Practical Advice Regarding the Reliability of the Patient Educational Materials Assessment Tool for Health Educators.
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SUBMITTER: Lee JGL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8273191 | biostudies-literature |
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Project description:ObjectiveIn the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, teleneuropsychology utilization has increased. There is a need to characterize the first-hand experiences of individuals using teleneuropsychology, identify the common teleneuropsychology challenges, and devise practical strategies for mitigating/resolving these challenges.MethodSurvey data were collected from U.S. based neuropsychologists and other individuals (e.g., graduate students and research assistants) who were engaged in remote cognitive assessment with adults (n = 87). Frequency analyses were conducted to examine: how respondents used teleneuropsychology (e.g., duration of use, types of measures and devices/technology platforms used); challenges that were encountered with different technology platforms and teleneuropsychology use; and advice for navigating these challenges.ResultsMost respondents began using teleneuropsychology relatively recently in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, with home-to-home or clinic-to-home settings being the most frequently reported teleneuropsychology settings. Zoom®, Doxy.Me®, and MyChart® were the most frequently used platforms, largely due to workplace mandates and/or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-compliant features. Common challenges with teleneuropsychology included internet connection issues and environmental distractions in examinees' homes, and examinees having limited-to-no access to technologies requisite for teleneuropsychology. Providing clear instructions to the examinee prior to the teleneuropsychology visit was the most common advice for ensuring a successful teleneuropsychology evaluation. Similar response patterns were generally noted for those who used TeleNP for clinical or research purposes.ConclusionsThese survey results reflect common experiences and challenges with teleneuropsychology and identify priority targets for increasing its feasibility, reliability, and validity. Findings provide context for the development of formal teleneuropsychology competencies.
| S-EPMC8513402 | biostudies-literature
Project description:In recent decades, the volume of scholarly literature worldwide has increased significantly, and open-access publishing has become commonplace. These changes are even more dominant in South Korea. Comparing the periods of 1981-2000 and 2001-2020, the number of medical articles produced in Korea increased by 16.8 times on the Web of Science platform (13,223 to 222,771 papers). Before 1990, almost no open-access articles were produced in South Korea, but in the last 10 years open-access publications came to account for almost 40% of all South Korean publications on Web of Science. Along with the expansion of literature and the development of open-access publishing, predatory journals that seek profit without conducting quality assurance have appeared and undermined the academic corpus. In this rapidly changing environment, medical researchers have begun contemplating publication standards. In this article, recent trends in academic publishing are examined from international and South Korean perspectives, and the significance of open-access publishing and recent changes are discussed. Practical methods that can be used to select legitimate publishers, including open-access journals, and identify predatory journals are also discussed.
| S-EPMC7812024 | biostudies-literature
Project description:BackgroundNursing educators must be qualified to teach patient safety to nursing students to ensure patient safety in the clinical field. The purpose of this study was to assess nursing educators' competencies and educational needs for patient safety in hospitals and nursing schools.MethodA mixed-methods sequential explanatory design employed a survey and focus group interview with nursing educators (school clinical instructors and hospital nurse preceptors). Thirty-eight questionnaires filled out by clinical instructors from six four-year nursing universities and 106 questionnaires from nurse preceptors from three high-level general hospitals in the Seoul metropolitan area were analyzed to obtain quantitative data. Focus group interviews were conducted among six clinical instructors from one nursing school and four nurse preceptors from one high-level general hospital in Seoul.ResultsNursing educators had higher levels of attitude compared with relatively lower levels of skill and knowledge regarding patient safety. They reported educational needs of "medication" and "infection prevention" as being higher and "human factors" and "complexity of systems" as being lower. Nursing educators desired different types of education for patient safety.ConclusionIt is necessary to enhance nursing educators' patient safety skills and knowledge by developing and providing an integrated program of patient safety, with various teaching methods to meet their educational needs. The findings of this study provide the basic information needed to reform patient safety education programs appropriately to fit nursing educators' needs and their patient safety competencies in both clinical practice and academia. Furthermore, the findings have revealed the importance of effective communication between clinical and academic settings in making patient safety education seamless.
