Expanding stroke telerehabilitation services to rural veterans: a qualitative study on patient experiences using the robotic stroke therapy delivery and monitoring system program.

Purpose: The present study reports on a robotic stroke therapy delivery and monitoring system intervention. The aims of this pilot implementation project were to determine participants' general impressions about the benefits and barriers of using robotic therapy devices for in-home rehabilitation.

Methods: We used a qualitative study design employing ethnographic-based anthropological methods including direct observation of the in-home environment and in-depth semi-structured interviews with 10 users of the hand or foot robotic devices.

Healthcare providers' perceptions and self-reported fall prevention practices: findings from a large new york health system.

Among older adults, falls are the leading cause of injury-related deaths and emergency department visits, and the incidence of falls in the United States is rising as the number of older Americans increases. Research has shown that falls can be reduced by modifying fall-risk factors using multifactorial interventions implemented in clinical settings. However, the literature indicates that many providers feel that they do not know how to conduct fall-risk assessments or do not have adequate knowledge about fall prevention.

An in-depth mixed-methods approach to Ryan White HIV/AIDS care program comprehensive needs assessment from the Northeast Georgia Public Health District: the significance of patient privacy, psychological health, and social stigma to care.

We apply a social-ecological interpretive framework to understanding relationships among patient privacy, psychological health, social stigma, and continuity in care in the HIV treatment cascade in the rural southeastern US. This research was conducted as part of the 2013 comprehensive needs assessment for the Northeast Georgia Ryan White Consortium using an anthropologically informed mixed-methods design, and a deductive-inductive approach to thematic analysis of qualitative data obtained in interviews and focus groups with service providers and service utilizers. Our comprehensive needs assessment yielded two key components.

Prevalence of risk factors for the metabolic syndrome in the middle income Caribbean nation of st. Lucia.

The objective of this research was to measure the presence of metabolic syndrome risk factors in a sample population in the middle income Caribbean nation of St. Lucia and to identify the demographic and behavioral factors of metabolic syndrome among the study participants. Interviews and anthropometric measures were conducted with 499 St.

Variation and transmission of Sonoran wild food knowledge in southern Arizona.

Since knowledge about wild foods is thought to be declining in younger generations worldwide, this study's objective was to describe variation in Sonoran wild food knowledge in southern Arizona between adults (n = 19) and students (n = 110) using free lists, an identification exercise, and structured interviews. There are fundamental differences in the quantity and quality of knowledge that adults and students have about wild desert foods. Adults know more native species, specific names, and correctly identify Sonoran wild foods twice as often as students.

A culture of care: the French approach to cardiovascular risk factor management.

Objective: The objective of this study was to describe French primary care physicians' beliefs about cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and best practices for managing CVD.

Methods: This study comprised a purposive convenience sample of 656 primary care physicians in France, recruited from contacts made through the French Society of General Medicine. We compiled the physicians' responses to free text questions taken from an Internet-based survey and analyzed them using a qualitative approach.