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JMIR Publications recently published “Using Twitter to Examine Stigma Against People With Dementia During COVID-19: Infodemiology Study” in JMIR Aging which reported that during the pandemic, there has been significant social media attention focused on the increased COVID-19 risks and impacts for people with dementia and their care partners. This study used Twitter data to understand stigma against people with dementia propagated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the JMIR Aging authors’ analysis, 4 main themes were identified: Ageism and devaluing the lives of people with dementia Misinformation and false beliefs about dementia and COVID-19 Dementia used as an insult for political ridicule, and ChallengingRead More →

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JMIR Publications recently published “Digital Teaching in Medical Education: Scientific Literature Landscape Review” in JMIR Medical Education which reported that digital teaching in medical education has grown in popularity in recent years. These JMIR Medical Education authors used a bibliometric approach to unveil and evaluate the scientific literature on digital teaching research in medical education, demonstrating recurring research topics, productive authors, research organizations, countries, and journals. The Web of Science electronic database was searched to identify relevant papers on digital teaching research in medical education. Dr. Eva Schaden from The Medical University of Vienna said, “Rapid advancements in information technology and worldwide internet access potentiallyRead More →

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JMIR Publications recently published “Nonfungible Tokens as a Blockchain Solution to Ethical Challenges for the Secondary Use of Biospecimens: Viewpoint” in JMIR Bioinformatics and Biotechnology in which the authors discuss how current practices of de-identifying human samples  for research is reminiscent of the treatment of Henrietta Lacks’s tissue in 1951. They highlight how current standards continue to release researchers and health systems from obligations to promote respect, beneficence, and justice for patients. This historical case illuminates ethical challenges for the secondary use of biospecimens, which persist in contemporary learning health systems. De-identification and broad consent seek to maximize the benefits of learning from care byRead More →

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JMIR Publications recently published “Establishing Institutional Scores With the Rigor and Transparency Index: Large-scale Analysis of Scientific Reporting Quality” in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), which reported that improving rigor and transparency measures should lead to improvements in reproducibility across the scientific literature, but assessing measures of transparency tends to be very difficult if performed manually by reviewers. The overall aim of this study is to establish a scientific reporting quality metric that can be used across institutions and countries, as well as to highlight the need for high-quality reporting to ensure replicability within biomedicine, making use of manuscripts from the Reproducibility Project:Read More →

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Source: Constant Therapy Health Copyright: Constant Therapy Health URL: https://constanttherapyhealth.com/science/ License: Licensed by the authors Constant Therapy Announces Publication of Study Demonstrating Improved Outcomes for Poststroke Patients Using Its Digital Speech, Language, and Cognitive Therapy Constant Therapy Partners With Leading Research Institutions to Discover New Clinical Insights in Brain Science With Real-world Data From Its Brain Rehabilitation Database   Lexington, MA – July 20, 2022 – Constant Therapy Health, a brain health digital therapeutics company, announced today the publication of a dosage study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research entitled, “Dosage Frequency Effects on Treatment Outcomes Following Self-managed Digital Therapy: Retrospective Cohort Study.” TheRead More →

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Source: The authors Copyright: The authors URL: https://games.jmir.org/2022/3/e37026/ License: CC-BY SHANGHAI, China – Playing online coloring games promotes people’s mental well-being and reduces anxiety in the time of COVID-19 according to a study conducted by a joint research team of multiple universities. The study demonstrates that game companies and researchers can work together to do more when facing global crises. The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened people’s physical health as well as their mental health. Distress, depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress syndrome, and insomnia are prevalent among people during the pandemic. Those negative psychological effects have even caused greater social harm than the virus itself and have spreadRead More →