| S-EPMC5584796 | biostudies-literature
Project description:AimThis study identified and evaluated tested patient safety educational interventions. This study also described the content, curricular structures and teaching strategies of the educational interventions and determined the methods used for evaluating patient safety learning outcomes.DesignThe Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines directed this review.MethodsSearches for articles describing and evaluating patient safety educational interventions were conducted using four scholarly databases. Study quality was assessed using the McMaster Critical Review Form.ResultsSeven studies met the inclusion criteria. Educational interventions were either presented as stand-alone courses or as lessons embedded in an existing course. All studies employed a mixture of various teaching modalities and several evaluation methods and outcomes. Mixed results were observed in terms of the effects of educational interventions. Future researchers should continue to develop patient safety curricula and examine their effect on student competencies with stronger methodological rigour.
| S-EPMC9190690 | biostudies-literature
Project description:BackgroundThe internet has become an increasingly popular resource among sports medicine patients seeking injury-related information. Numerous organizations recommend that patient educational materials (PEMs) should not exceed sixth-grade reading level. Despite this, studies have consistently shown the reading grade level (RGL) of PEMs to be too demanding across a range of surgical specialties.PurposeTo determine the readability of online sports medicine PEMs.Study designCross-sectional study.MethodsThe readability of 363 articles pertaining to sports medicine from 5 leading North American websites was assessed using 8 readability formulas: Flesch-Kincaid Reading Grade Level, Flesch Reading Ease Score, Raygor Estimate, Fry Readability Formula, Simple Measure of Gobbledygook, Coleman-Liau Index, FORCAST Readability Formula, and Gunning Fog Index. The mean RGL of each article was compared with the sixth- and eighth-grade reading level in the United States. The cumulative mean website RGL was also compared among individual websites.ResultsThe overall cumulative mean RGL was 12.2 (range, 7.0-17.7). No article (0%) was written at a sixth-grade reading level, and only 3 articles (0.8%) were written at or below the eighth-grade reading level. The overall cumulative mean RGL was significantly higher than the sixth-grade [95% CI for the difference, 6.0-6.5; P < .001] and eighth-grade (95% CI, 4.0-4.5; P < .001) reading levels. There was a significant difference among the cumulative mean RGLs of the 5 websites assessed.ConclusionSports medicine PEMs produced by leading North American specialty websites have readability scores that are above the recommended levels. Given the increasing preference of patients for online health care materials, the imperative role of health literacy in patient outcomes, and the growing body of online resources, significant work needs to be undertaken to improve the readability of these materials.
| S-EPMC9082750 | biostudies-literature
Project description:BackgroundDue to the recent spread of coronavirus disease 2019, Korean nursing colleges are increasingly using virtual patient simulation to make up for a lack of available clinical practice in medical institutions. Therefore, an instrument is required to evaluate the effects of the virtual patient learning system in South Korea.ObjectiveTo assess the validity and reliability of the Korean version of the Virtual Patient Learning System Evaluation Tool (K-VPLSET).DesignThis is a methodological study.SettingsThis study was conducted via an online survey for Korean nursing students.ParticipantsThe present study included 373 participants who were 3rd and 4th year Korean nursing students.MethodsAfter translating the English version of VPLSET into Korean, a pilot test with a cognitive interview was undertaken to ensure that the meaning of original instrument and appropriateness for Korean nursing students had been retained. The content validity of the K-VPLSET was examined by a panel of six experts. Convenience sampling was used to recruit 3rd and 4th year Korean nursing students, among whom 170 were recruited for exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and 203 for confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). SPSS version 26.0 was used for EFA, whereas AMOS version 22.0 was used for CFA.ResultsFrom the 32 initial items, the final version of the K-VPLSET ultimately included 20 items, with a Cronbach's α of 0.89. EFA identified four factors ("Nursing Knowledge Improvement," "Clinical Competency Development," "Confidence in Nursing Performance," and "Nursing Care Plan Application") that explained 56.9% of the total variance. CFA confirmed the validity of the instrument.ConclusionsOur findings confirmed that the K-VPLSET is a valid and reliable instrument for assessing the effects of the virtual patient learning system, through which the quality of e-learning for Korea nursing students can be determined.
