Consumer Health Search on the Web: Study of Web Page Understandability and Its Integration in Ranking Algorithms
Conclusions: The findings reported in this paper are important for specialized search services tailored to support the general public in seeking health advice on the Web, as they document and empirically validate state-of-the-art techniques and settings for this domain application. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 30, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Joao Palotti Guido Zuccon Allan Hanbury Source Type: research

Consumer Health Information Technology in the Prevention of Substance Abuse: Scoping Review
Conclusions: This review found CHIT platforms to be efficacious and cost-effective in the real-world settings. We also observed a gradual shift in the types and use of CHIT platforms over the past few decades and mapped out their progression. In addition, the review detected a shift in consumer preferences and behaviors from face-to-face interactions to technology-based platforms. However, the studies included in this review only focused on the aspect of primary prevention. Future reviews could assess the effectiveness of platforms for secondary prevention and for prevention of substance abuse among comorbid populations. (...
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 30, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Apoorva Milind Pradhan Leah Park Fadia T Shaya Joseph Finkelstein Source Type: research

Perceptions of Visualizing Physical Activity as a 3D-Printed Object: Formative Study
Conclusions: These novel findings highlight the potential utility of 3D objects of physical activity as a mechanism to enhance children’s and adolescents’ understanding of, and motivation to increase, their PAL. This study suggests that 3D printing may offer a unique strategy for promoting physical activity in these groups. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 30, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Sam Graeme Morgan Crossley Melitta Anne McNarry Joanne Hudson Parisa Eslambolchilar Zoe Knowles Kelly Alexandra Mackintosh Source Type: research

Human-Centered Design of Video-Based Health Education: An Iterative, Collaborative, Community-Based Approach
Drawing on 5 years of experience designing, producing, and disseminating video health education programs globally, we outline the process of creating accessible, engaging, and relevant video health education content using a community-based, human-centered design approach. We show that this approach can yield a new generation of interventions, which are better aligned with the needs and contexts of target communities. The participation of target communities and local stakeholders in the content production and design process fosters ownership of the content and increases the likelihood that the resulting intervention will re...
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 30, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Maya Adam Shannon A McMahon Charles Prober Till B ärnighausen Source Type: research

Internet-Delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Treatment: Systematic Review
Conclusions: These findings indicate that iACT can be an efficacious and acceptable treatment for adults with GAD and general anxiety symptoms. More RCT studies are needed to corroborate these early iACT findings using empirical treatments in active control groups (eg, internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy). This would potentially validate the promising results found for SAD and IAD as well as address the full spectrum of anxiety disorders. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 29, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Joshua Kelson Audrey Rollin Brad Ridout Andrew Campbell Source Type: research

Association Between Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Web-Based Data in China: Infodemiology Study
Conclusions: Search behaviors indeed reflect public awareness of cancer from a different angle. Research on internet search behaviors could present an innovative and timely way to monitor and estimate cancer incidence and mortality rates, especially for cancers not included in national registries. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 29, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Chenjie Xu Yi Wang Hongxi Yang Jie Hou Li Sun Xinyu Zhang Xinxi Cao Yabing Hou Lan Wang Qiliang Cai Yaogang Wang Source Type: research

Farm Owners and Workers as Key Informants in User-Centered Occupational Health Prototype Development: A Stakeholder-Engaged Project
Conclusions: The development of a complex prototype intended to impact patient care is a significant undertaking. Reinventing a paper-based process that can eventually integrate with an electronic health record or a private company’s human resources system requires substantial stakeholder input from each facet including patients, employers, and clinical care teams. The prototype is available for testing, but further research is needed in the form of clinical trials to assess the effectiveness of the process and the software’s impact on patients and employers. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 29, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Bryan Weichelt Casper Bendixsen Matthew Keifer Source Type: research

Electronic Health Program to Empower Patients in Returning to Normal Activities After Colorectal Surgical Procedures: Mixed-Methods Process Evaluation Alongside a Randomized Controlled Trial
Conclusions: The intervention needs more interaction with and feedback from health care professionals and needs more tailored guidance in case of different recovery or treatment courses. To ensure a successful implementation of the program in daily practice, some adjustments are required to optimize the program in a blended care form. Trial Registration: Netherlands Trial Registry NTR5686; http://www.trialregister.nl/trialreg/admin/rctview.asp?TC= 5686 (Archieved by WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/75LrJaHrr) (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 29, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Chantal M den Bakker Judith AF Huirne Frederieke G Schaafsma Charlotte de Geus Hendrik J Bonjer Johannes R Anema Source Type: research

