NOTE only included in librarian update as may be quite US orientated. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice48.3 (Jun 2017): 199-210.
mHealth denotes the use of mobile devices within a health care context. One type of mHealth that has gained increased popularity is the use of mobile applications (apps). Despite a plethora of apps that are commercially available, the efficacy or effectiveness of these apps is largely unknown. This article reviews the literature on the use of mental health mobile apps in a psychotherapy context. The review focuses on the efficacy or effectiveness and common features of mental health apps. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Public health nurses (PHNs) are challenged in obtaining opportunities to learn evidence-based practice (EBP). An interdisciplinary alliance was created between health sciences librarians and nurse educators to create a continuing education (CE) opportunity.
To determine whether calculation of a ‘Number Needed to Retrieve’ (NNTR) is possible and desirable as a means of evaluating the utility of a database for systematic review.
n June 2014, National Voices set out to explore and test how communities of practice could facilitate the spread of large-scale change across England’s voluntary sector working for health and wellbeing.
This publication reflects on our experiences over the last 3 years, and in the spirit of communities of practice, aims to share reflections in order that others can use our learning.
Paul Gooding describes a joint project looking at the impact of the expansion of legal deposit to include digital material and the challenges that these e-legal deposits pose for the academic sector and its interactions with institutional and regulatory systems.
Today’s computers are capable of processing large quantities of data quickly and efficiently. This has focused some attention on ‘big data’, ‘open data’, and, more recently, artificial intelligence. What do these capabilities mean more fundamentally for library and information collections?
Academic fraud and research misconduct can manifest in many ways. In the olden days, we tend to think of research misconduct as falsifying or fabrication of data, or copying from other publications, including the author’s own previous or simultaneous publications. In recent years, academic fraud has taken a more sophisticated turn....To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Concerns with the usability of electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) systems can lead to the development of workarounds by users. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Substantial sums of money are being invested worldwide in health information technology. Realising benefits and mitigating safety risks is however highly dependent on effective integration of information within systems and/or interfacing to allow information exchange across systems. As part of an English programme of research, we explored the social and technical challenges relating to integration and interfacing experienced by early adopter hospitals of standalone and hospital-wide multimodular integrated electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) systems. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Cyberchondria refers to the repeated use of the Internet to search for health-related information, which leads to negative consequences. This two-part study provides the first known examination of how cyberchondria relates to (a) problematic Internet use and (b) metacognitive beliefs. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details for full text.
Only about a third (37%) of the public trust evidence from medical research, compared to approximately two-thirds (65%) who trust the experiences of their friends and family*, according to a report launched today.
Last month we reported repeated problems keeping our Cochrane records up to date and asked users to decide what we should do. Overwhelmingly people said we should stop linking to Wiley’s Cochrane Library domain and link to PubMed.
P. O'Brien, D. Carral, J. Mixter, and P. Hitzler. Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns (WOP 2015) co-located with the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015), Bethlehem, Pensylvania, USA., volume 1461 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS.org, (October 2015)