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View article: Correction: Exploring the Use of Smartwatches and Activity Trackers for Health-Related Purposes for Children Aged 5 to 11 years: Systematic Review
Correction: Exploring the Use of Smartwatches and Activity Trackers for Health-Related Purposes for Children Aged 5 to 11 years: Systematic Review Open
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.2196/62944.].
View article: “I Like My Own Watch Independence”: Exploring Low-Burden Customisation of a Technology Probe by Children with ADHD and their Parents
“I Like My Own Watch Independence”: Exploring Low-Burden Customisation of a Technology Probe by Children with ADHD and their Parents Open
View article: Burnout by Design: How Digital Systems Overburden Neurodivergent Students in Higher Education
Burnout by Design: How Digital Systems Overburden Neurodivergent Students in Higher Education Open
View article: Exploring the Use of Smartwatches and Activity Trackers for Health-Related Purposes for Children Aged 5 to 11 years: Systematic Review
Exploring the Use of Smartwatches and Activity Trackers for Health-Related Purposes for Children Aged 5 to 11 years: Systematic Review Open
Background Digital health interventions targeting behavior change are promising in adults and adolescents; however, less attention has been given to younger children. The proliferation of wearables, such as smartwatches and activity tracke…
View article: Exploring How Virtual Reality Could Be Used to Treat Eating Disorders: Qualitative Study of People With Eating Disorders and Clinicians Who Treat Them
Exploring How Virtual Reality Could Be Used to Treat Eating Disorders: Qualitative Study of People With Eating Disorders and Clinicians Who Treat Them Open
Background Immersive virtual reality (VR) interventions are being developed and trialed for use in the treatment of eating disorders. However, little work has explored the opinions of people with eating disorders, or the clinicians who tre…
View article: Exploring How Virtual Reality Could Be Used to Treat Eating Disorders: Qualitative Study of People With Eating Disorders and Clinicians Who Treat Them (Preprint)
Exploring How Virtual Reality Could Be Used to Treat Eating Disorders: Qualitative Study of People With Eating Disorders and Clinicians Who Treat Them (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Immersive virtual reality (VR) interventions are being developed and trialed for use in the treatment of eating disorders. However, little work has explored the opinions of people with eating disorders, or the clinicians who tr…
View article: Aspects of microbial communities in peatland carbon cycling under changing climate and land use pressures
Aspects of microbial communities in peatland carbon cycling under changing climate and land use pressures Open
Globally, major efforts are being made to restore peatlands to maximise their resilience to anthropogenic climate change, which puts continuous pressure on peatland ecosystems and modifies the geography of the environmental envelope that u…
View article: Co-Designing an Experience Sampling Method Digital Platform to Investigate Self-Harm Among Young People
Co-Designing an Experience Sampling Method Digital Platform to Investigate Self-Harm Among Young People Open
Self-harm is particularly prevalent amongst young people, with adverse consequences in terms of later wellbeing, vocational outcomes, and increased risk of suicide. Although many studies have explored self-harm, it remains difficult to pre…
View article: Enhanced feedback interventions to promote evidence-based blood transfusion guidance and reduce unnecessary use of blood components: the AFFINITIE research programme including two cluster factorial RCTs
Enhanced feedback interventions to promote evidence-based blood transfusion guidance and reduce unnecessary use of blood components: the AFFINITIE research programme including two cluster factorial RCTs Open
Background Blood transfusion is a common but costly treatment. Repeated national audits in the UK suggest that up to one-fifth of transfusions are unnecessary when judged against recommendations for good clinical practice. Audit and feedba…
View article: Corrections
Corrections Open
View article: Collecting and sharing self-generated health and lifestyle data: Understanding barriers for people living with long-term health conditions – a survey study
Collecting and sharing self-generated health and lifestyle data: Understanding barriers for people living with long-term health conditions – a survey study Open
Background The growing popularity of collecting self-generated health and lifestyle data presents a valuable opportunity to develop our understanding of long-term health conditions and improve care. Barriers remain to the effective sharing…
View article: Added value of an open narrative in verbal autopsies: a mixed-methods evaluation from Malawi
Added value of an open narrative in verbal autopsies: a mixed-methods evaluation from Malawi Open
Background The WHO standardised verbal autopsy (VA) instrument includes closed questions, ascertaining signs and symptoms of illness preceding death, and an optional open narrative. As VA analyses increasingly use automated algorithms, inc…
