Interactive Journal of Medical Research

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly integrated into palliative medicine, offering opportunities to improve quality, efficiency, and patient-centeredness in end-of-life care. However, its use raises complex ethical issues, including privacy, equity, dehumanization, and decision-making dilemmas.

Urinary incontinence affects approximately 7% to 10% of children during the day and 9% to 12% of children during the night. Treatment mainly involves lifestyle advice and behavioral methods, but motivation and adherence are low. Traditional tools such as pen-and-paper solutions may feel outdated and no longer meet the needs of today’s “digital native” children. Meanwhile, digital interventions have already shown effectiveness in other pediatric health care areas.

Online labor has the potential to change how the healthcare workforce is allocated and managed in healthcare. The contracting, coordination and communication of bookings and work assignment happens on these platforms in near-real time with no delay and without any human interactions on platforms. This perspective paper describes the worldwide trend towards online labor platforms (OLPS) in healthcare, gives an overview about the functioning of these platforms, and discusses the prospects and challenges for healthcare management. As real-world case, the platform logic, growth and traffic of a Swiss online labor platform designed for temporary nurse deployment, are presented. OLPs facilitate managing different work arrangements (float-pools, temporary work) through (1) offering healthcare staff flexible work options which in turn lowers the drop-out rates of healthcare professionals, (2) effectively managing internal allowing human resources sharing within and across healthcare organizations. For healthcare management research, OLPs yield data that can be used to analyze the characteristics, utilization, and dynamics of flexible work arrangements and temporary work in healthcare.

Older adults engage in increased amounts of sedentary behavior (SB), which can result in a significant decline in muscle function and overall health. An understanding of the motivational driving factors that lead older adults to engage in SB can help to create effective intervention programs.

Understanding long-term retention rates and complications associated with different materials for fabricating pediatric crowns for primary teeth is crucial for material selection and optimizing clinical outcomes.

Physical activity and appropriate nutrition are essential for older adults. Improving physical health and quality of life can lead to healthy aging.

Aedes aegypti is an important vector that transmits dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and yellow fever viruses. Although research on Aedes aegypti has been conducted for decades, scientometric studies on Aedes aegypti are scarce, are limited to regions, and cover short periods. Thus, there is still a knowledge gap in the current trend, research focuses and directions, leading authors and collaboration, journal and citation impacts, countries, and worldwide collaborations.

This letter shows that that an estimated 31 million and 44 million adults self-report near daily experiences of depression or anxiety, respectively. Of these, nearly a third have never spoken to a provider about it.

Personality disorders (PDs) are typically associated with higher mental health service use; however, individual patterns of engagement among patients with complex needs are poorly understood.

The “Color of Drinking” is a study conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M, USA), which examines secondhand harms of high-risk drinking on college students of color and explores the connection between alcohol use and the campus racial climate. Since the release of its findings in 2018, the study has received significant attention from other college settings around the country.

Stroke results in both physical disability and psychological distress. The impact can be minimized through rehabilitation, but it is a long-term process making it difficult for patients to adhere to treatment. Thus, a better understanding of long-term behavior change interventions for stroke patients is needed, as well as how such interventions can support not only rehabilitation of motoric functions but also mental well-being.

Mobile health (mHealth) applications are increasingly used for health promotion, particularly for managing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) through behavior modification. Understanding the factors associated with successful weight loss in such interventions can improve program effectiveness.