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Filter by:MejoraCare-Paraguay main objective is to test a mHealth solution (MejoraCare app) to be used for the education and empowerment of chronic patients (COPD, cancer, diabetes, heart disease. hypertension, etc.), and for supporting healthcare professionals to monitor and better understand patients' evolution during the COVID-19 outbreak (MejoraCare dashboard). This mHealth solution is built upon the Adhera platform, which has already been validated in other therapeutic areas such as smoking cessation. MejoraCare is expected to raise awareness, educate and empower chronic patients, promoting behavioral changes towards adhering to healthier lifestyles thus reducing the risk of COVID-19 infection while providing emotional regulation support aiming at improving their mental health, quality of life, and emotional well-being.
This project will examine the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce sedentary behavior in Kansas State University employees who are primarily working from home. We will recruit 100 employees to participate. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of four conditions: desk only, program only, desk + program, or waitlist control. The program will consist of strategies to reduce sitting and increase physical activity in the home environment. We will assess whether the intervention successfully elicits reductions in sitting among employees, as well as changes in cardiometabolic and work-related outcomes.
After development of the prototype Bedtime Routine module of the Talk Parenting program, the investigators will evaluate its feasibility and initial efficacy in a within-subjects pre-post design study. Through recruitment partner agencies, the investigators will recruit a sample of 52 at-risk families (52 primary parents, 52 target children). Primary parents will be assessed at enrollment via online an questionnaire, then provided an Amazon Echo Dot and asked to use the Bedtime Routine module for 4 weeks. They will then be re-assessed with the online questionnaire at 4 weeks (at treatment completion).
This multi-modal methods study will investigate neurophysiological, endocrinological, cognitive, psycho-social-emotional markers of disease, and targets for integrative health treatments in mood disorders.
The feasibility study for the delivery of the "Doing What Matters in Times of Stress: An Illustrated Guide" will be carried out for Turkish and Syrian individuals with psychological stress. This feasibility study's sample will be adult Turkish and the Syrian refugees. The informed consent form and screening questionnaire of the feasibility study will be sent to the participants who have given this approval and 128 (64 Turkish and 64 Syrian) participants who meet the inclusion criteria will be included in the feasibility study. The psychological problems will be measured twice, before and after the intervention.
The participants in this study will be subjected to a specific clinic waiting area ambience (1- no aquarium, 2- presence of aquarium with no fish, and 3- aquarium with fish) for their period of waiting before their intended dental visit and their stress and anxiety levels will be measured. Heart rate, blood pressure will be measured and other upon their arrival into the dental clinic waiting area and then again after 20 minutes of waiting in the waiting area. Anxiety will be measured using a six-item State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-6) questionnaire and the mood of the participants were assessed for valence and arousal, using the feeling scale, and the felt arousal scale. The data from the three different waiting room settings will be compared and statistically analysed to investigate if an aquarium has an impact, and in that case how.
Intraoperative stress among the surgical team can be a threat to patient safety and good teamwork. During surgery, surgeons often work under stressful conditions. Reducing intraoperative stress for surgeons could benefit surgeons and subsequently patients. Based on the hypothesis that an intraoperative pause including a sugar-containing drink would decrease surgeon's stress levels, the aim of this study is to compare stress levels, in relation to intraoperative stress and how this is affected by a pause including a sugar-containing drink in simulated operations.
Past research has shown that patients suffering from chronic health conditions tend to experience high levels of negative mental health symptoms (e.g., depression). The purpose of the current study is to evaluate whether an artificial intelligence (A.I.) mental health chatbot can be used to reduce negative mental health symptoms within this population. A minimum of 60 individuals with a chronic health condition (diabetes or arthritis) will be recruited. Participants will be randomly assigned to either a treatment group or a control group. Those assigned to the treatment group will use the mental health chatbot Wysa (Touchkin eServices, Bangalore) over a period of four weeks. Those assigned to the control group will receive no chatbot. Participants will complete measures of depression, anxiety, stress, and life satisfaction via Qualtrics at the outset of the study, two weeks into the study, and four weeks into the study (i.e., the final assessment point). Results from the treatment and control groups will be compared using ANOVA models. Participants in the treatment group will also be asked to complete some open-ended questions about their experiences with the chatbot program. A subset of participants from the treatment group may be asked to complete optional phone or video interviews to gain a better understanding of their experiences. Results will provide insight into the usefulness of chatbot programs for reducing negative mental health symptoms among patients with a chronic health condition. Results may also be used to inform policy decisions about the use of these programs for healthcare delivery, and to provide practical insight into how these programs can be best integrated into healthcare settings.
Our primary aim of this trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of a teacher training programme to teach mindfulness as part of regular classroom teaching in the total population of students in Danish upper secondary schools and schools of health and social care, respectively, on students' self-reported mental health at six-month follow-up. Our secondary aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of the teacher training programme to teach mindfulness in a vulnerable subgroup of students on their self-reported mental health at three and six months after baseline.
The aim of the Everyday Moments of Mindfulness (EMMI) study is to test whether brief mindfulness-based practices will improve daily psychological stress responses in women (age 30-60) who report a history of early life adversity. Following a baseline visit (remotely or in person), participants complete daily surveys and audio-guided mindfulness-based practices in everyday life via the study app. Specifically, participants receive app-notifications three times/day (morning, afternoon, evening) to complete daily surveys of current stressors and psychological states. At each notification, each participant is then randomly assigned to either receive a mindfulness-based intervention or not (max of 3 interventions/day). Thus, participants are randomized many times over the course of this 30-day study. At the end of the study, participants complete a follow-up visit (remotely or in person).