Economic Evidence in Occupational Therapy: A Rapid Review.

Given the necessity to demonstrate that occupational therapy services are a good use of resources, understanding the state of economic evidence is essential. This article presents a of this evidence. Relevant articles were identified using SCOPUS.

Proposed Mechanisms and Associations of COVID-19 with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cardiometabolic risk (CMR) are highly prevalent globally. The interplay between CVD/CMR and COVID-19 morbidity and mortality has been intensely studied over the last three years and has yielded some important discoveries and warnings for public health. Despite many advances in cardiovascular medicine, CVD continues to be the global leading cause of death.

Perceptions of youth internalizing symptoms: Cross-cultural comparisons between Taiwanese and U.S. mothers.

This study was designed to examine how cultural values affected mothers' perceptions of internalizing symptoms in youth, comparing Taiwanese and U.S. samples.

Food Is Medicine: The Time Is Now.

Virtually every professional society globally now endorses a plant-forward diet that is lower in fat and processed foods as key components of disease prevention and health promotion. It is characterized by whole grain foods, and predominantly made of fresh foods. With healthcare expenditures at record levels across the globe, implementing a treatment plan that has larger magnitude health improvements than nearly any known medicine, that is extremely inexpensive, and has the power to not only improve human health but also planetary health is critical.

Transformation of primary care settings implementing a co-located team-based care model: a scoping review.

Background: In Canada, primary care reforms led to the implementation of various team-based care models to improve access and provide more comprehensive care for patients. Despite these advances, ongoing challenges remain. The aim of this scoping review is to explore current understanding of the functioning of these care models as well as the contexts in which they have emerged and their impact on the population, providers and healthcare costs.

The Impact of Incentives on Data Collection for Online Surveys: Social Media Recruitment Study.

Background: The use of targeted advertisements on social media platforms (eg, Facebook and Instagram) has become increasingly popular for recruiting participants for online survey research. Many of these surveys offer monetary incentives for survey completion in the form of gift cards; however, little is known about whether the incentive amount impacts the cost, speed, and quality of data collection.

Objective: This experiment addresses this gap in the literature by examining how different incentives in paid advertising campaigns on Instagram for completing a 10-minute online survey influence the response rate, recruitment advertising cost, data quality, and length of data collection.

Promise of Lifestyle Medicine for Heart Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, and Cerebrovascular Diseases.

The burden of noncommunicable chronic diseases has relevant and negative consequences to persons, health care systems, and economies worldwide. Chronic diseases are the leading cause of disability and mortality and are responsible for 90% of health care expenditure. The most common chronic diseases are diabetes mellitus (DM), cardiovascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease (stroke and vascular cognitive impairment).

Onchocerciasis Drug Discovery: In Vitro Evaluation of FDA-Approved Drugs against in Gambia.

Onchocerciasis treatment and control relies mainly on the use of ivermectin which has high activity against the microfilarial stage of but limited activity against the long-lived, tissue dwelling adult nematodes. As this neglected tropical disease has now been targeted for elimination, there is an urgent need for new drugs to combat these parasites, ideally with macrofilaricidal activity. In this study, we have examined the anti- activity of a range of existing FDA-approved drugs with a view to repurposing, which can lead to rapid and relatively inexpensive development.

Creating synergies among education/research, practice, and policy environments to build capacity for the scholar role in occupational therapy and physiotherapy in the Canadian context.

Scholarly practice (SP) is considered a key competency of occupational therapy and physiotherapy. To date, the three sectors-education/research, practice, and policy/regulation-that support SP have been working relatively independently. The goals of this project were to (a) understand how representatives of the three sectors conceptualize SP; (b) define each sector's individual and collective roles in supporting SP; (c) identify factors influencing the enactment of SP and the specific needs of how best to support SP; and (d) co-develop goals and strategies to support SP across all sectors.

Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation Outcomes in Patients with Heart Failure.

Introduction: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) has proven to be beneficial for patients with heart failure (HF), potentially reducing morbidity and mortality while improving fitness and psychological outcomes. Intensive cardiac rehabilitation (ICR) represents an emerging form of CR that has demonstrated advantages for patients with various cardiovascular diseases. Nevertheless, the specific outcomes of ICR in patients with HF remain unknown.

Assessment of a large language model's utility in helping pathology professionals answer general knowledge pathology questions.

Objectives: To assess the utility and performance of the large language model ChatGPT 4.0 regarding accuracy, completeness, and its potential as a time-saving tool for pathologists and laboratory directors.

Methods: A deidentified database of questions previously sent to pathology residents from health care providers was used as a source of general knowledge-type pathology questions.

Evaluation of an interprofessional primary healthcare team as a new model of primary care in Quebec: a protocol for a type 2 effectiveness-implementation hybrid study.

Introduction: One family medicine group (FMG) in Quebec has commenced a 5-year pilot project, which is herein referred to as the model, to implement a patient-centred model based on interprofessional care and the optimal use of healthcare providers' practice scopes. A research project will be conducted to: (1) assess this model's effect on the FMG's operational performance, and its users' resource utilisation at the public health system level; (2) investigate its optimisation with respect to professional roles, interprofessional teamwork and patient-centredness and (3) document users' experience with the model. The aim of this article is to describe the protocol that will be used for this research.

MCL internal brace does not fully recapitulate normal MCL function in valgus stress.

Purpose: The null hypothesis is that there would be no difference in medial gapping under valgus load between the intact MCL and the ruptured MCL with an internal brace in place.

Methods: Eight pairs of cadaver knees were used (16 knees). Alternating sides, one knee from each pair was used for one of two "internal brace" constructs.

Comparing self-reported quality of life in youth with bipolar versus other disorders.

Objectives: This study benchmarks quality of life (QoL) of youth with bipolar disorder (BD) against healthy youth, youth with chronic medical conditions, and youth with other psychiatric disorders. The relative impacts of depressive, (hypo)manic, mixed, and externalizing symptoms on QoL are tested for youth with BD.

Method: In total, 657 youth completed the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for Children (KSADS), the KSADS depression and mania scales, the Parent General Behavior Inventory (PGBI), and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL).