The health-related experiences of detained immigrants with and without mental illness by Caitlin Patler, Altaf Saadi, Paola Langer

“…Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional telephone survey in 2021 with a sample of recently detained immigrants who were detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and released in the United States in 2020–2021 (n = 203). …”
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Auxílio emergencial em tempos de pandemia: uma estratégia além da vida by Juliana Vitoria Vieira Mattiello SILVA, Almir Rodrigues DURIGON, Rubens dos SANTOS, Aldo Cesar da Silva ORTIZ, Enézio Mariano da COSTA, Tatiana Rosa Carvalho RIBEIRO

“…Foi elaborado um folder para divulgação dos atendimentos, nele continham os números dos telefones e o nome das pessoas que fariam o atendimento. …”
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Comorbid Illness, Bowel Preparation, and Logistical Constraints Are Key Reasons for Outpatient Colonoscopy Nonattendance by Deepti Chopra, Lawrence C. Hookey

“…Demographic data, reasons for nonattendance, and patient suggestions for improving compliance were elicited from 49 out of 144 eligible study participants via telephone questionnaire. The 49 nonattenders were compared to age and sex matched controls for several potential contributing factors. …”
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Between citizen and vigilante journalism by Winston Mano

“…Thus, encouraged by the website’s editors, Zimbabwean users of the website took the law in their own hands and published addresses, telephone numbers and other personal information about anyone thought to be related to those in government in Zimbabwe. …”
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How salient are sarcastic questions? by Efrat Levant, Nicole Katzir

“…Firstly, we examine the salience of sarcasm by comparing the distribution of sarcastic questions between a spoken, non-scripted TV-corpus (COCA), a spoken telephone-corpus (Switchboard), and a written web-corpus (NLDS). …”
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The influence of HARP (The Health Access for Refugees’ Project) on vaccine hesitancy in people seeking asylum and refugees in Northern England by Marie-Clare Balaam, Melanie Haith-Cooper

“…Methods A qualitative study including clients (asylum-seekers and refugees), volunteers and HARP staff was undertaken to explore perceptions of HARP workshops and their influence on the barriers to the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine including vaccine hesitancy. Semi-structured telephone interviews were undertaken with 10 participants, HARP clients (n = 1), HARP volunteers (n = 6, of whom 4 had been clients) and staff (n = 3). …”
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Randomized clinical trial of ICECaP (Individualized Coordination and Empowerment for Care Partners of Persons with Dementia): Primary mental health and burden outcomes. by Virginia T Gallagher, Anna Arp, Ryan Thompson, M Agustina Rossetti, James Patrie, Shannon E Reilly, Carol Manning

“…At least once monthly contact is made from a dementia care coordinator to the dementia care partner by telephone, video conferencing, email, or in-person support at clinical visits for the person with dementia. …”
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ENABLING SUSTAINABLE PROCUREMENT OF BUILT ASSETS IN AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES: PERSPECTIVES OF FACILITIES’ DIRECTORS by Bankole AWUZIE, Fidelise EMUZE

“…Facilities directors in these HEIs were interviewed through face-to-face and telephone interview sessions. Documents and webpages concerning the procurement of such buildings were also reviewed. …”
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Dropout rates and reasons for dropout among patients receiving clozapine by Sandeep Grover, Eepsita Mishra, Subho Chakrabarti

“…Patients who did not follow-up at least once in the last 6 months were considered to have dropped out and were contacted telephonically to understand the reasons for dropout. …”
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The Prevalence of Anosmia and Dysgeusia in Relation to Sex, Age, and Smoking during COVID-19 Second Wave: A Retrospective Analysis of a Sample of Patients in Hilla City by Maytham Riad Ali, Malath Azeez Al-Saadi

“…Medications utilized for treatment purposes were either acquired through direct telephone communication with patients or indirectly from patients’ records. …”
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Diffusion and usage patterns of Internet services in the European Union by José Manuel Ortega Egea, Manuel Recio Menéndez, María Victoria Román González

