Publications by authors named "Syeda Rafia Shah"

Background: Patient navigation interventions (PNIs) can provide personalized support and promote appropriate coordination or continuation of health and social care services. Online PNIs have demonstrated excellent potential for improving patient knowledge, transition readiness, self-efficacy, and use of services. However, the characteristics (ie, intervention type, mode of delivery, duration, frequency, outcomes and outcome measures, underlying theories or mechanisms of change of the intervention, and impact) of existing online PNIs to support the health and social needs of individuals with illness remain unclear.

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Objective: Access to assistive products (APs) is essential to maximising function, participation, and inclusion of persons with disabilities. Challenges to AP access in low- and middle-income countries include stigma, costs, supply, and rehabilitation capacity gaps. This study aimed to examine AT access in the context of a low-resource setting in rural South India.

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