Game On! Improving Learning Engagement Among Massachusetts School Nurses Through Gamification.

Health care professionals must understand the laws and regulations that guide their practice. Training can often be dense and tedious, resulting in less than optimal levels of learner interest and engagement. Gamification provides a unique opportunity to improve the learning experience, promote ease of use, and sustain gained learner knowledge.

Attitudes towards Telemedicine among Pregnant People and Parents of Toddlers in an Urban Safety-net Setting.

Objective: To understand attitudes towards telemedicine and to further elucidate benefits, disadvantages, and visit preferences in a largely minority, urban safety-net setting.

Methods: Between 2020 and 2021, pregnant people, and parents of children younger than two years old were recruited from outpatient clinics. Interviews were conducted via phone, recorded, transcribed, and translated.

Attitudes Toward Routine Vaccines and COVID-19 Vaccines Among Parents of Infants and Toddlers in an Urban Safety-Net Setting.

This study explores attitudes toward diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP), measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), influenza, and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines among English-speaking and Spanish-speaking parents of infants in a safety-net setting. Parents aged 18 years or older were recruited from outpatient clinics between December 2020 and December 2021. The interviews were then recorded, transcribed, translated, and qualitatively analyzed using the modified grounded theory.

Comparison of attitudes toward routine maternal vaccines and COVID-19 vaccines among pregnant patients in an urban safety-net setting.

Objective: To explore attitudes toward tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis (Tdap), influenza, and COVID vaccines among English- and Spanish- speaking pregnant individuals in a safety net setting.

Methods: Pregnant people aged 18 years or older were recruited from outpatient clinics between August 2020 and June 2021. Interviews were conducted via phone in English or Spanish, recorded, transcribed, and translated verbatim.