya, Nathaniel R. Evans, Gregory C. Kane, Julie Barta

Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Although lung cancer screening (LCS) for high-risk individuals reduces lung cancer mortality in clinical trial settings, many questions remain about how to implement high-quality LCS in real-world programs. With the increasing use of telemedicine in healthcare, studies examining this approach in the context of LCS are urgently needed. We aimed to identify sociodemographic and other factors associated with screening completion among individuals undergoing telemedicine Shared Decision Making (SDM) for LCS.

METHODS: This retrospective study examined patients who completed Shared Decision Making (SDM) via telemedicine between May 4, 2020 - March 18, 2021 in a centralized LCS program. Individuals were …

The Benefits Of Telehealth For Rural Communities, Cade Alberson, Taylor Alberson

Scholars Week

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of Telephone Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Performance In Current Practice In Saudi Arabia, Meshary Binhotan, Joanne Turnbull, Graham Petley, Nawfal Aljerian, Mohammad Altuwaijri

Journal of the Saudi Heart Association

Objectives: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a global health problem with a low survival rate. Telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR) guidance by emergency medical services (EMS) dispatchers can improve CPR performance and, consequently, survival rates. Accordingly, the American Heart Association (AHA) has released performance standards for T-CPR in current practice to improve its quality. However, no study has examined T-CPR performance in Saudi Arabia. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate T-CPR performance in the Saudi Arabian EMS system.

Methods: A retrospective observation of OHCA calls in current practice was conducted in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. OHCA calls were reviewed to identify those …

A Portable And Reliable Tool For On-Site Physical Reaction Time (Rt) Measurement, Brent Harper, Michael Shiraishi, Rahul Soangra

Physical Therapy Faculty Articles and Research

The drop-stick test system (DTS) invention has the capability to measure reaction accurately for sideline mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) assessment. The reaction time (RT) measurements showed moderate to good inter-instrument reliability with an overall ICC of 0.82 (95 % CI 0.78–0.85). RT is a useful biomarker of mTBI or concussion, but existing technologies in controlled laboratory environments are not feasible for assessments in the field. With wearable technologies and wireless connection with smartphones, it is now easier to conduct RT assessments on the field. The purpose was to develop a portable DTS involving wearable inertial sensors translatable from the …

Comparing Two Telehealth Approaches For Treating Psychiatric Disorders In Primary Care, Reach Dissemination Committee, Maine, Usa

REACH: Research Evidence-to-Action for Community Health

Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are community clinics that provide primary care in rural and other underserved areas. FQHCs often don’t have enough mental health specialists to treat patients with complex mental health conditions.

Understanding The Effect Of Counterfactual Explanations On Trust And Reliance On Ai For Human-Ai Collaborative Clinical Decision Making, Min Hun Lee, Chong Jun Chew

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being considered to assist human decision-making in high-stake domains (e.g. health). However, researchers have discussed an issue that humans can over-rely on wrong suggestions of the AI model instead of achieving human AI complementary performance. In this work, we utilized salient feature explanations along with what-if, counterfactual explanations to make humans review AI suggestions more analytically to reduce overreliance on AI and explored the effect of these explanations on trust and reliance on AI during clinical decision-making. We conducted an experiment with seven therapists and ten laypersons on the task of assessing post-stroke survivors' quality …

Mda Advocacy Report: 2023 To Date, And What’S Next, Jason Mashni Dds

The Journal of the Michigan Dental Association

This article is a recap of MDA legislative advocacy accomplishments and what is on the horizon for the remainder of 2023, written by the chair of the MDA Committee on Governmental and Insurance Affairs.

October 2023, Swosu Bulldog Wellness Committee

SWOSU BULLDOG WELLNESS

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

MoveSpring Spooktacular Step Challenge

Gluten Free Halloween Puppy Chow

September / October 2023, Randy Curry, Cindy Brooks

RURAL ROCKS

This is the September & October 2023 issue of Rural Rocks from the SWOSU College of Pharmacy.

School-Issued Devices For Home Use In Kindergarten Through 5th Grade And Parent Perceptions Of Child Learning, Behavior, And Conflict, Brandon T. Mcdaniel Phd, Nathalie Gullo, Zachary Kaiser, Lauren Reining, I. Joyce Chang, Michelle Drouin Phd

Health Services and Informatics Research

With many U.S. schools adopting 1-to-1 school device programs, research on the potential impacts of this device usage at home is critical. In this study, we examined elementary school parents’ perceptions of their child’s use of their school-issued device for academic skill-building and entertainment at home. We then examined the associations between these different types of use and children’s learning, behavior, and parent-child conflict over the device use. Overall, we found that children’s use of school devices at home for building academic skills was predictive of positive impacts on learning and child behaviors and less frequent parent-child conflict over …

Patient And Provider Perceptions Of Rapid Telehealth Implementation During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Ryan G. Seibert, Amanda K. Stephenson, Aubrey K. Podell, Yuxiu K. Lei, Sheri K. Keitz

The Lahey Journal

Introduction: Despite unprecedented telehealth adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic, its post-pandemic preservation remains uncertain. Understanding key stakeholders’ perspectives on telehealth during the pandemic can inform evidence-based policies and promote effective, sustainable virtual-based care.

Methods: Patients and providers who completed telehealth visits during the early pandemic in primary care, subspecialty, and surgical outpatient clinics at a large community-based academic medical center in New England were surveyed via telephone interviews or electronic surveys. Thematic analyses of qualitative comments further characterized experiences.

Results: Of 1,729 eligible patients called, 969 were contacted and 778 participated (response rate 80.3% among contacted patients). Among 753 eligible …

Evaluation Of Negative Binomial And Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial Models For The Analysis Of Zero-Inflated Count Data: Application To The Telemedicine For Children With Medical Complexity Trial, Jon E Tyson

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Two characteristics of commonly used outcomes in medical research are zero inflation and non-negative integers; examples include the number of hospital admissions or emergency department visits, where the majority of patients will have zero counts. Zero-inflated regression models were devised to analyze this type of data. However, the performance of zero-inflated regression models or the properties of data best suited for these analyses have not been thoroughly investigated.

METHODS: We conducted a simulation study to evaluate the performance of two generalized linear models, negative binomial and zero-inflated negative binomial, for analyzing zero-inflated count data. Simulation scenarios assumed a randomized …