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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to ensure effective health management among community-living older adults during unprecedented times, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic.
The Dip Home-Based Dipstick Analyzer (henceforth HBDA) is composed of a kit and a smartphone application. The device will be provided to the subject in a simulated home-use environment. All subjects will be asked to complete the urine test by following the application guidance, including providing a urine sample and scanning the urine strip after placing it on the Color-Board. The user will also complete a questionnaire to collect information regarding the use of the HBDA device. Following the usability test performed by the lay user, the subject's urine sample will be tested by the professional user using the comparator device. The use of the HBDA device will be evaluated for accuracy and identified risks. Additionally, measurable usability criteria for specific, critical steps will be evaluated.
The Dip Home-Based Dipstick Analyzer (henceforth HBDA) is composed of a kit and a smartphone application. The device will be provided to the subject in a simulated home-use environment. All subjects will be asked to complete the urine test by following the application guidance, including providing a urine sample and scanning the urine strip after placing it on the Color-Board. The user will also complete a questionnaire to collect information regarding the use of the HBDA device. Following the usability test performed by the lay user, the subject's urine sample will be tested by the professional user using the comparator device. The use of the HBDA device will be evaluated for accuracy and identified risks. Additionally, measurable usability criteria for specific, critical steps will be evaluated.
The overall aims of this project are to: 1) create a developmentally appropriate interactive educational website for adolescents called DigiKnowIt News: Teen, and 2) examine the feasibility of DigiKnowIt News: Teen in a small randomized control trial with adolescents.
This prospective study aimed to compare the clinical outcomes between the use of the erbium: YAG (Er:YAG) laser, intraurethrally administered in long non-ablative SMOOTH™ train of pulses applied at the level of the male prostatic urethra, to the use of the pharmacological treatment of oral tadalafil for the treatment of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS). The results show that both treatments are effective in alleviating symptoms of CP/CPPS. The non-ablative Er:YAG SMOOTHTM laser seems to be a promising treatment for this widely spread condition. More studies are needed to confirm its safety and efficacy.
The aims of this study are developments of distress intervention and a suicidal risk scale for the patients with chronic medical illness or physical disabilities. To do these things, four times of interview & completion of self-report scale will be done, and newly developed distress intervention will be simulated to subject group and control group.
The burden of chronic disease is a global phenomenon, particularly amongst seniors. Aging is an expensive process. In Canada, 10% of seniors who have the most complex health needs account for 60% of the total annual health care spending in many provinces. Given these projections, we need to adapt our current models of care. In response, different chronic disease management tools have been created with a central aim to facilitate ongoing, proactive and preventive support for optimal chronic disease management. In particular, self-management tools have been acknowledged as an effective way to optimize disease management and are easily scalable and can reach a broader population of older people with chronic diseases. In fact, online self-management tools are particularly relevant for supporting seniors with complex care needs in their homes; and they are interested in using the Internet and social media. However, interventions and tools seldom consider all aspects of disease management, are not usually developed specifically for seniors or created for sustained use and are primarily focused on a single disease. As such, the projected health outcomes of seniors continue to remain poor, and the quality and efficiency of care remain sub-optimal. To respond to these challenges, we created an eHealth self-management application called "KeepWell" that supports seniors with complex care needs in their homes. It is a patient-centered, multi-chronic disease management tool that incorporates the care for two or more chronic conditions from among the top high-burden chronic diseases. KeepWell was built on a strong evidentiary base including several knowledge syntheses, a co-design process with our integrated knowledge translation team involving patients, researchers, clinicians and developers; and a usability and pilot evaluation. The objectives of our study will be to evaluate the effectiveness, economic impact and uptake of KeepWell in a 6-month, pragmatic, hybrid effectiveness-implementation randomized controlled trial (RCT).
Chronic illness (CI) presents a significant and negative effect on quality of life and mental health. Further, emotion regulation has been considered of particular importance on the determination of chronic patients' well-being. Evidence suggests that Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an effective approach to improve psychological health in patients with CI. Further, there is some, although limited, evidence, that self-compassion training may be also useful in this context, and the inclusion of self-compassion elements in ACT interventions has even been the focus of attention by recent studies. Nevertheless, no study yet has compared the efficacy of these two types of intervention in CI. This is the aim of the present project - to analyse, in a low intensity eHealth intervention context, whether ACT or Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) present superiority over the other in improving mental health and illness-related outcomes in CI.
Background: To date, there are no published studies on the effects of pecans on vascular function following a high-fat meal. Purpose: To examine the impact of daily pecan consumption for a 4-week period on vascular health and other markers of cardiovascular disease risk in aging adults.
In patients with chronic illness, screening for falls and their health consequences are major public health issues. Muscle weakness, gait and balance disorders are among the most common risk factors for falling. Assessing these parameters would thus be a crucial step in the evaluation of the risk of falling, allowing to more precisely orient the management strategy. Combining inertial unit sensors with clinically validated tests can provide additional information to improve the assessment of fall risks. We therefore propose to constitute a monocentric exploratory study, testing a prognostic screening tool, in patients suffering from a chronic pathology, in order to assess the risk of falling in this population. Considering the relationship between muscle weakness and the risk of falling, we can assume that a deficit in muscle strength will result in less vertical acceleration which could point to a muscle cause of the balance disorder and thus allow a finer detection of the risk of falling. On the other hand, we hypothesize that spinal static disorders in chronic pathologies and in particular osteoarthritis, as well as balance disorders linked to impaired deep sensitivity lead to an increase in oscillations of the trunk when walking which can cause postural balance disorders thus increasing the risk of falling.