Publications by authors named "Anson K C Li"

Objectives: The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is rapidly expanding, transforming areas such as diagnostics, drug discovery, and patient monitoring. Despite these advances, public perceptions of AI in healthcare, particularly in Canada, remain underexplored. This study investigates the relationship between Canadians' knowledge, comfort, and trust in AI, focusing on key sociodemographic factors like age, gender, education, and income.

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  • Major depressive disorder (MDD) significantly impacts workplace productivity, making telehealth therapies, particularly cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), an important alternative for those facing barriers to in-person care, such as financial issues and stigma.
  • A rapid review and meta-analysis were conducted on 2549 studies, ultimately selecting 19 studies for review and 10 for detailed analysis, comparing telehealth CBT (tCBT) with in-person CBT (pCBT) and control groups without treatment.
  • Results showed that tCBT led to marked improvements in depression symptoms among participants, although its effectiveness relative to in-person therapy and non-CBT options varied across the research.
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Background: The annual cost of mental illnesses in Canada is estimated to be $50 billion. Research from other countries have suggested that employment status is associated with mental and physical health. Within the Canadian context, there is a dearth of research on the relationship between employment and mental health.

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Background: The objective of this study is to find temporal trends in the associations between cardiovascular disease and occupational risk factors in the context of the Canadian population.

Methods: Population data were analyzed from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) collected between 2001 and 2014 for trends over time between heart disease and various occupational risk factors: hours worked, physical exertion at work, and occupation type (management/arts/education, business/finance, sales/services, trades/transportations, and primary industry/processing).

Results: We found no significant difference in the average number of hours worked/wk between individuals who report having heart disease in all years of data except in 2011 ( = 7.

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Background: Despite rigorous characterization of the role of acetylcholine in retinal development, long-term effects of its absence as a neurotransmitter are unknown. One of the unanswered questions is how acetylcholine contributes to the functional capacity of mature retinal circuits. The current study investigates the effects of disrupting cholinergic signalling in mice, through deletion of vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT) in the developing retina, pigmented epithelium, optic nerve and optic stalk, on electrophysiology and structure of the mature retina.

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