Publications by authors named "B Garner"
Introduction: With growing adoption of contingency management (CM) in addiction treatment programs, ensuring intervention fidelity over time is essential for improving patient outcomes. Nonetheless, ensuring an intervention is delivered as intended can be time- and resource-intensive for organizations. Finding ways to monitor fidelity without unduly burdening health systems is critical.
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- The article discusses the challenges of implementing evidence-based innovations (EBIs) effectively, highlighting the mixed outcomes in previous implementation efforts.
- Researchers have developed the Implementation Strategy Integrity Framework (ISIF) to clarify how the deployment of implementation strategies (IS) affects the success of EBIs.
- The findings reveal four key areas to evaluate IS integrity: the rigor of implementation strategies, user responsiveness, mechanism activation, and the influence of inner and outer contextual factors on EBI outcomes.
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- During the pandemic, many people in the U.S. started using opioids more due to feeling lonely and experiencing more pain.
- Researchers studied whether this loneliness affected how much pain these people felt while they were on medication for opioid addiction.
- They found that feeling isolated from others during the pandemic made the pain worse for patients who had trouble with opioids, especially if they were already struggling with pain before the pandemic.
The HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study, a multi-site prospective longitudinal cohort study, will examine human brain, cognitive, behavioral, social, and emotional development beginning prenatally and planned through early childhood. Electroencephalography (EEG) is one of two brain imaging modalities central to the HBCD Study. EEG records electrical signals from the scalp that reflect electrical brain activity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpatiotemporal gait parameters are commonly used to quantify physical functioning including in populations with atypical foot strike patterns. The current gold standard measurement system for gait analysis is marker-based motion capture and floor-mounted force plates, but it can be expensive and cumbersome to set up. Pressure sensitive walkways are more affordable, quicker to set up, and more portable.
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