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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"digital intervention"”.
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“Down Your Drink” (DYD): a digital intervention to reduce harmful drinking
… and societal harms. Screening and Brief Interventions are effective in reducing consumption and digital versions, delivered online, have the potential to reach large numbers of people, who would not otherwise receive help, at low marginal costs. Downyourdrink (DYD) is a digital …
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“The Little Seed and the Wind”: Digital Intervention Tool for Geography and Empathy
… to show more involvement and engagement during digital interactivity? This paper describes my motivation behind my designed digital geographical educational intervention tool which in a playful way introduces and teaches 4- and 5-years old children the seven continents and the seven oceans. …
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Evaluating the Introduction of the Digital Intervention Patient Participation Booking within Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Following the pandemic, outpatient waiting lists within Wales have risen significantly (Welsh Government, 2023a). Patients are waiting longer than ever before to receive treatment (Welsh Government, 2023a). To tackle waiting list (WL) issues, one solution proposed by Cardiff and Vale University …
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Co-design, feasibility, and acceptability of a digital intervention promoting physical activity in people newly diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease
… activity, potentially affecting access to interventions that support symptom management alongside pharmacological treatments. This thesis aims to co-design and assess the feasibility and acceptability of an intervention that promotes physical activity in people who have been diagnosed with …
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The Impact of a Digital Intervention on Perceived Stress, Resiliency, Social Support, and Intention to Leave Among Newly Licensed Nurses: A Randomized Controlled Trial
… control trial evaluated the impact of a six-week digital intervention (text messaging) on NLNs’ self-reported stress, resiliency, sense of support, and intention to leave (ITL) their jobs, organization and profession. Messages to the experimental group (n=10) conveyed emotional, esteem, and …
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Implementation of health and social care standards in health and social care services: development and feasibility testing of an implementation support tool
… care standards are complex quality improvement interventions. Standards are typically made up of evidence-based statements that describe safe, high-quality, person-centred care as an outcome or process of care delivery. They involve multiple stakeholders from multiple levels in the health system …
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Facilitating Comprehension and Motivation by Engaging Adolescents as iPad Readers
… years has seemingly everyone embracing the new digital literacies without any real knowledge of the skills, strategies, and dispositions required to comprehend digital text. Given the newness of this technology, it's hardly surprising that little empirical research has been conducted to examine …
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Experimental Manipulation of Intervention Timing to Improve Adolescents’ Receptivity to Physical Activity
Objective: Digital interventions may serve as an opportune modality for improving physical activity. However, their lack of empirical decision points is an evidence gap in the optimization of digital physical activity interventions. Given that adolescents are most likely to complete their exercise …
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Co-designing community-based digital innovations for Maternal and Child Health (MCH)
Digital MCH (Maternal and Child Health) interventions improve access to, and awareness of, maternal and child healthcare. These interventions, however, often fail to receive uptake as the project objectives do not always align with community needs. This is attributable, in part, to the top-down …
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The impact of work seeker support platforms on the development of South Africa's unemployed youth
… and the rise of ICT for Development (ICT4D) interventions, several digital solutions have been developed in South Africa. These attempt to provide low-cost, scalable solutions to youth unemployment by addressing some of the barriers that young people experience. Despite the increased …
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Navigating the digital landscape: teachers' digital repertoires in an under-resourced Cape Flats primary school
This small case study examines the digital repertoires of two teachers in a Cape Flats Primary School as they attempt to take hold of digital resources and integrate them into their daily teaching practices. It draws on the interconnected socio-material theories of spatiality, assemblage and affect …
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Randomized clinical trial of the Finito hypnotherapy app versus usual care for smoking cessation : a feasibility study.
… negative consequences. Current smoking cessation interventions (e.g., nicotine replacement therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy) are not effective for all individuals. Hypnotherapy is a promising behavioral intervention for smoking cessation. A systematic review (Ekanayake & Elkins, 2025) …
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Optimal Decision Making for Healthcare Operations: Models and Implementation
… learning methods to optimize the app’s digital intervention by sending anti-sedentary messages to users. Our interpretable decision tree-based policy improves treatment effects and guides future clinical trials.
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Personalised exercise recognition towards improved self-management of musculoskeletal disorders.
… wholly relies on user input. Effective digital intervention for self-managing MSD should be capable of monitoring, recognising and assessing performance quality of exercises in real-time. Exercise Recognition (ExRec) is the machine learning problem that investigates the automation of …
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Preemie Care: A Co-designed Digital Tool to Improve Communication Between Health Personnel and Parents of Preterm Infants
… gaps, several researchers have deployed digital health interventions. However, although the existing NICU technologies have effectively improved NICU communication, most parents struggle to interact with these interventions because they do not fit parents' technical and literacy …
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Effectiveness of digital education approaches to improve knowledge, attitude, and practice towards salt intake in a sample of UAE population
… It also aims to evaluate the effectiveness of digital intervention approaches to deliver educational material regarding salt intake. Methods: KAP questionnaire for salt intake was translated to Arabic and validated for the UAE population with 156 participants. Then, a cross-sectional study with …
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Identifying female mobile bully-victim characteristics in selected high schools in South Africa: towards an anti-bullying mobile application
… and self-harm as a solution. In the current digital age, the extent of bullying is faster and reaches further, and as such, more dynamics seem to be involved in the mix. The role of technology in improving the way we live and do things has also extended to the way crimes and injustice are …
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Epilapp, una app web para la autogestión de la epilepsia basada en la cocreación
… contribución significativa al campo de la salud digital, ofreciendo una solución innovadora con potencial para mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas afectadas por la epilepsia.