View article: Trust, Identity, Privacy, and Security Considerations for Designing a Peer Data Sharing Platform Between People Living With HIV
Trust, Identity, Privacy, and Security Considerations for Designing a Peer Data Sharing Platform Between People Living With HIV Open
Resulting from treatment advances, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is now a long-term condition, and digital solutions are being developed to support people living with HIV in self-management. Sharing their health data with their pe…
View article: The Added Value of An Open Narrative in Verbal Autopsies – A Mixed-Methods Evaluation from Malawi
The Added Value of An Open Narrative in Verbal Autopsies – A Mixed-Methods Evaluation from Malawi Open
Background: The World Health Organization’s standardised verbal autopsy (VA) instrument consists of closed questions, ascertaining signs and symptoms of illness preceding death, and an optional open narrative. As VA analyses increasingly u…
View article: Modulation of Medical Condition Likelihood by Patient History Similarity
Modulation of Medical Condition Likelihood by Patient History Similarity Open
Introduction: : We describe an analysis that modulates the simple population prevalence derived likelihood of a particular condition occurring in an individual by matching the individual with other individuals with similar clinical histori…
View article: Automated Composition of Picture-Synched Music Soundtracks for Movies
Automated Composition of Picture-Synched Music Soundtracks for Movies Open
We describe the implementation of and early results from a system that automatically composes picture-synched musical soundtracks for videos and movies. We use the phrase "picture-synched" to mean that the structure of the automatically co…
View article: An integrated approach to processing WHO-2016 verbal autopsy data: the InterVA-5 model
An integrated approach to processing WHO-2016 verbal autopsy data: the InterVA-5 model Open
View article: Nurse-led Design and Development of an Expert System for Pressure Ulcer Management
Nurse-led Design and Development of an Expert System for Pressure Ulcer Management Open
The use of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) is known to enable better care outcomes by promoting a consistent way of treating patients. This paper describes a user-centered design approach involving nurses, to develop a prototype expert…
View article: A multidimensional approach to assessing intervention fidelity in a process evaluation of audit and feedback interventions to reduce unnecessary blood transfusions: a study protocol
A multidimensional approach to assessing intervention fidelity in a process evaluation of audit and feedback interventions to reduce unnecessary blood transfusions: a study protocol Open
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View article: Feasibility work to inform the design of a randomized clinical trial of wound dressings in elective and unplanned abdominal surgery
Feasibility work to inform the design of a randomized clinical trial of wound dressings in elective and unplanned abdominal surgery Open
Background Designing RCTs in surgery requires consideration of existing evidence, stakeholders' views and emerging interventions, to ensure that research questions are relevant to patients, surgeons and the health service. When there is un…
View article: Work-Life Balance through Tangibles and the Internet of Things
Work-Life Balance through Tangibles and the Internet of Things Open
When busy juggling career, family and social demands, it is all too easy to lose sight of the importance of maintaining health and wellbeing through taking breaks from and recovering after work. Given the abundance of attention-grabbing sm…
View article: The quality and diagnostic value of open narratives in verbal autopsy: a mixed-methods analysis of partnered interviews from Malawi
The quality and diagnostic value of open narratives in verbal autopsy: a mixed-methods analysis of partnered interviews from Malawi Open
View article: Comparing verbal autopsy cause of death findings as determined by physician coding and probabilistic modelling: a public health analysis of 54 000 deaths in Africa and Asia.
Comparing verbal autopsy cause of death findings as determined by physician coding and probabilistic modelling: a public health analysis of 54 000 deaths in Africa and Asia. Open
These findings show strong concordance between InterVA-4 and physician-coded findings over this large and diverse data set. Although these analyses cannot prove that either approach constitutes absolute truth, there was high public health …
View article: Working 9-5?
Working 9-5? Open
Technology not only brings benefits such as flexible working practices but can also have negative stressful consequences such as increasing email overload and the blurring of work-home boundaries. We report on an exploratory study that ext…
View article: Proxemic Flow: Dynamic Peripheral Floor Visualizations for Revealing and Mediating Large Surface Interactions
Proxemic Flow: Dynamic Peripheral Floor Visualizations for Revealing and Mediating Large Surface Interactions Open