Use of human-centric and participatory design for modifying a daily environmental cleaning checklist: a quality improvement study.

A major tenet of healthcare environmental cleaning focuses on high-touch surfaces (HTSs). HTSs have high rates of contamination, yet cleaning compliance remains low, particularly in patient-occupied rooms. This quality improvement study aimed to use human-centric and participatory design to modify an HTS cleaning checklist and conduct initial trial and evaluation.

No Place to Go: The Relationship Between Care Partner Inclusion Practices and the Hospital Environment.

Objective: The objective of this was to explore how the physical environment in a hospital contributes to care partner inclusion practices.

Background: Despite their vital efforts in caring for people living with dementia (PLWD), care partners of PLWD often report feeling not included in their loved ones' hospitalizations. This phenomenon goes against research, policy initiatives, and hospital design frameworks that underscore the importance of including care partners in hospital care.

Mobile Acceptance and Commitment Therapy With Distressed First-Generation College Students: Microrandomized Trial.

Background: Extant gaps in mental health services are intensified among first-generation college students. Improving access to empirically based interventions is critical, and mobile health (mHealth) interventions are growing in support. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is an empirically supported intervention that has been applied to college students, via mobile app, and in brief intervals.

Mobile Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Bipolar Disorder: Microrandomized Trial.

Background: Mobile interventions promise to fill in gaps in care with their broad reach and flexible delivery.

Objective: Our goal was to investigate delivery of a mobile version of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for individuals with bipolar disorder (BP).

Methods: Individuals with BP (n=30) participated in a 6-week microrandomized trial.

A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Mobile ACT Responses From Two Cohorts.

Background: Mobile transdiagnostic therapies offer a solution to the challenges of limited access to psychological care. However, it is unclear if individuals can actively synthesize and adopt concepts and skills via an app without clinician support.

Aims: The present study measured comprehension of and engagement with a mobile acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) intervention in two independent cohorts.

Optimizing an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Microintervention Via a Mobile App With Two Cohorts: Protocol for Micro-Randomized Trials.

Background: Given gaps in the treatment of mental health, brief adaptive interventions have become a public health imperative. Transdiagnostic interventions may be particularly appropriate given high rates of medical comorbidity and the broader reach of transdiagnostic therapies. One such approach utilized herein is acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), which is focused on increasing engagement with values, awareness, and openness to internal experiences.