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BMC Med Educ
January 2025
Department of International Public Health, Emergency Obstetric and Quality of Care Unit, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembrooke Place, L3, 5QA, Liverpool, UK.
Background: The blended learning (BL) approach to training health care professionals is increasingly adopted in many countries because of high costs and disruption to service delivery in the light of severe human resource shortage in low resource settings. The Covid-19 pandemic increased the urgency to identify alternatives to traditional face-to-face (f2f) education approach. A four-day f2f antenatal care (ANC) and postnatal care (PNC) continuous professional development course (CPD) was repackaged into a 3-part BL course; (1) self-directed learning (16 h) (2) facilitated virtual sessions (2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMC Musculoskelet Disord
January 2025
Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada.
Background: The purposes of this study were to examine the reliability and factorial and convergent validity of a virtual performance measure (VPM) in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip joint and to compare the known-group validity of the VPM with traditional self-report and performance-based outcomes.
Methods: The VPM score was based on the results of 10 videos showing increasing difficulty in performing specific functional tasks. Patients were requested to choose the video that best reflected their own level of function.
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth
January 2025
Maternal-Fetal Medicine Research Center, Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Background: Drug use during pregnancy and post-partum undoubtedly significantly affects maternal and infant morbidity. Healthcare providers, especially midwives who care for pregnant and postpartum women, must possess adequate knowledge and clinical skills to manage their patients appropriately. This study aimed to determine the effect of an e-learning intervention on midwives' knowledge and clinical performance skills in caring for substance-dependent pregnant women during labor and post-partum.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Med Internet Res
January 2025
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom.
Background: Extended reality (XR) technologies are increasingly being used to reduce health and procedural anxieties. The global effectiveness of these interventions is uncertain, and there is a lack of understanding of how patient outcomes might vary between different contexts and modalities.
Objective: This research used panoramic meta-analysis to synthesize evidence across the diverse clinical contexts in which XR is used to address common outcomes of health and procedural anxiety.
Health Psychol Behav Med
December 2024
University Outreach and Engagement, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
Background/purpose: Rural adults and children are at higher risk for overweight and obesity. However, there are relatively few lifestyle modification programs available for these high-risk families, mainly because of the difficulty in reaching them. This mindfulness-based motivational interviewing (MM-based-MI) pilot aimed to improve parents' healthy eating index (HEI), collective family efficacy, family satisfaction, perceived stress, and depressive symptoms as well as parent-child dyads' eating patterns, physical activity (PA), and body mass index (BMI).
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