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JMIR Hum Factors
January 2025
Institute of General Practice, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Background: The internet is a key source of health information, but the quality of content from popular search engines varies, posing challenges for users-especially those with low health or digital health literacy. To address this, the "tala-med" search engine was developed in 2020 to provide access to high-quality, evidence-based content. It prioritizes German health websites based on trustworthiness, recency, user-friendliness, and comprehensibility, offering category-based filters while ensuring privacy by avoiding data collection and advertisements.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Med Internet Res
January 2025
Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga, ON, Canada.
Background: Patient portals, or secure websites linked to electronic medical records, have emerged as tools to provide patients with timely access to their health information. To support the potential benefits of patient portals such as improved engagement in health care, it is essential to understand how patients and caregivers experience these portals.
Objective: This study aimed to explore patient and caregiver experiences, facilitators, and barriers to accessing and using a patient portal called MyChart during the initial stages of its implementation.
Int J Rehabil Res
January 2025
Centre for Rehabilitation and Ageing Research, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham.
The secondary prevention benefits of cardiac rehabilitation and similar exercise classes for stroke survivors are well established, however post-stroke exercise participation remains low. This research aimed to explore the factors affecting participation and engagement in UK-based post-stroke cardiac rehabilitation and exercise, from the perspective of the service user and service provider. An exploratory study, using semi-structured interviews, was conducted (n = 8, service user = 4), adopting a phenomenological approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiscov Public Health
January 2025
British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, 1045 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1Y6 Canada.
Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, an ever-increasing number of people have died from the toxic drug supply in Canada. Emerging evidence suggests that reduced access to harm reduction services has been a contributing factor. However, the precise impacts of the pandemic on supervised consumption service (SCS) delivery have not been well characterized.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Adv Nurs
January 2025
Department of Nursing Science, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
Aim: To identify and synthesise recommendations and guidelines for mental health chatbot conversational design.
Design: Integrative review.
Methods: Suitable publications presenting recommendations or guidelines for mental health conversational design were included.
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