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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Wenwen Kong, Minmin Ren, Hui Wang, Xiangjie Sun, Danjun Feng
This study aimed to develop and validate a new scale to measure health problem prevention and control strategies employed by medical rescuers fighting epidemics. In Study I, a qualitative study, focus group discussion, and expert panel review were conducted to generate items that capture components of prevention and control strategies. In Study II, exploratory factor analysis was used to examine the scale's structure. In Study III, the scale's validity and reliability were assessed via confirmatory factor analysis, average variance extracted, composite reliability, and Cronbach's α...
April 10, 2024: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Olga Riklikienė, Gabija Jarašiūnaitė-Fedosejeva, Ernesta Sakalauskienė, Žydrūnė Luneckaitė, Susan Ayers
The childbirth experience and birth-related trauma are influenced by various factors, including country, healthcare system, a woman's history of traumatic experiences, and the study's design and instruments. This study aimed to validate the City Birth Trauma scale for Lithuanian women post-childbirth. Using a descriptive, cross-sectional survey with a nonprobability sample of 794 women who gave birth from 2020-2021, the study found good validity, reliability, and presented the prevalence of birth-related stress symptoms...
March 12, 2024: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Virtual Assistants' Response to Queries About Nicotine Replacement Therapy: A Mixed-Method Analysis.
Samia Amin, Kylie Uyeda, Ian Pagano, Kayzel R Tabangcura, Rachel Taketa, Crissy Terawaki Kawamoto, Pallav Pokhrel
This study focused on investigating the potential of Artificial Intelligent-powered Virtual Assistants (VAs) such as Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, and Google Assistant as tools to help individuals seeking information about Nicotine Replacement Treatment (NRT) for smoking cessation. The researchers asked 40 NRT-related questions to each of the 3 VAs and evaluated the responses for voice recognition. The study used a cross-sectional mixed-method design with a total sample size of 360 responses. Inter-rater reliability and differences between VAs' responses were examined by SAS software, and qualitative assessments were conducted using NVivo software...
February 26, 2024: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Steve Sussman, Deborah L Sinclair, Seema L Clifasefi, Susan E Collins
"Substitute addiction" refers to the process of achieving abstinence or resolution of one addictive behavior and subsequently engaging in one or more additional addictive behaviors in its place. Substitute addiction, a concept in the abstinence-based recovery field for decades, is viewed as a cause for concern because resolving one addictive behavior might not fully remove harm or ensure recovery. Conversely, "harm-reduction treatment" refers to a counseling orientation that focuses on helping service users reduce substance-related harm and improve their quality of life without necessarily requiring abstinence or use reduction...
January 21, 2024: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ana Paula de Sousa Almeida, Edine Kavano Kitahara Matsui, Fabio Nascimento da Silva, Fernanda Borges de Oliveira Vasconcelos, Márcio Rogério de Oliveira
The posture undergoes changes during aging and may serve as a marker for the evaluation of the thoracic spine. This study aimed to correlate the variables for the evaluation of thoracic spine mobility and propose predictive equation models from the measurements of the thoracic Schober test and the digital inclinometer in older adults. The mobility of thoracic flexion and extension by levels (T1, T8 and T12) of 41 older adult subjects (66 ± 7 years) was quantified with a digital inclinometer (degrees) and Schober's test (cm)...
December 8, 2023: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Roberto Laza-Cagigas, Marcos Seijo, Ian Swaine, Tara Rampal, Fernando Naclerio
Surgical prehabilitation aims to optimise patients' physiological reserves to better withstand the stress of surgery, reduce the risk of postoperative complications, and promote a faster and optimal recovery. The purpose of this commentary is to outline the key aspects of prehabilitation before surgery for cancer which seem to impact its effectiveness and wider implementation. Particular attention is paid to the role and integration of resistance training programmes as a key component of multimodal prehabilitation for patients with cancer...
November 30, 2023: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Samuel Dubin, Eric Kutscher, Ian Nolan, Nathan Levitt, Tiffany E Cook, Richard E Greene
Little is known about how physician learners are assessed following educational interventions about providing gender-affirming care to transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people. The inclusion of learner assessments with educational interventions is essential to understand and measure health professionals' knowledge and skills. We seek to describe how the medical literature has approached the assessment of learners following educational interventions about TGD health. A scoping literature review was done. The guiding research question was "What are the current learner-assessment practices in medical education pedagogy about TGD health?" A total of 270 manuscripts were reviewed...
November 15, 2023: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
The Effectiveness of the StaySafe Intervention Using a Paradigm for Predicting Missing Outcome Data.
