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The effect of MediYoga on sleep-quality, blood pressure and quality of life among older people with hypertension: study protocol of a pragmatic randomized controlled trial.

BACKGROUND: High blood pressure (BP) is a common condition that is estimated to soon affect one third of the worlds' population. Poor subjec … t, no comorbidity that restricts them from participating in the intervention, and daily access to a smartphone or tablet. Participants will be randomly assigned to (i) control group which will be receiving treatment as usual (TAU), or to one of two intervention-groups (ii) performing yoga twice a week for 20 min (20 MIN) or (iii) 40 min (40 MIN) for a total …

"Fighting against malaria is everyone's concern": a randomized control trial assessing the role of incentives for encouraging local communities to record and upload mosquito sounds using the MozzWear application.

BACKGROUND: Current malaria surveillance methods are considered too expensive to scale-up within limited-resource settings; hence, new techn … group, in which airtime credit was provided to participants. Both groups were provided with HumBug smartphones running the MozzWear app plus adapted mosquito bed nets ('HumBug Nets') to hold the phones during recording and were asked to record and upload mosquito flight tone data once per week for a period of four months. The intervention group was rewarded …

Clinical Utility of Remote Teleassessment of Motor Performance in Individuals With Neurologic Disabilities: A COSMIN Systematic Review.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the feasibility and measurement properties of measurement tools for remote evaluation of motor performance in peop … mote motor assessment in neurologic disorders. We excluded studies that used wearable technologies, smartphones, or mobile applications. After duplicate removal, 2530 records were screened. Of the 461 remaining papers, 26 met the inclusion criteria and were included in the systematic review. DATA EXTRACTION: Two independent reviewers extracted data from the …

Цифровой дистанционный мониторинг людей с множественным склерозом.

ВВЕДЕНИЕ: Множественный склероз (MS) является хроническим нейродегенеративным заболеванием, которое затрагивает более 2,8 млн. человек во всем мире и приводит к значительным симптомам моторного и немоторного происхождения. Эффективный мониторинг заболеваний имеет решающее значение для улучшения результатов лечения пациентов, но часто затрудняется ограниченностью редких клинических оценок. Цифровые средства дистанционного мониторинга с использованием больших данных, и МА открывает новые возможности для отслеживания симптомов в режиме реального времени и выявления развития заболеваний. МЕТОДЫ: В

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INTRODUCTION: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that affects over 2.8 million people globally, leading to signi … remote monitoring of pwMS. We focus on tools and techniques applied to data from wearable sensors, smartphones, and other connected devices, as well as AI-based methods for the analysis of big data. RESULTS: Wearable sensors and machine learning algorithms show significant promise in monitoring motor symptoms, such as fall risk and gait disturbances. Many …

Design and evaluation of a serious video game to treat preschool children with speech sound disorders.

Speech sound disorder (SSD) is one of the most common communication disorders in children, which must be diagnosed and treated in childhood … igned for children with SSDs achieved satisfactory results in usability evaluation. Therefore, this smartphone-based game can be easily used among these children to provide fun therapy sessions under the supervision of parents.

Evaluating the Appropriateness of Podcasts to Improve the Knowledge and Awareness of Selected Health Topics Among Undergraduate General Nursing Students: Protocol for an International Feasibility Study.

BACKGROUND: Podcasts have proven to be a successful alternative source of educational material for students. Given the ability to listen to podcasts 24/7 and while on the go, this technology has the potential to provide informative and educational material to a large number of people at any given time. Podcasts are usually freely available on commonly used mobile devices, such as smartphones, laptops, and tablets. OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the impact of health-related podcasts as an intervention tool to support the knowledge and awareness of nursing students on a given topic. METHODS: …

Utilization of technology to provide on-the-job trainings on Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care: Perspectives of nurses and midwives working in Rwanda's remote health facilities.

INTRODUCTION: One of the targets for the third sustainable development goals is to reduce worldwide maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to less t … for nurses and midwives in remote areas. Nurses and midwives found the first developed prototype of smartphone app training of the EmONC acceptable as it met the midwives' expectations in terms of the knowledge and skills' gap in EmONC. CONCLUSION: Although the newly developed application was found acceptable, further research involving practical sessions b …

Diagnosing homo digitalis: towards a standardized assessment for digital tool competencies.

INTRODUCTION: In the 21st century, digital devices have become integral to our daily lives. Still, practical assessments designed to evaluate an individual's digital tool competencies are absent. The present study introduces the "Digital Tools Test" ("DIGI"), specifically designed for the evaluation of one's proficiency in handling common applications and functions of smartphones and tablets. The DIGI assessment has been primarily tailored for prospective use among older adults and neurological patients with the latter frequently suffering from so-called apraxia, which potentially also affects…

Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation for the treatment of myoarthropatic symptoms in patients with craniomandibular dysfunction - a protocol for a randomized and controlled pilot trial.

BACKGROUND: Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) are a collective term for pain and dysfunction of the masticatory muscles and the temporomandi … and 8 weeks. The compliance of a daily taVNS of patients with chronical TMD will be evaluated via a smartphone app recording daily stimulation time and average intensity. Additionally, the treatment impact on pain severity and quality of life will be assessed with different questionnaires, and the effect on the mandibular mobility and muscle activity will be …

Intramuscular Electrical Stimulation for the Treatment of Trigger Points in Patients with Chronic Migraine: A Protocol for a Pilot Study Using a Single-Case Experimental Design.

