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Evaluating Digital Maturity and Patient Acceptability of Real-Time Patient Experience Feedback Systems: Systematic Review
Conclusions: Patients and staff alike are willing to engage in RTF delivered using digital technology, thereby disrupting previous paper-based feedback. However, a lack of emphasis on digital maturity may lead to ineffective RTF, thwarting improvement efforts. Therefore, given the potential benefits of RTF, health care services should ensure that their digital systems deliver across the digital maturity continuum. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 14, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Mustafa Khanbhai Kelsey Flott Ara Darzi Erik Mayer Source Type: research

Use of the Principles of Design Thinking to Address Limitations of Digital Mental Health Interventions for Youth: Viewpoint
Numerous reviews and meta-analyses have indicated the enormous potential of technology to improve the appeal, effectiveness, cost, and reach of mental health interventions. However, the promise of digital mental health interventions for youth has not yet been realized. Significant challenges have been repeatedly identified, including engagement, fidelity, and the lack of personalization. We introduce the main tenets of design thinking and explain how they can specifically address these challenges, with an entirely new toolbox of mindsets and practices. In addition, we provide examples of a new wave of digital interventions...
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 14, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Hanneke Scholten Isabela Granic Source Type: research

A Novel Insight Into the Challenges of Diagnosing Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy Using Web-Based Symptom Checkers
Conclusions: DCM symptoms are poorly identified by Web-based symptom checkers, which leads to a large differential of many other common conditions. While a diagnosis becomes more likely as the number of symptoms increases, this represents more advanced disease and will not support much-needed earlier diagnosis. Symptom checkers remain an attractive concept with potential. Further research is required to support their optimization. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 11, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Benjamin Marshall Davies Colin Fraser Munro Mark RN Kotter Source Type: research

Evaluating a Web-Based Social Anxiety Intervention Among Community Users: Analysis of Real-World Data
Conclusions: Our results provide further evidence that Overcome Social Anxiety reduces the severity of social anxiety symptoms among those who complete it and suggest that its effectiveness extends to the general community. The completion rate is the highest documented for a fully automated intervention for anxiety, depression, or low mood in a real community sample. In addition, our results indicate that Overcome Social Anxiety reduces the severity of symptoms of depression, physiological symptoms of anxiety, and stress in addition to symptoms of social anxiety. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 10, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Hugh Cameron McCall Fjola Dogg Helgadottir Ross G Menzies Heather D Hadjistavropoulos Frances S Chen Source Type: research

Using the Facebook Advertisement Platform to Recruit Chinese, Korean, and Latinx Cancer Survivors for Psychosocial Research: Web-Based Survey Study
Conclusions: The use of Facebook ads successfully resulted in the recruitment of East Asian and Latinx cancer survivors with different cancer diagnoses who reside in various geographic regions of the United States. We found that East Asian and Latinx cancer survivors recruited through Facebook were interested in participating in future psychosocial research, thereby providing support for the feasibility and effectiveness of using Facebook as a source of recruitment for ethnic minority cancer survivors. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 10, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: William Tsai Daisy Zavala Sol Gomez Source Type: research

E-Learning for Medical Education in Sub-Saharan Africa and Low-Resource Settings: Viewpoint
E-learning has been heralded as a revolutionary force for medical education, especially for low-resource countries still suffering from a dire lack of health care workers. However, despite over two decades of e-learning endeavors and interventions across sub-Saharan Africa and other low- and middle-income countries, e-learning for medical education has not gained momentum and continues to fall short of the anticipated revolution. Many e-learning interventions have been cul-de-sac pilots that have not been scaled up but rather terminated after the pilot phase. This is usually a result of not adopting a system-wide approach,...
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 9, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Sandra Barteit Albrecht Jahn Sekelani S Banda Till B ärnighausen Annel Bowa Geoffrey Chileshe Dorota Guzek Margarida Mendes Jorge Sigrid L üders Gregory Malunga Florian Neuhann Source Type: research

Identifying Brief Message Content for Interventions Delivered via Mobile Devices to Improve Medication Adherence in People With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Rapid Systematic Review
Conclusions: We identified 46 promising BCTs related to medication adherence in type 2 diabetes on which the content of brief messages delivered through mobile devices to improve adherence could be based. By using explicit systematic review methods and linking our findings to a standardized taxonomy of BCTs, we have described a novel approach for the development of digital message content. Future brief message interventions that aim to support medication adherence could incorporate the identified BCTs. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 9, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Hannah Long Yvonne K Bartlett Andrew J Farmer David P French Source Type: research

