An argumentation theory-based assessment tool for evaluating disinformation in health-related claims.

Objective: This study leverages argumentation theory to combat the growing threat of health disinformation by enhancing public competency in evaluating health-related information.

Methods: We systematically analyzed common persuasive tactics used in health disinformation, categorizing them into thematic groups linked to specific argument types. Based on these analyses, we developed critical questions to test the validity and strength of these arguments, resulting in an assessment tool.

Navigating Communication in Nursing Homes During COVID-19: Perspectives From Families, Healthcare Professionals, and Managers in Southern Switzerland-A Qualitative Study.

Objectives: This study aims to understand the effectiveness and challenges of communication strategies implemented to maintain contact between nursing home (NH) residents and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic, by considering the perspectives of families, healthcare professionals, and NH managers.

Methods: Using a qualitative research design, the study analyzed in-depth semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders (N = 34), including family members, NH staff, and managers.

Results: The study found that communication strategies like video calls, telephone calls, and window visits were generally appreciated and facilitated contact between residents and their families.

The Complexity of Health Self-Management Behavior. Beliefs and Attitudes of Individuals Living With Spinal Cord Injury in Switzerland.

Objective: Within the objective of defining targets for interventions to support self-management behaviors among people living with spinal cord injury, this study aims to describe self-management attitudes and beliefs in community-dwelling people living with spinal cord injury in Switzerland and to identify their correlates in terms of personal characteristics and outcomes, such as secondary health conditions and quality of life.

Design: This is a cross-sectional, observational study using data from the third community survey of the Swiss Spinal Cord Injury Cohort Study.

Results: Out of 1158 individuals, the data revealed high endorsement in areas of prevention importance, perceived knowledge, adherence to recommendations, and proactive problem-solving.

Two decades of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in health research: a bibliometric analysis.

: We conducted a twenty-year bibliometric analysis of scientific literature, focusing on the trends of The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) use in health research. : We retrieved 3'467 documents published between 2002 and 2022, sourced from the Web of Science Core Collection database. We used the Bibliometrix and VoSviewer tools for descriptive analyses and data visualization.

Improving health and scientific literacy in disadvantaged groups: A scoping review of interventions.

Objective: To explore approaches for developing and implementing interventions aimed at improving health literacy and health-related scientific literacy in disadvantaged groups.

Methods: A scoping review of literature published in 2012-2022 was conducted, followed by quality appraisal of eligible studies.

Results: Interventions were conducted mainly in community settings, where the most popular venues were adult education facilities.

Awareness, attitudes, and beliefs about palliative care: Results from a representative survey of the Italian-speaking Swiss population.

Objective: To understand the knowledge and awareness of palliative care in the Italian-speaking Swiss general population, describing main misconceptions or false beliefs and their relationship with attitudes towards palliative care.

Methods: Cross-sectional representative population survey (N = 313).

Results: We observed a high awareness of «palliative care,» although it is mainly associated with pain management and the very last days of life.

Quality of life from the patient perspective at the end of the first rehabilitation after the onset of spinal cord injury/disorder - A qualitative interview-based study.

Context: At present, there is a lack of information concerning patients' perspectives on their quality of life (QoL) after a recently acquired spinal cord injury/disorder (SCI/D).

Objective: To explore patients' perspectives on their QoL during their first inpatient rehabilitation after the onset of SCI/D.

Methods: Qualitative study.

Strengthening adolescents' critical health literacy and scientific literacy to tackle mis- and dis-information. A feasibility study in Switzerland.

Objectives: We aimed to develop and test the feasibility of a critical health literacy (CHL) and science literacy (SL) training course targeting secondary school students in Switzerland.

Methods: Using a community-based participatory approach, we developed a two-block training program, the first centered on argumentation skills and the second on scientific skills. We combined an ex-cathedra and a flipped-classroom approach, providing students with a deep understanding of CHL and SL concepts and the translational capability of implementing theoretical notions to real case scenarios.

The Learning Rehabilitation System: Strengthening an intersectoral strategy to improve functioning of an ageing population.

Rehabilitation uses a person-centred approach that relies on dynamic case management and works across sectors, including social protection, labour, and education to improve individual functioning. Global population ageing means that more people will live with impairment in functioning. Responding to this growth in impairment will require countries to strengthen rehabilitation at all levels of their health systems as highlighted by the 2023 WHO Resolution on Rehabilitation.

Patients' perception of hope in palliative care: A systematic review and narrative synthesis.

Objective: The aim of this study was to systematically review and synthesize the literature on patients' perceptions of hope in palliative care.

Methods: PubMed, Scopus, SocINDEX, Cochrane, and Web of Science were screened against the eligibility criteria. After familiarization with the data and conduction of the coding process, studies were thematically analyzed using Braun and Clarke's methodology.

Acceptance of Public Health Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study of the Swiss Population's Beliefs, Attitudes, Trust, and Information-Seeking Behavior.

This study aimed to advance the understanding of the factors associated with population acceptance of public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. In January 2022, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of the Swiss population ( = 2,587). Questionnaires were administered through computer-assisted web interviewing.

