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Released: 6-Jul-2022 3:00 PM EDT
The Effect of Tailored, Daily, Smartphone Feedback to Lifestyle Self-Monitoring on Weight Loss at 12 Months: the SMARTER Randomized Clinical Trial
Journal of Medical Internet Research

Background: Self-monitoring (SM) is the centerpiece of behavioral weight loss treatment, but the efficacy of smartphone-delivered SM feedback (FB) has not been tested in large, long-term, randomized trials. Objective:

Released: 6-Jul-2022 3:00 PM EDT
Assessing a New Prescreening Score for the Simplified Evaluation of the Clinical Quality and Relevance of eHealth Apps: Instrument Validation Study
Journal of Medical Internet Research

Background: In 2020, more than 250 eHealth solutions were added to app stores each day, or 90,000 in the year; however, the vast majority of these solutions have not undergone clinical validation, their quality is unknown, and the us...

Released: 6-Jul-2022 2:45 PM EDT
Studying the Effect of Long COVID-19 Infection on Sleep Quality Using Wearable Health Devices: Observational Study
Journal of Medical Internet Research

Background: Patients with COVID-19 have increased sleep disturbances and decreased sleep quality during and after the infection. The current published literature focuses mainly on qualitative analyses based on surveys and subjective ...

Released: 6-Jul-2022 2:30 PM EDT
StudyU: A Platform for Designing and Conducting Innovative Digital N-of-1 Trials
Journal of Medical Internet Research

N-of-1 trials are the gold standard study design to evaluate individual treatment effects and derive personalized treatment strategies. Digital tools have the potential to initiate a new era of N-of-1 trials in terms of scale and scope, but fully fun...

Released: 6-Jul-2022 2:30 PM EDT
Patient-Reported Outcome and Experience Measures in Perinatal Care to Guide Clinical Practice: Prospective Observational Study
Journal of Medical Internet Research

Background: The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement has published a set of patient-centered outcome measures for pregnancy and childbirth (PCB set), including patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and patient...

Released: 6-Jul-2022 2:30 PM EDT
Impact of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation on Social Media Virality: Content Analysis of Message Themes and Writing Strategies
Journal of Medical Internet Research

Background: Vaccines serve an integral role in containing pandemics, yet vaccine hesitancy is prevalent globally. One key reason for this hesitancy is the pervasiveness of misinformation on social media. Although considerable researc...

Released: 6-Jul-2022 2:30 PM EDT
Digital Health Literacy: Bibliometric Analysis
Journal of Medical Internet Research

Background: Digital health is growing at a rapid pace, and digital health literacy has attracted increasing attention from the academic community. Objective: The purposes of this study are to conduct a systematic bib...

Released: 6-Jul-2022 2:15 PM EDT
Deep Denoising of Raw Biomedical Knowledge Graph From COVID-19 Literature, LitCovid, and Pubtator: Framework Development and Validation
Journal of Medical Internet Research

Background: Multiple types of biomedical associations of knowledge graphs, including COVID-19–related ones, are constructed based on co-occurring biomedical entities retrieved from recent literature. However, the applications deriv...

Released: 6-Jul-2022 9:50 AM EDT
To Reduce Carbon, Colleges Should Target Purchasing, Travel
Cornell University

Activities beyond campus – such as business air travel, student commutes and purchases of goods like lab equipment – account for more than 60% of Cornell University’s carbon emissions, according to new research that analyzed the university’s greenhouse gas consumption through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Newswise: Disease in Conflict: UCI-led study found COVID-19 exacerbated link between global conflict and existing respiratory illnesses
Released: 1-Jul-2022 7:05 PM EDT
Disease in Conflict: UCI-led study found COVID-19 exacerbated link between global conflict and existing respiratory illnesses
University of California, Irvine

PhD in Public Health student examined disease trends and potential impacts of COVID-19 in northern Syria, underscores the need for enhanced infectious disease surveillance in areas facing humanitarian crisis to reduce the global spread of disease. Parts of the world facing conflict and humanitarian disaster tend to experience a high burden of disease, but their disease monitoring systems remain largely understudied.

   
Released: 1-Jul-2022 12:00 PM EDT
Cannabinoid Vaping Products, Genomic Biomarkers, a Novel In Vitro Testing System, and More in New Toxicological Sciences
Society of Toxicology

Cannabinoid vaping products, genomic biomarkers to determine tumorigenic potential, and analyses of various testing assays are just a few of the article topics in the July 2022 issue of Toxicological Sciences.

Released: 24-Jun-2022 2:45 PM EDT
Contexts and Outcomes of Proxy Online Health Information Seeking: Mixed Studies Review With Framework Synthesis
Journal of Medical Internet Research

Background: High-quality online health information (OHI) can reduce unnecessary visits to health professionals and improve health. One of the ways that people use OHI is to support others with health conditions through proxy OHI seek...

Released: 24-Jun-2022 2:15 PM EDT
Triage Errors in Primary and Pre–Primary Care
Journal of Medical Internet Research

Triage errors are a major concern in health care due to resulting harmful delays in treatments or inappropriate allocation of resources. With the increasing popularity of digital symptom checkers in pre–primary care settings, and amid claims that a...

Released: 22-Jun-2022 1:00 PM EDT
Getting Tough on Tuft Cell Lung Cancer
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor Christopher Vakoc’s team discovered in 2018 a new type of small-cell lung cancer. The cancer originates from cells known as tuft cells.

Released: 21-Jun-2022 2:45 PM EDT
Exploring Longitudinal Cough, Breath, and Voice Data for COVID-19 Progression Prediction via Sequential Deep Learning: Model Development and Validation
Journal of Medical Internet Research

Background: Recent work has shown the potential of using audio data (eg, cough, breathing, and voice) in the screening for COVID-19. However, these approaches only focus on one-off detection and detect the infection, given the curren...

Released: 21-Jun-2022 2:30 PM EDT
The Benefits of Crowdsourcing to Seed and Align an Algorithm in an mHealth Intervention for African American and Hispanic Adults: Survey Study
Journal of Medical Internet Research

Background: The lack of publicly available and culturally relevant data sets on African American and bilingual/Spanish-speaking Hispanic adults’ disease prevention and health promotion priorities presents a major challenge for rese...



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