Analysis of the Implementation, User Perspectives, and Feedback From a Mobile Health Intervention for Individuals Living With Hypertension (DREAM-GLOBAL): Mixed Methods Study.

Background: DREAM-GLOBAL (Diagnosing hypertension-Engaging Action and Management in Getting Lower Blood Pressure in Indigenous and low- and middle-income countries) studied a SMS text messaging-based system for blood pressure measurement and hypertension management in Canadian Aboriginal and Tanzanian communities. The use of SMS text messages is an emerging point of interest in global health care initiatives because of their scalability, customizability, transferability, and cost-effectiveness.

Objective: The study aim was to assess the effect on the difference in blood pressure reduction of active hypertension management messages or passive health behavior messages.

Early relationships and paranoia: Qualitative investigation of childhood experiences associated with the development of persecutory delusions.

Research suggests a link between Persecutory Delusions (PDs) and early interpersonal difficulties. However, little research has explored the first-hand experience of navigating such adversities in those who later developed PDs. The current study reports on a qualitative investigation of the early interpersonal experiences and challenges faced by a sample of individuals who have recovered from PDs, using a semi-structured interview.

Aboriginal nursing education in Canada: an update.

Canada does not have enough aboriginal nurses and aboriginal nursing faculty. Consequently, there is an inadequate number of nurses to meet both on- and off-reserve and community health care staffing needs. In 2002, Health Canada asked the Canadian Association of University Schools of Nursing to facilitate a national task force that would examine aboriginal nursing in Canada.

Normal sexual response in women.

In summary, women's sexual response is characterized as highly variable and influenced by a wide range of determinants, including physiologic, psychosocial, and contextual factors. This complexity is reflected also in the multiple etiologic factors and determinants of sexual problems in women. It is evident in current conceptualizations of normal female sexual response, as presented in this article, in which the circularity and overlap of different components and aspects of sexual response in women are viewed differently from the more linear and invariable trajectory of sexual response in men.