Publications by authors named "Alexis R Dewar"
Background: While much is known about factors that facilitate telehealth adoption, less is known about why adoption does or does not occur in specific populations, such as students.
Objective: This study aims to examine the perceptions of telehealth systems within a large student sample.
Methods: Undergraduate students (N=315) participated in a survey of the perceived advantages and disadvantages of telehealth technologies.
Article Synopsis
- * Researchers developed the mHealth Technology Engagement Index (mTEI) using 532 survey responses to create a reliable measure of motivation for using these healthcare technologies.
- * Key motivational factors identified include autonomy, competence, relatedness, goal attainment, and goal setting, highlighting the potential effectiveness of the mTEI in understanding and enhancing user engagement with telehealth systems.
Learning through loss: implementing lossography narratives in death education.
Gerontol Geriatr Educ
November 2016
Students may have a greater willingness to discuss issues of death and loss through written assignments; however, there is little guidance for instructors regarding how to manage these sensitive assignments, nor how students benefit from them. The authors implemented and evaluated a "lossography" assignment in an undergraduate thanatology course in which students wrote about their losses and anonymously shared these narratives with their classmates. Although many themes of loss emerged, the most frequently reported significant loss was death of a grandparent.
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