Publications by authors named "Shreya Divatia"

Background: Certified peer support specialists often use technologies such as smartphone applications to deliver digital peer support in community mental health centers. Certified peer support specialists are individuals with a mental health diagnosis, trained and accredited by their state to provide mental health support services. Digital peer support has shown promising evidence of promoting recovery, hope, social support, and medical and psychiatric self-management among patients with a diagnosis of a serious mental illness.

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Wearable devices to detect changes in health status are increasingly adopted by consumers, yet hospitals remain slow to assimilate these devices into clinical practice. Despite the clear benefits of capturing clinical information in acutely ill patients, such technology remains difficult to implement in emergency medicine. To improve adoption, barriers must first be removed.

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Respiratory rate is assessed less frequently than other vital signs, and documented respiratory rates are often erroneous. This pilot study compared respiratory rates derived from a wearable biosensor to those derived from capnography. Emergency department patients with respiratory complaints were enrolled and had capnography via nasal cannula and a wireless, wearable biosensor from Philips applied for approximately one hour.

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Sleep deprivation (SD) can degrade cognitive functioning, but growing evidence suggests that there are large individual differences in the vulnerability to this effect. Some evidence suggests that baseline differences in the responsiveness of a fronto-parietal attention system that is activated during working memory (WM) tasks may be associated with the ability to sustain vigilance during sleep deprivation. However, the neurocircuitry underlying this network remains virtually unexplored.

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