Cultivating eHealth evaluation leadership.

This article discusses eHealth evaluation leadership in terms of the need, key characteristics, and means to cultivate this leadership. It is well known that health leaders with technical informatics skills and prior eHealth adoption experience are more likely to commit to a long-term eHealth vision, are highly motivated, and can navigate through complex adoption issues. However, much less attention is paid to leadership when it comes to electronic health evaluation.

Causality in the Theory of Planned Behavior.

The theory of planned behavior proposes that behavior is predicted by behavioral intention which is, in turn, predicted by three base components: attitudes toward the behavior, subjective norms regarding the behavior, and perceived control over the behavior. Implied within this theory is that each of the three base components influence intentions, solely in that direction. However, despite being one of the most widely used theories in many areas of psychology and health sciences, few studies have tested this basic premise.

Cultivating Compassion: The Practice Experience of a Medical Assistance in Dying Coordinator in Canada.

Accessing medical assistance in dying (MAiD) became legal in Canada in June, 2016. This marks a unique time in our history, as eligible persons can now opt for an assisted death and health care professionals can be involved without criminal repercussion. I used an autoethnographic approach to explore and describe my experience of implementing and coordinating a new MAiD program in a local health authority.

Post Your Journey: Instagram as a Support Community for People With Fibromyalgia.

Fibromyalgia is a chronic illness with primary symptoms of widespread pain and fatigue. Social media applications have become a recent resource allowing individuals with fibromyalgia to interact in a virtual community devoted to the illness. This study explores how such a community develops and maintains itself on Instagram and the ways it creates social capital for its users.

Caregiver Experiences Across Three Neurodegenerative Diseases: Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Parkinson's With Dementia.

Objective: This article asks whether distinct caregiver experiences of Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and Parkinson's disease with dementia (PDD) spouses are accounted for by disease diagnosis or by a unique combination of symptoms, demands, support, and quality of life (QOL) cross disease groups.

Method: One hundred five live-in spouse caregivers (71.4 ± 7 years) were surveyed for persons with AD (39%), PD (41%), and PDD (20%).

Long-Term Care Service Trajectories and Their Predictors for Persons Living With Dementia: Results From a Canadian Study.

Objective: We used latent transition analysis to explore common long-term care (LTC) service trajectories and their predictors for older adults with dementia.

Method: Using linked administrative data collected over a 4-year interval (2008-2011), the study sample included 3,541 older persons with dementia who were clients of publicly funded LTC in British Columbia, Canada.

Results: Our results revealed relatively equal reliance on home care (HC) and facility-based residential care (RC) as starting points.

A Grounded Theory of Mothering in the Early Years for Women Recovering From Substance Use.

Women in recovery from addiction experience significant sociostructural barriers to reestablishing self, family, and home after having a baby. The aim of this grounded theory study was to describe pathways that women and their families followed and how transitions were experienced in the early years after receiving services through an integrated community-based maternity program. Eighteen women completed questionnaires and participated in a series of semistructured interviews over 2 years.

Promoting Parent and Child Physical Activity Together: Elicitation of Potential Intervention Targets and Preferences.

Promoting physical activities that involve both parents and their children would be very useful to the improved health and well-being of families, yet coactivity interventions have been particularly unsuccessful in past research. The purpose of this study was to elicit the salient parental beliefs about coactivity framed through theory of planned behavior in order to inform future intervention content. A representative sample of Canadian parents ( N = 483) with children aged 6 to 14 years completed belief elicitation measures of theory of planned behavior, as well as coactivity and program preferences.

Derivation, Replication, and Validity Analyses of a Screener for the Behavioral Assessment of Executive Functions in Young Adults.

Ecologically valid indicators of executive functions are designed to capture dysfunction not easily measured in a lab setting. Here, we present two studies on the development and validity analyses of a behavioral screener for executive functions among young adults. In Study 1, we derived a four-factor (problem solving, attentional control, behavioral control, and emotional control) behavioral screener using a sample of 765 individuals.

Best Practice in Provider/Parent Interaction.

In this 3-year prospective grounded theory study in three pediatric settings, we aimed to develop a conceptualization of best practice health care providers (BPHCPs) in interaction with parents of children with complex, chronic, life-threatening conditions. Analysis of semistructured interviews with 34 parents and 80 health care professionals (HCPs) and 88 observation periods of HCP/parent interactions indicated that BPHCPs shared a broad worldview; values of equity, family-centered care, and integrity; and a commitment to authentic engagement. BPHCPs engaged in direct care activities, in connecting behaviors, and in exquisitely attuning to particularities of the situation in the moment, resulting in positive outcomes for parents and HCPs.

DOES DYSLEXIA DEVELOP FROM LEFT-EYE DOMINANCE?

The purpose of this theoretical analysis and synthesis is to indicate how left-eye sighting dominance may lead to reading failure through dysfunctional right hemisphere letter encoding. Differing compensatory strategies are postulated to lead to outcomes that include the development of the phonologically impaired and phonologically proficient subtypes of dyslexia as well as specific spelling disability. Evidence is presented indicating that these disorders might be prevented by delaying the introduction of letter writing until the age of 8 years.

Imagery as a Method of Enhancing Transfer From Trailing to Performance.

This study investigated the effect of engaging in imagery in conjunction with nonspecific training on the transfer of the training to performance. Forty subjects were pretested on a Wingate cycle ergometer test for peak power and a 40-m sprint. Subjects were assigned to one of four groups: imagery training (IT), power training (PT), imagery and power training (DPT), and control (C).