OBJECTIVE Low-income and minority adolescents are at high risk for poor asthma outcomes, due in part to adherence. We tested acceptability, feasibility, and effect sizes of an adherence intervention for low socioeconomic status (SES) minority youth with moderate- and severe-persistent asthma. Design and Methods Single-site randomized pilot trial: intervention (n = 12; asthma education, motivati...

The COVID-19 Pandemic indicated a unique challenge to the educational system. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently advised doing social distancing. Many applications were developed web-based. One of them was become famous WhatsApp. WhatsApp is one mobile phone web-based network that integrates with various features used communicate other users, ranging from education, business, e...

Students' engagement and reflection on learning activities are important during interprofessional clinical practice. The contextual activity sampling system (CASS) is a methodology designed for collecting data on experiences of ongoing activities by frequent distribution of questionnaires via mobile phones. The aim of this study was to investigate if the use of the CASS methodology affected stu...

OBJECTIVES To explore the effect of drivers' use of mobile (cell) phones on road safety. DESIGN A case-crossover study. SETTING Perth, Western Australia. PARTICIPANTS 456 drivers aged > or = 17 years who owned or used mobile phones and had been involved in road crashes necessitating hospital attendance between April 2002 and July 2004. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Driver's use of mobile phone a...

BACKGROUND Patient diaries and pain scales can capture the course and complications of pain managed at home in children. The Faces Pain Scale-Revised (FPS-R) is a validated scale showing reliability in children, but it has not been validated in children with sickle cell disease (SCD). OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate comprehension and usability of an electronic modified ver...

This study aimed to explore the self-regulatory experiences and perceptions of drivers' attentional processes on road, via a metacognitive framework. A total 46 Australian drivers participated in phone interview thematic analysis was applied data. The results revealed that effective self-reported attention regulation perceptually contingent on: driving experience, skills used regulate attention...

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Seth Zimmerman is the first author on 'Cells lay their own tracks - optogenetic Cdc42 activation stimulates fibronectin deposition supporting directed migration', published in Journal of Cell Scie...

BACKGROUND The objective of this paper is to outline the formative research process used to develop the MOTIF mobile phone-based (mHealth) intervention to support post-abortion family planning in Cambodia. METHODS The formative research process involved literature reviews, interviews and focus group discussions with clients, and consultation with clinicians and organisations implementing mHea...

BACKGROUND Headache has been reported to be associated with mobile phone (MP) use in some individuals. The causal relationship between headache associated with MP use (HAMP) and MP use is currently undetermined. Identifying the clinical features of HAMP may help in clarifying the pathophysiology of HAMP and in managing symptoms of individuals with HAMP. The aim of the present study is to descri...

Background Demographic information is foundational for the planning and management of social programmes, in particular health services. The existing INDEPTH network surveillance sites are limited to coverage of sedentary populations. Including mobile populations in this approach would be expensive, time consuming and possibly low in accuracy. Very little is known about the demography of mobile ...