Digital Exclusion Among Mental Health Service Users: Qualitative Investigation
Conclusions: Multiple factors contribute to digital exclusion among mental health service users, including material deprivation and mental health difficulties. This means that efforts to overcome digital exclusion must address the multiple deprivations individuals may face in the offline world in addition to their individual mental health needs. Additional facilitators include fostering an intrinsic motivation to overcome digital exclusion and providing a personalized learning format tailored to the individual’s knowledge gaps and preferred learning style. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 9, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ben Greer Dan Robotham Sara Simblett Hannah Curtis Helena Griffiths Til Wykes Source Type: research

Web-Based Digital Health Interventions for Weight Loss and Lifestyle Habit Changes in Overweight and Obese Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Conclusions: Web-based digital interventions led to greater short-term but not long-term weight loss than offline interventions in overweight and obese adults. Heterogeneity was high across studies, and high attrition rates suggested that engagement is a major issue in Web-based interventions. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 8, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Alline M Beleigoli Andre Q Andrade Alexandre G Can çado Matheus NL Paulo Maria De F átima H Diniz Antonio L Ribeiro Source Type: research

Application of Efficient Data Cleaning Using Text Clustering for Semistructured Medical Reports to Large-Scale Stool Examination Reports: Methodology Study
Conclusions: Our data cleaning process based on the combinatorial use of key collision and nearest neighbor methods provides an efficient cleaning of large-scale text data and hence improves data accuracy. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 8, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Hyunki Woo Kyunga Kim KyeongMin Cha Jin-Young Lee Hansong Mun Soo Jin Cho Ji In Chung Jeung Hui Pyo Kun-Chul Lee Mira Kang Source Type: research

Improving the Efficacy of Cognitive Training for Digital Mental Health Interventions Through Avatar Customization: Crowdsourced Quasi-Experimental Study
Conclusions: Our results suggest that applying motivational design—specifically avatar customization—is a viable strategy to increase engagement and subsequently training efficacy in a computerized cognitive task. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 8, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Max Valentin Birk Regan Lee Mandryk Source Type: research

Measurement of Quality of Life in Patients with Mycosis Fungoides/S ézary Syndrome Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma: Development of an Electronic Instrument
Conclusions: Empirical evaluation demonstrated strong evidence of excellent psychometric properties. Utilizing a patient-centered measure development approach ensures that this QoL instrument captures the information that is most meaningful and clinically relevant to patients. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 7, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Stacey McCaffrey Ryan A Black Mitchell Nagao Marjan Sepassi Gaurav Sharma Susan Thornton Youn H Kim Julia Braverman Source Type: research

How Search Engine Data Enhance the Understanding of Determinants of Suicide in India and Inform Prevention: Observational Study
Conclusions: In this work, we used search data and demographics to model suicide rates. In this way, search data serve as a proxy for unmeasured (hidden) factors corresponding to suicide rates. Moreover, our procedure for outlier rejection serves to single out states where the suicide rates have substantially different correlations with demographic factors and query rates. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 4, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Natalia Adler Ciro Cattuto Kyriaki Kalimeri Daniela Paolotti Michele Tizzoni Stefaan Verhulst Elad Yom-Tov Andrew Young Source Type: research

Identifying Common Methods Used by Drug Interaction Experts for Finding Evidence About Potential Drug-Drug Interactions: Web-Based Survey
Conclusions: This study suggests that drug interaction experts use various keyword strategies and various database and Web resources depending on the PDDI evidence they are seeking. Greater automation and standardization across search strategies could improve one’s ability to identify PDDI evidence. Hence, future research focused on enhancing the existing search tools and designing recommended standards is needed. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 4, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Amy J Grizzle John Horn Carol Collins Jodi Schneider Daniel C Malone Britney Stottlemyer Richard David Boyce Source Type: research

Use of In-Game Rewards to Motivate Daily Self-Report Compliance: Randomized Controlled Trial
Conclusions: The Game-Motivated ePRO system encouraged individuals to complete the daily diaries above the compliance rates of the Paper PRO and ePRO without altering the participants’ responses. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03738254; http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03738254 (Archived by WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/74T1p8u52) (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 3, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Sara Taylor Craig Ferguson Fengjiao Peng Magdalena Schoeneich Rosalind W Picard Source Type: research