scholarly journals User Requirements for Prediabetes Self-care Application: A Healthcare Professional Perspective

2017 ◽  
pp. 616-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suthashini Subramaniam ◽  
Jaspaljeet Singh Dhillon ◽  
Mohd. Sharifuddin Ahmad ◽  
Joyce W. S. Leong ◽  
Cameron Teoh
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professional ◽  
Self Care ◽  
User Requirements ◽  
Professional Perspective

scholarly journals Diabetes Attitudes, Wishes and Needs second study (DAWN2™): Cross-national comparisons on barriers and resources for optimal care-healthcare professional perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 789-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. I. G. Holt ◽  
A. Nicolucci ◽  
K. Kovacs Burns ◽  
M. Escalante ◽  
A. Forbes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professional ◽  
Optimal Care ◽  
Professional Perspective ◽  
Cross National

scholarly journals Mindfulness-based self-care education for healthcare professional students in Japan

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Yusuke Takamiya ◽  
Shizuma Tsuchiya
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professional ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Care Program ◽  
The Body ◽  
University Education ◽  
High Rate ◽  
First Year ◽  
Professional Students ◽  
Care Education

[Background] Recent studies have consistently shown that medical students experience a high rate of psychological symptoms. In this situation, teaching mindfulness in medical school has the potential to prevent student burnout. However, there are few consistent educational programs in medical schools throughout Japan.[Method] Since 2015, Showa University (Tokyo) has practiced an intensive self-care program based on mindfulness for 600 first-year healthcare professional students in the schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, and rehabilitation. The target objectives of this program were as follows: understand the needs of self-care, enhance self-awareness, evaluate evidence of mindfulness for mental diseases, and practice formal/informal mindfulness-based activities. This program consisted of a 90-minute lecture, followed by consecutive reflective activities, including completing personal journals and portfolios. The students were required to plan how to make use of what they learned in this course. The students were asked to complete a questionnaire upon completion of the course.[Results] The questionnaire indicated that more than 90% of the students were satisfied with the program, and about 25% started regular mindfulness-based practices such as meditation and breathing methods aimed to reduce test anxiety. Descriptions from the e-portfolio showed that the participants understood evitable stressors and the importance of the body-mind relationship.[Conclusion] Mindfulness-based self-care education can encourage healthcare students to understand the necessity of self-care during the early stages of their professional training. This program for the first year students will be followed by a course on Professionalism for healthcare professional students during their subsequent years of university education.  

scholarly journals How do the design features of health hackathons contribute to participatory medicine?

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Day ◽  
Gayl Humphrey ◽  
Sophie Cockcroft
Keyword(s):  
Data Storage ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Participatory Development ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Professional Perspective ◽  
Design Skills ◽  
Participatory Medicine

The Hackathon concept is attracting interest as a vehicle for participatory development in both Health and Information systems. Publically available datasets, cloud based data storage, and increasingly sophisticated analytical methods, combined with user friendly development tools for mobile devices are inspiring innovation in the participatory medicine space. This has the potential to disrupt traditional methods and deliver solutions more rapidly, and in a form more likely to meet requirements. In health applications this involves putting the patient and their supports at the centre of design. This work contributes to solving the challenges involved in bringing a diverse cohort of designers, developers, problem owners, healthcare providers, patients, and citizens together to solve user-driven self-care problems using technology. We use a descriptive case study approach focussing on two weekend-long hackathons dubbed “Health Hackathon: Solving Self-care”. We gather thick data from multiple sources according to the process defined by Geertz (1994) first, to provide a rich picture of the role of hackathons in participatory medicine and second, to contribute evidence to the practise of running a hackathon. Some key originalities of our work include seeking more candid responses via self-serve interviews. Through this, controversially, we noted a marked emphasis on the creative process over concerns for privacy and ethics around the personal data cloud created by hackathon products. We build on existing theories of participatory medicine and emerging methodologies for conducting hackathons to provide evidence of the efficacy of the hacking approach both in terms of outcome and team dynamics. Through interviews, observation, twitter feeds and a pre-survey, we identify a number of success factors including (1) group size, (2) maturity of the idea, (3) level of involvement of a mentor, and (4) involvement of students. In addition we identify five skills identified by successful health hackathon participants; knowledge, patient focussed skills, analytical skills, software design skills and professional perspective. In common with previous studies we find that there are considerable social benefits that accrue in running a hackathon. Participants meet new people and learn first-hand of the challenges and opportunities provided by the skill sets and work environments of others. This work builds on the existing body of research concerning hackathons and in particular work in the context of participatory medicine

scholarly journals Eliciting User Requirements to Design a Prediabetes Self-care Application: A Focus Group Study with Prediabetics and Diabetics

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suthashini Subramaniam ◽  
Jaspaljeet Singh Dhillon ◽  
Mohd. Sharifuddin Ahmad ◽  
Leong Joyce WS ◽  
Cameron Teoh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Self Care ◽  
User Requirements ◽  
Focus Group Study

Challenges for exercise therapy for severe asthma: A healthcare professional perspective

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey Hewitt ◽  
Lindsay Apps ◽  
Nicky Hudson ◽  
Murphy Anna ◽  
Peter Bradding ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professional ◽  
Severe Asthma ◽  
Exercise Therapy ◽  
Professional Perspective

Surviving Our Work

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Krauter
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professional ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Personal Accomplishment ◽  
Ongoing Training ◽  
Personal Fulfillment ◽  
Life Work

Self-care in the medical profession is typically not taught in medical school or included in ongoing training programs. This lack of attention to clinician concerns continues into professional practice, where vulnerabilities as well as the need for personal fulfillment are frequently overlooked and indeed even stigmatized. Self-neglect leads to both physical and emotional distress and can have serious consequences. Life–work balance for healthcare providers is a key issue. The chapter covers ways to recognize, avoid, and deal with burnout. Discussed are topical issues in the ongoing struggle of self-care in the healthcare professional and identifying signs of burnout: emotional exhaustion; depersonalization, characterized by an impersonal approach to treating patients; low sense of personal accomplishment, characterized by loss of meaning and purpose of work; administrative burden, inflexibility, inefficient practice environments; and inadequate resources.

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