| S-EPMC8426035 | biostudies-literature
Project description:This paper reports evidence that an individual meeting with a study counselor at high school significantly improves the quality of choice of tertiary educational field, as self-assessed 18 months after graduation from college. To address endogeneity, we explore the variation in study counseling practices between schools as an instrumental variable (IV). Following careful scrutiny of the validity of the IV, our results indicate a significant and positive influence of study counseling on the quality of educational choice, foremost among males and those with low educated parents. The overall result is stable across a number of robustness checks.
| S-EPMC4686924 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Affymetrix GeneChip miRNA arrays were used to profile the expression of microRNAs in three ATCC renal cell-lines and a pool of normal human tissues (hREF, first choice human total RNA, Ambion).Intra-platform concordance among technical replicates of a pool of normal human tissues (hREF), three renal cell lines (A498, Caki-2 and HK-2) and three cell lines belonging to NCI-60 human cell lines panel publicly available on Array Express repository, were considered.
2014-06-20 | E-MTAB-1166 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Background: As of August 11, 2020, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has infected 19,936,210 persons and led to 732,499 deaths worldwide. The impact has been immense, and with no vaccine currently available, the best way to protect our communities is health education. We developed a brief COVID-19 knowledge test for health educators that can be used to assess deficits in clients' understanding of the disease. Methods: COVID-19 Knowledge Test items were developed by the research team and administered to participants. An alternate-choice item format was selected for the knowledge test, and data analysis was based on an American sample of 273 respondents. A detailed analysis of the data was conducted with classical test theory and Rasch analysis. Findings: The final instrument was found to be a unidimensional measure of COVID-19 knowledge. Results provided evidence for absolute model fit and model fit for individual items. All items included on the scale were monotonically increasing and split-half reliability was considered acceptable. Total test information revealed that the test is suitable for individuals with low to average knowledge of COVID-19. Interpretation: Rasch analysis provides support for the COVID-19 Knowledge Test to be used as an assessment tool for health educators. The final version of the test consists of 34 high-quality test items that can be administered in <10 min. Normative data and suggested cutoff scores are also provided.
| S-EPMC7676894 | biostudies-literature
Project description:ObjectivesThis study conducted a survey to examine how the general public in Korea perceives patient engagement for patient safety and to identify vulnerable groups and contents priorities of patient engagement education for the general public.MethodsWe developed a questionnaire based on previous studies and conducted one-on-one interviews with 600 individuals from the public. Then, we conducted descriptive statistical analyses (i.e., frequency, percentage, and averages) on the questionnaire items. Furthermore, we examined the individual differences of participants' sociodemographic characteristics in their responses to the questionnaire.ResultsThe general public's awareness regarding accreditation programs for healthcare organizations was still low (47.4%). Nearly 60% of participants said that they did not agree with the practice of telling their own names and dates of birth before treatment. Approximately 80% of the participants would not ask medical staff to confirm washing their hands. Only half of the participants were aware of medical dispute mediation and arbitration programs. Nearly 90% of the participants agreed that patient safety is important. However, on participants' confidence in making the correct choice and safety in their treatment, the average score was 68.7 of 100 points. Participants tended to be less confident about engaging in patient safety activities if they were older, less educated, or had poor health status.ConclusionsParticipants in this study believed that patient safety is an important issue, but they were not confident about choosing the correct medical institution or about receiving safe treatment.
| S-EPMC7781086 | biostudies-literature