Publications by authors named "Alicia Williamson"
Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate how healthcare staff intermediaries support Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) patients' access to telehealth, how their approaches reflect cognitive load theory (CLT) and determine which approaches FQHC patients find helpful and whether their perceptions suggest cognitive load (CL) reduction.
Materials And Methods: Semistructured interviews with staff (n = 9) and patients (n = 22) at an FQHC in a Midwestern state. First-cycle coding of interview transcripts was performed inductively to identify helping processes and participants' evaluations of them.
Previous studies have shown Relational Coordination improves team functioning in healthcare settings. The aim of this study was to examine the relational factors needed to support team functioning in outpatient mental health care teams with low staffing ratios. We interviewed interdisciplinary mental health teams that had achieved high team functioning despite low staffing ratios in U.
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- - The study investigates how using human intermediaries as technology helpers can improve access to telehealth services for underserved populations, reducing the cognitive load tied to learning new tech.
- - A pilot intervention was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic at a Federally Qualified Health Center, where graduate students provided telehealth assistance to patients via phone, helping them navigate technology.
- - Despite a low participation rate (14.2% of eligible patients), the findings suggest that those who attended the sessions had lower education and tech experience, highlighting the need for more tailored equity-focused telehealth solutions in the future.
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- The text emphasizes the need for a comprehensive framework in health informatics research focused on health equity, particularly for marginalized groups.
- Based on a review of existing literature and experiences from nine studies, the authors identify four key methodological considerations: participation and representation, appropriate methods, contextualization, and investigation of systematic differences.
- The proposed framework, named PRAXIS, aims to guide informaticists in effectively addressing these considerations throughout different stages of research to improve health equity outcomes.
Quality care requires collaborative communication, information exchange, and decision-making between patients and providers. Complete and accurate data about patients and from patients are especially important as high volumes of data are used to build clinical decision support tools and inform precision medicine initiatives. However, systematically missing data can bias these tools and threaten their effectiveness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Regarding health technologies, African American young adults have low rates of uptake, ongoing usage, and engagement, which may widen sexual health inequalities.
Objective: We aimed to examine rates of uptake and ongoing usage, and factors influencing uptake, ongoing usage, and engagement for a consumer health informatics (CHI) intervention for HIV/sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention among African American young adults, using the diffusion of innovation theory, trust-centered design framework, and O'Brien and Toms' model of engagement.
Methods: This community-based participatory mixed methods study included surveys at four time points (n=315; 280 African American participants) among young adults aged 18 to 24 years involved in a blended offline/online HIV/STI prevention intervention (HIV Outreach, Prevention, and Education [HOPE] eIntervention), which was described as a "HOPE party.
Background: Many previous studies of health care teamwork have taken place in clinical teams with high staffing ratios (i.e., high ratios of staff to patients).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The Quality of Life, Enjoyment, and Satisfaction Questionnaire-Short Form (Q-LES-Q-SF) is a recovery-oriented, self-report measure with an uncertain underlying factor structure, variously reported in the literature to consist of either one or two domains. We examined the possible factor structures of the English version in an enrolled mental health population who were not necessarily actively engaged in care.
Methods: As part of an implementation trial in the U.