George W Joe, Wayne E K Lehman, Yang Yang, Kevin Knight
Sample attrition is a confounding issue in the analysis of data collected in follow-up studies. The present study uses a regression procedure that includes a propensity score as a predictor in estimating imputed data. The utility of the procedure was addressed by comparing results from this augmented data with those from the original data. Data were from a randomized controlled study testing the utility of a tablet-based intervention designed to improve decision-making with respect to health risk behaviors...
November 13, 2023: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Firmanto Adi Nurcahyo, Tience Debora Valentina
The Flourishing Scale (FS) was developed to measure individual psychological well-being. The FS was developed based on psychological well-being theories that include meaning and purpose in life, involvement in activities, social relationships, and feelings of competence. The psychometric properties of the FS have been studied in several countries. However, research that provides reports on reliability and validity for the Indonesian version of the FS is limited. The aim of the study was, therefore, to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Indonesian version of FS which include reliability, internal structure, and convergent validity...
November 13, 2023: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Marcia G Ory, Shinduk Lee, Joy P Alonzo, Deborah Vollmer Dahlke, Nicole Pardo, Matthew Lee Smith
This study aimed to examine the association between different contextual factors (e.g., facility size, rurality, and perceived needs) and the adoption of a policy or strategy related to opioid prescribing practices in healthcare settings. Cross-sectional survey data was collected from a convenience sample of physicians ( N = 68). Logistic regression models were used to examine the effects of contextual factors on the dependent variables. Less than half reported having a policy restricting opioid prescribing practices, and 81% reported having one or more strategies for the safe use of chronic opioid therapy...
November 7, 2023: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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REVIEW
Giovanni Gioiello, Francesco Zaghini, Valerio Della Bella, Jacopo Fiorini, Alessandro Sili
This systematic review aimed to identify and compare instruments measuring nurses' organizational well-being, summarise the dimensions measured by these instruments, the statistical analysis performed for validity evidence and identify an instrument that comprehensively investigates nurses' organizational well-being. The JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis and the PRISMA checklist were used as guidelines. The search was conducted on Medline, CINAHL, Cochrane Library and Scopus. Critical appraisal and data extraction were drawn on the COSMIN checklist...
October 19, 2023: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Emily M Bartholomay, Christa Lilly, Stephanie Cox, Lawrence Tabone, Nova Szoka, Salim Abunnaja, Laura Aylward
The Brief COPE Inventory is a widely used scale that measures how a person copes with a specific situation. Despite its widespread use, the factor structure of this scale is somewhat unclear and has not been tested among patients pursuing bariatric surgery. We tested competing factor analytic models of the Brief COPE Inventory among patients pursuing bariatric surgery to identify the best fitting factor model for use in pre-surgical psychological evaluations. We also examined reliability and validity of the subscales from the best fitting model of coping...
September 28, 2023: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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REVIEW
Barbara Gordon, Kristin M Van De Griend, Victoria L Scharp, Hannah Ellis, Mary A Nies
Though the interest in community engagement in research (CEnR) protocols has increased, studies reporting on the findings of tested CEnR engagement measurement scales for health studies are sparse. A systematic review was conducted from January 1 to March 1, 2023, to identify validated, quantitative CEnR engagement measurement tools for health studies. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology was employed. The rigor of scale development, testing, and implementation was explored, and a `best practices evaluation conducted...
September 26, 2023: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Giusy D Valenti, Rossella Bottaro, Palmira Faraci
The current study aimed at investigating the two sources of construct-relevant psychometric multidimensionality of the Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q), applying the newly developed bifactor exploratory structural equation modeling (B-ESEM) approach. We first contrasted several CFA and ESEM models to test the psychometric multidimensionality due to the fallibility of indicators. Then, we compared the first-order structures with those specifying both global and specific factors to test the coexistence of hierarchically ordered factors...
September 22, 2023: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gamze Arin-Bal, Gizem Irem Kinikli, Sibel Bozgeyik, Firat Tan, Egemen Turhan, Hande Guney-Deniz
This study aimed to translate the ACL Donor Site Morbidity (ACL-DSM) questionnaire into Turkish and assess the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the ACL-DSM questionnaire (ACL-DSM-Tr) among individuals following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. The process involved forward and back-translation, cultural adaptation, and validation of the ACL-DSM-Tr questionnaire on ninety-nine patients (mean age 30.73 ± 8.55 years). Participants completed ACL-DSM-Tr, International Knee Documentary Committee (IKDC) subjective form, ACL Return to Sport (ACL-RSI), and Forgotten Joint Scale (FJS) questionnaires...
