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Aim: To discuss inter-organisational collaboration in the context of the successful COVID-19 vaccination programme in North Central London (NCL).
Design: An action research study in 2023-2024.
Methods: Six action research cycles used mixed qualitative methods.
BMC Health Serv Res
January 2025
Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (BRLPS) "JEEVIKA", Patna Bihar, India.
Background: Rural populations in Bihar, India, face significant healthcare access challenges due to geographical, infrastructural, and financial barriers. The Swasthya Mitra program, initiated by the Bihar Rural Livelihood Promotion Society in collaboration with local and international partners, aims to mitigate these challenges by employing trained community members to navigate patients through the healthcare system.
Methods: This qualitative study employed in-depth interview and thematic analysis to evaluate the Swasthya Mitra program in the Bhagalpur and Jamui districts in Bihar, India.
J Pediatr Surg
January 2025
Department of Surgery, BC Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Electronic address:
Background: Wait times for children's hospital-based surgical services are at unprecedented levels. Opportunities to increase most children's hospital-based service capacity are sparse, and community-based services are a potential patient-centered alternative. The aim of this study was to understand the current state of pediatric surgical outreach in Canada as an option to address these challenges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppl Nurs Res
February 2025
Akdeniz University Nursing Faculty, Antalya, Turkey. Electronic address:
Aims: To examine comfort and patient activation, affecting factors, and the relationship between comfort and patient activation in patients with myocardial infarction.
Background: Comfort is an important requirement for managing the treatment and patients' well-being and patient activation improves patient engagement. Assessment of comfort, patient activation and associated factors are important to reduce complications and ensure adherence.
J Epidemiol
January 2025
Research Team for Social Participation and Healthy Aging, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology.
Background: We launched the Wako Cohort Study in 2023 to identify individual and socio-environmental factors related to the extension of healthy life expectancy and the reduction of health disparities among community-dwelling adults and to develop health promotion and care prevention strategies. This study profile aims to describe the study design and participants' profile at baseline.
Methods: The Wako Cohort Study is a prospective study of community-dwelling adults aged ≥ 40 years living in Wako City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
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