“…<br><b>Method.</b> Telephone survey, using a random method, in order to guarantee the representativity of each national sample for its universe. …”
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Quantifying the socio-economic benefits of music festivals: The case study of Phalaphala FM Royal Heritage festival by Mamotse Mokabe

“…The demand side collected data from sampled festival attendees; this was done face-to-face, while the supply collection of data from the SMMEs was done face-to-face and telephonically. The data was mainly analysed through descriptive analysis. …”
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Les facteurs d’inactivité physique des collégiens dakarois by Souleymane DIALLO

“…En fait, l’éducation par l’inactivité physique des adolescents dakarois est caractérisée par un manque d’autorité sur les jeunes dans les maisons, des interdictions de sortie, la dotation des jeunes de tablettes, de téléphones portables, d’ordinateurs connectés en plus de la télévision avec des programmes absorbants. …”
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Measuring Physical Inactivity: Do Current Measures Provide an Accurate View of “Sedentary” Video Game Time? by Simon Fullerton, Anne W. Taylor, Eleonora Dal Grande, Narelle Berry

“…Data were collected via a cross-sectional telephone survey in South Australia. Participants aged 18 years and above (n=2026) were asked about their video game habits, as well as demographic and socioeconomic factors. …”
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Lessons for communication strategies during health emergencies from a COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes and practices study in an informal settlement in Mumbai, India by Supriya Krishnan, Jennifer Spencer, Apurva Tiwari, Sushmita Das, Anagha Waingankar, Sushma Shende, Shanti Pantvaidya, Vanessa D’souza, Armida Fernandez, Anuja Jayaraman

“…The study was conducted through a telephone survey among 460 respondents (233 men and 226 women) from April to May 2021. …”
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BEST PRACTICE GUIDE TO PROCUREMENT CHALLENGES OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT IN MALAWI by Grace Namayombo SUKASUKA, David MANASE

“…The aim of this paper was two-fold, thus to review PPP procurement challenges from a Malawian perspective and propose a PPP methodology framework for best practice in infrastructure development from the findings. Semi-structured telephone interviews and Inductive thematic analysis were used. …”
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Interdisciplinarity and intersectoriality in the Family Health Strategy and Nuclei of Support to Family Health: potentialities and challenges by Luís Felipe Ferro, Emelin Cristina da Silva, Ana Beatriz Zimmermann, Regina Célia Titotto Castanharo, Fernanda Rodrigues Leite de Oliveira

“…Still some reports highlighted as barriers: the excessive demand of work; the restriction of communication among other sectors and equipments to referrals and occasional telephone calls; the lack of interest of certain equipments as regards working together. …”
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Virtual Care in Rhinology by Kristine A. Smith, Andrew Thamboo, Yvonne Chan, Christopher J. Chin, Megan Werger, Brian Rotenberg

“…The majority of participants use the telephone as their primary platform. History taking and reviewing results (lab work, imaging) were reported to be equivalent in virtual care. …”
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Effect of mHealth Communication on Modifiable Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases in An Adult Rural Population of District Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh by Ankita Makhija, Shalini Srivastava, Harsh Mahajan, Khushboo Juneja

“…Baseline information on sociodemographic variables, behavioural risk factors (STEP 1), anthropometric and physiological risk factors (STEP 2), and biochemical risk factors (STEP 3) of NCDs was collected. mHealth intervention in the form of telephone calls and text messages was carried out for reduction of NCD risk factors following which post-intervention data of the risk factors was collected. …”
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Scope of work and contributions of female community health volunteers in Nepal’s healthcare sector: a qualitative study by Archana Shrestha, Biraj Man Karmacharya, Surakshya Kunwar, Sudim Sharma, Sabina Marasini, Anjali Joshi, Bandana Paneru, Akina Shrestha

“…All the interviews were conducted through telephone.Setting Six municipalities in Kavre district, Nepal.Participants 16 FCHVs participated in IDIs and 12 local stakeholders involving members of mother’s group, health workers and local ward representatives of the selected municipalities were involved in KIIs from May to August 2021.Results The FCHVs perceived a sense of workload because of their wide scope of work. …”
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