Background and Objectives: Trigger points (TrPs) are prevalent in patients with migraine headaches. Needling interventions targeting TrPs in … headache days over a one-month period using electronic headache diary data from the Migraine Buddy smartphone application. Secondary outcome measures will be changes in mean migraine pain intensity using a numeric pain rating scale (NPRS), migraine disability using the Migraine Disability Assessment Test (MIDAS), the Headache Impact Test (HIT-6), and change …

Early Detection of Amyloid-Related Changes in Memory among Cognitively Unimpaired Older Adults with Daily Digital Testing.

OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to determine whether assessing learning over days reveals Alzheimer disease (AD) biomarker-related decl … Boston Remote Assessment for Neurocognitive Health (BRANCH) for 12 min/day on personal devices (ie, smartphones, laptops), which captures the trajectory of daily learning of the same content on 3 repeated tests (Digit Signs, Groceries-Prices, Face-Name). Learning is computed as a composite of accuracy across all 3 measures. Participants also completed standa …

Use of Assistive Technology for Persons with Psychosocial Disability: Systematic Review.

BACKGROUND: Assistive technology (AT) refers to assistive products (AP) and associated systems and services that are relevant for function, … dheld computer, MOBUS, personal digital assistant, automated pill cap, weighted chain blankets, and smartphone function. All the AT products identified in the studies were found to be easily usable by individuals with PDs. The APs reported in the included studies have broad impact and influence on social function, productivity, and treatment or management. T …

Sexual Behavior and Perceived Loneliness in Elderly People Living with HIV in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

BACKGROUND: The proportion of elderly people living with HIV (PLHIV) is increasing in China. To advance targeted interventions and substanti … nce, a lower education level, no friends, be divorced or widowed, live alone, and lack knowledge of smartphones and reproductive health. The influence of COVID-19 had caused social activities to be more confined to the community, which impacts elderly HIV patients suffering from severe discrimination within families and communities.

Bridging gaps in antenatal care: Implementation of the WHO ANC model using a web-based mobile application at different levels of the healthcare system.

INTRODUCTION: Antenatal care (ANC) is crucial for ensuring positive maternal and perinatal outcomes. The World Health Organization (WHO) has … s carried out at three health centers, where patients with singleton/twin pregnancies and access to smartphones were recruited after obtaining informed consent. The study group was followed using the mobile application, while the control group received conventional care. A recall-based questionnaire was used to assess the content of care, including comprehen …

On the determinants and the role of the payers in the uptake of genetic testing and data sharing in personalized health.

BACKGROUND: New health technologies and data offer tailored prevention and spot-on treatments, which can considerably reduce healthcare cost … o perform health prevention, this pushes individuals to take them. Furthermore, using the insurer's smartphone app leads to an increase of the likelihood to undergo a test and doubles the probability to share related data. Regarding insurance plans and deductible levels, there is no strong correlation neither with the willingness to take a test nor to share …

Refactoring and performance analysis of the main CNN architectures: using false negative rate minimization to solve the clinical images melanoma detection problem.

BACKGROUND: Melanoma is one of the deadliest tumors in the world. Early detection is critical for first-line therapy in this tumor pathology … nical image dataset (MED-NODE) because clinical images are easier to access: they can be taken by a smartphone or other hand-size devices. Despite the lower resolution than dermoscopic images, the results in the literature would suggest that it would be possible to achieve high classification performance by using clinical images. In this work, we used MED-NO …

Influence of the Text Neck Posture on the Static Dental Occlusion.

Background and Objectives: The excessive use of smartphones for various tasks led to a new adverse postural phenomenon called text neck. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the text neck posture (TNP) on static occlusion by using the T-Scan III occlusal diagnostic system. Materials and Methods: Nineteen subjects (aged 20 to 24 years) were considered for this research. They had normal values for anterior overbite and overjet, Angle Class I occlusion, no posterior crossbite, and no signs or symptoms of cervical or temporo-mandibular disorders. Occlusal registrations were perfo…

Evaluation of Wear Experience with Soft Daily Disposable Lenses for Astigmatism over 16 Hours of Wear.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess the wear experience of participants while wearing a toric daily disposable contact lens with water surface technology over long days of lens wear. METHODS: Existing soft toric contact lens wearers were fit with the daily disposable study lenses. Participants assessed their initial comfort, vision, and satisfaction with the lenses by visual analog scale (VAS) survey. After a successful 1-week follow-up visit, participants were scheduled for 5 survey days, in which surveys were deployed to their smartphones for immediate assessments of comfort …

Implicating factors in the increase in cases of central precocious puberty (CPP) during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experience of a tertiary centre of pediatric endocrinology and review of the literature.

Sexual development is a complex mechanism activated by the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis. Over the last one hundred years there has be … n the following months, compared with the previous period. We also detected a higher use of PCs and smartphones in girls with CPP diagnosed in Period 2, compared with the control group. The percentage of the presence of endometrial rhyme detected during the pelvic ultrasound was higher in girls with CPP in Period 2, compared with the previous period. Based o …

[Evaluation of therapeutic coverage of mass treatment campaign against lymphatic filariasis in two health districts in Burkina Faso].

BACKGROUND & RATIONALE: Burkina Faso has been implementing preventive chemotherapy against lymphatic filariasis since 2001. While 61 health … rs were Ministry of Education agents and health workers not involved in MDA. Data were collected on smartphones through the KoBoCollect application regarding age, sex, drug ingestion (ivermectin + albendazole), adverse events, and whether respondents understood MDA guidelines. Stata Version 14 software was used for data analysis. RESULTS: A total of 3,741 i …