Publications by authors named "Lemma Bulto"
Cardiovascular preventive service access challenges among African immigrants: a discussion paper.
Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs
January 2025
This paper highlights cardiovascular disease (CVD) preventive access challenges and potential intervention strategies that address cardiovascular preventive service access gaps among African immigrants living in developed countries. Migration, coupled with changes in dietary habits, socio-economic factors, and cultural adjustments, contributes to a heightened risk of CVD among African immigrants. This risk is compounded by a lack of targeted preventive interventions and culturally tailored programmes, as well as challenges related to language barriers, health literacy, and digital literacy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Centres of clinical excellence (CoCE) are healthcare facilities that provide excellent healthcare. However, despite their increasing prevalence, it is unclear how CoCE are identified and monitored. This paper explores how CoCE has been described in the literature, including its defining characteristics and selection and monitoring processes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a significant public health concern, influenced by both genetic susceptibility and lifestyle factors. Integrating genetic risk information into clinical practice shows promise but has yielded mixed results regarding its impact on CVD prevention and management. This systematic review aimed to assess the impact of providing genetic CVD risk information on health behaviours, psychological outcomes, and risk factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This review aims to assess the effectiveness of receiving cardiovascular disease (CVD) genetic risk information on individual health behaviors, psychological responses, and risk factor modification.
Introduction: Advancements in genomics have identified strong genetic predispositions for CVD, leading to the development of CVD genetic risk information. Integrating genetic risk information into clinical practice shows promise in predicting CVD risk and facilitating multifactorial management.
Article Synopsis
- Sleep disorders negatively impact health and daily functioning, but weighted blankets could offer a non-drug treatment option to improve sleep.
- A review of the literature found that while adults showed positive results like better sleep and mood with weighted blankets, outcomes for children were mixed, with only one study focusing on their implementation.
- Overall, weighted blankets seem effective for adults, and while parents support their use for kids, there's a need for standardized guidelines and more research on best practices.
Navigating the complexities of addressing alcohol use in cardiology services.
Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs
September 2024
Article Synopsis
- * The paper outlines six essential steps for conducting effective patient journey mapping, using examples from the cardiovascular field.
- * It highlights the advantages of this approach in healthcare, including improved understanding of patient transitions and potential future applications for enhancing healthcare delivery.
Effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation programs on medication adherence in patients with cardiovascular disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Int J Cardiol Cardiovasc Risk Prev
March 2024
Background: Education to improve medication adherence is one of the core components of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs. However, the evidence on the effectiveness of CR programs on medication adherence is conflicting. Therefore, we aimed to summarize the effectiveness of CR programs versus standard care on medication adherence in patients with cardiovascular disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: People with lived experience are rarely involved in implementation science research. This study was designed to assess the feasibility of codesigning and delivering implementation strategies with people with lived experience of stroke and health professionals to improve evidence-based stroke rehabilitation.
Methods: We used Experience-Based CoDesign to design and deliver strategies to implement Stroke Clinical Guideline recommendations at one Australian inpatient stroke rehabilitation unit.
Purpose: To explore how health professionals provide information to informal carers during inpatient stroke rehabilitation and whether these practices align with adult learning principles.
Methods: Informal carers and survivors of stroke who had completed inpatient rehabilitation, and health professionals working in inpatient stroke rehabilitation were interviewed. Directed qualitative content analysis was conducted using an adult learning model, to determine how closely reported practices aligned to adult learning principles.
Interventions for the uptake of evidence-based recommendations in acute stroke settings.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
August 2023
Background: There is a growing body of research evidence to guide acute stroke care. Receiving care in a stroke unit improves access to recommended evidence-based therapies and patient outcomes. However, even in stroke units, evidence-based recommendations are inconsistently delivered by healthcare workers to patients with stroke.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: This review aimed to investigate the effectiveness of nurse-led interventions vs. usual care on hypertension management, lifestyle behaviour, and patients' knowledge of hypertension and associated risk factors.
Methods: A systematic review with meta-analysis was conducted following Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) guidelines.
Aim: To identify how patient journey mapping is being undertaken and reported.
Design: A scoping review of the literature was undertaken using JBI guidance.
Data Sources: Databases were searched in July 2021 (16th-21st), including Ovid's Medline, Embase, Emcare and PsycINFO; Scopus; Web of Science Core Collection, the Directory of Open Access Journals; Informit and; ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.
Objective: The objective of this review is to measure the effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation programs versus standard care on medication adherence in patients with cardiovascular disease.
Introduction: Poor adherence to long-term medications increases the risk of morbidity and mortality, and decreases quality of life in patients with cardiovascular diseases. Several strategies have been trialed to improve medication adherence, one of which is cardiac rehabilitation programs.
Objective: The objective of the review is to investigate the effect of activity-monitoring devices and mobile applications on physical activity and health outcomes of patients with cardiovascular disease who are participating in cardiac rehabilitation programs.
Introduction: Supporting patients with cardiovascular conditions to achieve and maintain healthy physical activity levels is the cornerstone of cardiac rehabilitation programs. The effectiveness of activity-monitoring devices and mobile applications (such as physical activity interventions) utilizing consumer-grade monitoring devices and applications to support patients to improve exercise levels during and after program completion has been investigated.
Objective: The objective of the review is to determine the effectiveness of telehealth versus in-person care on health care utilization, health-related quality of life, and well-being in homebound populations.
Introduction: Globally, an increasing number of people are becoming homebound. These individuals experience high levels of social isolation and deterioration of their well-being.
Objective: This scoping review will assess the literature that documents or utilizes patient journey mapping methodologies in health care settings. It will also examine the reporting processes of studies that use this methodology.
Introduction: Health care systems are complex and can be challenging for patients to navigate.
Aims And Objectives: To identify the atrial fibrillation (AF)-specific information needs of patients with AF.
Background: Patients' understanding of AF is pertinent to optimising treatment and outcomes, thus highlighting the need for effective patient education. The information required to deliver effective AF-specific patient education is less examined.
Aim: The aim of this study was to explore awareness of heart disease and associated health behaviours.
Design: A qualitative study was conducted using in-depth interviews.
Methods: The study participants were patients with hypertension.
Introduction: In developing countries, approximately sixteen hundred people die every day from all types of injuries, making injury the third most common cause of all mortalities in the region. The objective of this study was to examine the magnitude, causes and types of traumatic injuries in patients visiting Dilchora Hospital in Dire Dawa Administration of Eastern Ethiopia.
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study which was supplemented with qualitative data.
Objectives: The study was aimed at assessing adherence to prescribed antihypertensive medications and its associated factors.
Methodology: Institutional-based cross-sectional study was conducted in four public hospitals which were selected by lottery method. Systematic random sampling was used to select the study subjects.