Understanding Women's Cardiovascular Health Using MyStrengths+MyHealth: A Patient-Generated Data Visualization Study of Strengths, Challenges, and Needs Differences.

Purpose: The purpose of this data visualization study was to identify patterns in patient-generated health data (PGHD) of women with and without Circulation signs or symptoms. Specific aims were to (a) visualize and interpret relationships among strengths, challenges, and needs of women with and without Circulation signs or symptoms; (b) generate hypotheses based on these patterns; and (c) test hypotheses generated in Aim 2.

Design: The design of this visualization study was retrospective, observational, case controlled, and exploratory.

Discovering Associations Among Older Adults' Characteristics and Planned Nursing Interventions Using Electronic Health Record Data.

Background And Purpose: Little is known about how nursing assessments of strengths and signs/symptoms inform intervention planning in assisted living communities. The purpose of this study was to discover associations among older adults' characteristics and their planned nursing interventions.

Methods: This study employed a data-driven method, latent class analysis, using existing electronic health record data from a senior living community in the Midwest.

A strengths-based data capture model: mining data-driven and person-centered health assets.

With health care policy directives advancing value-based care, risk assessments and management have permeated health care discourse. The conventional problem-based infrastructure defines what data are employed to build this discourse and how it unfolds. Such a health care model tends to bias data for risk assessment and risk management toward problems and does not capture data about health assets or strengths.

Change in Balance Confidence and Its Associations With Increasing Disability in Older Community-Dwelling Women at Risk for Falling.

Objectives: To describe change in balance confidence, and to identify associated factors and disabling consequences.

Method: Secondary analysis of 2 years of data collected from 272 older women enrolled in a randomized clinical trial of fall prevention. Balance confidence and disability measures were assessed at baseline, after the 12 week intervention, and at 1 and 2 years follow-up.

The PADQOL: development and validation of a PAD-specific quality of life questionnaire.

Understanding the impact of peripheral artery disease (PAD) requires broad evaluation of how functional limitations of PAD affect patients' perceptions of health-related quality of life (HRQL). The objective of this study was to describe the development, testing, and psychometric properties of the PAD Quality of Life Questionnaire (PADQOL). The PADQOL was developed in three steps: (1) interviews of symptomatic PAD patients provided content of the initial questionnaire; (2) co-administration with the SF-36 (a 36-item short-form health survey), Walking Impairment Questionnaire, and Profile of Mood States examined construct validity; and (3) a three-phased factor analysis identified factors and shortened the questionnaire.

Health-related quality of life and subjective neurocognitive function three months after coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

Purpose: We compared health-related quality of life (HRQL), including patient-perceived neurocognitive function at preoperative baseline and 3 months after coronary artery bypass (CABG) surgery.

Design: The design was prospective and comparative.

Setting: The study took place in the cardiovascular units at two large metropolitan Midwestern hospitals.

Functional recovery and exercise behavior in men and women 5 to 6 years following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.

Improvement following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery has been reported to be less in women than men. Relationships between exercise behavior and functional status of men and women 5 to 6 years after CABG have not been examined in a representative patient sample. This study compared the 5- to 6-year recovery in a cohort of 184 patients at the Minnesota site of the Post CABG Biobehavioral Study.