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JMIR Cardio
December 2024
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Health care is under pressure due to an aging population with an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease. Smoking and physical inactivity are 2 key preventable risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Yet, as with most health behaviors, they are difficult to change.
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December 2024
Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Background: Online health communities (OHCs) enable patients to create social ties with people with similar health conditions outside their existing social networks. Harnessing mechanisms of information diffusion in OHCs has attracted attention for its ability to improve illness self-management without the use of health care resources.
Objective: We aimed to analyze the novelty of a metaphor used for the first time in an OHC, assess how it can facilitate self-management of post-stroke symptoms, describe its appearance over time, and classify its diffusion mechanisms.
J Med Internet Res
November 2024
School of Nursing, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada.
Semin Radiat Oncol
October 2024
Harvard Medical School; Department of Radiation Oncology, Mass General Brigham/Massachusetts General Hospital.
Trials
August 2024
Department of Hospital Pharmacy, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Background: Electronic informed consent (eConsent) usage has expanded in recent years in Europe, especially during the pandemic. Slow recruitment rate and limitations in participant outreach are the challenges often faced in clinical research. Given the benefits of eConsent and group counselling reported in the literature, group eConsent was implemented in recruitment for the SWITCH-ON study.
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