Publications by authors named "J G Lalor"
Objectives: To examine the predictors of parent-child bonding and parenting satisfaction using structural equation models at three time points across the perinatal period: (1) during pregnancy at >24 gestational weeks, (2) one month postpartum, and (3) three months postpartum.
Methods: This longitudinal exploratory quantitative study recruited a convenient sample of 118 heterosexual couples (236 participants; 118 mothers and 118 fathers) from maternity clinics of a public tertiary hospital in Singapore. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the parents' characteristics and study variables.
Individual Factors That Affect Laypeople's Understanding of Definitions of Medical Jargon.
Health Policy Technol
December 2024
Objective: Patients have difficulty understanding medical jargon in electronic health record (EHR) notes. Lay definitions can improve patient comprehension, which is the goal of the NoteAid project. We assess whether the NoteAid definitions are understandable to laypeople and whether understandability differs with respect to layperson characteristics.
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- Studies indicate that patients, especially those with low health literacy, struggle to understand medical terms in electronic health records (EHR), prompting the creation of the NoteAid dictionary to define these terms for better patient comprehension.
- The study aimed to see if medical experts and everyday people (laypeople) agree on what counts as medical jargon, using a comparison of their identifications in EHR notes from participants recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk.
- Results showed that medical experts identified 59% of terms as jargon, while laypeople identified only 25.6%, with good agreement among experts and fair agreement among laypeople regarding jargon classification.
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- - The study evaluates the effectiveness of the Parentbot, a digital healthcare assistant, in improving various outcomes for parents during the perinatal period, including parenting self-efficacy, stress, and mental health.
- - Conducted with 118 heterosexual couples in Singapore, the research involved random assignment to either the intervention group (Parentbot plus standard care) or a control group (standard care only), with data collected at multiple points postpartum.
- - Results showed that the intervention group reported higher parenting self-efficacy at one month postpartum and lower anxiety levels among mothers at three months postpartum compared to the control group.
Objectives: During the perinatal period, women and their birth companions form expectations about childbirth. We aimed to examine whether a mismatch between birth expectations and experiences predict childbirth-related post-traumatic stress symptoms (CB-PTSS) for mothers and birth companions. We also explored the influence of the mismatch between mothers' and birth companions' expectations/experiences on CB-PTSS.
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