Early childhood tracking application: Correspondence between crowd-based developmental percentiles and clinical tools.

Barriers to child developmental screening lead to delayed diagnosis and intervention. babyTRACKS, a mobile application for tracking developmental milestones, presents parents their child's percentiles computed relative to crowd-based data. This study evaluated correspondence between crowd-based percentiles and traditional development measures.

COVID-19 Booster Vaccination Bellwethers: Factors Predictive of Older Adults' Adoption of the Second Booster COVID-19 Vaccine in Israel: A Longitudinal Study.

Israel became the first country to offer the second COVID-19 booster vaccination. The study tested for the first time, the predictive role of booster-related sense of control (SOC_B), trust and vaccination hesitancy (VH) on adoption of the second-booster among older adults, 7 months later. Four hundred Israelis (≥60 years-old), eligible for the first booster, responded online, two weeks into the first booster campaign.

Data-driven clustering of infectious disease incidence into age groups.

Understanding the patterns of infectious diseases spread in the population is an important element of mitigation and vaccination programs. A major and common characteristic of most infectious diseases is age-related heterogeneity in the transmission, which potentially can affect the dynamics of an epidemic as manifested by the pattern of disease incidence in different age groups. Currently there are no statistical criteria of how to partition the disease incidence data into clusters.

Vaccine and Psychological Booster: Factors Associated With Older Adults' Compliance to the Booster COVID-19 Vaccine in Israel.

Israel became the first country to offer the booster COVID-19 vaccination. The study tested for the first time the role of sense of control (SOC) due to vaccinations, trust and vaccination hesitancy (VH), and their association with compliance to the booster COVID-19 vaccine among older adults, during the first 2 weeks of the campaign. 400 Israeli citizens (≥ 6 years old), eligible for the booster vaccine, responded online.

Application and implementation of telehealth services designed for the elderly population during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review.

Background: Telehealth has many benefits, in routine care and especially during times of epidemics in which restrictions to direct patient/healthcare-provider interaction exist.

Objective: To explore the availability, application, and implementation of telehealth services during the Covid-19 era, designed for the aged population (age 65 and more).

Methods: This systematic review/analysis was conducted by searching the most popular databases including PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science.

Nonverbal Emotions While Disclosing Child Abuse: The Role of Interviewer Support.

Statements by alleged victims are important when child abuse is prosecuted; triers-of-fact often attend to nonverbal emotional expressions when evaluating those statements. This study examined the associations among interviewer supportiveness, children's nonverbal emotions, and informativeness during 100 forensic interviews with alleged victims of child abuse. Raters coded the silent videotapes for children's nonverbal emotional expressions while other raters coded the transcripts for interviewer support, children's verbal emotions, and informativeness.

Improving Balance in Adults With Intellectual Developmental Disorder via Virtual Environments.

Balance problems have been found among 57% of adults with Intellectual Developmental Disorder (IDD). Moreover, these adults have only partially participated in conventional activity programs. There is a clear need for new interventions that will enhance these individuals' interest and motivation toward improving their balance skills.

Between sexual assault and compassion: The experience of living with a spouse's dementia-related hypersexuality-A narrative case-study.

Background: Hypersexuality is one of the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. This symptom can lead to poor quality of life for the person who lives with dementia, as well as for his or her caregiver, who might be exposed to sexual assault.

Aim: This study aimed to highlight the experience of an older woman living and coping with a spouse who exhibits dementia-related hypersexuality.

Nurses' challenges, concerns and unfair requirements during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Background: During disease outbreaks, nurses express concerns regarding the organizational and social support required to manage role conflicts.

Objectives: The study examined concerns, threats, and attitudes relating to care provision during the COVID-19 outbreak among nurses in Israel.

Design: A 53-item questionnaire was designed for this research, including four open-ended questions.

"Like a Sheriff in a Small Town": Status, Roles, and Challenges of Ethics Committees in Academic Colleges of Education.

In recent years, Research Ethics Committees in academic colleges of education have constituted to review research proposals in the field of education. Yet, little is known about their work, composition, challenges, and relationships with external partners. This study explores the views and attitudes of 13 members and chairpersons of Research Ethics Committees in colleges of education in Israel, and two policy makers at the Ministry of Education about their roles, responsibilities, challenges, and limitations.

Dementia stigma reduction (DESeRvE) through education and virtual contact in the general public: A multi-arm factorial randomised controlled trial.

Objective: To examine the efficacy of the Dementia Stigma Reduction (DESeRvE) programme, aimed at reducing the general public dementia-related stigma utilising 'education' and 'contact' approaches.

Methods: A total of 1024 Australians aged between 40 and 87 years (M = 60.8, = 10.

Ethical dilemmas, perceived risk, and motivation among nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: Positioned at the frontlines of the battle against COVID-19 disease, nurses are at increased risk of contraction, yet as they feel obligated to provide care, they also experience ethical pressure.

Research Question And Objectives: The study examined how Israeli nurses respond to ethical dilemmas and tension during the COVID-19 outbreak, and to what extent this is associated with their perceived risk and motivation to provide care?

Research Design: The study implemented a descriptive correlative study using a 53-section online questionnaire, including 4 open-ended questions.

Participants And Research Context: The questionnaire was complete by 231 registered and intern nurses after being posted on nurses' Facebook and WhatsApp groups, and through snowball sampling.

Assessing, Consulting, Reporting Heuristics in Professional Decision-Making Regarding Suspected Child Maltreatment in Community Healthcare Services.

This study investigated child protection decision-making practices of healthcare-professionals in community-health-services. We examined the effect of heuristics in professional judgments regarding suspected maltreatment, as affected by the child's ethnicity, gender, and family socioeconomic-status, as well as the healthcare-worker's workload-stress, and personal and professional background. Furthermore, we examined how these variables influence judgments regarding suspected maltreatment and intentions to consult and report child-maltreatment.