Health information ties: preliminary findings on the health information seeking behaviour of an African-American community by Ophelia T. Morey

Subjects: “…Health information seeking behaviour telephone survey using Granovetter's strength of weak ties theory…”
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Constructing a model of effective information dissemination in a crisis. Information dissemination, Crisis, Crises, Tuberculosis, Dissemination of information, Meta-ethnographic analysis, Social marketing by Fiona Duggan, Linda Banwell

Subjects: “…Information dissemination…”
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Patient Perspectives on Personalized Risk Communication Using Polygenic Risk Scores to Inform Colorectal Cancer Screening Decisions by Shauna R. Goldberg, MPH, Linda K. Ko, PhD, Li Hsu, PhD, Hang Yin, MS, Charles Kooperberg, PhD, Ulrike Peters, PhD, MPH, Andrea N. Burnett-Hartman, PhD, MPH

“…There is limited research on patient understanding of polygenic risk scores results and use of polygenic risk scores to inform colorectal cancer screening decisions. Methods: From May 2022 to June 2023, 20 Kaiser Permanente Colorado members aged 46–51 years who had been offered colorectal cancer screening but had never completed it signed consent to provide a saliva sample for colorectal cancer polygenic risk score analysis. …”
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Growth Propagation of Liquid Spawn on Non-Woven Hemp Mats to Inform Digital Biofabrication of Mycelium-Based Composites by Andreas Biront, Mart Sillen, Patrick Van Dijck, Jan Wurm

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Stakeholder perspectives to inform the implementation of a community health worker-delivered home management of hypertension intervention in Zimbabwe by Paddington Tinashe Mundagowa, Malvin Musariri, Pamela Magande, Tendai Hlabangana, Linda Jane Mukwambo, Pemberai Zambezi, Priscillah Muchemwa-Munasirei, Fadzai Mukora-Mutseyekwa

“…Well-coordinated planning guided by implementation evidence frameworks such as the CFIR significantly enhances the identification of important barriers and facilitators to inform implementation.…”
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Leveraging mobility data to analyze persistent SARS-CoV-2 mutations and inform targeted genomic surveillance by Riccardo Spott, Mathias W Pletz, Carolin Fleischmann-Struzek, Aurelia Kimmig, Christiane Hadlich, Matthias Hauert, Mara Lohde, Mateusz Jundzill, Mike Marquet, Petra Dickmann, Ruben Schüchner, Martin Hölzer, Denise Kühnert, Christian Brandt

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Understanding experiences of neglected tropical diseases of the skin: a mixed-methods study to inform intervention development in Ethiopia by Michael Marks, David Mabey, Ruth Canter, Elizabeth Allen, Charles Opondo, Jennifer Palmer, Iris Mosweu, Jacob Novignon, Sinéad Langan, Maria Zuurmond, Catherine Pitt, Stephen L Walker, Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Tara Mtuy, Rachel L Pullan, Richard Phillips, Daniel Okyere, Anthony Ablordey, Samantha Owen, Portia Boakye Okyere, Kidist Bobosha, Katherine Halliday, Steve Walker, Galana Mamo Ayana, Rachel Pullan, Mirgissa Kaba, Tara B Mtuy, Yaw Amoako, Adwoa Asante-Poku, Abigail Agbanyo, Eric Koka, Joseph Timothy, Yohannes Hailemichael, Abebaw Yeshambel Alemu, Teklu Cherkose, Getachew Kebebew, Fikregabrail Aberra Kassa, Tedros Nigusse, Kibur Engedawork, Zenebu Begna, Abay Waday, Saba Lambert, Katherine Elizabeth Halliday, Endalamaw Gadisa, Vanessa Yardley, Collins Ahorlu, Anita Achiaa Gyekye, Emmanuel Afreh, Esther Amon, Abraham Kwabena Anang, Ruth Dede Tuwor, Giulia D’Odorico, Kibur Engidawork, Mehari Getaneh, Bernadette Morkporkpor, Emmanuel Narh, Dorcas Opai-Tetteh, Yohannes Michael, Amel Mohammed, Fewzia Shikur Mohammed, Shimelis Doni Nigusse, Maja Niksic, Edmond Okloo, Michael Oppong, Lucy Owusu, Ishaque Siam, Ingrid Sobel, Feleke Tilahum, Joseph Tuffour, Abay Woday, Abebaw Yeshambel, Adelaide Forkuo- Boadu, Derrick Kontoh, Jojo Cobbinah

“…Background The WHO and Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health have developed strategies to expand and integrate services for co-endemic neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) which manifest in the skin. To inform these strategies, we aimed to understand the social, economic and health system context of skin NTD care in Kalu woreda, Amhara region, Ethiopia, where cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) and leprosy are endemic.Methods Between October 2020 and May 2022, we surveyed and reviewed records of 41 primary healthcare facilities and explored common disease experiences in focus group discussions (n=40) and interviews with people affected by leprosy (n=37) and CL (n=33), health workers (n=23), kebele authorities and opinion leaders (n=33) and traditional healers (n=7). …”
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Using Exploratory Focus Groups to Inform the Development of Targeted COPD Self-Management Education DVDs for Rural Patients by Michael Stellefson, Beth H. Chaney, J. Don Chaney

“…This exploratory study assessed the self-management learning needs, experiences, and perspectives of COPD patients treated at a Certified Federal Rural Health Clinic to inform the development of a COPD self-management DVD. …”
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Back to business? Taking lessons from Porto (Portugal) to inform sustainable tourism futures after COVID-19 by Inês Gusman, José Alberto Rio Fernandes, Pedro Chamusca

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Back to business? Taking lessons from Porto (Portugal) to inform sustainable tourism futures after COVID-19 by Inês Gusman, José Alberto Rio Fernandes, Pedro Chamusca

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Prevalence of childhood mental disorders in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis to inform policymaking by Charlotte Waddell, Christine Schwartz, Jenny Lou Barican, Donna Yung, Yufei Zheng, Katholiki Georgiades

“…Question Mental disorders typically start in childhood and persist, causing high individual and collective burdens. To inform policymaking to address children’s mental health in high-income countries we aimed to identify updated data on disorder prevalence.Methods We identified epidemiological studies reporting mental disorder prevalence in representative samples of children aged 18 years or younger—including a range of disorders and ages and assessing impairment (searching January 1990 through February 2021). …”
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Information needs for cancer screening and associated factors of information-seeking behaviour: a qualitative systematic review by Mingyao Zhou, Yuqing Wu, Dan Wang, Fang Cheng

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A study of interpersonal information seeking: the role of topic and comment in the articulation of certainty and uncertainty of information need] by Kyunghye Yoon

Subjects: “…Interpersonal information seeking…”
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Preserving information while respecting privacy through an information theoretic framework for synthetic health data generation by Nadir Sella, Florent Guinot, Nikita Lagrange, Laurent-Philippe Albou, Jonathan Desponds, Hervé Isambert

“…Here, we introduce a novel algorithm (MIIC-SDG) for generating synthetic data from electronic records based on a multivariate information framework and Bayesian network theory. We also propose a new metric to quantitatively assess the trade-off between the Quality and Privacy Scores (QPS) of synthetic data generation methods. …”
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The relationship between information literacy and digital self-efficacy in teaching information literacy for new teachers in Lithuania by Palmira Pečiuliauskienė

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The Importance of Human Factor in Information Centers by Ayşe Üstün

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Human issues of library and information work by Jela Steinerová

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ERGONOMIC REQUIREMENTS FOR ON-SCREEN EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION by N. A. Kloktunova, S. V. Venig, V. A. Solovyova

Subjects: “…educational information…”
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