scholarly journals Social media toolbox: creating an Instagram guide for Ontario dentists

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ambika Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Health It ◽  
Missing Teeth ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Loss Of Self ◽  
School Career ◽  
Centered Care

[Para. 1 of Introduction] Dentistry is an amalgamation of many roles; they are providers of care, innovators and lifelong guides to a perfect smile. By pursuing a career in dentistry, I hope to wear those many hats and provide compassionate and meaningful patient-centered care. During my high school career, I volunteered at a nursing home. Many of the seniors I worked with had trouble chewing and swallowing, were missing teeth, and had uncomfortable dentures. I realized how oral health could directly impact an individual’s quality of life. Teeth are simply irreplaceable; a lack thereof affects diet and nutrition, leading to deterioration of health. It can cause a loss of self-esteem and confidence. From this experience, I began looking into dentistry. My growing interest persuaded me to shadow my dentist, from whom I gained insight about a dentist’s role and how a practice operates.

scholarly journals Social media toolbox: creating an Instagram guide for Ontario dentists

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ambika Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Health It ◽  
Missing Teeth ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Loss Of Self ◽  
School Career ◽  
Centered Care

[Para. 1 of Introduction] Dentistry is an amalgamation of many roles; they are providers of care, innovators and lifelong guides to a perfect smile. By pursuing a career in dentistry, I hope to wear those many hats and provide compassionate and meaningful patient-centered care. During my high school career, I volunteered at a nursing home. Many of the seniors I worked with had trouble chewing and swallowing, were missing teeth, and had uncomfortable dentures. I realized how oral health could directly impact an individual’s quality of life. Teeth are simply irreplaceable; a lack thereof affects diet and nutrition, leading to deterioration of health. It can cause a loss of self-esteem and confidence. From this experience, I began looking into dentistry. My growing interest persuaded me to shadow my dentist, from whom I gained insight about a dentist’s role and how a practice operates.

scholarly journals Healing at the End of Life: The Voice of the Patient

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cory Ingram
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
The Impact

In palliative care we have the privilege to care for seriously ill people and their families. Some people value capturing their life story or illness journey on film. I have been fortunate to have been invited into the lives of many people close the end of life for a heartfelt conversation.On an interactive iPad incorporated in the poster, the recorded narrative of patients and one bereft spouse the poster audience will experience the lived experience of people close to the end of life as they reflect on their lives. The narratives will demonstrate how each lived with a new found improved quality of life in the face of increasing symptoms, declining functioning and the approaching end of life; otherwise known as healing. Topics of healing and quality of life, patient-centered care, dignity, human development, spirituality and love will be the focus of their stories. The stories lay bare the very practical, emotional, existential, and personal experience central to our provision of whole person care through palliative care. The poster audience will experience a renewed sense of the impact of a dedicated approach to whole person care as experienced through those on the receiving end.

Using Social Media Listening to measure the impact of diseases and treatments on patients’ Health-Related Quality of Life (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Renner ◽  
Tom Marty ◽  
Mickaïl Khadhar ◽  
Pierre Foulquié ◽  
Paméla Voillot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Web Crawler ◽  
Real World Data ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The Impact

BACKGROUND Monitoring social media has been shown to be a useful mean to capture patients’ opinions and feelings about medical issues, ranging from diseases to treatments. Health-related quality of life is a useful indicator of overall patients’ health that can be captured online. OBJECTIVE This study aims to describe a Social Media Listening system which is able to detect any impact of diseases or treatments on health-related quality of life as reported in social media and forum messages written by patients. METHODS Using a web crawler, 19 health-related forums in France were harvested and messages relating a patient’s experience with a disease or a treatment were specifically collected. The algorithm was based on the two clinically validated questionnaires SF-36 and EQ-5D. Models were trained using cross-validation (a machine learning technique which obtains the best combination between different data samples) and hyperparameter optimization. Over-sampling was used to increase the infrequent dimension: after annotation, SMOTE was used to balance the proportion of the dimension among messages. RESULTS The training set was composed of 1400 messages, randomly taken from a 20 000 batch of health-related messages coming from forums. The algorithm was able to detect a general impact on health-related quality of life (sensitivity of 0.83 and specificity of 0.74), a physical impact (0.67 and 0.76), a psychic impact (0.82 and 0.60), an activity-related impact (0.73 and 0.78), a relational impact (0.73 and 0.70) and a financial impact (0.79 and 0.74). CONCLUSIONS Real-time assessment of patients’ health-related quality of life through the use of Social Media Listening is useful to a patient-centered medical care. Social media as a source of Real World Data are a complementary point of vue to understand patients’ concerns, unmet needs and how diseases and treatments can be a burden in their daily lives. Trial Registration: Not applicable (not a trial)

scholarly journals Patient-Centered Care, Glycemic Control, Diabetes Self-Care, and Quality of Life in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 644-649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joni S. Williams ◽  
Rebekah J. Walker ◽  
Brittany L. Smalls ◽  
Rachel Hill ◽  
Leonard E. Egede
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Glycemic Control ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Patient Centered Care ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Control Diabetes

scholarly journals Quality of life in adult patients with systemic autoimmune myopathies: towards the patient-centered care

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Alves Cordeiro ◽  
Dechristian França Barbieri ◽  
Frida Marina Fischer ◽  
Samuel Katsuyuki Shinjo
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Patient Centered Care ◽  
Adult Patients ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Centered Care

scholarly journals Quality of Life in Late-Treated Patients With Disorders of Sex Development: Insights for Patient-Centered Care

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annastasia Ediati ◽  
Gijsbert H. W. Verrips ◽  
Achmad Zulfa Juniarto ◽  
Sultana M. H. Faradz ◽  
Stenvert L. S. Drop ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Disorders Of Sex Development ◽  
Patient Centered Care ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Sex Development ◽  
Centered Care

scholarly journals Gracilis muscle transposition as a workhorse flap for anal incontinence: Quality of life and functional outcome in adults

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (03) ◽  
pp. 350-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guru Dayal Singh Kalra ◽  
Amit Kumar Sharma ◽  
Kaustubh Sharad Shende
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Retrospective Study ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Anal Incontinence ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Gracilis Muscle ◽  
Muscle Transposition ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Loss Of Self

ABSTRACT Background/Purpose: Anal incontinence is one of the most psychologically and socially debilitating conditions in an otherwise healthy individual. It can lead to social isolation, loss of self-esteem, self-confidence and depression. This study is devoted to the problem of anal incontinence in the adult patients. The aim of our study is to analyse the results of gracilis muscle transposition for anal incontinence and improvement in quality of life (QOL) of patients. Materials and Methods: This was a retrospective study. A total of 18 patients with complaint of anal incontinence were enrolled in this study. All patients were treated with gracilis muscle transposition. Results: All patients are continent, and there is an improvement in their QOL. Conclusion: Gracilis muscle transposition is a good option for patients of anal incontinence who are not treated by non-surgical means.

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