Institutional crisis communication during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland. A qualitative study of the experiences of representatives of public health organizations.

Objectives: To identify the main challenges in public communication encountered by representatives in Swiss health institutions during the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with representatives of key public health institutions (N = 25) across Switzerland. Participants were asked to identify barriers, facilitators, problems, and solutions in their public communication.

Communication inequalities and health disparities among vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic - a scoping review of qualitative and quantitative evidence.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated health disparities in vulnerable groups (e.g., increased infection, hospitalization, and mortality rates in people with lower income, lower education, or ethnic minorities).

Relationship between secondary health conditions and life satisfaction in persons with spinal cord injury: study across twenty-one countries.

Purpose: To determine the relationships between impact of secondary health conditions (SHCs), treatment of SHCs, and life satisfaction (LS) following spinal cord injury (SCI) across 21 countries. Hypotheses were as follows: (1) Persons with SCI and fewer SHCs report higher LS and (2) Persons who receive treatment for SHCs report higher LS than those who do not receive treatment.

Methods: Cross-sectional survey, including 10,499 persons with traumatic or non-traumatic SCI aged 18 years or older and living in the community.

Health care professionals' experiences with goal setting during initial rehabilitation after newly acquired spinal cord injury/ disorder - a qualitative focus group study.

Introduction: Goal setting (GS) is an important aspect of initial spinal cord injury/ disorder (SCI/D) rehabilitation. However, because expected outcomes are individual and often difficult to determine, GS is not straightforward. The aim of this study was to explore the health care professionals' (HCP's) experiences with and perspectives on the goal-setting process (GSP) during initial SCI/D rehabilitation.

Patients' experiences with goal setting during initial rehabilitation after newly acquired spinal cord injury: A pilot qualitative interview study.

Objective: To explore patients' experiences with goal setting during initial rehabilitation after newly acquired spinal cord injury/disorder (SCI/D).

Design: Qualitative design with semi-structured interviews and purposively sampled participants. Interviews were transcribed verbatim.

A qualitative analysis of educational, professional and socio-cultural issues affecting interprofessional collaboration in oncology palliative care.

Objectives: Oncology palliative care (PC) services seek to improve quality of life in patients with cancer. PC providers face significant systemic obstacles, stemming from insufficient collaboration between healthcare providers. This study explores these obstacles and strategies to help facilitate successful collaboration amongst healthcare providers at a systemic level.

WHO competency framework for health authorities and institutions to manage infodemics: its development and features.

Background: In April 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) Information Network for Epidemics produced an agenda for managing the COVID-19 infodemic. "Infodemic" refers to the overabundance of information-including mis- and disinformation. In this agenda it was pointed out the need to create a competency framework for infodemic management (IM).

Comparison of Life Satisfaction in Persons With Spinal Cord Injury Living in 22 Countries With Different Economic Status.

Objective: To analyze and compare life satisfaction (LS) in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) living in 22 countries participating in the International Spinal Cord Injury (InSCI) community survey. The study tested the hypothesis that there are differences in LS across InSCI countries according to the countries' economic status specified as gross domestic product per capita purchased power parity (GDP-PPP).

Design: Cross-sectional survey.

Attitudes towards Safe Listening Measures in Entertainment Venues: Results from an International Survey among Young Venue-Goers.

Background: Sustained exposure to excess noise in recreational settings is among the main causes of hearing loss among young adults worldwide. Within a global effort to develop standards for safe listening in entertainment venues, this study aims at identifying modifiable factors (knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs), which can hinder or facilitate the acceptance of safe listening measures in public venues among young venue-goers.

Methods: An online questionnaire was developed inspired by the Health Belief Model.

A qualitative exploration of interactional and organizational determinants of collaboration in cancer palliative care settings: Family members', health care professionals' and key informants' perspectives.

As life expectancy has increased, a growing number of people experience conditions, including cancers, that carry complex health and social needs. Palliative care services have the potential to address these needs but face significant obstacles. One major obstacle is suboptimal interprofessional collaboration.

A Public Health Research Agenda for Managing Infodemics: Methods and Results of the First WHO Infodemiology Conference.

Background: An infodemic is an overflow of information of varying quality that surges across digital and physical environments during an acute public health event. It leads to confusion, risk-taking, and behaviors that can harm health and lead to erosion of trust in health authorities and public health responses. Owing to the global scale and high stakes of the health emergency, responding to the infodemic related to the pandemic is particularly urgent.

Health professionals' view on the role of hope and communication challenges with patients in palliative care: A systematic narrative review.

Objective: To identify health professionals' (HPs) perspectives on the role of hope and the main challenges faced when communicating with patients in palliative care (PC).

Methods: Search on PubMed, Scopus, SocIndex, Cochrane, and Web of Science using: palliat*, palliative care, palliative medicine, hospice care, terminal care, long term care, supportive care, end of life (EOL) care and hope*, followed by a thematic narrative analysis.

Results: Thirty-five studies were included.