How Women Use Digital Technologies for Health: Qualitative Interview and Focus Group Study
Conclusions: The findings demonstrate the nuanced and complex ways in which the participants were engaging with and contributing to online sources of information and using these sources together with face-to-face encounters with doctors and other health care professionals and friends and family members. They highlight the lay forms of expertise that the women had developed in finding, assessing, and creating health knowledges. The study also emphasized the key role that many women play in providing advice and health care for family members not only as digitally engaged patients but also as digitally engaged carers. (Source...
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 25, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Deborah Lupton Sarah Maslen Source Type: research

Measuring the Implementation of Behavioral Intervention Technologies: Recharacterization of Established Outcomes
Behavioral intervention technologies (BITs) are websites, software, mobile apps, and sensors designed to help users address or change behaviors, cognitions, and emotional states. BITs have the potential to transform health care delivery, and early research has produced promising findings of efficacy. BITs also favor new models of health care delivery and provide novel data sources for measurement. However, there are few examples of successful BIT implementation and a lack of consensus on as well as inadequate descriptions of BIT implementation measurement. The aim of this viewpoint paper is to provide an overview and chara...
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 25, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Eric DA Hermes Aaron R Lyon Stephen M Schueller Joseph E Glass Source Type: research

A Modular Health-Related Quality of Life Instrument for Electronic Assessment and Treatment Monitoring: Web-Based Development and Psychometric Validation of Core Thrive Items
Conclusions: Thrive appears to be a useful approach for capturing important domains for patients with chronic conditions. This core set serves as a foundation to begin developing modular condition-specific versions in the near future. Cross-walking against traditional PROs from the PatientsLikeMe platform is underway, in addition to clinical validation and comparison with biomarkers. Thrive is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 25, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Paul Wicks Stacey McCaffrey Kim Goodwin Ryan Black Michael Hoole James Heywood Source Type: research

Electronic Systems for Patients to Report and Manage Side Effects of Cancer Treatment: Systematic Review
Conclusions: Electronic systems have the potential to help patients manage side effects of cancer treatment, with some evidence to suggest a positive effect on patient-centered outcomes. However, comparison across studies is difficult due to the wide range of assessment tools used. There is a need to develop guidelines for assessing and reporting engagement with systems, and a set of core outcomes for evaluation. We hope that this review will contribute to the field by introducing a taxonomy for characterizing system features. Trial Registration: PROSPERO CRD42016035915; www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.asp?ID=CR...
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 24, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Lorraine Warrington Kate Absolom Mark Conner Ian Kellar Beverly Clayton Michael Ayres Galina Velikova Source Type: research

Server-Focused Security Assessment of Mobile Health Apps for Popular Mobile Platforms
Conclusions: The results show that although servers in the mHealth domain perform significantly better regarding their security, there are still problems with the configuration of some. The most severe problems observed can expose patient communication with health care professionals, be exploited to display false or harmful information, or used to send data to an app facilitating further damage on the device. Following the recommendations for mHealth app developers, the most regularly observed security issues can be avoided or mitigated. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 23, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jannis M üthing Raphael Br üngel Christoph M Friedrich Source Type: research

EuroQol (EQ-5D-5L) Validity in Assessing the Quality of Life in Adults With Asthma: Cross-Sectional Study
Conclusions: The new EQ-5D-5L questionnaire has an acceptable ceiling effect, a good construct validity based on the discriminant ability for distinguishing among health-related known groups, and high reliability, supporting its adequacy for assessing the HRQoL in patients with asthma. EQ-5D-5L completion by most Web-based respondents supports the feasibility of this administration form. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 23, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Gimena Hernandez Olatz Garin Alexandra L Dima Angels Pont Marc Mart í Pastor Jordi Alonso Eric Van Ganse Laurent Laforest Marijn de Bruin Karina Mayoral Vicky Serra-Sutton Montse Ferrer ASTRO-LAB Group Source Type: research

Expertise Modulates Students ’ Perception of Pain From a Self-Perspective: Quasi-Experimental Study
Conclusions: Virtual dental treatment activates pain-related brain regions in controls. By contrast, dental students suppress affective and motor-related aspects of pain. We speculate that dental students learn to control motoric aspects of pain perception during their education because it is a prerequisite for the professional manual treatment of patients. We discuss that a specific set of learning mechanisms might affect perceived self-efficacy of dental students, which in turn might reduce their affective component of pain perception. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 23, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Sareh Said Yekta-Michael Andre Schueppen Arnim Johannes Gaebler Jens Ellrich Jan Willem Koten Source Type: research