September 6, 2023: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Grace M Liu, Meredith L Meadows, Katherine T Wiley, Jordan Jurinsky, Andrew A Anglemyer, Lucy L Wang, Joseph T Schneider, Sarah V Suiter
Cancer health disparities persist across the cancer care continuum despite decades of effort to eliminate them. Among the strategies currently used to address these disparities are multi-institution research initiatives that engage multiple stakeholders and change efforts. Endemic to the theory of change of such programs is the idea that collaboration-across institutions, research disciplines, and academic ranks-is necessary to improve outcomes. Despite this emphasis on collaboration, however, it is not often a focus of evaluation for these programs and others like them...
August 18, 2023: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sérgio Moreira, Sofia Oliveira, Jorge Vala, Rui Costa-Lopes, Alexandra Marques-Pinto
Job demands and resources have been consistently associated with the burnout syndrome in physicians, however the literature points to a lack of robust measures to assess these job characteristics across various medical specialties. This study aimed to develop a theoretically and empirically grounded physician-specific job demands and resources self-report measure - the Physicians' Job Demands and Resources Scale . Relevant dimensions of physicians' job demands and resources were identified, corresponding measurement items were generated and pre-tested, and the factor structure of the resulting 44 items was tested with a sample of 9,176 Portuguese physicians...
August 16, 2023: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Simona-Alexandra Ispas, Dragos Iliescu, Lily Ren, Samuel So, Mehlika Toy
Hepatitis B is a condition that directly affects hundreds of millions of people, who may require testing for certain psychological constructs. This systematic review presents the current state with regard to the instruments that are used for the measurement of psychological variables in relation to hepatitis B. We conducted a comprehensive search in bibliographic databases (PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, PsycINFO, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Library), and grey literature search. We identified commonly used measures, their psychometric properties and gaps in the research...
July 18, 2023: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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REVIEW
Raymond Boon Tar Lim, Kenneth Wee Beng Hoe, Claire Gek Ling Tan, Huili Zheng
This systematic review aims to evaluate the effectiveness of systems-based practice (SBP) curricula from the perspective of health professions students and workers. A total of 8468 citations were sourced from six electronic databases and manual searches conducted independently by two researchers, of which 44 studies were eventually included. A meta-analysis using a random effects model and a meta-synthesis using the thematic synthesis approach were conducted. Most studies targeted medical students, residents, and resident physicians from various clinical specialties...
July 13, 2023: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez, José M Tomás, Daniel E Yupanqui-Lorenzo, Pablo D Valencia, Carlos Carbajal-León, Lindsey W Vilca, José Ventura-León, Rubí Paredes-Angeles, Walter L Arias Gallegos, Mario Reyes-Bossio, Mariel Delgado-Campusano, Miguel Gallegos, Claudio Rojas-Jara, Roberto Polanco-Carrasco, Mauricio Cervigni, Pablo Martino, Marlon Elías Lobos-Rivera, Rodrigo Moreta-Herrera, Diego Alejandro Palacios Segura, Antonio Samaniego-Pinho, Andrés Buschiazzo Figares, Diana Ximena Puerta-Cortés, Andrés Camargo, Julio Torales, J Arkangel Monge Blanco, Pedronel González, Vanessa Smith-Castro, Olimpia Petzold-Rodriguez, Ibraín Enrique Corrales-Reyes, Raymundo Calderón, Wendy Yamilet Matute Rivera, Daniela Ferrufino-Borja, Paula Ceballos-Vásquez, Agueda Muñoz-Del-Carpio-Toia, Jorge Palacios, Carmen Burgos-Videla, Ana María Eduviges Florez León, Ibeth Vergara, Diego Vega, Marion K Shulmeyer, Nicol A Barria-Asenjo, Hassell Tatiana Urrutia Rios, Arelly Esther Lira Lira
The present study explored the predictive capacity of fear of COVID-19 on the intention to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and the influence in this relationship of conspiracy beliefs as a possible mediating psychological variable, in 13 Latin American countries. A total of 5779 people recruited through non-probabilistic convenience sampling participated. To collect information, we used the Fear of COVID-19 Scale, Vaccine conspiracy beliefs Scale-COVID-19 and a single item of intention to vaccinate. A full a priori Structural Equation Model was used; whereas, cross-country invariance was performed from increasingly restricted structural models...
July 13, 2023: Evaluation & the Health Professions
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